New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-14

Inhabitants of Mary land there are uufortunst., u
number Of idle aud dishonest pe--nn. VITO annoy
| these 2,557 planters nv little Expectations con
mit'ed upen them. These wor bless rascal. si'l
tshe no permsnect employment. but pcoa about,
50 says NJ. jacobs. from hog-, 10 house ia the
night tine. robbing p"ulrr! ards, breaking open
c"rn.cribs and meat houses. and plundrring what
ever they can isy their hands upon. To- laEs are
pretty strict, We suppose, in Maryland As elsewhere.
sgain-t pierrg sud stealing, but It would seem
these ? so planters lacked t1e energy Ia prut-ct
| ttemselvs. by that means. 50 Mr. Jacobs pro-
poses that The n-slayrholdmg inhabit.nt. Mary.
| land should Interfere IN their beh if. and shodli
| sto@ how morally superior they srr to the,e p-
feIlng negroes. by proceeding 10 steal 80 900 men
women Snd children, and sPproPriating the1 TO
| their own use
Bat il soon comes ont that the real ground of
compliant sgaln't The fire negIor- is nu thai frS
Of them lounge aud seal. bat tbst the great body
Of then work Mr. j. Thompson Mason,
s!mparhlzng friend of Mr. Jacobs, expressed It,
II vac not the vsesbonds among the free negroes
that troubled tlm but the thrifty. and industrious.
" He could not bear" he said, $50 have free
" negroes aud slaves IN bis house at the time.
IL could rot bear TO pay the of IN cash, while
" the olher, with an impurng lcok would scan to
"ssy Shall | get nothing " So IA retrieve hIs
tender sensibltes 10 this respect 10 guard at once
nth bis conscience aud his pocket, Mr. Thompson
concurs in the plan of grabbing up these Indnsul-
aus free negroes and selling them INTO Slavery.
But Mr. JACOBS, Mt. Thomp.on bud their con-
federates IN their extreme deroTioD to the convt-
u'ence aid feing- # the 2,557 planters, are not
only ready to plumber the $4,000 free negroes of
their per-onsl liberty; they show JUST little
gs'd for the convenience sbd interests of the M
uIercus class of nor -siavehc ders who have occs
sion TO employ hired i,bor According Ia the re-
port Of the majority of the Comm,tt-e on Rrspiu
tons which the Convention. BY toe pressure Of
pubic sentiment, found Itself c0nstr,i incl to adopt,
in uaDy # the rural dI-rrlcts If the state where
labor !. by no means abundant thry r. a. the
;" free pegroes1 furnish large supply Of agric'i-
turalla 1t is uuqurs'iouable says this report,
" that quite large portion Of the soil of Maryland
90 could no; be tilted without their aid. la
oishiNt-' supply "Iu">t All INC 'so'i w
% mauded by the farmers H. the City II B,ltt
more they furnish incf nsidrrable part of the de-
mand for isbor Even Mr. Jacobs himself C7ncurs
ia this account of their industry According 10 HIS
report, they arr industrioEs To be Formidable
competitors with the white iaoO'ing population.
" In our cities and vllage..' he says. We find
d" The free nrgrc~s monopOzi,s Whatever of k,b,r
" pertains t. botels-barb-rs, e0schmen, draynen.
90 steamboat waters, sailors, sEri in many way.
Irimre the business Of our m~chsncs." 10 the
coui.try they rent farms, and force our "whte
ycung men to leave the State 90 II We permit
4" emancipation to go on, or If We allow those who
ar. now free to remain So, We rhal be obliged to
open 10 them al the avenues vi ramuDeratiye
" labor By which citizens cbtsn living, AMI
he pro,eeds to intimate that if things 40 on tney
have done, doctors, lawyer. and u,srchsnts clerk.
and newspaper editors and publishers, will 5000
begin 10 feel the effects of this frse.negio cobpeti
ton. To prevent themselves irooi being out
stripped in the career Of industry by TINS inferior
black rare The only chancr tor the Waite people Is,
according to this slayehodipg Scion, to rise sud
denly upon these industrious black. uborcrs, grab
them, ana reSnce them 10 slavery
Yet The nen Who deal in such stuff rs this are
those who dwell with Ihe greatest emphasis upon
tie neral ana intellectual superiority of White men
over negroes.