The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1843-07-08
ADDRESS
THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
TO THE
TIr9IG S OF N.3RYLAND.
ADDRESS

The State Central COMMITTEE nave
thought it their duty, at this period, to
call your attention to the interests con :
.hected with the next election of mem
beers of the General Assembly.
The v higs of Maryland are earnestly
invoked to take that election at heart. and
to give it all the aid they are able to be-
stow. The issues involved III il are OF
the highest moment to the honor and
prnenerity of the State. Amongst these
ly.4-s are two vhich ought to cngross
IT, are Of the Wig Party and call into
e.,j~n I'll the energy they possess.
I'aa first is. tie adjustment of the pnb-
lie debt,
The second, the election Of Sena-
Tor.
|, is in reference TO these, chiefly, that
we have thought this address proper.
rhs Safe debt is ostens,h'y some fif-
teen millions of dollars. The deb, OF
the City Of Baltimore is nearly Five
Millions of Dollars more.
THE debts have been incurred du-
ring successive years, by the regular, le-
climate action OF our public authorl ties,
the representatives duty chosen by the
people to act in their behalf.
They wore contracted 10 pay for pnb
lie works und, r,aken by our State Go
veInm,nt upon the petition and recon-
mend. ion Gf large portions of the peo-
PIE. They accrued upon money Dor
r, . ID, from time to time, lrop. 'sr own
cllizens, from the ctizeis of other
States, and from sundry individuals in
foreign countries who had good opin-
ion Of our sagacity in projecting public
works. and still better opinion Of our
integrity in the fulGIment of any engage
ment we nigh, make. Therefore, they
lent us money;--a few, perhaps, from
large stores IF private wealth, great
many from vcIy moderate means;-some
individual even lCU Us all they were
worth, and left themselves 10 other re-
source than the iA,rrest Of tie money for
thclr support. I'I;s is painfully true Of
some OF our own citizens here III Mary
land
These moneys we're borrowed in cy-
ac. accordance with directions given by
our Legislative and City authorities. The
faith of the State and City was respcc-
lively pligh,cd for their reimbursement;
and as testimony Of that plighie.! faith,
the State and Ci'v bonds were re'IeClive-
~ gwen, binding AS all men supposed.
and as was iniendpG--he State and City
;,unctraIy to pay the interest on their Sc.
vernl loans. during specified number OF
vcars, and, at the end of tla, time, 10
rav The principal Of each debt
These terms bein proflsred before
hand by the Representatives Of the Pco-
lie Of Mrryland and If the State of Ma
WAND and of HE City of Baltimore, TO
g.. ord. were accepted by friendly IN
: idna'<, both at home and abroad. with
,hc +, est reliance upon the exalted cha
Iac'er 70. oar people for fidelity to their
engagements. IL that reliance the none,
wa, Id to l.oac whom by law we had
auih r,zed to receive it.
The money thus acquired was spent.
under the direction II our public author
tiles. in making roads and canals for the
use Of our own people, supplying them
with great helps towards the carriage of
the commodities Of our trade and the
products Of our soil to and from their ap-
propriatc markets, WHEREBY "reat adj
ton has been made to the wealth aud
means Of Maryland, and ,at aid
given to the cultivation and improvement
of our soil
The works to which these moneys
were applied have not yet been wholly
completed. For that reason they do not
make ar equivalent return in annual di-
vidpd profits ,r the interest Ct the debt
Incurred in constructing them. Some Of
them perhaps, may not make this equivas
len! Tor few years, eve. "nen they are
finished.
These works belong TO us the people
of Maryland. They are very valuable
to us, although they do no, niurn. in an
nual divided profits, sum sufficient to
nay the interest We owe on the debt. We
have, as yet, in our character as Stale Of
Maryland, paid nothing for them, but
owe the whole money subscribed by the
Stale to the persons who lent it. Al
though the State has paid nothing for
these works, it receives from one Of
,hem,-the Baltimore and OHIO Fail
Road,-in which it had originally sub
scribed one million of dollars, an income
of about seventy thousand year. Yet
the State does not pay out of that income
of seventy thousand dollars even the IN
tcrcst on the million which it borrowed
in order to obtain that income. II re.
ceives profit from the investment and yet
negltcts to fulfill the contract of the
loan.
The Civ Of Baltimore honors hly meets
all its engagements, and though encum-
bcred with taxation three fold greater
than tina, Of the rest of the Sale. faith
fully pays every cert requl' d both for
its own and the State debt. Nothing is