The Cecil Whig., 1862-04-12
Gle Gefil lDbie.
ELkTON. ARPIL IL, 1869.
Some Extracts from the speech of the
lion. Anthony Kennedy, in the U.
s. Senate, on the Bill to AbOl-
ish Slavery in the Dis
tricf of Columbia.
trict Of Columbia.

INCREASE OF FREE NEGROES IN THE
STATE OF MARYLAND AS COMPARED
WITH THAT OF TIE NORTnEN STA
TIES.
have some curious sta istcs here,
which accidentally met my eye in the last
few days, which have taken the trouble
to investigate. from the census tables ;
and with the indulgence of the Senate,
| will present few to them The six
eastern States, as is shown by the CEN
sus returns of lSoO-Alanc, New
Hampshire, Vernon, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, and Connccticut-have
G5,440 square miles and in 1880 they
had 23,O2l colored people in the six
S ates. BY the census taken in 1890,
they had 1902 colored people. -
The State of New York has 1920
square miles, and had 49,0G9 free
colored people in 1850. She has to-
day, under the census of 1860 49,03l
IA decrease The six New England
States, and New York, have 1860
square miles, and $1,000 free colored
people. The little State of Maryland,
which have the honor in part to repre-
sent upon this floor, has but 10,755
square miles and i'll 1850 she had H.,
723 free colorcd people; to-day as |
have shown, taken from the census
tables this morning, nearly $1,000
The State of Pennsy lvania, free State,
has 4G,2l5 square miles, lying upon hc
northern border of he S ate Of Mary =,
only divided by an imaginary line, and
she had 53,G2G free colorcd people in
1850. Thus we see that the State of
MARYLAND has not one fourth as many
square miles as Pennsylvania, and yet
Maryland has, by the census of to-day,
27,345 more free blacks than the State
of Pennsylvania. The Sta of Delaware
has, by the census of to-day, $4,000
and large frac ion of free blacks. The
District of Columbia has to-day over
1000 free blacks: and 5000 slaves.
BY these measures of ancipation,
and the utter fut,lity of any laws of col
onization which can be adopted, what
will be the result! The facts are
shown from the census department prove
that the free negroes increase more rapid
ly and certainly in this la itpdc than they
do in the Nortll-increasing in the State
of Maryland to an alarming degree. The
State of Pennsylvania joins US, with the
laws of free State TO protect them but
they prefer to remain and take their
chances in the State of Maryland--a
State under the control of slave laws
and slave institutions. These facts
present to us the alarming consideration
that we are likely to become, by this in
reference on the part of Congress, the
great free negro colony of this country.
Thea, sir, what becomes of the argument
that slaves tend to dcmoralize the labor
ing class of white people2 What must
be the embittercd state Of feeling in
Maryland when they find that this Con-
grcss, departing from every principle of
good faith and of constitutional obliga-
ton to the compac. of the Union, in err
feres to throw more of this class of free
negroes in direc. competition with the
white labor of our own State!
This par of the Senator's argument
appears to us radically unsound. For
the simple reason that the negroes are
already here I" in direct competition
with the white labor of our State'"-
And Il, present not merely in competition
with the viii es as laborers, but that
competition is backed and sustained
against Tie single handed white man by
the capital OF their masters. n free
negro left to his own resources can never
compete with white man as a laborer
and hence disappears before him as he
has in the Northern States, but backed
by the capital Of his master the white
man as laborer has, and must disap-
pear before the slave
WHAT MARYLAND HAS LOST BY sECEs-
Sir, while l am on that par:icula,
point, let me advert little to the con.
di ion of the State of Maryland before
this rcvolu lou took place or this rebel
lion broke out, for the purpose of show
ing how the great material interests O.
my State are to be kept down, or posi-
bly to be forever greatly impaired. Ii
1860, the city of Baltimore had a trade
according to the authentic report of ou1
Board of Trade, of $lGS,0O0,0O0.-
Thirty-six millions of that was transpor.
ted over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
to and from the West, as shown by The
annual report of that great company
For that one year the Board of Trade
shows that the amount of northern
manufactured goods of various classes
and kinds sent to the city of Baltimore
to be sold by intermediate agensiu thai
city to persons residing South and West
was nearly $40,000,00O. The trade o
that year in dry goods alone was between
thirty and thirty-fve millions, 81 .000,.
900 OF that being of the manufacture.
of our State. Sir, this rebellion ha.
nearly obliteratod that trade. The
great commercial house ofour emporium
which have heretofore accumulated for.
tunes, are now almost tcnantless withou
business, without trade, and many sus.
pended and closed. The State of Mary.
land in 1850 had SIS, 100000 of manu-
factures of her own produc ion of all kinds
bnr ricultur.l nrodurtions that yoo