While the colored people are thus elbowed out of employment; while the enmity of emigrants is being excited against us; while state after state enacts laws against us; while we are hunted down, like wild game, and oppressed with a general feeling of insecurity--the American colonization society--that old offender against the best interests and slanderer of the colored people--awakens to new life, and vigorously presses its scheme upon the consideration of the people and the government.

New papers are started--some for the north and some for the south--and each in its tone adapting itself to its latitude.

Government, state and national, is called upon for appropriations to enable the society to send us out of the country by steam! They want steamers to carry letters and Negroes to Africa.

Evidently, this society looks upon our "extremity as its opportunity," and we may expect that it will use the occasion well.

They do not deplore, but glory, in our misfortunes.{362} But, sir, I must hasten.