'The mechanical arts!'--with whom did they serve an apprenticeship? 'With philosophy!'--in what colleges were they taught? It is strange that we should be so anxious to get rid of these scientific men of color--these philosophers--these republicans--these christians, and that we should shun their company as if they were afflicted with the hydrophobia, or carried a deadly pestilence in their train! Certainly, they _must_ have singular notions of the christian religion which tolerates--or, rather, which is so perverted as to tolerate--the oppression of God's rational creatures by its professors! They must feel a peculiar kind of brotherly love for those _good men_ who banded together to remove them to Africa, because they were too proud to associate familiarly with men of a sable complexion! But the writer proceeds: 'We tell her, look at the little colony on her shores. We tell her, look to the consequences that must flow to all her borders from religion, and science, and knowledge, and civilization, and republican government! And then we ask her--_is not one ship load of emigrants returning with these multiplied blessings, worth more to her than a million of her barbarous sons?_' So! every ship load of ignorant and helpless emigrants is to more than compensate Africa for every million of her children who have been kidnapped, buried in the ocean and on the land, tortured with savage cruelty, and held in perpetual servitude! Truly, this is a compendious method of balancing accounts. In the sight of God, of Africa, and of the world, we are consequently blameless--and rather praiseworthy--for our past transgressions. It is such sophistry as is contained in the foregoing extract, that kindles my indignation into a blaze. I abhor cant--I abhor hypocrisy--and if some of the advocates of the Colonization Society do not deal largely in both, I am unable to comprehend the meaning of these terms.