SECTION VI. 95 THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY IS NOURISHED BY FEAR AND SELFISHNESS. SECTION VII. 111 THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY AIMS AT THE UTTER EXPULSION OF THE BLACKS. SECTION VIII. 124 THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY IS THE DISPARAGER OF THE FREE BLACKS. SECTION IX. 134 THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY DENIES THE POSSIBILITY OF ELEVATING THE BLACKS IN THIS COUNTRY. SECTION X. 151 THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY DECEIVES AND MISLEADS THE NATION. PART II. SENTIMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF COLOR. 1 THOUGHTS ON AFRICAN COLONIZATION [Illustration: SECTION OF A SLAVE SHIP. _From Walsh's Notes of Brazil._] PREFACE. I dedicate this work to my countrymen, in whose intelligence, magnanimity and humanity I place the utmost reliance. Although they have long suffered themselves to be swayed by a prejudice as unmanly as it is wicked, and have departed widely from the golden rule of the gospel, in their treatment of the people of color, to suppose that they will always be the despisers and persecutors of this unfortunate class is, in my opinion, to libel their character. A change in their feelings and sentiments is already visible--a change which promises, ere long, to redeem their character from the bloody stains which slavery has cast upon it, and to release the prisoner from his chains. May they be ashamed to persist in a mean and thievish course of conduct, and afraid to quarrel with the workmanship of God! May a righteous indignation be kindled in their breasts against a combination which is holding them up, for the scorn and contempt of other nations, as incorrigible oppressors, whom neither self-respect, nor the opinions of mankind, nor the fear of God, can bring to repentance! Their duty is plain, and it may easily be done. Slavery must be overthrown either by their own moral strength, or by the physical strength of the slaves. Let them imitate the example of the people of _Great Britain_, by seeking the immediate overthrow of the horrid system. Let a National Anti-Slavery Society be immediately organized, the object of which shall be, to quicken and consolidate the moral influence of the nation, so that Congress and the State Legislatures may be burdened with petitions for the removal of the evil--to scatter tracts, like rain-drops, over the land, on the subject of slavery--to employ active and eloquent agents to plead the cause incessantly, and to form auxiliary societies--to encourage planters to cultivate their lands by freemen, by offering large premiums; to promote