Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-07-12
Maryland and Massachusetts.

u4dl J4duu dhN Observation-Disclosures
Recently, in calling attention to the fact that
Maryland had become free State through the
net of her constitutional convention, we briefly al
luded to the future free labor opened before her
in contrast with the slow comparative progress
ihe had made in the past since then we have seen,
" the New York EpeHiHg Post, comparison
between the progress Of Massachusetts, aad Mary
land, in population, wealth, education, literature
md intelligence, which is SO instructive in its
igures that we cannot fyrbear pllcing it before
or readers The Post says;
Maryland, by the census report Of 1860, has
IL l24 square miles area, Massachusetts,, 1000
sluare miles Maryland has a shore line sea and
river, Of 1886 miles, Mass chusetts 764 miles
b Maryland the rate Of mortality is but one il
dnety-two; in Massachusetts, one in tftyseyen.
The area Of arabic land in Maryland is more thar
double that Of Massachusetts, and the soil more
brittle Maryland has oexhaustible mines OIL
ual and iron and the necessary tuxes; Massa
husetts has no COL, no valuable mines OF iron
10 fuxes. The population Of Maryland in 1876
,as 3l9,72S; Of Massachusetts, 37S7l7 Ii
$50 Maryland had 6S7,034, Massachusetts,, l.,
70 ,O65. In seventy years Maryland increased
Ig7, $3.50 Massachusetts,, S32346, or more thar
couble as much. In 1890 Maryland had q per
SINS to the square mile, 1860, Oh in 1890 Mas
sachusetts had 4S to the square mile, 10 1860
! 49, Bear in mind that Maryland has doub,
the urea Of good land that Massachusetts has, ant
the enormous difference will be seen.
The value Of the products Of Massachusetts il
1860 vas 1921 100000; of Maryland, $4,000
900 In Massachusetts it was $235 per head il
| MarylDd, sos. That is to say, the average an
nual vlue Of the labor Of each person in Massa
chusets was greatly more than double that il
Mary and. Massachusetts, with a smaller terri
tory, lad l,340 miles Of railroad Maryland bu
$780, The value Of all property real and person
all VS. in Massachusetts,, SSl50O0000 i
MARYLAND S379,000,000. Comparing this wit
the uue OF the products before mentioned, th
proflon capital was in Massachusetts thiHy.fv
per ant in Maryland, seventeen per cent, 0
less har half and it is a noticeable fact that /
only wo slave states. Delaware and Missouri, wa
the rite of profit larger than in Maryland, an
both IF these had comparatively fewer slaves.
II, COW, we take intelligence as a standard,
Massachusetts the value OF printed matter was
1860 s2905,9l6j in Maryland $3.50, ljj. MAJ
sachuIetts mad two hundred and twenty-five new
papen and periodicals, of which one hundred an
twelve were POLITICAL thirty.one religious, ffiy
one lGerary, twenty-eight miscellaneous Mar!
land bad only tfty-seven, all but one or two pt
liucll Massachusetts had three thousand 81
hundRd and seyenty-nne public schools Mar
land ane bundled and seven. Massachusetts, ha
eighteen hundred and sixty-ooe adults who cou
neither read nor write Maryland thirty-eigI
thousand four hundred and twenty-six, ercluHi
Of hei Slaves. Let the free working men Of Mar
land ponder these facts, and say under what sy
TEN, whether Of free OF slave labor, they can cal
the s'gest wages, or their children csn iecei'
the bet education and let them consider too,
freedom can make State like Massachusetts
prosperous, what will it do for one like their ow
There is no escaping the logic Of such 6gur
aad results as these. Free labor and Dem
cratic IDEAS have ruled ia Massachusetts,, whi
the 4rstooracy based upon slavery has dominate
in Maryland, and the former have carried Sta
with few natural advantages Of climate or soil,
a rank among TIE foremost SaIes in the Unto
while the latter have been forever holding back
State blessed with productive soil and deligt
full climate, form tie grand results which fr
labor would have wrought within her border
But at last Maryland has shaken from her the
tai grasp which slavery has had upon all her vi
energies and magnificent resources, and will st5
at once upon a new career Of prosperity and h
name and benefoent progress.