county to another, without producing a certificate from the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions, or a Justice of the Peace, or an Alderman! The passage of a similar law has been urged even upon the Legislature of Massachusetts by a writer in the Salem Gazette! All these proscriptive measures, and others less conspicuous but equally oppressive,--which are not only flagrant violations of the Constitution of the United States, but in the highest degree disgraceful and inhuman,--are resorted to, (to borrow the language of the Secretary in his Fifteenth Annual Report,) 'for the more complete accomplishment of the great objects of the American Colonization Society'!! I appeal to the candor and common sense of the reader, if this grievous persecution be not justly chargeable to the Society? It is constantly thundering in the ears of the slave States--'Your free blacks contaminate your slaves, excite their deadliest hate, and are a source of _horrid danger_ to yourselves! They must be removed, or your destruction is inevitable!' What is their response? Precisely such as might be expected--'We know it; we dread the presence of this class; their influence over our slaves weakens our power, and endangers our safety; they must, _they shall_ be expatriated, or be crushed to the earth if they remain!' It says to the free States--'Your colored population can never be rendered serviceable, intelligent or loyal; they will only, and always, serve to increase your taxes, crowd your poor-houses and penitentiaries, and corrupt and impoverish society!' Again, what is the natural response?--'It is even so; they are offensive to the eye, and a pest in community; theirs is now, and must inevitably be, without a reversal of the laws of nature, the lot of vagabonds; it were useless to attempt their intellectual and moral improvement among ourselves; and therefore be this their alternative--either to emigrate to Liberia, or remain for ever a despicable caste in this country!'