Maryland

In the Legislatura of that State, which has just closed its sessions, the slaveholders attempted to carry various projects to oppress. the free people of color. One of them was a registration law, which, besides a heavy tax, would have compelled many thousand to leave the State from defects tn their proof of a legal right to liberty. Another project was to prevent more strictly tho navigation of vessels by colored men only. But these and all similar enactments were voted down by decisive majorities. So mach have our ef forls" put back the cause of freedom" in Maryland, that every plan to make the chains heavier andtighterisnowieeaied!