'The existence in any community of a people forming a distinct and degraded caste, _who are forever excluded by the fiat of society and the laws of the land_, from all hopes of equality in social intercourse and political privileges, must, from the nature of things, be fraught with unmixed evil. Did this committee believe it possible, by any acts of legislation, to remove this blotch upon the body politic, by so elevating the social and moral condition of the blacks in Ohio, that they would be received into society on terms of equality, and would by common consent be admitted to a participation of political privileges--WERE SUCH A THING POSSIBLE, even after a lapse of time and by pecuniary sacrifice, most gladly would they recommend such measures as would subserve the cause of humanity, by producing such a result. For the purposes of legislation, it is sufficient to know, that the blacks in Ohio _must always exist as a separate and degraded race_, that when the leopard shall change his spots and the Ethiopian his skin, then, BUT NOT TILL THEN, may we expect that the descendants of Africans will be admitted into society, on terms of social and political equality.'--[Report of a Select Committee of the Legislature of Ohio.] 'No possible contingency can ever break down or weaken the impassable barrier which at present separates the whites from social communion with the blacks. Neither education, nor wealth, nor any other means of distinction known to our communities, can elevate blacks to a level with whites, in the United States.'--[American Spectator.] 'However unjust may be the prejudices which exist in the whites against the blacks, and which operate so injuriously to the latter--_they are probably too deep to be obliterated_; and true philanthropy would dictate the separation of two races of men, so different, WHOM NATURE HERSELF HAS FORBIDDEN TO MINGLE INTO ONE; but of whom, while they remain associated, _one or the other must of necessity have the superiority_. For the future welfare of both, we trust that the project of colonizing the Africans, as they shall gradually be emancipated, although a work of time, may not be altogether hopeless.'--[Brandon (Vt.) Telegraph.] 'The character and circumstances of this portion of the community fall under every man's notice, and the least observation shows that they _cannot_ be useful or happy among us.'--[Oration by Gabriel P. Disosway, Esq.]