'But, if they will not consider for themselves, WE _must consider for them_. The safety of the people is the supreme law; and to that law all minor considerations must bend. If the free negroes will not emigrate, _they must be contented to endure those privations which the public interest and safety call for_.--In the last Richmond Enquirer we notice an advertisement, setting forth, that "a petition will be presented to the next legislature of Virginia, from the county of Westmoreland, praying the passage of some law to _compel_ the free negroes in this commonwealth to emigrate therefrom, under a penalty which will effectually promote this object." So, too, at a meeting of the citizens of Prince George county, in Maryland, it was resolved to "petition the next legislature to remove all the free negroes out of that State, and to prohibit all persons from manumitting slaves without making provision for their removal."' I close this work with a specimen of the sophistry which is used to give _eclat_ to the American Colonization Society. In the month of June, 1830, I happened to peruse a number of the Southern Religious Telegraph, in which I found an essay, enforcing the duty of clergymen to take up collections in aid of the funds of the Colonization Society on the then approaching fourth of July. After an appropriate introductory paragraph, the writer proceeds in the following remarkable strain: 'But--we have a plea like a peace offering to man and to God. We answer poor blinded Africa in her complaint--that we have her children, and that they have served on our plantations. And we tell her, look at their returning! We took them barbarous, though measurably free,--untaught--rude--without science--without the true religion--without philosophy--and strangers to the best civil governments. And now we return them to her bosom, _with the mechanical arts_ ... _with science_ ... _with philosophy_ ... with civilization ... with republican feelings ... and above all, with the true knowledge of the true God, and the way of salvation through the Redeemer.'