'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. The intelligent portion of the free negroes know very well what is going on.--Will they not see your debates? _Will they not see that coercion is ultimately to be resorted to?_ They will perceive that the edict has gone forth, and that it must fall, if not now, in a short time upon them.' 'I have already expressed it as my opinion that few, very few, will _voluntarily_ consent to emigrate, if no COMPULSORY MEASURE be adopted.--With it--many, in anticipation of its sure and certain arrival, will, in the mean time, go away--they will be sensible that the time would come when they would be forced to leave the State. Without it--you will still, no doubt, have applicants for removal equal to your means. Yes, Sir, people who will not only consent, but beg you to deport them. But what sort of _consent_--a consent extorted by a series of oppression calculated to render their situation among us insupportable. Many of those who have already been sent off, went with _their avowed consent_, but under the influence of a more decided compulsion than any which this bill holds out. 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 State. 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 him to _consent_ to go away? In a few nights the dose can be repeated, perhaps increased, until, in the language of the physicians, _quantum suff._ has been administered to produce the desired operation; and the fellow then becomes _perfectly willing_ to move away. I have certainly heard, if incorrectly, the gentleman from Southampton will put me right, that of the large cargo of emigrants lately transported from that country to Liberia, all of whom _professed_ to be _willing_ to go, were rendered so by some such severe ministrations as those I have described. A lynch club--a committee of vigilance--could easily exercise a kind of inquisitorial _surveillance_ over any neighborhood, and convert any desired number, I have no doubt, at any time, into a willingness to be removed. But who really