Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-09-24

political power and which has, more or less
subjugated every public man of the Slave
States to its will.
The Legislature which lately adjourned,
under the dictation of the same Interest, and
on the motion of person avowcdly hostile
to the United States, passed UNANIMOUSLY
resolutions of the most menaclnS tone, tou-
ching the emancipation OF the twelve hun
dred slaves in the District of Columbia on
compensation to the hoders-an act in which
the people of Maryland have no interest,
which adds only ten miles to her free from
tier. and which the Constitution confdes cx
cIusively to Congress, and which was noccs-
sary to give the guarantee Of earnestness to
the adoption Of the Presidents proposition.
These things alone can make ineligible
the failure of the representatives of Maryland
to support the Presidents proposal.
If the people Of Maryland see fit to a.
dept the policy of emancipation, those who
voted against this proposal substantially say
the owners Of slaves shall not he compensa-
ted at all unless the people Of Maryland pay
the whole indemnity the freed negroes shall
not be colonizcd unless the people of Mary
land pay the whole expense if inconveui-
ces, public or private, be produced by such
change Of system, the people of Maryland
shall bear them all, and their rich and liberal
fellow citizens of the Free States shall not be
allowed to alleviate their burthens.
That is certainly not the Interest. the per-
manont interest, OF the people of Maryland;
especially it is opposed to the interest OF the
free labor OF Maryland.
1t remains to be seen if it conforms to the
will of the people any better than it docs to
their interests.
But it is certain that those votes seriously
compromise the success Of the President S
policy, and furnish grounds of opposition to
disngcnious mass Of astuto politicians in the
Free States who, for many years, have asso-
ciated themselves to those holding tho Ma
tonal Government in their hands, by an af-
rectcd devotion to the slavery interest, which
: so richly rcmuncrated the services.
To this obscquious class we are in a great
; measure ind ebted for the present rebellion
: from them we may expect the first efforts
, 10 coalcsce with the the rebels when they arc
oyerthrown, and to alleviate their fall an,
restore the old coalition for power; and es.
pccially will they be swift to seize on the
apathy of the central Slave States to defeat
the liberal bcncvolence Of the President and
, his political friends.
1t is, therefore, important that il should
be at once understood that the votes of Mary.
, lands Representatives against the President
prop osal are net accepted as the real expires
: sion of the will Of the people, but that thu
Presidents offer, so liberal, SO stateSmanllkc
so peculiarly conformcd to the permanent
c interests of the people of Maryland, will %
taken into serious consideration by them
= and that the first occasion which the laws 0
the State afford for expressing their opinion
IS will be seized to compel declaration of &C
d ceptancc of the Presidents policy.
Were the value Of slave greater thar
: the same man free; did the ownership o
a slaves elevate the master as much above fret
b. laborers as it docs above his slaves; did ligh
: and wisdom radiatc from the region where
1 they are held and darkness dwell where they
are not, we might reconcile ourselves to {
: profitable domination, submit to benefcen
superiority, turn gratefully for guidance
|, moral political-to the Source OF all Light
But all these things are not so-as a slave
: Is w4 h iess than free man, and the mas
e tr. not above the free white laborer-as
q -...,'lan ard intelligence prevail whcr,
ita,Qoa tcigns, this domination is the mos
odous vi usrpations.
Y II is the domination Of an interest owe
: frecmcn; of property over people of aristo
= cratic privileges over republican equality o
= q minor over majority.
, 1t has all the qualities Of an aristocracy eX'
cept its refinement and elevation. 1t 10 ar
: rogant, exclusive, selfish, tenacious, unjust
d jealous of everything which will not submit
o 1t has for many years bound the State pc
itically to the policy impressed on the Gov
: ernmcnt by tho negro interest of the plant
IS ing States, with which the industry of Mary
: land has no indentity, and dragged it ava,
from its natural association with the grea
C free labor States, whose manufacturing, min
: ing. commercial and agricultural indusr,
= is identical with ours, requires tie same laws
If policy and protection, against which the
planting States have wagcd inccssant war 70
&c thirty years.
1t has ostraciscd every public man whc
II refused to submit to its domination and de
d fcnd its powc" Ne one has been able t
Of maintain himself in public life anywhere il
the State who has refused to give the watch
: word at its demand.
y If any vcnturod to revolt, the hue and cr
10 was made against the traitor to this power
re and no weapon WAS too ioul to be wieldC
10 to his destruction.
ID ORR finally treated by law and regarded b.
in the people rs an evil, moral and political, t
IN be restricted ill it could be cXtcrminatcd
&c when it became a power its pcrmancncc an
expansion were the conditions OIL staDillty
IS and they who welded the power turned a
tLcr energies to its constellation.
. The interest OF the owner were then secon
l. Diary considerations they were merely the in
y strumcnts of ambition to be sacrificed,
,c necessary, in the strife, from which it Nigh
emerge successful OF in which it might sue
1, cumb
% Ifit failed the owner lost hispropcrty, bu
al that was the fate OF war and OF small mo
i mcnt to any one but the owner and lie wa
II taught to submit to the policy, because
lie WAS for his ultimate good. The yoke wa
10 forced on his nccll-he soon learned to bea
e. it, meckly first, then proudly.
le The slave interest noe excludes free whit
&c labor from the farms of the slaveholdin
y counties and the masters profit by the eX
IF cusion. at tile expense of both the free whit
&c laborcr and the smaller landowner, who ar
n dependent on the slave holding monopoly 70
y much of their labor.
II NJ ore labor is needed, but white labo
shrinks from contact with slave labor ant
IS the masters have an interest in repelIing it
and they succeed by making free labor hole
o the level Of the slave.
= This slave competition is the only danger