'Views are attributed to us, that were never entertained, and our plan is tortured _into a design to emancipate the Slaves of the South_. We are made to disregard this description of property, and to touch without reserve the rights of our neighbors. We are said to tread this almost forbidden ground with firm step, and a hardihood of effort is imputed to us, which, if true, might well excite the indignation of our southern citizens.--But, Sir, our Society and the friends of colonization wish to be distinctly understood upon this point. From the beginning they have _disavowed_, and they do yet _disavow_, that their object is _the emancipation of the slaves_. They have no wish, _if they could_, to interfere in the smallest degree with what they deem the most interesting and fearful subject which can be pressed upon the American public.' * * * 'There is no people that treat their slaves with so much kindness and with so little cruelty. Nor can I believe that we shall meet with any serious opposition from that quarter, when our object is distinctly understood--when it is known that our operations are confined exclusively to the free black population. That this is our _sole_ object, I appeal with entire confidence to the constitution of our Society and to the constitution and Annual Reports of the Parent Institution.' * * * 'We again repeat--that our operations are confined to the free black population, and that there is no ground for fear on the part of our southern friends. We hold their slaves as we hold their other property, SACRED. Let not then this slander be repeated.'--[Speech of James S. Green, Esq. on the same occasion.] 'Nothing has contributed more to retard the operations of the Colonization Society than the mistaken notion that it interferes directly with slavery. This objection is rapidly vanishing away, and many of the slaveholding States are becoming efficient supporters of the national society. In the Senate of Louisiana during its last session, resolutions were adopted expressive of the opinion that the object of this Society was deserving the patronage of the general government. An enlightened community now see, that this Society infringes upon no man's rights, that its object is noble and benevolent--to remedy an evil which is felt and acknowledged at the north and south--to give the free people of color the privileges of freemen.'--[From a Tract issued by the Massachusetts Colonization Society in 1831, for gratuitous distribution.]