14.] [Footnote 2: _Fourth Annual Report of the American Antislavery Society_, p.

34.] [Footnote 3: Alexander, _A History of Colonization on the Western Continent_, p.

348.] Observing these conditions the friends of the colored people could not be silent.

The abolitionists led by Caruthers, May, and Garrison hurled their weapons at the reactionaries, branding them as inconsistent schemers.

After having advanced the argument of the mental inferiority of the colored race they had adopted the policy of educating Negroes on the condition that they be removed from the country.[1] Considering education one of the rights of man, the abolitionists persistently rebuked the North and South for their inhuman policy.