Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1859-02-24

manly, Than to tx limited time in which the
rec negro, If he wish to remain, shall choose his
master and 60 into voluntary slavery or if he
wish to retain his freedom, shall be required to
leave the State; and that if they refuse to make
any election within the time limited the State
shall have them sold to our citizens, slaves for
life; they and their offspring that at the end
of the appointed time there shall remain no free
negroes within our State, except aged and infrm
ones, whom we are already obliged to provide
for"
The "Shield' then goes on to give his views
OF the proper details for such law; and con-
cur with him in these respects also. He says
"Should our State enact such law as we
have suggested, there are some conditions to the
details we like to see embodied in it. LIST. No
person holding a certain limited number of slaves
should be eligible to become the owner of any of
these conscrpt slaves. End. No one person
should become the owner of more than certain
fixed number of such slaves. 3rd The price of
those slaves should be so graded that persons in
very moderate circumstances could pay for them
4th. An exemption law should protect such
slaves from being sold under execution or for
debts. Such restrictions would plant slavery in
every family, and our humbest tenants would
be enabled to own their own labor instead of
giving the high prices for hirelings they now
would have a certain home, be well clothed and
fed, and would know that no law could free him
from his master, unless convicted of a criminal
offence Labor throughout our State would be
increased hundred fold, and thousands of acres
of swamp and worn out lands would be re-
claimed, and Maryland would soon become one
Of the first farming States in the Union. Our
Court charges and County taxes would be great
ly reduced and the demoralizing elements now
flowing from our large free negro population,
would be stanched; and life, vigor wealth and
prosperity, would give to our proud old State
that position she held in past days and which
she has forfeited by her deplorable encourage
ment of the free negro system-a system which
has always, and will always, prove fatal to any
State or community"
Our renters are the persons that mostly need
labor, and the views Of the 'Shield" in suting
the detains of the law to their necessity are emf
nently proper.
is folly to parley and trihe with subject of such
magnitude. Those halfway measures that a.
dorn our statute books so copiously, will never
reach the evil or redress the wrong, They only
tantalize citizens and rrtate the free negroes
A bold, plain, and practical measure, that shall
cut up the evil root and branch, will be more
acceptable to our citizens and free negroes also.
The Mexicans have not only set their slaves
free, but they have accepted the doctrine of e.
quality as laid down by abolitionists, and have
amalgamated with their freed slaves,-they
have become nation of imbecile mulattoes, and
are ruined as people.
England has discovered her false step at late
day and is vigorously engaged in the slave-trade
to save her colonies from utter ruin. But she
is too false hearted to call things by their right
ic@., i &r,, 1,f1
by covering this slave trade under the name of
apprentices! The great and available argument
for the abolition of slavery by England was that
the freed negros would become slaces to capital,
Ike the liberated aoAite serfs of Europe and
would work cheaper and harder after emancipa-
ton than before. The principle of humanity
never cptered into the measure, and the sequel
proves how little they know of the negro char
acter; for they refused to work at all, and re-
tired to the forests and hills, where they could
sustain life on the wild fruits without labor
England at once saw the error, and scarcely had
the old slaves of Jamaica been manunlitted, ere
she began to introduce new slaves from India,
China, the Madeira Islands and Africa. She
calls these slaves apprentices but Meg are IN fact
the veriest SLAVES on earth; for Chinese Coolies
are sold and bought in China, just as African
slaves are. We find by English papers that up
WdIUS VI 1OU,UOU OOO1le SlaVcS nave Ueeu ILL.,
ported to Mauritius within a few years past
1t is also stated that another of their colonies
there were 10000 male Coolie slaves, and only
3 females For the last ten or fifteen years
Sierra Leone has been mere slave depot. The
English colony of Jamaica, where they set their
slaves free twenty years ago, has recently en-
acted what they call a vagramt loD, the design
and operation of which, is to reduce those free
negroes to slauery again! After this, we trust
New England will not censure our course, since
we only follow the le,d of Old England aboli-
tionists after testing free negroism to their ruin
The French are also engaged in the African
slave trade to a considerable extent, and have
carried large numbers of negro slaves to their
colonies in Martinique and Guadalupe, and Cay
enne. We presume France too, will soon pass
a vagra,1 act for Hayti, to re-enslave her vast
hords Of free negroes there, and to atone, in
part, for the fearful horrors of the memorable
night between the 22nd and 23rd of August
1871. Louis Napoleon has just instructed his
Minister of Algeria, 'tto come to an understand
ing with the Minister of Foreign Affairs to re-
sumo with the English Government the negotia-
tons which were entered on few months ago.
to substitute the slaves of Indian Coolies instead
ofthe negroes" This arrangement has been
made at the instance Of England, and to avoid
difficulty between France and Portugal, grow
ing out of the capture by the latter, of the
French SLAYER Charles ct Georges.
We thus see that the European powers are
rapidly giving up the rotten, cobweb, siekly
theories on free-negroism, that have nearly ruin
ed their tropical colonies and are again vigorous
ly entering upon the slave trade.
/ now propose to advance some thoughts and
state some facts that appear to our own people
who do not own slaves, You, gentlemen, have
been taught by Seward and his satellites that
negro slavery is injurious to your interests; and
that you ought to unite with them in putting il
down. wherever it exists. They tell you if ne
gro slavery were abolished, you would get much
higher wages for your labor and That kind O.
paradisiacal system of labor aczaich Aea c0W ire