Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-03-10

ties and often perseeutions The means
heretofore employed 10 the establishment
of foreign agencies atasbeen so inade-
quate as to bring into tcolAempt their ef-
forts, and the spccessfui fiyalry, Of other
States ana, interested railroads have over
clouded the prospect of futhre good results.
Again. the want of encouragement, the
limited appropriation Of money. and, more
than all, the absence of cordiality in in
vitation, have to-no little extent promoted
apathy and Indifference on the part Of the
stranger to make your State his home;
and the representation ef ,barrenness of
soil, insolubrity Of climate are added to
the often repeated calumny of inhospitali-
These Impressions msst and can be re-
moved to great extent By our own action,
If united. ltberdl, and controlled By a tIc-
ed determinatioX At present our State
is not advancing. but rather on the retro
grade. The census recently taken dem
onstrates that even the commercial metro
polls of the State has failed to secure the
increase of population attained in nearly
every one of the Northern and Western
cities of the Union, Che pei centage of in
crease being twenty below, the average,
and this in face of the fact that its autho-
rites haze been liberal ~ their oppropri-
ations to all enterprises tint ,could enhance
its commerce and promote its increase of
population. The great obstacle to welfare
and prosperity, in the opinion Of your COM
mittee, is obviously the want of proper
protection to agricultural Interests. The
war. in its sequences. has utterly reYolp-
tionised the labor SYSTEM Of our forefath-
ers. Soldiers bouuties and the liberation
Of the slaves have imposed upon landed
estates debts and mortgages far beyond
the availability of the pfoprietors. and the
necessity has now arrived for some relief.
or at least, self-pfeservstion. The Gala.
mites thus inflicted are more severe upon
tobacco. growing ,countieas and in proper
ton, to the amount of slave labor hereto
fore employed. The lands thus involved
are borne down with mortgages, andtheir
owners, in despair. call for assistance in
laborers and purchaseE The destruc-
ton consequent upon war falls especi-
ally upon their imml household
They are impoverish = only for the
want of labor. e. its, but for
y
aud means u. Os1 oao,,
efforts and co-ops5oJ( l6ssce, on the
part of the city Of Bal and the coun-
ties of the State, to Sd effectiveness in
the plan proposed. - s ,
The people of the State must be arous-
ed to the realization of the interests Of
the rural districts and the commercial me-
tropolis are one and inseparable; and the
ends, resulting in mutual benefit must
challenge. the support Of all citizens in the
State. United efforts must result in re-
ciprocal remuneration.
Your committee, therefore. recommend
that meetings be called, without delay, in
all counties of the State, that organisa-
tious be effected before the opening of
spring work on the farms. and that when
such organisations are accomplished, that
the President of the late Convention, His
Excelency Governor g. Bowie, be re-
quested to call again the convention, for
the purpose of united action and the pro-
motion Of the desirable objects 10 contem-
plation.
No delay, no Indifference should en-
barrass our purpose. at once intended to
give relief, and advance the great: mate
rial interests of Maryland To conclu-
sion, your committee make an exhortation'
to all a griculturists to unite earnestly and
generally in effort and council to confront
with determination the crisis now upon
them, and save to themselves the paternal
by developing resources,
now latent, and bringing to the cultiva-4
tion of the soil more worthy, intelligent
and industrious operatives. This course
will, with proper management and proper
tighten the oppressive bur
then Of mortgages, and brighten the fire..
sides of many cheerless homes in our good,
old State. ~
n F. RAtNE, =
W. S. McPHERsoN,