WHAT COLONIZATION MEANS. Our colored brethren have always understood that colonization means expatriation, a cruel driving out of the country. And it is remarkable how few of them, by all the art, and argument, and benevolence too, of the colonization community, have been persuaded to embrace the scheme. An old colored woman, who had been most of her life a slave in Virginia, said to the writer of this, when he spoke to her of the bright prospects of Liberia, “Ah, sir, if it’s going to be so good a place, the white folks will come and take it, by and by. I know them well enough. They always take what’s best.” It is needless to say that this woman could not be convinced of the benevolence of colonization. It is not to be denied by any body, that there is in this country a very general hatred of the colored people. And it might have been predicted with certainty, that any plan for their general removal, however benevolent its motive, and however careful it might be to act only by their _own consent_, would bring into life and action a general desire to _drive them out_. Such has been the fact in regard to the American Colonization Society. We have abundance of proof, but at present have only room for the following. _Extract from the Maryland Temperance Herald, of May 30, 1835._ “We are indebted to the committee of publication, for the first number of the Maryland Colonization Journal, a new quarterly periodical, devoted to the cause of colonization in our state. Such a paper has long been necessary; we hope this will be useful.