The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1875-07-30

And this fellow is of course equally indif.
ferent as to law-indeed he is not unfre-
quently the law-maker and the executor
OF the law. Few, comparatively these men
are, yet bold, bad and INSCRIPTIONS, thew
know no higher law than their own will.
They dominate their fellow men at pleas.
ure. The majority who constitute the well
thinking and orderly part of the commu-
nifty have no rights that these vicious men
are bound to respect.
They terrorize the community, notwith
standing courts of law AMI magistrates
The law becomes dead letter and the
judges are impotent-impotent not be-
cause of want of respcc: for the majes-
ty of the law, and a desire to enforce it,
but because of q very natural solcitude for
their own personal safety. The pistol
threatens the judge, and Ire quails before
the villain intent on murder. 1t is, per-
haps, question of morals whether the
magistrate should sacrifice his life to save
the life of others, though sworn to execute
the law. No less than intimidation should
deter him from the discharge of his duty.
Now in the other and better constituted
communities the law respected conservcs
tho rights of the people, and enforced by a
conscientious magistracy ensures the safety
and happiness of the community.
Economically the West has not the SUI
periority that is sometimes claimed. Rich.
or and more productive lands, yet often
losing crops from causes that do not exist
at all or so extensively in the East. The
drouth and chincl-bug and locust have for
several years past disappointed the hopes
of the western farmer, and even when the
earth brings forth its richest and most album
dant fruit, the prices obtained are utterly
inadequate as u remuneration for the labor
bestowed and capital employed. And the
difference in production is not always I'M
der most propitious circumstances in favor
of the West. Indeed the Eastern agricultur-
ist by his superior processes often reaping
the larger harvests.
The very few green spots that came I'M
der my observation in travel OF fifteen
hundred miles eastward were the Indian
Territory, south west Missouri, the valley
of the Monocacy in Frederick county, and
Hartford county in the vicinity of Bel Air
1t was not, assure you, an unpleasant sub
ject of reflection that our lands improved
are equal if not superior to the naturally
rich alluvial lands of the Mississippi and
Missouri. Nothing surprised my western
farmer friends more than the declaration
that our Woolseys and Barnes and others
do by process of high farming raise one
hundred bushels of corn per acre on lands
that unimproved would hardly germinate
the seed.
There are many things in which the su-
periority of the East is rather felt than ex-
pressed. Those subtle and indefinable
things that give a superior attraction to
Eastern society. Society here has crys-
talized into more perfect, and hence more
attractive forms. Less sincerity, possibly,
hypocrisy and selfishness more frequently
concealed under the garb of friendship,
but yet the manner so winning as to make
the deception invisible, and thus practical.
ly unobjectionable. Better. perhaps, so
far as the pleasures of society are concern
ed, attractiveness of manner without sin
cerity than sincerity, with rudeness of
speech and responsiveness of manner.
ECUo.