New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-21
FROM MARYLAND.
Correspos6sass Of The N. Y. Tribune.

ELKTON, Md. July III, 1897.
The South and its institutions have found new
defender. The first number Of The Southern .Egis
weekly journal published at Bel Air, Hartford
County, Maryland has just made its appearance
The Fgis lie quartO in form, is nearly half the size of
THE TRIBUNE, is edited by George Yellott and
John Cox, and devoted to the "deftnse Of the South
"and its Institutions" YeOtt is an Old Line Wing.
who has published several volumes Of poems, and
innumersble speeches, OratiOns, &C.. that have
gone unread To line trunks and supply other vulgar
demands, and Cox for several years published an
Sx1O Old-Line Wing sheet i'll the same Office from
which The .Egis is now issued; yet, strange as it
may seem, these two doughty champions have
planted themselves "upOn the broad ground now
occupied by the National Democracy" and are
determined to spend their nights and days in
eLdeavOIing to pcrpetuate and extend its
denominations. We shall say nothing of
the cOnsummate mpudence of these two
recent converts from "Od-Line Whiggery," in at
tempting to explain expOund and boost up the prin-
cIples which they affect to embrace and so admire.
This ia an affair of their own, not Onrs and if the
"Natonal Democracy (which We presume means
all who take, read and believe The .Egis-are salts
fed with the teachings of such guides we are per-
fectly agreeable" Barkis is wlin' " and We havn't
word Of complaint to utter. Let us, however,
take look at this new paper. In the first number,
which bears date July II, but which has been pub
shed some two weeks in advance, in order to give
everybody chance to subscribe, and enable the
publishers to prepare q sufficiently large edition OF
the second issue, is an ItroductOry Address" of
three mortal columns, containing many racy pas
sages. After complaining dOlOrOusy OF the increase
and advance Of AbOltiOnism, Free SOism, &c,
among us during the past few years. it goes on to
attempt to prove that under the triumph of such
fatal folly" the industrial interests of the Free
States would be even More sensibly affected than
would those Of the Slave States Hear this modern
jeremiah:
"The cotton fields Of the South would cease to
flourish; and that important product, which forms
the broad basis of the manufacturing and commercial
prosperity of the North, would disappear from the
market. The planters Of the South would no longer
be the best customers of Northern merchants; nor
would the staple crops Of that section afford profta
BILE freight for Northern vessels when twOthris
of the exports of the country had been annhilated by
the exercise of false phiantrophy. Grass would
yrow in the streets Of the commercial metropolis Of
Massachusetts, her chips would lie idly rotng at her
wbarves, her manufacturing towns wOnld be deserted
and the scanty agricultural resources OF her naturally
sterile soil would be nearly the sole dependence
of her impoverished people. Ii men in Massachusetts
are hOpelessy mad these inc vitabe results Of the
ultimate sss Of the Anti-Slavery movement must
there be known and yet vast msorty of the people
of that commonwealth are rabid Abolitionsts ready
and apparently eager TO commit suicidal act, aud
deal their own pecunary interests terrible and pros
tratDg blow"
If that is MT enough to convince you Northern
disunionists Of your suicidal policy and to cause
every man, in the old Bay State partcularly-even
that graceless reprobate "Byles' himself-to turn
from the error of his ways there is MT any use in
endeavorlng to benefit such iucorrigible sinners
The Address then goes ON to show that the
effects Of Aboltionism n the frontier States of the
South would be fearful, but the triumph of Free
soilism would be followed by still more disastrous
consequences. 1t says:
IL Maryland we now have a population of one
hundred and si1tyhve thousand negroes, and frac-
ton over four hundred thousand citizens of Europesn
origin The n-extenson OF Slavery into any of the
Territories would the number Of the former
pept up within limits exceed tn at oft the
after. Ii hardly requires the aid Of very active
imagination TO bring before the minds eye an appsll-
NJ picture Of the shocking which would neces-
ssrily tnsue in such coJditon of society," As the
highly developed Caucasian would not debase him
re by an amalgnDa ion with the inferior negro, a
collision between the two races would inevitably
occur and end in the bloody determination Of the
weaker.
1--WE therefore look upon the Free Soiler "a q more
nsidious aid dangerous enemy OF The Southern in-
tere sis than even the ulea Abolihonst. And yet
will be denied by no one who has an accurate per-
cepton Of the Zeal condition Of things around MIN,
Il at there many persons in the Northern counties
Of MARYLAND who secretly entertain Free Soil senti-
III. his; and the number nay be yet greater 10 cur
c. mnici cial hit tropolis."
AbohtioDism used to be the sam Of all villanles,
but it is now surpassed in its eBormlty by Free
Scilism-ths hideOus monster Of gigantic proper
tons. whose shadow fills with dsmay the heart OF
every genuine nigger-driyiDg Democrat or Old-Line-
BucbsDan-Wbig
This Journal, established $50 says the leader
"under consideIat on) mainly for the purpose Of
giving general currency to sound and conserva-
Give sentjmepts in reference ~ the important
"questicn Of negro subordiuaton, falsely termed