The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-12-13

have been requested to call attention to
the following article from the Coloni-
zation Journal. At the instant we
deem it sure, that the Legislature will
continue grant to colony which is
doing so much in etfecting the phenom-
enon, of people dragged by violence
from scenes of the deepest degradation
and barbarity to slavery in a distant
cline, returning again, free, to the land
of their benighted fathers, taking
with them Christianity and civiliza-
ton.
TIE COMING SESSION OF THE LEGIs-
LATURE.-Among the matters of deep
interest, which will be presented to the
first Legislature, under the New Con-
stitution, not OF c will be second in i'm
portance to Colonization. This is a
subject, too, upon which action cannot
be deferred. 1t is, throughout the land,
the great subject of the day. What its
friends have for years been saving to
those who would not listen-that it at
fords the only solution for the difficult
ties OF all kinds connected with the sub
jet of slavery at the North or South
is now freely admitted BY thousands and
tens OF thousands, who, with open ears,
hearken with deep interest, to its expo
sition and explanation. TIE THOUGHT
and the TIME have happened together:
and until the Time Tor the Thought ar
rives, the Thought is ever valueless.
Hence the apathy afyears past. Hence
the interest to-day.
But while the subject of Colonization
is now the subject Of the day through
out the country, il Is eminently AID es-
psoally, the great subject of the State
of Maryland.
The appropriation of 5000 per an
UNI under which Maryland's colony ON
the West Coast, at Cape Palmas, HIS
grown up, and which is peopled with
emigrants from our State, expired by
Limitation during the present year. I'm
less it is renewed, all that Maryland has
done heretofore, has been done to but
small purpose, comparatively. If now,
when the TINE has come, when now,
first, for twenty years, the free colored
population of the State admit that their
true Interests must require them to emf
grate-that in fact a crowding foreign
Immigration, and natural increase of
the white population at home, leave
themno alternative,--if now, at the be-
ginning Of the moving of the waters,
Maryland wlthdraws her aid, takes from
the cause her countenance and leaves
those who would emigrate to Africa to
depend upon the scanty assistance 10 be
derived from individuals or furnished
by the benevolent beyond her borders,
she Will be untrue to herself, untrue
to her colored population, and noble
example which tor twenty years past
has held her name the highest in the
great cause of colonization, will be lost
in all its intluence,--and Marvland's
abandonment Of colonization, as it must
then be termed, will be the great triumph
of Abolition. There is no doubt about
1t. No matter shat the motive Of Ma
ryland--no matter how sound her excu-
ses--Aboli'on riumphs when Maryland
no longer contributes, as she has done,
to Colonization.
We say, therefore, emphatically, that
no subject to come before the Leglsla-
ture of Maryland, is of more importance
than the application, that will be made
to continue for term of yeass, the COL
onlzation appropriation: and we take
this notice of it in advance, throwing
out the views We have done, that its i'm
portance may be understood, and that
our friends throughout the State may be
ready to aid, when the time comes, with
the strongest expression of their good
wishes in behalf of cause, which; as
statesmen, christians and phi!ant.lropis.s
never had such claims upon them as it
now possesses,