atrocious iniquity beneath which they are perishing." In this aspect I find the American Colonization Society declaring itself a substitute for emancipation, and it is in this aspect that I contend with it, and that I proclaim it, _as far as it has this character_, no farther, a bane to the colored people, whether enslaved or free, and a snare and a disgrace to its country.' The second article of the Constitution of this Society is in the following language: 'The object to which its attention is to be _exclusively_ directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country, in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient. And the Society shall act, to effect this object, in co-operation with the General Government, and such of the States as may adopt regulations upon the subject.' The following citations abundantly sustain the charge, that the Society has not swerved from its original design, and does not oppose the system of slavery: 'Whilst he was up, he would detain the Society for a few moments. It was proper again and again to repeat, that it was far from the intention of the Society to affect, _in any manner_, the tenure by which a certain species of property is held. He was himself a slaveholder; _and he considered that kind of property as inviolable as any other in the country_. He would resist as soon, and with as much firmness, encroachments upon it as he would encroachments upon any other property which he held. Nor was he disposed even to go as far as the gentleman who had just spoken, (Mr Mercer) in saying that he would emancipate his slaves, if the means were provided of sending them from the country.'--[Speech of Henry Clay.--First Annual Report.] 'It was proper and necessary distinctly to state, that he understood it constituted no part of the object of this meeting, to touch or agitate in the slightest degree, a delicate question, connected with another portion of the colored population of our country. It was not proposed to deliberate upon or consider at all, any question of emancipation, or that which was connected with the abolition of slavery. It was upon that condition alone, he was sure, that many gentlemen from the South and West, whom he saw present, had attended, or could be expected to co-operate. It was upon that condition only, that he himself had attended.'--[Speech of Mr Clay before the Society, Jan. 1, 1818.--Second Annual Report.]