Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1859-02-24
NO. 43.

vivug free negro? The taxable whites -
These crimes by free negroes arc go com
mon in our midst that we scarcely take note
of them. It was but short time ago that
Ia negro wench killed her husband (botil
free) with fence stake. She suffered the
penalty Of the law and left us to pay the bill
Since then another negro wench threw u
white boy down the well and drowned him;
she was tried and condemned and as usual
the whites had to foot the bill. Still later.
two athletic negro fellows, in the dead hour
of the night, entered the humble cottage of
a poor, defenceless white widow, surround
ed by her three helpless children. one Of
them sick at the time; they brutally forced
her and violated her person in the most
shocking and fiendish manner. True, they
Iexpiated the crime upon the gallows; but
the injuries to that poor woman and her
helpless children can never be atoned for.
These acts occurred in our own county and
within short time past.
The history of free e-negroism in Maryland,
is history Of Incidence, vice, and crime
throughout often stained with the blood of
their fellows, and frequently our white pop
ulation is victinized to their hellish deeds,
Freedom in their hands is a deadly poison,
which they understand to mean cessation
from labor, and full license to do as they
please. They have no other conception of
freedom, and will learn no other. Servility
with them is ingram, natural. and coherent;
it was planted there by God himself and
cannot be eradicated by man. They mako
good slaves, because the principle Of slavery
&bo fo1o, ,opf tbaI afrra
they abuse freedom, because they have no
rational conception of its uses.
The points have discussed, and the con-
clusons arrived at, are in harmony with the
resolution adopted by the Convention in
Cambridge at my suggestion. After dis
cussing that resolution in yonr paper of the
7th ulto., you conclude as follows Col.
Jacobs proposition, then, is in one alterna-.
tive impracticable, aud in the other detri-
mental to both shareholders and non -slaye-
holders" In reply, it is strange I should
have proposed measure injurious to the
very classes whose benefit had in view
Indeed, I was then, as now, only actuated
by the sincere motive of advancing the COM
mon good of our State by a measure, which
believe would confer blessings upon the
free negro, as well as those other classes.
1t is evident that we cannot long live in har-
mony as two distinct races with numbers so
nearly equal, and our freedom practical and
their nominal. A rupture must come, and
a struggle for the mastery ensue-unless
we amalgamate with them-a thing too
monstrous to be thought of. And yet, by
a prospectus of 'sThe Anglo-African Maga-
zine'-a paper just started in New York
City-this very doctrine of amalgamation,
equality, and full citizenship, is to furnish
the chief pabuzuna for its columns. This
prospectus has just reached me through a
friend, and would give its contents in full
but for fear Of extending my remarks be-
yond limit. It is the advance move for
1860, aided, no doubt, by that same British
gold, at the instance Of Seward. Those
sheets will be sent to the free negroes Of
Maryland in great numbers; for the Editor,
Thos. Hamilton, 4S Beekman Street,, New
poets of free cozored men, by common assent,
rest IN a great degree the condition and pros
poets of enslaued cozored men," "Their
Iczainas for citizenship of the sereraz States,
and of the United iStates,' is to be promi-
nently declared and zealously defended. It
would be we'll for the people Of Maryland to
take warning in time.
The conclusions you draw from my reso-
luton are very different from my own
Upon this question, everything depends up
on the standpoint we may take. You seem
to think if the alternative, of going into sla-
very or leaving the State was placed before
our free negroes, the vacuum caused by
thosewho might prefer determination. would
be filed by immigrant whites who would
oppose slavery. That was the argument
years ago, and it prevented our people TAX
ing the bull by the horns then. It might
apply to very limited extent under pres
ent circumstances but I doubt it. The
other side of the picture will show that the
free negro himself IS no'0 the ve'y mischief
you apprehend from the supposed white i'm
migrant. Take the case of Sam Green, of
Dorchester, for illustration. But where
would the free negro 90 to? All! there's
the rub. He wouldn't go to Africa, nor
would he go to the free States. A free me-
| gro is the last being that an abotitionist
would encourage to gonorth. Then, where
would he go? Where could he go and do
so aoeU as to remain IN Maryland, choose has
master. and go into slauery2
My honest conviction is that three out Of
every four Of our free negroes would remain
and go into slavery. Upon this point the
editor Of ''The Worcester Shield" of the
30th of October past, has given views so
consonant with my own, and so full of de-
tails, that will submit some extracts. He
says:
ssWe confess, that after careful study of the
subject in all it's bearings, we can think Of no