'With us color is the bar. Nature has raised up barriers between the races, _which no man with a proper sense of the dignity of his species desires to see surmounted_.' * * 'What effects does emancipation produce without removal? A discontented and useless population; having no sympathies with the rest of the community, _doomed by immoveable barriers to eternal degradation_. I know that there are among us, those of warm and generous hearts, who believe that we may retain the black man here, and raise him up to the full and perfect stature of human nature. That degree of improvement can never take place except the races be amalgamated; and amalgamation is a day-dream. It may seem strong, but it is true that "a skin not colored like our own" will separate them from us, _as long as our feelings continue a part of our nature_.'--[Speeches delivered at the formation of the Young Men's Auxiliary Colonization Society in New-York city.] 'These [subsistence, political and social considerations] they can _never_ enjoy here.' * * 'You may manumit the slave, but you cannot make him a white man. He still remains a negro or a mulatto. The mark and the recollection of his origin and former state still adhere to him; the feelings produced by that condition, in his own mind and in the minds of the whites, still exist; he is associated by his color, and by these recollections and feelings, with the class of slaves; and a barrier is thus raised between him and the whites, that is between him and the free class, which he can never hope to transcend.' * * 'A vast majority of the free blacks, as we have seen, are and _must be_, an idle, worthless and thievish race.'--[First Annual Report.] 'Here they are condemned to a state of _hopeless_ inferiority, and consequent degradation. As they _cannot_ emerge from this state, they lose, by degrees, the hope, at last the desire of emerging.'--[Second Annual Report.]