The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-09-29
Vol. XIII.
DELAWARE TO BE FREE.

slavery we trust that " popular sovereignty
in Delaware will assert its superiority to the
two or three hundred Slavery Oligarchs at the
next session Of the Legislature:
The prospect that Delaware Is soon n b.
free State is turning the attention of man
Of the emigrants from the North towards I'M!
as q suitable place to settle Already we bava
in this vicinity as many as twenty excelar,
citizens, who have come among as from the
Northern States, bought farms, and are now
engaged in improving them. Most Of the
are valuable acquisitions to our State. Tbav
are intelligent, enterprisng, working men. who
will do much toward developing the resource
and increasing the wealth of our little cor,
mOnwealth. The facilities offered by our RAJ;
roads brings thousands of farmers amopg p.
to look for homes, and one OF the managers .f
the Delaware railroad informs US that the oDlr
objection which he hears these express against
us Is, that we are still a slave State. He saws
that his Impression is, that if the next Iegisa
ture will pass a law for the abolition Of Slayerv
1t will at once double the value of all he
property IN Kent and Sussex counties. and m
few years double our entire population. 7,
view of such facts, who is there so blind prsir
diced, and obstinate, as to object to the mas
sage of such a law If any, it must indeed
be bitter enemy to the prosperity of the State
Our lands are cheap, easily cultivated, and
susceptible of as high a state of cultivation
and improvement as any in the world. Look
at the farm of Ex-Governor Ross, which a few
years ago was almost a naked sand-bank-tbe
worst land we have in the State-now il will
produce fifty bushels of corn to the acre, and
as good wheat and clover as anybody may de.
sire.
Let Northern farmers who wish to improve
their condition come among US, and If they do
their duty, we will guaranty them success
and prosperity. But we wish to guard them
against falling into the hands Of unprinci.
Piled spectators. We have some of these land.
sharks among us, who will fleece a stranger
with as little conjunction Of conscience a,
the worst of the species in our Western Terri.
tories. Look out for them. We have known
one of these to sell $4,000 worth of land for
$25,000 and we suppose he would have taken
$4,000 If he could. When stranger. come
among Us to look out for farms, let them avoid
the spectators about the towns, and 90 among
the farmers themselves, and make INQUIRIES
We advise them also not to be too hasty in
making purchases. If you come from com
munity where land is worth u.s. or 100, or 100
dollars an acre, you may think our beautiful
lands very cheap at 40, or so when perhaps
| 20 or Is is the full market value. Prices range
| from 10 to so dollars here-the latter for in
proved land near TO the towns, and the former
for unimproved at a distance from railroads OF
towns"
We will add to the above sensible Suggestions
of the Nel0S and Advertiser, that in 1850, when
the last census was taken, the State of Della.
ware contained but 1920 slaves in total DOB
ulstion of 81 ,532. The whitos numbered II 1863.
and the free colored people, 1903. In 1880,
Delaware had 1887 slaves, and the number al
every subsequent census has been less than &,
the preceding. It is highly probable that the
census of 1860 will exhibit slave population
not exceeding fifteen hundred, in a total popu-
lation of more than hundred thousand. Since
1850, a great many slaves have been emar.
cipated by their masters, still greater number
have emancipated themselves by running away.
and doubtless not few have been clandestinely
run out Of the State, to be sold in the Southern
market in violation, we believe, of the laws Of
Delaware. From these various causes, the nun.
Der Of slaves in the State has perhaps declined
more rapidly than for many years past, and
the institution has now little more than nom
inal existence.
me great obstacle to emancipation in Della.
ware is not the power of the oligarchy within
the State, but its power in the Union. 1t is the
absolute control of the miscalled Democratic
party, by the slave interest Of the South, which
prevents the Legislature of Delaware from abol
ishng Slavery. 1t is the interest of that party
to uphold Slavery. 1t has no hold upon the
affections of the people, and therefore allies
itself with the great and powerful institution of
Slavery. This institution gives it the control in
nearly all the Southern States, and By means of
Federal patronage it has heretofore managed TO
control enough of the Northern States to keen
it in power. But its shams and devices rs
frauds and corruptions, are at length understood
by the Northern people, and its sands have
nearly run out. When it ceases to have Fed
eral patronage to dispense, it viii lose the last
link that binds Northern demagogues to its for
tunes. By the same corrupt appliances. this
slave Democracy has kept up Pro-Slavery
feeling in Delaware, and prevented the Stale
from commencing the work of emancipation.
Northern " conservatives =" and douqbfaces
should be made to understand this truth. viz
that they are the bulwarks of Slavery. The
people of the slave States are bound hand and
foot and can do almost nothing towards eman.
cipation, while Northern " conservatives" pro
Tossing to be opposed to Slavery, uphold the
black Democracy by their votes, or fail to co
operate with the Republicans in overthroviDp
the party of Slavery.
Delaware is an exception to this rule. Sls
very is now so weak, that, seconded by the ma.
lign influence of the Federal Administrator.
it is unable to intimidate and silence the friends
of Freedom. But, with some few executions.
the latter are lamentably apathetic. They
should organize and agitate without ceasing.
They have truth and justice, as well as utiIi
tartan expectancy, on their side, and their or
ponents would be no match for them in discus
sion. We hear nothing from Wilmington,
which should lead in the movement; and this
advocate of the noble cause the
Ne'os and Aduertiser is published at Milford
in, we believe, the southern county. Certainly
II Free-Soil paper can be supported in south
ern Delaware, those of Wilmington and the
northern portion Of the State ought to flourish
LESLIE THE SwINDLER.-We are grati6ed to
learn that Leslie, the swindler of the young
ladies, has been convicted and sentenced TO
the Penitentiary. We find the sentence as fol.
lows, in the Philadelphia papers:
Judge Ludlow said: regret extremely to
be obliged to pass sentence in this case. That
regret is based upon the ground that the de-
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