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 country, 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: