champions of liberty--a spirit that will yet drive from America the demon of slavery, and render it indeed "the land of the free and the home of the brave."'[AI] * * * * * * * * 'I have just found time to notice a few very exceptionable features of a communication over the signature of "A Marylander," published, a few days ago, in the American of our city. The writer is unquestionably entitled to the credit of being a thorough-going colonizationist. He writes in the _true spirit_ of the cause. He seems to be under an excitement produced by the publication of our anti-colonization resolutions. This being the case, it is not to be expected that he would, throughout his communication, avail himself of the guarded, accommodating, and conciliating language usual with colonization writers and declaimers. After being convinced that the people of color are not to be persuaded to leave the land of their birth, and every thing vernacular with them, for "regions" which he tells us are "now dark as the valley of the shadow of death," he says, "I would propose then that Maryland should colonize her own free blacks." He does not add the usual qualification, "_with their own consent_:" he knows this will never be obtained. He therefore says: "I earnestly _hope_ that the time _is now_ come when our state will wake up to all the importance of this subject, and will instantly commence _a system of measures_ imperatively demanded by the _sternest_ principles [colonization principles?] of _sound_ policy." We would tell this precocious statesman that we are not to be intimidated into colonization "_measures_" by the angry effusions of his illiberal soul; that we had rather die in Maryland under the pressure of unrighteous and cruel laws than be driven, like cattle, to the pestilential clime of Liberia, where grievous privation, inevitable disease, and premature death, await us in all their horrors. We are emboldened thus to speak, not from a reliance on the mere arm of flesh; no--it is the righteousness of our cause, a knowledge of the attributes of Deity, combined with a consciousness of innocence under suffering, that have inspired us with a moral courage which no oppression shall shake, no fulminations overawe. Our limits will not permit us to expatiate, at this time, on the import of the terms, "_a system of measures--the sternest principles_," &c. We would barely remark that the climax of injustice and cruelty, here suggested, nay, recommended, is the legitimate fruit of the operations of the American colonization societies relative to the free people of color. We have always believed that the "_system of measures_" here recommended, would be the dernier resort of these _christian_ associations. The unmerited abuse,