'Is our posterity doomed to endure for ever not only all the ills flowing from the state of slavery, but all which arise from incongruous elements of population, separated from each other by _invincible prejudices_, and by natural causes?' * * 'Here _invincible prejudices_ exclude them from the enjoyment of the society of the whites, and deny them all the advantages of freemen. The bar, the pulpit, and our legislative halls are shut to them by the irresistible force of public sentiment. No talents however great, no piety however pure and devoted, no patriotism however ardent, can secure their admission. They constantly hear the accents, and behold the triumphs, of a liberty _which here they can never enjoy_.' * * 'It is against this increase of colored persons, who take but a nominal freedom here, and _cannot rise_ from their degraded condition, that this Society attempts to provide.' * * 'They may be emancipated; but emancipation _cannot elevate their condition_ or augment their capacity for self-preservation.--Want and suffering will gradually diminish their numbers, and they will disappear, as the inferior has always disappeared, before the superior race.' * * 'Our great and good men purposed it primarily as a system of relief for two millions of fellow men in our own county--a population dangerous to ourselves and _necessarily degraded here_.' * * 'The free blacks, by the moral necessity of their civil disabilities, are and _must for ever be a nuisance_--equally, and more to the owner of slaves, than to other members of the community.'--[African Repository, vol. vi. pp. 12, 17, 82, 168, 295, 368.]