prefers such means as these to the course proposed in this bill? And one or the other is inevitable. For no matter how you change this bill--sooner or later the free negroes will be _forced_ to leave the State. Indeed, Sir, ALL OF US LOOK TO FORCE of some kind or other, direct or indirect, moral or physical, legal or illegal. Many who are opposed, they say, to any compulsory feature in the bill, desire to introduce such severe regulations into our police laws--such restrictions of their existing privileges--such inability to hold property--obtain employment--rent residences, &c., as to make it impossible for them to remain amongst us. _Is not this force?_' Mr Fisher said: 'If we wait until the free negroes consent to leave the State, we shall wait until "time is no more." _They never will give their consent_; and if the House amend the bill as proposed, their consent is in a manner pointed out by the gentleman from Dinwiddie--and it is a great question whether we shall force the people to extort their consent from them in this way.--He believed if the compulsory principle were stricken out, this class of people would be forced to leave by the harsh treatment of the whites. The people in those parts of the State where they most abound, were determined,--as far as they could learn through the newspapers and other sources,--to get rid of the blacks.' What a revelation, what a confession, is here! The free blacks taken from their beds, and severely flagellated, to make them willing to emigrate! And legislative compulsion openly advocated to accomplish this nefarious project! Yes, the gentlemen say truly, 'few, very few will _voluntarily_ consent to emigrate'--'they never will give their consent'--and therefore they must be expelled by force! It is true, the bill proposed by Mr Broadnax was rejected by a small majority; but it serves to illustrate the spirit of the colonization leaders. The editor of the Lynchburg Virginian, an advocate of the Society, uses the following language: