The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1864-04-01

and Pennsylvania farmer into Maryland !?
The high price of laud in those States,
and the lower1price of land hefe,s Where
lapd is moderate in price, it may be bought
by men Of moderate means, but where it
is sxorbitautly high, only the Weather
classes can possess it, and laboring meu
and land reuters cannot hope to become
masters of farm, but must toll on from
year to year, and spend their strength and
p ime in the cultivation of the lands of
Others, or they must emigrate to the wilds
of the West, or to some other quarter
where land is cheaper. 1t is plain, there
fore, that the high price of land will thin
off population, after it has advanced above
certain value. Will laboring men aud
land renters vote with the Abolitionist in
order to enhance the price of land so far
as to put it beyond their reach If they
are wise they will not, although an effort
is being made to deceive them by the rep
resentation that the wages of labor will in
crease in a corresponding ratio. If this
representation were true, the price of la
Dor would have been SO much higher in
the free States than it is here, as to have
attracted all the free labor from the slave
States, which we all know has not been
done. Labor is no higher in the free
States than it is here. Laboring men
will place no confidence, then, in those who
tell them that the abolition OF slavery is
to benefit the working man. Its effect
will be to throw the freed slave into COM
petition with him, and in that degree to
interfere with his own prosperity. Ask
the laboring men in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, what effect upon labor there
the runaway negroes have, who are en-
ployed by the farmers in their vicinity,
and they will tell you that these blacks
in many instances are employed in prefer
ence to themselves, because they are e.n-
ployed at prices less than are paid to able
bodied white men. Indeed, if abolition
ism be carried out to its logical results
and conclusions, it will not only bring the
black man into competition with the white
man in the matter of labor, but it will aim
to put aside all distinctions, and admit
him to perfect equality with the white
man before the law Our Legislature, at
its late session, had the subject of the ne
gro's right to vote before that body. 1t
did not pass, but an Abolition State Con-
vention may grant him the right, and as
Massachusetts has been held up as the ex.
emplar of Maryland, we all know that she
had upon her statute books a law author
izing whites and blacks to intermarry.-
One year ago we should just as soon have
suspected the dominant party of an inten-
ton to pass such law, as that they should
have avowed their intention in 1864 to
liberate all the slaves in Maryland, with
out compensation to the owners. Let the
opponents of a Convention, the opponents
of exorbitant taxation, the negro equality
and the forcible robber of our citizens of
their property, with all the monstrosties
which run-mad abolitionism would perpe-
trate, repair to the polls on the 9th of
April next, and vote AGAINST A Con.
vENTIoN, and thus prevent these disor.
ganizers and revolutionists from consum.
mating their plans.