11 reached, 1 go for a Convention. In a Convention, which is politically omnipotent, I would say that every female slave, born after a certain day and year, should be free at the age of twentyone. T his, i n the course of time, would gradually, and at last, m ake our State truly free. I would further say, that, after the expiration of thirty years, more or less, the State would provide a fund, either from her own resources, from her portion in the Public L and, for the purchase of the existing generation of slaves, in order that the white laboring portion of our community might be as soon as possible freed from the ruinous competition of slave labor. The fund should be applied after this manner ; commissioners should be appointed in each county, who s hall on oath value all slaves that s hall be voluntarily presented to them for that purpose. To the owners of these slaves s hall be issued, by the proper authorities, 6crip b earing interest at the rate of six per cent, to the amount of the value of their slaves, and to the redemption of said scrip, this fund s hall be applied, principal and interest. By this plan the present habits of our people w ould not be suddenly broken in upon, whilst, at the same time, we believe that it would bring slavery to almost utter extinction in our State w ithin the next t hirty years. W ith regard to the free b lacks, I would not go for forcible expulsion, but I would encourage b y all the pecuniary resources that the State had to spare, a voluntary emigration to such countries and climates as nature seems p articularly to have designed for them. W ith regard to the political equality of the blacks W ith the w hites, I should oppose i n Convention their admission to the right of suffrage. As minors, women, foreigners, denizens and divers other classes of individuals are, in all well regulated governments, forbidden the elective franchise, so I see no good r eason why the blacks, u ntil they become able to exercise the right to vote w ith proper discretion, jshould be admitted to the right of suffrage. " Sufficient for the day is the e vil thereof." T he time m ight come w ith s ucceeding generations when there would be no objection on the part of the whites, and n o n e on t he account of disqualification of the blacks, to their being admitted to the same political platform ; but let after generations act for themselves. The idea of amalgamation and social equality resulting from emancipation, is proven by experience to be untrue and absurd. It may be said by some, what right would a Convention have to liberate the unborn 1 T hey who ask equity, the lawyers say, themselves must do equity, and whilst the slaveholders have rights, they must remember the blacks also have rights; and s urely i n the compromise which we have proposed b etween the slave and the slaveholder, the slaveholder has the 1 ion's share. On S u n d a y I replied to the committee's h a n d b i l l of