The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-01-21

rivers. Down to the boundary line between
slavery and freedom marched the conquer
ing spirit of progress, carrying in her train
the blessings of prosperity and industry. and
there halted as peremptorly as though a
fiend in the way had barred all further ad
vance.
The free counties contained in 1850. $50,
141 cultivated acres, while the slave coun.
ties had 1,747, 1923 but the free lands were
valued at $41, S5l ,Gl5, while the slave lands
were worth only S4l. 779,GlG. The farms in
the slave counties average l43 acres, and are
each worth SO, 433. The free farms. aver
aging only l01 acres, were yet worth 81,
93j each. The free land was worth S4S, the
slave land $2a per acre.
But the increase in population is still
more marked. Exclusive of Baltimore city,
there was in 1870 in the seven free counties
population Of l05, 457, which in 1850 had
swelled to 232, 3Ol-an increase Of one hun
dred and twenty per cent. The total popu-
lation in the fourteen slave counties amount
ed in 1890 to 200, G12, in 1860 to only 242
330-an increase Of only twenty per cent
In seventy years the whole slave section had
added but HIS to its population, while in
the same time that of the entire free portion
had increased 325, SOB. 1t thus appears that
the increment of population in the slave
counties was much less than might have been
expected from natural causes alone; and
: that If The increase throughout the State had
been on y in proportion to that of the slave
counties, our aggregate population in 1860
would have been only 3S3 ,G74, instead of
| Ge1 ,Gf9.
In 1859, the total foreign population Of the
State was 1886, of which about one third
to wit, 1913. was increase since 1850 but
this immigration was confined almost eXclu
slvely to the free counties. In Ccci! county,
| the only free county of the Eastern Shore.
there were in 1850, ,343 foreigners: in the
Other seven counties of the same shore, all
being slave counties and containing together
more than five times the population Of Cecil,
there were only G4l foreigners. Not only
did slavery prohibit immigration; it did
worse. 1t condemned our own native born
citizens to Punishment. In 1860 there were
1871 25S native Marylandcrs living in the
other States of the Union. while, on the
other hnnd, we had received from the other
States but 40,c94. OF whom by far the larger
part had settled in the free counties and
Baltimore city, leaving a deficit Of 90, jGl.
| Why need we look further into the record?
| Figures ALWAYS condemn slavery, and sutis-
tics are its rreconciIablc foe. Travel
through our State at your leisure and you
| will clearly see that slavery has been most
"'@ '"' '''' i'' -'' '''''' :. h""
wasted our resources, paraIyXcd our indus
| try, checked our growth in wealth, popu,a-
ton, and all substantial interests, refused
! ingrcsS to the intelligent and cntcrprSing of
! other States and countries and has even
driven our own young men into exile. so
far as we have advanced at all we have done
so in spite of slavery, aud by driving it be
iufc u.s. A"" 81 II 10 t'"y'""t' DAY
Cochin;
.i',is history of slavery know ia change. It il
in all lJl"o* it has h""mat every cpo'I m obstacle
~ a." I5rrn rI"in& OF ,' " n "'rn
modest r,yation of the micridr r.,"es an obstacle to
tn" pr"er",,i'r civilization Of II" superior races i'"
>roI ''' " '''f '''' ana 'r'''''''
Rut MARYLAND has becn liberated from Lcr
| .,,,,;,,,I, ~ ,,','.,;os U,,.l;,,L. 80 lax.
''"'' '" ~O"'"' ~ '' ~ ~ iN'5
benumDcd beneath the weight OF an nnen-
durable burden are fast ASSUMING he yiuor
,r , nov, IA, L. .La r,os.noo az ,,o,s,,
vi = nc" me- ~ VIC ple''ntI " t'C"Hoh
and rebellion traditional prCjudicCS could no
LONGER steep the minds of men in forretliIl.
c,".,1a ~ a,,;",;, ;,,aI.0I ~ r.
"cSS' o!"t'icu paw 'o'lon' iH'"Nt" '.'c a!d
OF religion and humanity, ana, uniting in
the discharge of n sacred duty, they totally
ut"''oScu ever! NcHtiSe y, s''.St!' C"' ne"
constitution on the LIST day OF November last
decrecd freedom. unrestricted, uncondition.
:, ,,.,,,,,o,,,o,,,; ,L,nlu,o o,j ,u;,or,ol
al' u"t"'lpe,9"'I' i""o'"''' "N "'i'''Ha'
throughout the state. In cofulal fecOSnl-
ton Of that glorious achievement the PreSi-
H., L ,er,nl;nod :, III. uorIJ ,L,.
u',t has paool","'.u .s. ~ .ns "o,'r lAs'
Maryland presents INC example oil com
plotc Sncc sc MARYLAND is secure 70 liberty
XII I-n;o, TOW oil Tho fnturo T,,a no,;rs
",' ~" ~ =,
of rebellion will nc more claim Maryland.
I ike another foul Shirt bcine driven ont il
NOV, soaL IA tear her INIT viii WOO her mn
may S'eh w 'eai h0'' peV Will WIZ hei ho
more
Already she has begun to rcap the advan-
| ~ ~
laSeS Oh euancip@ioh' Inc "oFihy' Tue
| industrious, and the prOvIdent are Fastening
| to settle among us. To illustrate the prac-
w "I'c ~ " " w.
tical eliec's y, 'hc c"""se' aSh tne Hierh
| to read the following extract from the Balti-
! ,,or. A,ror;c,n of a late date
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. w v" III VS. IT, i,,l"i.-" , ~!
hiu! ,',', T. ,i'A ,.,''u M'', '' go i,tn .iie
lLi'uG w r'''' f @ ~. 'y'ia
% ""ru aprinT 'rt IN rr~y " ' If
the State large sales of land have taken place during
the past two months ana the purchasers are men who
] ~ y" .,,,c IF snacI% The worn"It o,,J
half-rile tracts of The large savchddrr, in the hands
Of p"n who I'LL their grounds by t'rr I'hor-wh" en-.
r ,nyti.nti"nsyili soon pIo" MnryInnd in thr
position nmong the free states that She should have
occupied long ago. 'lhetoIlowng, from the benton
m" r Wn,in m i n, nrc county ii" '''''"
- Mr. .nmes G. Rcddcn has sold his farm near the
town. containing ne"r three hundred acres, 10 Mr.,
iarGn W. ""nh, {" nmTnAnp
' Mr. Reddcn has also sold the Mansion Farm.
formerly the residence. of the late William Jones,
near 70 nr' a. WI M'r % ' @ M