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In another column we present a Circular Address to the free colored
people of Maryland, calling a Convention to assemble in Baltimore the
25th of July, to take into consideration their present condition and
future prosperity, and compare them with the inducements held out to
them to emigrate to Liberia. This movement may be considered indicative
of the change that is going on in the minds of the colored people
respecting emigration. It is well known that heretofore they have been
almost entirely insensible to the advantages which they must necessarily
enjoy in a land peculiarly their own. They have not been entirely free
from the control of bad counsellors.--Now they seem resolved to take the
matter into their own hands, and to look at their present condition and
future prospects in this country as a matter in which they are
personally interested. When they do this in earnest, the result can be
easily foreseen. They will desire to escape from their present anomalous
condition, will yearn to be free and disenthralled, to have a land of
their own, to have rights unquestioned by any superiors, where
character, enterprise, education, and all that is lovely and noble in
life shall combine to elevate and improve them and their children after
them to the latest generation.

--_African Repository_, XXVIII, 195-196.

EMIGRATION OF THE COLORED RACE

In presenting the circular, which will be found in another column, of
which a committee of colored persons have undertaken the distribution,
(and which was written by one of themselves,) it gives us pleasure to
commend it as the evidence of a new and generally unexpected change of
sentiment on the part of the colored population, or, at least, some
portion of it. It is well known that for twenty-five years the
Colonization Societies in this country have labored to present before
that portion of our population, the advantages which must accrue to
them, from emigration to a land where they might enjoy, undisturbed,
those social and material privileges which it was impossible ever to
expect they could obtain by a residence of centuries in this country,
and that these appeals have met with comparatively little attention,
and, in deed have been received with very bad grace by the great mass of
those whom it was intended to benefit. The cause of this opposition was
to be found i