“14. Have you any permanent fund, and how much?”

ANSWER.—­We have none.  The contributions are anticipated.  We are always in debt, and always getting out of debt.

I have now, Sir, completed my answers to the questions proposed in your letter of the 16th ult.  It gives me pleasure to have had such an auspicious opportunity of doing so.  I cannot but hope for good to both the parties concerned, where candor and civility have characterized their representatives.

Part of the answer to your 13th question may seem to wander from the strict terms of the question proposed.  Let it be set down to a desire, on my part, to give you all the information I can, at all germain to the inquiry.  The “proffer,” made in my note to Mr. Calhoun, was not “unguarded;”—­nor was it singular.  The information I have furnished has been always accessible to our adversaries—­even though the application for it might not have been clothed in the polite and gentlemanly terms which have so strongly recommended yours to the most respectful consideration of

Your very obedient servant,

JAMES G. BIRNEY.

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[In the Explanatory Remarks placed at the beginning of this Correspondence, reasons were given, that were deemed sufficient, for not publishing more of the letters that passed between Mr. Elmore and myself than the two above.  Since they were in type, I have received from Mr. Elmore a communication, in reply to one from me, informing him that I proposed limiting the publication to the two letters just mentioned.  It is dated May 19.  The following extract shows that he entertains a different opinion from mine, and thinks that justice to him requires that another of his letters should be included in the Correspondence:—­

“The order you propose in the publication is proper enough; the omission of business and immaterial letters being perfectly proper, as they can interest nobody.  I had supposed my last letter would have formed an exception to the rule, which excluded immaterial papers.  It explained, more fully than my first, my reasons for this correspondence, defined the limits to which I had prescribed myself, and was a proper accompaniment to a publication of what I had not written for publication.  Allow me, Sir, to say, that it will be but bare justice to me that it should be printed with the other papers.  I only suggest this for your own consideration, for—­adhering to my former opinions and decision—­I ask nothing and complain of nothing.”

It is still thought that the publication of the letter alluded to is unnecessary to the purpose of enlightening the public, as to the state, prospects, &c, of the anti-slavery cause.  It contains no denial of the facts, nor impeachment of the statements, nor answer to the arguments, presented in my communication.  But as Mr. Elmore is personally interested in this matter, and as it is intended to maintain the consistent liberality which has characterized the Executive Committee in all their intercourse with their opponents, the suggestion made by Mr. Elmore is cheerfully complied with.  The following is a copy of the letter alluded to.—­J.G.B.]