The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-10-22
VOL. XIX---NO. AZ.

fish in this State is another matter of great con.
sequence to the material resources of The State.
| II not stflctly speaking matter of agricultural
| interest 1t is unqustionably one of very decid.
ca ln.erest 10 those who are engaged in The cul-
| tivation ofthe land for it is, believe. A fact
| substantated by Commodore Maury, that tbe
annual products of the Chesapeake BAY are
equal in value to the annual yield Of the gold
mines OF California. This is a subject which is
| attracting national interest and those who feel
a curiosity in such matters will find an admi-
ra6le paper in reference to 1t in the last Agri
| cultural Report.
In the approaching celebration of the centen.
nal anniversary at Philadelphia, the State of
| Maryland will have just cause to be proud of
| the vast strides which she has made since the
| period of the Revolution. On every side we NAV
see evidence that her grand old motto of Ceres.
cite ct multiplicamini'' has not been disregard.
ed: Mhiie we may remember with pride and
| interest the time when as Mr.. Davis tells us our
ancestors used the coutcau de chasse in the place
OF knife and fork, and the sack of old Jack Fail.
stan was their common beverage, yet we NAV
also point with more noble pride TO the great
advance OF the material arts in our own days
and to none with so thorough satisfaction as TO
| the noble developments that have been made I'm
| the science of Agriculture, and the means pro.
Vlded Tor thorough and practical instruction in
mat department of human knowledge. Let us
| hope also that when that day shall come. some
decisive and practical steps will have been taken
| TO strike from the statute books of the country
| The acts providing for the issue of paper money.
| Acts which one Of the wisest and most impar.
| tial OF the Republican judges held to be uncon-
stitutonal as TO debts contracted before their
passage; and which n Radical congress have
foisted upon the country by packing the highest
tribunal-thus polluting the stream of Justice
at It's very source. However necessary this cur.
rcncy may have been to the dominant party i'm
the prosecution of the late civil war, they now
impede the operations alike of agriculture of
commerce and of mechanical Industry. Indeed
they bear with especial hardship upon the far.
mer by the facilities they afford few ca pitalists
in the moneyed centres of the country 10 make
corners in the various articles of domestic pro.
duce an evil which would be greatly diminished
If not entirely counteracted by return TO gold
and silver. such step, by loosing the shackles
which now fetter the sale of domestic products
would give to the farmer the market of the
world instead of that of the United States. All
of us know, and there may be some of YOU who
remember the conduct of Andrew jackson in
striking down the Bank of the United States
and RELOCATING to the people the task of con.
Quoting their own banking operations. Almost
all OF the statesmen of the day opposed him. and
most candid men must now admit that his con.
duct was without the sanction of Unconstitutional
right, In its ultimate effects, however, it was
beneficial TO the country. Even those who op-
posed him admitted that. Equal vigor and
boldncss is now called for on the part of the
Democratic party, and with this great advan-
Tage in its favor, that there can now be no ques-
ton of constitutional right.
Despite the factitions sentiment which is rem
resented as existing on this subject in many prats
ofthe countryand which has in many cases been
created by shallow politicians believe that in
their hearts the people of the country are sound
upon this question. Like people suffering from
chronic disease they may shrink from the sharp
incision of the surgeons knife, which alone can
cure them. But it is the part of the statesman to
do this for them 1t is his part and 1t is his duty
TO strike through the thin crust of affected SEN
timcnt,and reach home TO their true convictions.
To such an appeal feel sure that they will re-
spond To believe otherwise would be in effect
TO admit that the very theory Of republican gov
crnmcnt is false TO the core.