The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1864-02-27
A CONNIE ndable Enterprise tG
Supply a Great Need.

supply Great Need,
A Splendid Steamer especially for the
Pocomoke is to De built at New Town on
our river, Immediately, by our own citizens.
to trade with Baltimore from Snow Hill and
landings on the river, and will be completed
by the LIST of August. She will have four
or FIVE owners. The tsur who have already
joined in the contract for her construction
are among our most enterprising and indie
pendent citizens, viz: Messrs Richardson
l. Brothers and John K. Franklin, Esq, OF
this town, and Mr. Wm. j. S. Clarke, of
New Town.
The boat is to be propeller of $50 feet
keel, with great breadth Of beam, and fitted
up superbly for the accommodation of a
hundred or more passengers and capacity
for not less than 5000 bushels of grain un
der deck, besides abundance of room for
all other kinds of freight. She will cost
about $40, 600, will be built most substantial
ly, of the very best material, already pro-
cured and we'll seasoned.
This enterprise is a gratifying indication
that there are some among us who begin to
open their eyes to what long ago should
have engaged their efforts. That it will be
effectualiy carried through and become
lucrative business there cannot be shadow
Of doubt.--Spow Hill (Md.) Shield.
A New STEAMBOAT. Baltimore and
Sassaffas River Steamboat Company. re-
Gently organized, the stockholders in which
reside mostly in this county, have contract
ed for building steamboat at Wilmington.
Delaware, to be finished by the first of June
The boat is to be of the Propeller model,
one hundred and twenty five feet in length,
and Of light draft. She will run between
Sasssfras and Baltimore, touching at the
principal landings in the river and on the
Kent shore of the Chesapeake. Many of
the largest farmers and fruit growers in
those sections of the county have taken
stock in the company and the enterprise
besides supplying great public want, will
doubtless prove remunerative. 1t is believ
ed the passenger travel alone will defray the
expenses of running the boat.-kent Neps
The above extracts are from two of
those Eastern Shore newspapers, which in
connection with the rabid secession prints
are constantly crying out that the State is
on the brink OF ruin, the result of the suici
dal schemes Of the " Aboltionists.
The Shte!a says: " This enterprise is u
gratifying indication that there are some
among US who begin to open their eyes to
what long ago should have engaged their eff
forts All, indeed! just beginning to
"open their eyes" II the "Abolitionis.s,"
by their internal policy threaten to utterly
paralyze the industry of the State, which
heretofore when under the benign workings
OF the African institution, must have been
at the food-tide of prosperity, according to
the doctrines promulgated by the Shield
then it would seem like madness on the part
of those who are just - beginning to open
their eyes, at this unpropitious time to be
investing money and forming new business
enterprises in Maryland The Shield speaks
commercially Of the projec', too. 1t is
either seducing these " some among us v to
ruin, or it does not believe the doctrines it
is continually promulgating, that Emanci.
patton will prove stunning, if not an &C.
tual death blow to the interests of the
State
Why is it. neghbor Shield, that these
men Of enterprise in your midst have STUN.
bered SO long, aye, all through the long
dark night of slavery, and are just opening
their eyes with the dawn of Emancipation,
and preparing for active labor?
The keat Ne,os, too, another quasi Union
newspaper, which does little else than growl
like bear with the sore head about the
inroads of the Abolitionists, comnends the
Sassafras river steamboat enterprise, de.
claring it " will doubtless prove remunera.
tive" The people, it would seem, Ct Kent
and Worcester, do not share the fears OF
those descendants of Anthony Van Corlier,
who are constantly trumpeting to them in
raven-like notes, of the ruin which the Alb,
.li,tion-ists! threaten to bring upon the
State with their mad schemes of Emanci-
patton for The News says, Many OF the
largest farmers and fruit growers in those
sections (the principal landings on Sassa
fras river and along the Kent shores Of the
Chesapeake have taken stock in the com.
pany." 6 1t is believed that the passenger
travel alone will defray the expense of run.
ming the boat"
Whence all this travel, freighting, and
animation at the bare prospect Of Emanci-
patton in Maryland, where, in long years OF
peace, and most glorious and fructitying AZ
rican slavery which has blessed our State,
there Reigned almost Egyptian repose p
While these papers advocate continuation
of the old system of slavery for Maryland,
to seem consistent they ought, at least to
forbear commendable remark on the spirit
Of enterprise that is manfesting itself all
around them, since the era of Emancipation
has dawned upon Maryland.