774 MADNESS OF COLONIZING CENTRAL AFRICA. 



As a proof of this, some of the black Creoles of 

 Hayti have been distinguished for courage, abi- 

 lity, information, and patriotism. We have also 

 seen, that in the temperate climate of the United 

 States, the increase of the negro population is 

 nearly the same as that of the whites, notwith- 

 standing the number of emigrants added annu- 

 ally to the latter. 



It is therefore not true, as supposed by Dr. 

 Prichard, that negroes are under the same dis- 

 ability to thrive and multiply in cold or tempe- 

 rate climates, as Europeans within the tropics. 

 Nor is it true, as maintained by Dr. Caldwell, 

 that " the negro is most healthy, long lived, and 

 attains the highest perfection of his nature in 

 his native country." On the contrary, there is 

 but little reason to hope from the history of the 

 past, that he will ever rise much above the state 

 of barbarism, in the tropical portions of his native 

 country. Why then should men calling them- 

 selves philanthropists, be so anxious to remove 

 the black population of the United States, (where 

 they multiply faster, and live longer, than almost 

 any other people in the world,) to the western 

 coast of Africa, where the mean duration of life 

 is not much above twenty years, as among the 

 colonized blacks of Sierra Leone and Liberia ? 

 It is a wicked and reckless expenditure of life 

 and money. 



It is said by Collins in his work on the treat- 



