'Entertaining these views of this fearful subject, why should our opponents endeavor to prejudice our cause with our southern friends? And we are the more anxious on this point, for we sincerely entertain exalted notions of their sense of right, of their manliness and independence of feeling--of their dignity of deportment--of their honorable and chivalric turn of thought, which spurns a mean act as death. And if I was allowed to indulge a personal feeling, I would say that there is something to my mind in the candor, hospitality and intelligence of the South, which charms and captives, which wins its way to the heart and gives assurance of all that is upright, honorable, and humane. There is no people that treat their slaves with so little cruelty and with so much kindness. There is nothing in the condition of slavery more congenial with the feelings of the South than with the feelings of the North. Philanthropy and benevolence flourish with as much vigor with them as with us--their hearts are as warm as ours--they feel for the distresses of others with as much acuteness as we do--their ears are as open to the calls of charity as ours--they as deeply regret as we do the existence of slavery--and oh! how their hearts would thrill with delight, if the mighty incubus could be removed without injury or destruction to every thing around them.'--[Speech of James S. Green, Esq. on the same occasion.] 'Many of the best citizens of our land are holders of slaves, and hold them IN STRICT ACCORDANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF HUMANITY AND JUSTICE.'--[Rev. Thomas T. Skillman, editor of the Western Luminary, an ardent supporter of the Col. Soc.] 'It is a very common impression that a principal evil of the condition of the southern blacks, is the severity of their treatment. THIS IS AN ERROR. It is almost every where disreputable to treat slaves with severity; and though there are indeed exceptions, yet in most cases in the South, even tyranny itself could not long withstand the reproaches of public opinion. A STILL GREATER AND MORE DANGEROUS EVIL, IS THE VERY REVERSE. It is _indulgence_; not only in such things as are proper and innocent, but in indolent habits and vicious propensities.' --[From an address prepared for the use of those who advocate the cause of the African Education Society at Washington--a Society which educates none but those who consent to remove to Liberia.]