The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-12-21
The Two Reasons.


advertiser, pretty strong Abolition
journal printed at Milford, Delaware, we
extract the following reason why the
territory lying between the Delaware
and Chesapeake bays should not be
united as one State:
"The enlargement of orr State by the
annexation of Accomac and Northampton
counties of Virginia, as well as all that por
ton Of Maryland east of the Chesapeake
has been recommended by the Secretary of
War and endorsed by many of our citizens
This would give us desirable increase of
territory. and cntitle the State to three
Representatives in Congress, but at the
same time it ihstens upon us a slave popula
ton of 30, 100. Delaware, rs she now stands
is only nominaily slave State, and bids fair
to place herself in \ few years among the
great band of entcrprising, wealthy free
States of the north The addition of 81 900
slaves would prevent this desirable position
being taken for a hundred years to come,
which should be a strong objection to every
citizen desiring her welfare. Delaware has
been making rapid advancement within the
past few years. Her present public school
systcm-which however. needs thorough
revision to make it what it ought to be
imperfect as it is, has done much to elevate
and improve her people; the advantages
given her farmers by the running of the
Railroad line through her entire length, has
aroused them to the Importance of more
thorough tilling of their land while the
introduction Of improved agricultural i'm
plements has abolished the necessity of
slave labor. Nothing should, therefore, be
Ia IN I'm, at "a
the free labor States. For our part, We
would much prefer seeing some effort made
to rid her Of the remnant that still classes
her with the slave States, than the adoption
as part of her population of $1,000 more
bondmen. Polish up the old Diamond
we say, instead Of furnishing her brightness
Thus the reader may see the .7dve,ti-
ser places its opposite al oge her on
Abolition grounds, while The Cecil
Democrat says in its issue of the same
week that all the Abolition papers in
Delaware and Maryland favor annexation.
AS the latter journal has widespread
reputation for astutcness, and fdeli to
truth, never having been known to lie,
it has evidently made a mistake this
time, notwiths anding lis customary fore
sightcdness and able dispositions on
all questions of the day.
The above named journals are types
of two classes which always discuss the
everlasting niger first. White men
must stand back till "cufy" is provi-
ded for. For our part, we prefer to see
white men provided for first, and the
niggers put in the rear.
Now these two reasons, the one
because annexation would favor Adolf
ton, and the other because it wouldn't
favor it, are not the points at issue, but
the question is, how would the capital
and labor of the peninsula be affected by
such an arrangement How many mil
lions of public debt would we get
clear of, which the Eastern Shore has
been so long burthcned with, that was
not contracted for her benefit? Not
withstanding the present debt, the tax
arising from which she pays her portion,
there will be an addition added to the
present indebtedness of the STATE to pay
for the public property destroyed by the
Secession emissaries of the Western
Shore, who industriously burned the
bridges, on the Northern Central and
Philadelphia and Wilmington railroads,
besides the damage inflicted by the same
parties on the B. g. o. r. r., and the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. The
Easter Shore had nothing to do with
this wanton destruction of property, and
can derive no profit from the repair of
those works. Then why should her
subs ance be sent away to pay for the
folly and wickedness, and add 10 the profit
of others =?
Let us take the 10 cent of direct tax
or the hundred dollars that is paid
by the people of the Eastern Shore
for the benefit of others, added to the
additional tax they will be required to
pay for the destruction created by the
Baltimore Secessionists last spring, and
expend it in improvements at home, and
what would be the result in few years
How many millions more of value would
be added to this peninsula ? We of
the Eastern Shore might, with the same
prospect of future advantage, and the
same show of justice, be required to pay
for the destruction wrought by the Bal
timore and other W es ern Shore Seces-
sionists.
The real question at issue IN this
matter is, not what will become of
" cuffy," but in what manner would such
change of State lines effect the future
prospects of white men And the
answer Systematically.
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