[3] The desirable
thing to do was to influence churches and schools to admit students of
color on terms of equality with all other races.
[Footnote 1: Reese, _Letters to Honorable William Jay._]
[Footnote 2: Jay, _Inquiry_, p. 26; and _Letters_, p. 21.]
[Footnote 3: _Ibid._, p. 22.]
Encountering this opposition, the institutions projected by the
colonization society existed in name only. Exactly how and why the
organization failed to make good with its educational policy is well
brought out by the wailing cry of one of its promoters. He asserted
that "every endeavor to divert the attention of the community or even
a portion of the means which the present so imperatively calls for,
from the colonization society to measures calculated to bind the
colored population to this country and seeking to raise them to a
level with the whites, whether by founding colleges or in any other
way, tends directly in the proportion that it succeeds, to counteract
and thwart the whole plan of colonization."[1] The colonizationists,
therefore, desisted from their attempt to provide higher education for
any considerable number of the belated race. Seeing that they could
not count on the support of the free persons of color, they feared
that those thus educated would be induced by the abolitionists to
remain in the United States.
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