No matter, for the present, how their ancestors came here;--that does not at all affect their present obligations to us for benefits received.

Now it is not a matter of course that, having been thus benefited by us, they are at liberty to go away when they please.

This we assert respecting them as a whole.

Are not the blacks, as a race, so indebted to us that we ought to be consulted as to the time and manner of their departure?
We say that they are.

They do not morally possess the right, we think, to sever the relation when they please.' "Said an elderly, venerable man, 'A white woman in the cars, in Pennsylvania, begged me to hold her infant child for her, while she fetched something for it.