The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1868-01-17

not If we could. Asa people, we will
gladly contribute out of our abundance to
the wants OF hers, and as State we will
bid her take heart in the sympa HES and
returnin. good sen of the nation, and
We vi not cease to maintain and defend
her rights u Ill they shall have b EN- re-
stored uncurhiled.
And 30 with all the other S ates of the
South The war, lrofessedly waged for
be restorati of the Union, having sue
oessfully ended, must re ult in the restor-
aticn of the Uliou.
Ii tits the fat of the American people
has Enthusiastically gone forth. TINE only
is necessary toshow to our sisters of the
South that orr sympathies are not alone
for patriotic Poland, writhins under the
iron heel Of her ma>ter-for misgoverned
and chafng Irelaud-for hapess and
valiant Crete or for the struggling ard
oppressed very where except in our own
midst Justice to them, to ourselves, to
the Interests of the country, will speedily
assure to the Southern States all their
Ppi'biOoi dhh ISHtS
Let theirs be a position of "masterly
Inactivity voting down such instru gents
"liscalled constitutions as may be submit,
ted to them by their mongrel conventions
of negroes and adventures, and their pro-
per stat is will ere long be restored to
them by wise AMI just national legislation,
on which alone they must rely. 49,.
National legislation must be directed
not onl y to the restoration Of the dis
severed States to their proper orbits, and
to the paciieation of the country, but to
its financial condition aud neccssities.--
The Junhens of wor must be relieved by
the return Of peace.
A resumption of specie payments, a
large decrease of taxation, reduction of
the tariff, modification or extinction of
the income tax and of taxes on most manu.
features, will infuse vigor into the enter.
prise Of the country, will give renewed
Impulse to the mechanic arts, to the build
ing of houses and faetoricJ, will revive
trade, will enable our shipping TO resume
its march upon the deep, will greatly re-
ducs the cost OF the necessaries Of life,
and largely relieve the telling masses, a
proper alienation of whose burthens
should always be the study Of the wise
and consderate legislator. ......
The demands of agriculture, upon
which all the other great interests of the
country depend, require that the disturb
ance and disorder OF the labor system of
tue Southern and middle States shall be
diverted back from the field of politics
and Vicious ldleness into which the freed
men have been Inclined, to the steady
pursuits of productive industry. Thous-
ands of acres of the best lands of the coun.
try are lying uncultivated aud unproduc-
tive, and mines of wealth which the great
agricultural Staples would produce lost,
not because of the arcity of laborers, but
because they have been seduced from
patient habits of industry by the intro
duction of politics among them, and by
the outrageous support Of them in idleuess
and vice by freedmeu's bureaus and gov
erument employment, which has nc relief
or occupation even for the widows and or
phans of the war, unless OF sable hue.
As an agriculturist myself, this labor
question is to me one of great interest !;
and whilst [ would compel the idle freed
man to become producer instead of a
consumer, would commend to the young
men Of Maryland, as of the South, the ne
cessity of themselves s,izing hold of agri-
cultural as they did of warike imple-
meuts, if they would not see their ances-
trial acres pass iuto other and strangers
hands. The intelligent, directing labor
of the owner of the land is essential to
the changed system which must needs
occur in our agriculture; aud let no one
be deferred by fool sh pride, but rather
let him be inpelled to act by the convic-
ti0n that labor Is as honorable and much
more rcmunerative III the creative as in
the destructive arts.
| What We in Maryland, as in the South,
most need is immigration Imm igration
increases population, and with it wealth
Let our efforts be to attract capital, energy
and industry, by every political and So
cial facility and courtesy. Let every de-
sirable new Gunner receive full, frank
and cordial Welcome, ami no one be ostra-
ci.ed because of sectional anmosities. -
Soon they will be absorbed iu our own
population, imbued with our own habits
and ideas, and with our own young men,
who will not desert their State, build up
our waste places, and make the land OF
Maryland to blossom as the rose. Nc
fairer sput on earth can claim their atten.
ton, If they only eVinco the will and the
energy for ner development.
have been deferred by motives of del
icacy, as we'll as because the compreheu.
sive message of our present bonored Elk
ecutive to your honorable bodies had
made it unnecessary, from consuming any
OF your time with suggestions upon mat
ters of State legislation. THIS will be my
duty and my pleasure on future occasions
But it will not, trust, be deemed out Of
place or improper, il here, 10 my first Of
hcial act, make the assurance that in the
discharge of all my duties l shall strive tc
be the Executive Of the State, and not the
official of a party. Nor will it be consid
cred, | hope, improper in me to caution
you, as the repr" sentatives of the best in
terests of the State, that the democratic
party has III its representation in Mary
| land fhaE pyaasc If m mas ,anst