Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-11-05
The Emancipation Movement In
Maryland,
From the New York Tribune, Oct, ao,h.I

From the New York Tribune, Oct, 3oh.l
None Of the Border Slave 8 atss is No
king so visible an advance in an An.i-Sla-
very direction as Maryland. Missouri has
. more radi sal Emancipation party, and
West Virginia 10 ahead in her Legislation
for the Abolition Of Slavery; but the actual
transition from Pro-Slsvery to Anti-Slavery
sentiments IL just now no where 10 apparent
AZ in Maryland. p..t .leI .lg
In 1851, only ons among the six Union
candidates for Congress, Henry Winter Da
viz, made frank and open profession Of
Anti-Slsvery principles, and he was defeat
I'd by the Secessionist May by more than
1000 votes. All the other Union c,ndi-
dates were supposed to run on Pro Slavery
Union platform. They we're all successful
though in two districts they beat the candi-
dates Of tho Peace party by only trifing
majoIities. In Congress, none Of the 6ve
Union members 0i Maryland, Crisfeld.
Thomas, Calvert, Leary and W ebster. voted
uniformly With the Union majority, and the
advocates Of the Con6scstion and Emauci
patton policy of the President generally
found them in the ranks Of the Pro-Slay-
cry opposition. g,ts odw (, Wa saT
The war has educated the peorle What
they did not see two years ago, they begin
TO see now--that Slavery IL the cause Of the
Rebellion and curse to Maryland. 0Iad.
ually. though slowly, the nuclsus of party
has been gathered. determined 10 plan,
themselves, at the State election this Fall
upon the platform Of an unconstitutional sup.
port Of the policy Of the Government, OF
pressly including the Cont tiou and Eman
oipation acts, and for the couvocstion Of o
State Convention for the special purpose oil
abolishing Slavery 10 tho State. Az the
time of the election drew nearer, Il was de-
termined TO run q full State ticket OF the
Unconditional Union and Emancipation
party. In four out Of the Ave O0neres
sional Districts which the ccnsus of 1896
assigns to Maryland, the regular Unior
Nominating Convention selected candidate
who took the pledge demanded byths Emsn
cipation party. In the Vth District, Mr.
Cris6eld, who had been reconstructed, re-
fused to take the pledge, when another out
spoken Emancipa Col. Creswell, va
nominated BY the Emanci pationista in or
position to him. The regular Pro-Slsver,
Union party bad re-nonIinsted for Stat,
Controller Mr. sMafiit, who likewise vefuset
TO declare himself openly on the Emanoi
patton question. He, too, was therefor,
dropped, and Gen. II. II. Goldsboro, one D
tho noblest and s,snchest Emsncipati zionist
Of the State, put In his place. ogf ae'l'la
The Slavery question. In the mean while
was receiving . practical solution. The able
bodied negroes either ran away or enlisted
in the United States army. The sight o
well. .di>cil kned, wsl.-behaved negro troop
dispersed many prejudices; the considers
tion that every enlisted negro saved one
white man from the drsft, made the enlist
meut Of the negroes, and consequently tn,
emancipation Of the slaves, popular will
the MISSES Of the people; the pledges D
the Government TO pay to the loyal slave
holders for every negro $500, as soon as
State Convention Of Maryland shall pass a
; Ordnance Of Emancipation, converted ever
many sl.veholdsrs into Emsnci ationists. =
Thus II has come to pass that even 1 larg
} portion OF the regular Union party whicl
sapport nea like Qris6sld and Calvert 70
ConerssA have united With tbs Nnaaeipa
ticnists upons joint ticket Of Emanp;pa
,ion eapdIdases tor the 6tats 6sasts and th
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