redemption, though we are unable to compensate them for their labors,
we nevertheless thank them from the bottom of our hearts, and have our
eyes steadfastly fixed upon them, and their labors of love for God and
man. But do slave-holders think that we thank them for keeping us in
miseries, and taking our lives by the inches? [<-Hand]

Before I proceed further with this scheme, I shall give an extract
from the letter of that truly Reverend Divine, (Bishop Allen,) of
Philadelphia, respecting this trick. At the instance of the Editor of
the Freedom's Journal, he says,[21]

"Dear Sir, I have been for several years trying to reconcile
my mind to the Colonizing of Africans in Liberia, but there
have always been, and there still remain great and
insurmountable objections against the scheme. We are an
unlettered people, brought up in ignorance, not one in a
hundred can read or write, not one in a thousand has a
liberal education; is there any fitness for such to be sent
into a far country, among heathens, to convert or civilize
them, when they themselves are neither civilized or
christianized? See the great bulk of the poor, ignorant
Africans in this country, exposed to every temptation before
them: all for the want of their morals being refined by
education and proper attendance paid unto them by their
owners, or those who had the charge of them. It is said by
the Southern slave-holders, that the more ignorant they can
bring up the Africans, the better slaves they make, 'go and
come.' Is there any fitness for such people to be colonized
in a far country, to be their own rulers? Can we not discern
the project of sending the free people of colour away from