'He [the planter] looks around him and sees that the condition of the great mass of emancipated Africans is one _in comparison with which the condition of his slaves is enviable_;--and he is convinced that if he withdraws from his slaves his authority, his support, his protection, and leaves them to shift for themselves, he turns them out to be vagabonds, and paupers, and felons, and to find in the work-house and the penitentiary, the home which they ought to have retained on his paternal acres.--Hundreds of humane and Christian slaveholders retain their fellow-men in bondage, because _they are convinced that they can do no better_.'--[Address of the Managers of the Colonization Society of Connecticut.--Af. Rep. vol. iv. pp. 119, 120.] 'I AM NOT COMPLAINING OF THE OWNERS OF SLAVES; they cannot get rid of them.--_I do not doubt that masters treat their slaves with kindness_, nor that the slaves are happier than they could be if set free in this country.'--[Address delivered before the Hampden Col. Soc., July 4th, 1828, by Wm. B. O. Peabody, Esq.] '_Policy_, and even _the voice of humanity_ forbade the progress of manumission; and the _salutary hand of law_ came forward to co-operate with our convictions, and to arrest the flow of our feelings, and the ardor of our desires.'--[Review of the Report of the Committee of Foreign Relations.--Af. Rep. vol. iv. p. 268.] 'When an owner of slaves tells me that he will freely relinquish his slaves, or even that he will relinquish one-half of their value, _on condition that he be compensated for the other half_, and provision be made for their transportation, I feel that he has made a generous proposal, and _I cannot charge him with all the guilt of slavery_, though he may continue to be a slaveholder.'--[Af. Rep. vol. v. p. 63.] 'Even slavery must be viewed as a great national calamity; a public evil entailed upon us by untoward circumstances, _and perpetuated for the want of appropriate remedies_.'--[Idem, vol. v. p. 89.] 'Slavery is an evil which is entailed upon the present generation of slaveholders, which they must suffer, _whether they will or not_.'--[Idem, p. 179.] 'Our brethren of the South, have the same sympathies, the same moral sentiments, the same love of liberty as ourselves. By them as by us, slavery is felt to be an evil, a hindrance to our prosperity, and a blot upon our character. But it was in being when they were born, and has been forced upon them by a previous generation.'--[Address of Rev. Dr. Nott.--Idem, p. 277.]