Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-09-23
Special Correspondence of the Chicago Times.
" AsHINGToS, Sept. 10.


cursiou among the farms and plantations OF Nary
land sly pleasant excursion, because it was
pleasant in many respects. Delightful rides
exhieratug breezes delicious fruit, the conteIn
plhtion OF lovely scenery in great variety. the
companion,hip of people of refinement aud taste
certainly ought TO make il so. And vet | return
here With feeling of sadness. | have seen
during this bret ah-euce. new phase ct the
effects OF the war have seen, in n loyal State
the effects OF the emancipation proclamation ami
the negro soldiers b II. aud | will try 10 convex
to YOUR readers some idea of what these pei
measures of the Administration have done Tor
MARYLAND.
Maryland contains an area of 1856 square
miles lie T., therefore not halt rs large rs South
Carolina, and not one third ~ large as Indiana
| Five States each "a large as Maryland. could he
made out OF Illinois, acd C"nk county he left
over Her population j. 657 ,00O-about one
third that of Illinois. She supports, however,
seventy three persons on every square mile of her
territory while in Illinois there only thirty
one persons to Oh square mile. She produced
in 1850 over thirty eight millions OF pounds
S.4lD 600 of tobacco, worth TO the cultivators
- millions of dollars. and six millions of
bushels of wheat. worth dollar bushel. These
articles, with the vast amount of other grain,
! fruit vegetables, &c, which she produces in
abundance were raised by the labor OF 81 900
saves worth average 500 each, or ver fifty
millions of dollars in the aggregate Last fall,
and i'm the spring OF this year the farmers OF
| VI land put in their crops usual But they
will look in vain, this tall, for the regular IN
| crease
| Owing to the want of suitable cultivation. the
crops in many localities are chokei with weeds,
| and are ilre dy ruined Ia other localities the
! crops will be lost for the want of labOrers To
| gather it, This is the result. in the first place,
| of the emancipation proclt nation. When that
| proclamation WAS issued Maryland was exempted
| from it. operitinn The proca nation declared.
| in words. that the slaves IN MARYLAND were not 10
| be affected by lis provisions But every iufeli
gent uersou in NJ ryiand knew that the exemption
amounted practically To nothing ut ali; that the
emancipation of slaves in the District OF Column
bia and Vtgipih was in effect. the EN- incpitiOn
| of slaves in VI trylIId; AMI experience mad dem
| onstrated even before then. that the fugitive
slave law y dead letter. 80 far IA il regarded
4 the slaves of M,rylanders The events of the
last eight months have shown that these fore
bodings were well founded. The slaves in
4 Maryland considered themselves freed bv the
procl m ton aud hundreds OF them escaped, and
all efforts TO recsim them proved futile Par
ticularly since the notorious Schenck has been
i'm command at Btltimore, all that slave had
Il TO do was to 60 10 that city aud denounce hls
master AS dsloyal From that moment the
whole military power in the Middle Department
master and the fugitive slave law
, BIT this was not enough There were still
thousands of plantations in the Stite which the
poison Of the emancipation proclamation had not
reached Means must he devised TO reach them.
and these not long wanting. The negro
soldiers bill. passed by the last Congress, met
the case exactly The skeleton of negro resi.
ment was brought from ONO and stationed in
Baltimore The slave prisons in Baltimore were
I'll, Ill fta
male slaves therein forced to enlist. and III the
female slaves let loose Agents then dis
patched To- all quarters of the State By employ
, ing the vilest means th ~ succeeded IN entcing
away from the plantations OF loyal men all the
, able bodied slaves, who were cartel To Gilmore
and there forced enter into the military service
! OF the Union. Therefore it j. that the farms and
, plantations throughout the State are going TO
, ruin and the crops rotting the ground The
, tobacco crop. which ii gathered would be
, worth - millions of dollars will be almost Ell
tirely lost. These things were all done in pur
, suance of Schen Ks orders, and he ought 10 be
held responsible tor them. The men who are
; compelled To suffer these gross wrongs good
and LOYAL citizens. hut IL Is IN vain that they ap
, ply 10 him for redress They have been &c
nnunced ~ "disloyal," aud the denunciation IL
+ enough Nor is this all The agents of the
negro regiments did not confne their efforts TO
. Obtaining negroes Hundreds of valuable horses
were seized by them. In cases where the owners
were Democrats, or were suspected OF hWInS
any sympathy for the ) 'uth. cpm ensation
vas offered and no excuse was made They
were robbed in open dAy In cases where the
owners LOYALTY notorious. the thieves would
give an order on Gen. Schenck Tor SlUO; aud
/ this IN rntny cases where the animals were worth
from S50O to 81 900. need not say that Gen
Schenck refuses even to look at these "Orders y
Did | not saw truly that the atrocities of this
, Schenck FIR exceeded thpse of beist Bu'ler'
Ought not the people Of MARYLAND love 1.-The
: Union" and 'the government" very dearly
Let me giveyou one final instance OF Schenck
barbtrIty Some weeks ago party OF Conied
. crate troops landed on the coast OF Chesipe 'kt
> Bay aud burned small lighthouse. Schemes
Immediately assessed the value OF the light house
upon The loyal inhabitants of The neighborhood
and sent to the spot a ,quadhn OF cavalry, who
began To enforce the payment of the assessment
) I In the meantime however. the facts bee me
, known 10 the Hon Joseph Segsr. the member
of Congress for that part OF Virgins in which the
light house was situated. (tor, although IN Nir-
ginia. il was Schenck's Department. Mr. Sc
: gar AT once came ~ Washington aud bad nc
trouble In convincing the President and Secretary
/ of War Of the gross injustice OF Schenck : pro
seedlings in the m utter. and an order va Issued
, by the War Department commanding Schenck to
cease his prosecutions of those innocent men BY
= the time Mr. Se2sr got down % TIE spot. hos
. ever the sgeut in charge OF the ter bad
squeezed of the poor people over six THOUSAND
dOll,fs The remainder of The assessment MAS
-, hur fhs at l3b1 r<e q