Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1865-02-02
Ths Gffoct q Emsnoipation.

Mr. Wallach, editor of the Washington Star
who is the owner of fine farm in Dorchester
county. in this State. and resident there,
has commenced shs publication OF series Of
articles giving his views Of the present effect
and rlscr;Or results Of emancipation in this
State. DIR. WA.-ch's habits OF observation,
and the advantages he enjoys for seeing in
wLa. was one Of The principal slaveholding
sections Of tho State the results of free labor,
will render these papers Of peculiar interest
in bis ars. article, after some general remarks
he says:
The aob Of the people of Maryland in seek
ing, BY promptly abolishing slavery, positive
security for themselves against the possible
SUCCESS Of shc oli~arehy'in bringing them I'M
Ter the yo.:s which so heavily bears upon the
Solth, created more temporary confusion than
saq.t else. |. did not, az alleged. deprive
one shareholder in a hundred Of that which
was CT the least pecuniary value to him. His
every negro, except mothers OF young fami
licr, who had been Of pecuniary value, had
sithor gone CT or remained at home virtually
free. Those SO remaining would not sell on
the block for FIVE dollars apiece in the condi-
lion Of uncertainty as to its future to which
the oligarohy's war had brought slavery in
Maryland. The negroes remaining at home
worked as little as they pleased. And that
was little indeed +; as their wants were neces-
sarily supplied by their owners simply as the
condition precedent to their consentins to re-
main in nominal slavery, when they knew rs
we'll as their masters that freedom. with .s:ir
share of the worlds labor, was at any moment
within their reach.
Ever since the beginning OF 1862 the Mary
land master was the real slave, not the negro.
Thus SO far as his immediate interest was con-
ecrned, emancipation by Maryland set him
free rather than those who were bis property
before the war Many Maryland Shareholders
and their foolish echoes entertained a vague
hope that by some intcrposition of Providence
the rebellion's work of destroying slavery in
their State might be arrested, and therefore
struggled I" for the chances as it were, with
out having any definite idea what those
chances might be. They could not be per-
suaded to look the altered situation straight in
the face, but were constantly dreaming of ne
gro property as is was before the oligarchy's
conspiracy rang out its death knell. The
class Of them whose dependence upon the in
stitution and coincidence of ideas with the
consprators rendered them aiders and abettors
of the rebellion to the extent to which they
d red go-.and few Others in Maryland but
themselves and their immediate dependents
have been traitors 1T heart-were most clamor-
Gus throughout the recent brief canvas over
the emancipation question, notwithstanding
the fact that in sympathizing with the Rebels
they surrendered all their rights of American
citizenship as surely as those elsewhere who
have sought unsuccessfaly to destroy their
respective Governments have in the end paid
similar penalties for so doing. They unfor-
tunately found multitude of co-la-borers for
the moment in an minimizing throng of Union
men who could not coin prehend how and why
the continued existence Of slavery III Maryland
initiated to preve2t the speedy success Of the
arms of the Union cause. Though Unionists
at heart, these latter coall not Suddenly un-
learn the lessons of lifetime acquired under
.lavery's tuition, through the new teachers
WAS the DEATH ds.olation and pceuniary cost
! of slaycrys war against the principles Of
! Ame-ican liberty. They arc. hawaycr, u