Of the whole number of individuals constituting the officers of the Society, nearly three-fourths, I believe, _are the owners of slaves_, or interested in slave property; not one of whom, to my knowledge, has emancipated any of his slaves to be sent to Liberia!! The President of the Society, (CHARLES CARROLL,) owns, I have understood, nearly _one thousand slaves_! And yet he is lauded, beyond measure, as a patriot, a philanthropist, and a christian! The former President, (Judge BUSHROD WASHINGTON,) so far from breaking the fetters of his slaves, actually while holding his office offered a large reward for a runaway female slave, to any person who would secure her by putting her into any jail within the United States! What a mockery it is for such persons to profess to deplore the existence of slavery, or to denounce the foreign slave trade! for they neither cease from their own oppressive acts, nor act much more honestly than the slave dealers--the latter stealing those who are born on the coast of Africa, and the former those who are born in this country! FOOTNOTES: [AE] John Neal. [AF] _Vide_ the Fourth Volume of the Genius of Universal Emancipation for 1829. [AG] Alexander H. Everett, Esq. vide his work entitled 'America, or a General Survey,' &c. &c. pp. 212, 225. [AH] Genius of Universal Emancipation for November 27, 1829. [AI] Genius of Universal Emancipation, January 29, 1830. [AJ] 'The Liberator' for January 22, 1832. [AK] 'A Colored Philadelphian'--vide 'The Liberator' for Feb. 12, 1831. [AL] Correspondent of 'The Liberator,' Feb. 26, 1831. [AM] Correspondent of 'The Liberator,' March 12, 1831. [AN] 'African Sentinel,' Oct. 8, 1831, printed at Albany. [AO] Extracts from 'An Address to the Gentlemen and Ladies of the County of Otsego, N. Y., delivered on the 30th September, 1830, by Hayden Waters, a man of color.' The proceedings of the colored inhabitants of Virginia, incorporated into this Address, are those referred to on page 8 as having been accidentally mislaid. [AP] 'Address delivered before the colored population of Providence, R. I., November 27, 1828, by Rev. Hosea Easton.' [AQ] 'A Discourse delivered in St. Philip's Church, for the benefit of the colored community of Wilberforce, in Upper Canada, on the Fourth of July, 1830. By Rev. Peter Williams, Rector of St. Philip's Church, New-York.' Mr Williams is a clergyman of superior talents and great moral worth, and beloved by an extensive circle of acquaintance. [AR] From the pen of the Colored Gentleman in Philadelphia, referred to on page 58--vide 'The Liberator,' March 12, 1831. [AS] 'Address delivered before a Colored Association in Brooklyn, N. Y., August 5, 1831,' by George Hogarth. Vide 'The Liberator' for August 27, 1831. [AT] Conventional Address of the People of Color in Philadelphia, in 1830. [AU] 'Minutes and Proceedings of the First Annual Convention of the People of Color, held by adjournment in the city of Philadelphia, in June, 1831.'