Some here insist that slavery is the only proper condition for the blacks, and they would reduce them back to bondage.

Others remonstrate at this as cruel.

Surely it is a choice of evils for them, to be free, or to be slaves, if they remain here.

There is one thought that affords a ray of consolation,--they are better off, in either condition, than they once were in Africa.

It is unquestionable to my mind that their relation to the whites, even in bondage, is, as the general rule, mercy to them, while they are on the same soil with the whites.