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The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 7. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), The conflict with slavery (search)
nd heart-cheering idea! But stay: who are these emigrants, these missionaries The free people of color. They, and they only, says the African Repository, the society's organ, are qualified for colonizing Africa. What are their qualifications Let the society answer in its own words:— Free blacks are a greater nuisance than even slaves themselves. African Repository, vol. II. p. 328. A horde of miserable people—--the objects of universal suspicion—subsisting by plunder. C. F. Mercer. An anomalous race of beings the most debased upon earth. African Repository, vol. VII. p. 230. Of all classes of our population the most vicious is that of the free colored. Tenth Annual Report of the Colonization Society. I might go on to quote still further from the credentials which the free people of color are to carry with them to Liberia. But I forbear. I come now to the only practicable, the only just scheme of emancipation: Immediate abolition of slavery; an imme<