Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-12-21
Maryland Correspondence : Health,
Climate and Soil-Judge
Bond and eufy.

mai HE, ana IN changing our rela-
Tons from Ole locality to another we
should ever keep these in view.
Iernaps there is no State Of greater
ulverslty of climate and soil than
good old Maryland. Along the
eastern shore the climate is warm
and unhealthy-a poisonous miasma
constantly arising from the marshy
lowlands affecting most seriously
the health of the people; with light
sandy soil, as barren of vegetation as
that part of Wisconsin lying in the
vicinity of Portage City. In the
west and north the soil is generally
good, though exhausted by q hun
dred years cultivation the land roll
ing, and often mountainous. The
water is pure and sweet, Astounding
in speckled trout-an infallible test
of charming. healthy country.
While verdure and blossoms are
Astounding in our va.es and lowlands,
there is cold aaa frost and snow
amid the mountains, reminding one
OF the dreariness of q Green Bay
winter. The forests of western
Maryland are valuable and extensive,
and in time will afford revenue to
their owners equal to the present
products of our extensive coal mines.
Game, such as bear, dear and wolves,
are far more numerous among the
Alleghauies than IN the forests of
northern Wisconsin. The wilderness
of this part of our State il somewhat
relieved by the Baltimore Il Ohio r.
f. passing entirely e. ough it, afford
ing pleasure to the endless tide of
travellers western bound, who never
weary of such variegated scenery,
besides affording an outlet for the
products of soil, forests and mines,
constituting the wealth of this por-
ton of our State.
1t is safe to say western Mary
landers are more like our Northern
and Western people; there is vim
to their actions and conversation
that makes one feel at home. They
20 in for building school houses and
educating the people. Churches rise
in their mountain homes In every
direction, and industry and economy
characterize the lowest order of So
ciety. Politically, western Mary
land stands head and shoulders above
any other portion OF the State. The
eastern shore is rebelliously demo
cratic Its principal inhabitants
were -'secesh' during the war, and,
like the leopard whose spots change
not, they are rebels still. If you
want to find rank poison in political
circles, go down to the eastern shore,
and you can obtain it, boiled down
to SUCH a degree of bitterness that
four drops of it would kill an ele-
plant. Negroes are almost as much
slaves there to-day, as they were
when the first gun was fred on Fort
Sumpter. The balance of power in
our democratic State government
centers on the sandy plains of east
ern Maryland. Without population,
without wealth, overrun with dark
les and galEnipers, they (the eastern
shortest claim nearer relationship
to British royalty than any other
poI ZION of the American people.
They are the nabobs, revealing in
the wealth and position obtained for
them by the the stripes, sweat and
industry Of slaves, now nominally
free, but really slaves still. Our
people don't like to see black Nose
riding in "a carriage and four" he
looks far better as kitchen scullion,
stoves and boots and waiting
on Massa and Missus 20 their morn
ing coffee. Dinah cuts too great
swell with silks and satins she looks
a thousand times better toting sack
of corn to mill, or following her Mis-
sus with two squalllng young ones in
her arms. Young "niggers" don't
doff their skull caps and make obeis-
ance, as in days OF yore, when aris-
tocracy walks thesoii, and that hurts
q tender conscience much worse than
.he cries and tears of human bond
age. Even the colored people have
'ound they possess the elements of
strength and that God has ordained
them an important part in the re-
of the 4 neriean nation.
to-day, stands shivering
on the brink Of despair, for Cuffy"
has bare possibility Of casting the
ballot at the close Of another year,
and what then of democratic misrule
and aristocratic declamations
There are over 10000 colored vo-
tiers in our State, and they know their
real friends, One man in Baltimore
can command almost this entire vote,
and that man is Judge Bond The
darkies stick to him like bark to q
sycamore. In fact, q good many Of
them appear to think that our little
bit of a State might be toted some
dark night into the flowing Chesa-
peake, if Judge Bond didn't reside at
the head Of Baltimore navigation.
Our colored ministers tend to keep
their people rights and while they
NEEDLE not with our State politics,
they are like beacon lights ia the
political darkness to warn tempest
tossed mariners not to founder on an
iron bound shore.
On the whole, the tide OF our pros
perity seems TO be rising and with
an increase Of Intelligence and loyal
sentiment, the ship of State will
weather the storm and find her safe
anchorage ground at last.
Permit me to say word concern
ing the satisfaction your Maryland
correspondent derives from the regu-
lar visits of the Grant County Herald.
For a number of years | lost
glimpse of your friendly counte-
nance, but on your temperance old
recollections were revived, aud old
friendships strengthened. Like old
cheese, age,has noC,vitiatedyour taste,
nor impaired your strength. The
Herald suits my fancy to-day, far
away from the beautiful prairies and
groves Of my former Grant County
home, great deal better than it did