How abominably hypocritical, how consummately despicable, how incorrigibly tyrannical must this whole nation appear in the eyes of the people of Europe!--professing to be the _friends_ of the free blacks, actuated by the purest motives of benevolence toward them, desirous to make atonement for past wrongs, challenging the admiration of the world for their patriotism, philanthropy and piety--and yet (hear, O heaven! and be astonished, O earth!) shamelessly proclaiming, with a voice louder than thunder, and an aspect malignant as sin, that while their colored countrymen remain among them, they must be trampled beneath their feet, treated as inferior beings, deprived of all the invaluable privileges of freemen, separated by the brand of indelible ignominy, and debased to a level with the beasts that perish! Yea, that they may as soon change their complexion as rise from their degradation! that no device of philanthropy can benefit them here! that they constitute a class out of which _no individual can be elevated_, and below which, _none can be depressed_! that no talents however great, no piety however pure and devoted, no patriotism however ardent, no industry however great, no wealth however abundant, can raise them to a footing of equality with the whites! that 'let them toil from youth to old age in the honorable pursuit of wisdom--let them store their minds with the most valuable researches of science and literature--and let them add to a highly gifted and cultivated intellect, a piety pure, undefiled, and unspotted from the world, _it is all nothing_--they would not be received into the _very lowest walks of society_--admiration of such uncommon beings would mingle with _disgust_!' Yea, that 'there is a broad and impassible line of demarcation between every man who has _one drop_ of African blood in his veins and every other class in the community'! Yea, that 'the habits, the feelings, all the prejudices of society--prejudices which neither _refinement_, nor _argument_, nor _education_, nor RELIGION itself can subdue--mark the people of color, whether bond or free, as the subjects of a degradation _inevitable_ and _incurable_'! Yea, that '_Christianity_ cannot do for them here, what it will do for them in Africa'! Yea, that 'this is not the fault of the colored man, NOR OF THE WHITE MAN, nor of Christianity; but AN ORDINATION OF PROVIDENCE, _and no more to be changed than the_ LAWS OF NATURE'!!!