Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-12-23

arrived at the port of Baltimore bringing
$40 emigrants; he wished to secure few
domestic laborers for his own family bu,
Of $40 only 8 remained in the State o
Maryland, and of them were women who
stopped with their relatives in Baltimore.
The ship arrived at p. m.; before II
p. IN. on the same day all the rest were
on board the cars OH their way to the
West. Their destination was fixed before
they left their native country.
Mr.. Earle was of the opinion that at The
present time there were not more than
so, 900 farm laborers in the State. In
view of this great necessity he thought
that there should he demand made upon
the next Legislature in such tones that ii
would make an appropriation Of $100, 900
or 5000. .006 to promote immigration. He
himself would have brought the matter
forward at the last session, but there were
gentlemen in the Legislature who were SO
squeamish about the appropriation of mo-
ney that they sometimes objected to paying
the States debts.
Mr.. Earle then made the startling state
ment that in 80 years the negro population
will die out. ''Some provision must be
made for what is coming. That the ne
gro labor will disappear is as inevitable
as the laws of nature. He has been made
free, and the necessities of his condition
will destroy him. He must now think.
and God never intended the negro to think.
He was put into land of dates. where his
food grew upon the trees without any labor
or thought of his. and when brought to
this country he was put under the care Of
a kind master, who supplied his wants and
he was never called upon to think. Now
that he is thrown upon his own resources
he cannot maintain this condition of things
against the fiat Of the Almighty. In thirty
years he will have disappeared"
Mr.. Banuon. of Anne Arundel. differ.
ed with Mr.. Earle as to the propricty ol
asking the Legislature for large appro-
priation, and to that part of the report ol
the committee which favored such action
he also objected. He was not willing to
commit himself to proposition to pay the
passage of an immigrant to Maryland. un-
less it was coupled with a proposition to
build wall around the State to keep him
here. After having his passage paid be
might take notion to~follow his friends
to the West. Mr.. Bannon then explain
I'd that ass- Of tho -grea.est obstacles te ina:
migration to Maryland was law on oul
statute books that prevented foreigne,
from holding real estate till he was natur-
allied. The immigrants who bring lit
tie money with them are particularly anx-
ious to invest it in land as soon as they
go where there is no law prohibiting them
from such investments. Mr.. Bannon ad-
vocated the repeal of the law.
Mr.. j. j. Duvall, of Prince Georges,
said that he regarded it as mistake that
the report of the committee only looked
to the inviting of immigration from a.
broad. He thought that VIC should invite
from the Northern States.
Mr.. F. Marbury said that he regarded
his colleagues suggestion as emminently
proper. We want men to buy and till
our lands, aud we don't care where they
come from. We fought against the Nor
thern people in old slavery times. and
now we are prepared to join hands with
them. We are most willing to sell them
our lands if they only give US fair price.
Mr.. Hoblitzeli said that the object sug-
gested by Mr.. Duvall was included in the
of the Immigrant Union, and
read the third article.
Mr.. Marbury resuming, said if that be
the fact he would heartily support the re-
port. There was great power brought to
bear to prevent the development of the
State. It has been felt in the Legisla.
ture, and it has been felt elsewhere. Il
there is anything we ought to do, it; is to
break down this power that has tried to
prevent the development of our agricultu-
raj interests. It is the duty Of this Con-
vention to reassure the people Of the State
that their interests shall be defended a.
gainst all monopolies-to reassure the
people of the State that their agriculture
shall be again re-established. aa g.a
MIR. Marbury was supposed to allude
to the alledged hostility of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company to the Bal.
timore and Potomac Railroad, which ira.
verses the agricultural region Of Southern
Maryland. h., >.
Col. Dent, of St. Mary''s. said that gen
tlemen may talk as they please about pri.
vate liberality-it is entirely inadequate
to the objects contemplated. He wa!
greatly aggrieved when. under false no
tion of economy, the Department of I'm.
migration had beer abolished by the las
Legislature. The experiment was nippeo
in the bud and there had been no fair test
1t had been tried in but one country
Why not 60 to the British Islands7 Tha
is the population that will assi,nilate mos
readily to our own. He was assured by
gentlemen having the best means of ipfor
nation that there were thousands of Eng
lishmen aud Scotchmen who would come
to this country if they had the means
The Legislature should make an appro
priation-the more liberal the investmen
the larger return it would make. Thil
question should enter into the next can
.vass. and members of the Legislature
should be elected pledged to vote for tbi'
appropriation.