hip up to the highest post in the government,
all is free and open to them, and where character, enterprise, education
and honorable ambition, have all their appropriate rewards in the order
of the State. What is better, no white man can hope to cast his lot
there with the prospect of permanent settlement, or transmitting a
healthy posterity. They see there such men as the late Gov. Russwurm or
the present Gov. Roberts, sustaining their rule surrounded by their own
race, with a distinction and dignity which would do honor to any white
man. They see there pioneers of their own color, who in the arts of
peace or of war, are striking examples of what the emancipation of the
MIND can effect.

This is a crisis full of important results to the race in this country,
and it behooves them now to cast aside all false issues, to take into
serious consideration (in the words of the circular) their present
condition and future prospects in this country, and contrast them with
the inducements and prospects opened to them in Liberia, or any other
country.

We have little doubt as to the quarter to which their preferences will
be given, although that is as yet left an open question. Trinidad is a
failure, Jamaica is a half-ruined British dependency, and in both the
white man the sole source of authority. Liberia excepted, Haiti is the
only point left, and here reigns a perpetual jealousy between the black
and mulatto. Moreover, the imperial rule set up there is repugnant to
their feelings and inclinations, for strange to say, in the midst of
depression, this race in America has become imbued with a sentiment of
republicanism and a love for its system, which will make them in Africa
the sedulous imitators of ourselves, in all but in the misfortune of
introducing another race to be perpetually subservient to themselves. In
this career we are happy to believe they will run rejoicing, long after
the privations of their forefathers in this country shall have been
forgotten.

--_African Repository_, XXVIII, 196-197.

CIRCULAR

Pursuant to an invitation given through the columns of the Baltimore
daily papers to the Free Colored Population of Baltimore, friendly to
calling a State Convention, to be held in this city some time during the
ensuing summer to take into consideration their present position and
future prospects in this c