Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1864-12-01
u,rylaud q FREQ State.

Among the many extraordinary events
~h;ch have occurred since the commence
rnent Of the var, none have surpassed in i'm
nortance the proclamation Of Governor Brad
ford, proclaiming the adoption of the new
Constitution, and declaring Maryland free
State. The first to proclaim liberty Of con-
science, she has now won additional honor
BY excluding from her character the plauge-
spot of slavery. Many persons, doubtless,
will regregret this determination of her peo-
Pile some will maintain that it is an injus-
tice and grievance, and will attribute the
result to illegal and tyrannical interference
with State rights. This must be expected.
An event so important cannot happen with
out exciting the passions of many, but the
triumphant party can afford to hear with
charity much angry defamation. We re-
joice that Maryland, the cradle Of the Cstho-
lie Faith in the United States, is now unfair
nished with slavery that the "Word made
flesh" is no more dishonored by having His
creatures, in the same flesh, sold as chattles
in her markets; and that the Cross, the true
sign Of liberty, more so than any banner that
ever waved on earth, will no longer be in
suited BY looking down on the red flag Of the
auctioneer, where men and women are offered
for sale to the highest bidder. 1t is a sub
ject for congratulation to every Catholic
heart.
This thing Of slavery has fastened itself on
the hearts Of many people, and hence these
remarks will be distasteful to such persons,
and find ample and bitter retort in words and
in paragraphs. But we are willing to let time
Judge between US. We have never met with
any one who professed his regret that the
Church had emancipated the enslaved in the
early times Of her history, and let genera
ton elapse, and he will be bold man who
talk Of restoring to Mary.sRd this slavery
which she has thrown out Of doors. A gen.
Grafton will be sufficient to work such
change in the heads and hearts OF her peo-
pie, and they will refer with pride to the day
when mercy succeeded tyranny in their Com.
monwealth, when a nobler civilization, be-
cause more nearly allied with the lessons OF
the church, took the place of that which was
introduced by England and the slave rade.
All that is now wanting for free Maryland
is the return OF peace to make her fields fer
tile and her barren plains disappear beneath
the hard hand and sweating brow Of the white
laborer. This will be the result of her eman-
cipation. This will be the trump of the poor
white man who was heretofore excluded from
the soil. Great farms, which were more and
more exhausted from year to year, will be
sub-divided, and the hands that own willreap
the harvest and think it no dishonor. And
with this change in physical prosperity will
be also a moral change. The Catholics of
Maryland have done much for the Faith. Her
prelates, her priests, her people and their
noble religious and literary institutions, which
have given her honor before all the Catholics
in the land, will now be placed in a position
to accomplish greater things for God. They
are too undetermined and generous to regret
the loss of slavery, il such results as we an
ticipate shall follow the Political action Of her
people, Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph.