"It may pluck a few leaves," he remarks, "from the Bohon Upas, but can neither extract its roots nor destroy its withering properties.

Viewed as an auxiliary, it deserves encouragement; but as a remedy it is altogether inadequate." But this was not all.

As a remedy, colonization was not only altogether inadequate, its influence was indirectly pernicious, in that it lulled the popular mind into "a belief that the monster has received his mortal wound." He perceived that this resultant indifference and apathy operated to the advantage of slavery, and to the injury of freedom.

Small, therefore, as was the good which the Colonization Society was able to achieve, it was mixed with no little ill.

Although Garrison has not yet begun to think on the subject, to examine into the motives and purposes of the society, it does not take a prophet to foresee that some day he will.