f Virginia, or not?

"If the free negroes are willing to go, they will go--if not
willing they must be compelled to go. Some gentlemen think it
politic not now to insert this feature in the bill, though
they proclaim their readiness to resort to it when it becomes
necessary; they think that for a year or two a sufficient
number will consent to go, and then the rest can be
compelled. For my part, I deem it better to approach the
question and settle it at once, and avow it openly.

"I have already expressed it as my opinion that few, very
few, will voluntarily consent to emigrate if no COMPULSORY
measure be adopted.

"I will not express, in its full extent, the idea I entertain
of what has been done, or what enormities will be perpetrated
to induce this class of persons to leave the Slate. Who does
not know that when a free negro, by crime or otherwise, has
rendered himself obnoxious to a neighborhood, how easy it is
for a party to visit him one night, take him from his bed and
family, and apply to him the gentle admonition of a SEVERE
FLAGELLATION, to induce Kim to consent to go away I In a few
nights the dose can be repeated, perhaps increased, until, in
the language of the physician, quantum sufficit has been
administered to produce the desired operation; and the fellow
then becomes PERFECTLY WILLING to move away.

Finally, on this part of the subject, he would cite the Rev. R. J.
Breckinridge, who, at the annual meeting of the American Colonization
Society, in 1834, had used the following language:--

"Two years ago I warned the Managers of this Virginia
business, and yet they sent out TWO SHIP-LOADS OF VAGABONDS,
not fit to go to such a place, and they were COERCED away as
truly as if it had been done with a CART-WHIP.

His grand complaint against the Colonization Society was this--that
instead of grappling with the reigning prejudices of the community, it
falsely assumed the _insensibility_ of those prejudices, and proceeded
to legislate accordingly. They thus sanctioned and perpetuated the
greatest sources of suffering and wrong to the colored population. The
prejudice against the people of color had greatly increased since the
formation of the Society. The present supporters of the Society were
those who thoroughly loathed the free people of color, and the most
cruel and sanguinary opponents of the A