New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-01
REPTBLICANISN ~ MARYLAND.

Correspondence Of The N. Y. Tribune
ELKToS, Nd, June ~ 1857.
The Slave States boast exutngly that the isms do
not flourish south Of Mason and Dixons line; that the
coil and atmosphere of the lower latitudes uncon
genial TO them and that their citizens not easily
led astray by fase teachers and pied to JOIN in the
worship Of strange gods, the citizens Of the
Free States There is some show of truth in the boast
Taught from youth up to believe that our vener
able sres were wiser than their descendants and that
"tbere were giants in those days-the days in which
our earlier constitutions and laws framed-we
continue to cherish the belief to reverence the
labOrs Of our ancestors, and stick fast TO ancient laws
and customs merely because they are ancient, and not
on account Of any inherent worhlness or PERFECTION
Thinking the same hoary thoughts, clipging to the
same moe s-covered institutions, and treadng at jog
trot pace in the beaten track their fathers before
them did the in the Slave States have arrived
at the conc usion that with nearly centuIys
experience in the workings Of our peculiar
system of Government, We have become so
degenerate that for TO say aught against the hand
work of ancestors the hight OF presumption and
an attempt at renodelng it nothing less tkan sacrege
"a useless labor that will produce anything but lm-
provement. speak, of course of such OF us as are
strictly trained and have the SlaveState creed prop
erly nsted into US. To be sure We have few schs-
mates and heretics here and there among us, who
dare 10 think for themselves and to give their brethren
the benefit of their thoughts pestient set OF fell
lows they are without the fear Of God before their
eyes" Who teach the abomnable doctrine tina. " all
''men are created free and equal, and have the
" iHaienable right to life, liberty and the pun
minds Of good, orderly citizens with dscon-
tent, and incite them to sedlilon and rebellion.
Such men We deem dangerous characters: In for
mer letter gave you the Maryland method OF deal
ing With those who dared 10 write, print or circulate
"incendiary" publications; and We will now take a
peep at our manner Of dsSe minatng q proper theO-
logical belief, by curtailing all mschievous vaga-
bonds of what they are foolish enough to consider
their privileges for the benefit OF the community In
1923 q law was passed by our Provincial Assembly,
which still remains upon our statute books, portion
Of which reads as follows:
any person shall hereafter within this Province, wit
phene God or deny our Savior Jesus Cr 70 be
the Son Of God shall deny the Holy Trinity the Father
Son and Holy Ghost the Godhesd Of Of the three
sons the unity Of the Godhead shall utter any pIoane
Of and chs, be thereof convicted by verdict confession
shall O the eOepse be bored through the tongue and hned
.hal smstned by burning in the forehead with the letter
ossnse shall suffer death Without benefit Of clergy
Now, having ones tongue bored isn't pleasant
operation by any means so neither are branding
and hanging; and by putting fellow t snsHia
they were taking pretty eiectuai method OF nppng
any new-faDgled ism in the bid. Pretty good Judges
of human nature those old codcers were, after ALL
Whether this law ever enforced | am unable to
say: but it hasnt proved efectual. Various denom-
nations that openly disobey have sprung up and
fourshing in spite of it, And So in spite of the de-
nunciations of slavedriviDg Democracy, and strin-
gent anti.incendiary laws Repubcansm is springing
up, taking deep root and spreading among us. The
Edston Md Star of last week thinks an article in
The Gazette of the same place looks very much as II
"Black Republicanism was marching southwark"
and that the advocacy by THE Gazette of the Repub-
"lican police of Gov. King would do credit to The
IN. Y.'TRIBuSE," and winds up in this wise:
"Try have fallen upon strange times, when the Albany
Regency Seward and Company find defender on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland"
The mad dog cry Of Aboitonism has frightened
msny Southern man from an examination into the
merits of Republcanism, but the cause rs marching
southwark and when the laboring masses once dis
cover the true meaning Of the term, they will buckle
on their and 60 into the contest with an earn
estness that will spread among the ranks
of the opposition Free thought and free speech may
be suppressed for season, but will eventually obtain
utterance and whenever they do find utterance, the
cause of free soil and free labor Is in the ascendant
The day of it's ascension is rapidly approaching in
MARYLAND,