'The distinctive complexion by which it is marked, _necessarily_ debars it from all familiar intercourse with the more favored society that surrounds it, and of course denies to it _all hope_ of either social or political elevation, by means of individual merit, however great, or individual exertions, however unremitted.' * * 'It is deemed unnecessary to repeat what has already been said, of the character of the population in question, of its _hopeless degradation_, and its baneful influence, in the situation in which it is now placed.' * * * 'The colored population of this country can _never_ rise to respectability and happiness here.' * * 'It was at an early period seen and acknowledged, that neither the objects of benevolence nor the interests of the nation could be materially benefitted by any plan or measures that permitted them to remain within the United States.' * * 'They leave a country in which though born and reared, they are strangers and aliens; where severe necessity places them in a class of degraded beings.' * * 'With us they have been degraded by slavery, and STILL FURTHER DEGRADED _by the mockery of nominal freedom_. We have endeavored, but endeavored in vain, to restore them either to self-respect, or to the respect of others. _It is not our fault that we have failed_; it is not theirs. It has resulted from a cause over which neither they, nor we, can ever have control. _Here_, therefore, they must be _for ever debased_: more than this, they must be _for ever useless_; more even than this, they must be FOR EVER A NUISANCE, from which it were a blessing for society to be rid. And yet they, and they only, are qualified for colonizing Africa.' * * * 'Whether bond or free, their presence will be _for ever a calamity_. Why then, in the name of God, should we hesitate to encourage their departure? The existence of this race among us; a race that can neither share our blessings nor incorporate in our Society, is already felt to be a curse.'--[African Repository, vol. v. pp. 51, 53, 179, 234, 238, 276, 278.]