The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-03-22
Mr.. Biair's Letter.

lie ter from Post Master General Blair
on the Emancipation question, and
bespeak for it a careful perusal and con-
sidcration. Al hough this letter is not
State paper, (having been addressed
10 COMM tee who invited Mr.. Blair to
attend and participate in meeting held
in New York; it may be accepted as a
SEMI official Interpretation of the recent
Message of the President.
Mr. Blair, who is a Southerncr by
birth, education and interest, and well
acquainted with the "peculiar institu-
tom" takes practical, common sense
view of the subject, and gives his
opinions in a frank and fearless manner
and, we venture to assert tina. at least
seven tcnths of the people of this county
heartily concur with him. Any one
Of ordinary sense must know that Slavery
is doomed in Maryland, and that the
day of its downfall is not for distant
lnspitc of the insane howlings of n
few fools, and one-head niger men,
about /" Aboitionists " and " Black
Republicans" Maryland is destined
in very few years to be Free State,
and We may as we'll make up our minds
to meet the issue fairly, and talk about
and settle it in a rational, busincss-like
manner. What particular benefit are
we to derive from shutfling and lodging,
and endeavorlng to stavc off what we
must even ually consent to? Is it no
the part of wisdom to wake the best of
that which cannot be avoided !! The
man must be as blind as bat who is
not able to see that the great and bloody
drama being enacted in our country has
done more, since its Inauguration, to
destroy Slavery than half century of
peace would have done, and it must
be apparent to him also that every day
of the wars prosecution decreases the
value, and lessons the security, of slave
property. Will Maryland, then, madly
throw herself in the breach, and endea-
vor to cling to, and prop up the lettering
insttu ion; or will she accept, at as
early day as practicable, the project
of gradual Emancipation, with COM
pcnsation to Tie masters for their slaves !?
If the 10000 slave owners of Maryland
prefer to reject the proposition, and
endcavor to hold on to their 100000 black
chattlcs, it will be their own affair,
and they will have to abide by the
consequences.
And here let us remark this letter
of Mr.. Blair's etfcctually rcfutes the
infamous lies so industriously circulated
by the Breckenridge Democracy and
o;her enemies Of the country, that tue
policy of the Administration is to libcr-
ate all the slaves and place them on an
equally with the whites. The foolish
twaddlc about the labor of the free
black coming in compcti ion with that
of the viii c man, which is got up for
poll ical effect has DO foundation in fac :;
for whenever the two races arc placed
in conpc ition the black soon goes to the
wall, and is crushed out. But the scheme
shadowed out in the Pres ident's Mes
sage, and more fully elaborated in Mr..
Blair's letter, contemplates the removal
Of the black race when emancipa. cd,
SO that the white man may freely enter
and possess and cultivate the temperate
regions now monopolized and wasted
by few aristocratic slave owners. We
do not expect the proposi,isn to be
accepted at prescn+, by any of the Slave
States but the Presidents Message
and Judge Blair's letter will do much
toward enlightening the public mind
on the subject, and will not have been
written in vain.