The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-06-21

Are they to be sent North The North
will not have hem to support as paupcrs,
1 or to enter into competition with its own
white labor: and, accordingly, it re-
CARDS IS soil by hostile legislation
against the entrance of The free colored
man. Are they to be sent South -! The
South will tolera no such immigration
Of free blacks, and permits no more mai
numisSion within its borders. The
West is equally closed. Everywhere
the white man wants the soil for bin.
self and his own labor, just as much as
he wants Maryland for his toll and re-
compensc, when freed Of negroes. What
then! Denied all egress for our 170,-
700 treemen, are they to be Gagged in
Maryland, to compete there with white
labor to become dcmoralzed and dcs-
| troyed TO become tax on us for sup
port and, at las!, to be " cxtingushod
in the conflict with Il superior race, i'm
the hippant language in which it Is
fashionable for foiled fanaticism to con-
ceal is crucly and to dispose of a
solemn question!
We are in the midst of war. 1t is
true that he signs are quite suspicious
for its speedy end, with a res ;orcd Union
under the Consti luton. Maryland has
suffered by the storm, yet, like a gallant
vessel III u gale, moorcd near Ice shore,
| she has, hitherto, clung securely to her
anchorage The ship is S ill staunch. -.
She has sprung no leak. There is no
need yet TO throw amy part of the corgo
overheard. 1t is the part of good sea-
manship at such a moment to cut the
cables and commit the bark of Sta'e to
her thin sails and the mercy of the neigh
boring breakers.
Our object in this article is no. to aid
any par y opposition to emancipation,
but to display some of the pcrils which
threaten society and the solu ion of the
question, if adopted as ga policy" by
any party at the present time, in State
already ovcrhurthencd with free colorcd
people. We belong to that class which
holds, (as the census table provcs,) that
slavery is in way of gradual cXtin-
guishmcnt in Maryland, and that if it
| come too fast, and without provision for
the freed, they will be hemmed in in our
boundaries by wall of hostile liberty
at the North, and of equal hostile
slavery at the South. Our difficulty is
that of numbers of human beings who
are not to be dealt with like cattle, but,
as they have served us faithfully, are to
be objects of our Christian care. But,
with peace, the exodus of the slaves
would be more rapid than Hitherto nor
is it unlikely that the same event may
hasten the voluntary departure to Africa
of the free, under the stimulus of a
largely increased viii c immigration to
our genial climate and inviting soil
At all cven's, a period of civil war
and la ural distress is not one for grea5
organic changes, radically altering the
relations of property, especially when
that property is already taxed to its
utmost strain in the hands Of patriots. -
Doubtless, very soon af err peace shall
be proclaimed, the next session of our
Legislature will consider the propricty
Of calling a convention, and by that
Tine the people will have sufficiently
recovered from the shock of arms to
judge calmly of their in erests. That
Judgment will be formed independently.
and as becomes frcemen, without any
eXtrinsic influences either of compulsior
or seduction. BY that time, too, the
fortunes of war may have changed our
interests so materially that those who
are most reluc ant for emancipation now
may be most eager then. Probably all
may agree that It is not so much cman-
cipa ion which is 10 be feared in Mary
land as the emancip ed. b. M.