Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1862-04-10

UNION, lDCerIoreS TO throw HfUrG VI LnISJ class
Of free negroes in direct competition with
the white labor of our own States
Sir, while I am on that particular point,
let me advert a little to the condition of the
State Of Maryland before this revolution
took place or this rebellion broke out, for
the purpose Of showing how the great ma
terial interests of my State are to be kept
down, or possibly to be forever greatly i'm
paired. In 1860, the city of Baltimore had
trade, according to the authentic report of
the Board Of Trade, of $168, 900, ,000.-
Thlrty-six millions of that was transported
over the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to and
from the West, as shown by the annual re-
port 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 agents
in that city to persons residing South and
West, was nearly $40, 100000 The trade
of that year in dry goods alone, was between
thirty and thirty-fve millions, $4,000,000
of that being of the manufactures of our
State. Sir, this rebellion has nearly oblit-
Grated that trade. The great commercial
houses of our emporium, which have here
tofore accumulated fortunes, are now almost
tenantless, without business, without trade,
and many suspended and closed. The State
of Maryland in 1850 had $45, 900, 900 Of
manufactures of her own production of all
klnds;> her agricultural productions that
year were $22, 100000 her exports of ag-
rlculture were not quite five and half mil
lions Of her own raising. including g. g. $780,
ooO OF tobacco, the balance was made up of
breadstufs; while her trade with Virg ginia
and North Carolina brought within her
borders between twelve and fourteen millions
OF grain and -four Ten and half millions
OF this trade was shipped coastwise to the
northern States. and our foreign trade was
about twenty-five and half millions. Our
northern trade directly with goods exported
and sold to the North did not reach more
than ten or twelve millions, while we receiv-
ed from the North nearly forty millions of
northern productions to be sold to States
South and West
Now, Mr.. President, the point that wish
to present is, that by this hemming in of
the State of Maryland, "as with wall of
hre. by this interference with the institution
OF slavery. you not only disorganize the ag-
rlcoitural interests of my State, you not only
produce convulsions and contentious which
Will forever prevent the kindly restoration
OF feeling upon which commerce must de-
pend for its successful operation, but you
will produce an exodus of such of the slave
holding population from the State as can
leave, and you will force those who cannot
emigrate either to manumit or to take the
little pittance that is proposed by your bill,
if, after long struggle of political excite
ment, we can arrive at the point of the Pre-
sident's proposition for gradual emancipation
in the State of Maryland. But, sir, the
worst Of it all is, that you will produce
decrease of that class of people upon whom
the State of Maryland has rested more than
all others for her great material prosperity
Il mean her great mechanical aud manu-
featuring class Sir, the State Of Maryland