ountry, and to compare the same with the
inducements and prospects held out to them to emigrate to Liberia or
elsewhere; a respectable number assembled in the school room of St.
James (colored) Church, corner of Saratoga and North streets.

The meeting being duly organized, it was resolved that a Convention of
Delegates of the Free Colored Population from each county of the State
of Maryland and of the City of Baltimore, be held in this city on the
25th of July next, for the purpose above stated.

Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to issue a circular
addressed to the Free Colored People of the State, setting forth the
object of the Convention, the time of its commencement and the
conditions upon which Delegates will be entitled to a seat in the same.

At an adjourned meeting of persons friendly to the call of the said
Convention, held on the 4th of June 1852, in the room before referred
to, the Committee on the Circular Address, made the following report,
which was unanimously approved and adopted:

ADDRESS TO THE FREE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MARYLAND

Brethren:--Whereas the present age is one distinguished for inquiry,
investigation and enterprise, in physical, moral and political
sciences above all past ages of the world, one in which the nations
of the earth seem to have arisen from the slumber of ages, and are
putting forth their utmost energies to obtain all those blessings,
which nature and nature's God seem to have intended that man should
enjoy, and the principles set forth by the American Sages, in the
Declaration of Independence of these United States, "that all men are
created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain
inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness," with each revolving year have extended wider and wider
throughout the habitable globe, and sunk deeper and deeper into the
hearts of millions of men, and as we humbly hope, are destined to
revolutionize the civil and political conditions of all the nations
of the earth, it would indeed be passing strange if the Free Colored
man in this country, which gave birth to those elevated and sublime
sentiments, should feel nothing of the force of their mighty import,
and with anxious eye and panting heart, endeavor in this, or some