wed that the scheme did not prevent manumission, but
had tended gradually to increase its amount. That this was the
intention and actual effect of the colonization scheme, he would now
prove to the meeting in so far as regarded Maryland; and if he did so
of that state, he supposed they would not find it difficult to believe
the same thing of other states, as it was against Maryland that Mr.
Thompson had expended his peculiar virulence. Mr. B. then read the
following:--

Resolved, That this society believe, and act upon the belief
that colonization has a tendency to promote emancipation, by
affording to the emancipated slave a home, where he can be
happier and better, in every point of view, than in this
country, and so inducing masters to manumit, for removal to
Africa, who would not manumit unconditionally.--3rd A. Rep.
page 5.

Maryland, through her State Society, is about trying the
important experiment, whether, by means of colonies on the
coast of Africa, slave-holding states may become free states.
The Board of Managers cannot doubt of success, however; and
in exercising the high and responsible duties devolving upon
them, it is with the firm belief that the time is not very
remote, when, with the full and free consent of those
interested in this species of property, the state of Maryland
will be added to the list of the non-slave-holding states of
the Union.--3 A. R. page 6.

It has been charged, again and again, against the general
scheme, that its tendencies were to perpetuate slavery; and,
at this moment, both in this country and in Europe, there are
those who stigmatize the labors of men like Finley, Caldwell,
Harper, Ayres, Ashmun, Key, Gurley, Anderson and Randall, as
leading to this end. Unfounded as is the charge, it has many
believers. The colonization law of Maryland is based upon a
far different principle; for the immigration of slaves is
expressly prohibited, and the transportation of those who are
emancipated is amply provided for. In accordance, therefore,
with the general sentiment of the public, and anxious that
colonization in the state should be relieved from the
imputation put upon the cause, resolutions were unanimously
adopted, avowing that the extirpation of slavery in Maryland
was the chief object of the society's existence.--3 A. R.
page 33.

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