New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-06-10

stained with the double guilt Of the rebel and the paf-
eide You committed the hardest to be for
given you have dstrused the good sense, the jusce
the magnanmity of the peoples you have sown the seeds
OF passion, Jealousy and disgust; you have made the
souls OF ten thousand familiar with thoughts OF re-
sstance tumult civil you have sanctioned the
leprous sentiment; 1t s time to calculate the value Oh
the Unonp"
During the past weekI made q visit to the old
slave puntes OF Maryland the lower Potomac Rive,
aud enjoyed riding through as picturesque country as
can be found anywhere navigabe tidal rivers
The hills very high above the bottoms ana streams
and beautifully wooded with oaks and chestnus ana
occasional pine forests the latter taking of the malaria
which is still the OF much OF this country beiore
the Revolutionary War this region preferred above
all others for country houses and estates Many Oh
these arenow found In halfruined condition In SONG
the Of the original propetors are no longer
known The cheap and Of good quality for vege
tables fruits and the vine and the Inhabitants are be
ginning TO indulge the hope that canneres may stand In
place of manufactures to them. They have cultivated
tobacco and corn until they longer grow well Iher
tobacco Is exceed by that Of Pennsylvania ard severa
other States Iana finds its market now only In France
where its mild quality recommendsit The country Is
better cleared up however since the war; put the
difficulty of paying the black servants sufficient wages 10
energize them is generally acknowledged Above all
things they want emigration in that South Carolina OF
Maryland they have had emigration since the
war The Eastern Shore OF Maryland has very much
improved compared the westcrn Shore Lands in the
former peninsula have risen In value and both the grain
and berry and fruit culture have driven up the price
OF land till exposes farm for sale but 1t Is Inn
mediaely grasped, whereas the western peninsula
land offered for SALE II cash is required, must be sscr
feed found, however, very general liberation OF opin-
the Western Shore and the Republicans stand very
well with their Democratic neighbors, and under the
honest sway OF Governor Hamilton, whom the old ring
politicians DISLIKE there is a fair registry and fair
count and consequently the old slave counties so Re
publican.
Among the persons visited Judge Frederick
Stone who belongs to Of the most honored families
In the State His earliest Lord Baltimores
Governor Of Maryland and led an army againsthe fur
tans Severn and being defeated barely saved his
life from the galows The Lord Proprietor afterward
gave him as much land could ride around in
day in Nanemoy Neck called Poynton Manor. In a
later generation Thomas Stone born the afore
said entered the Continental Congress and signed the
Declaration Of Independence. lie the OF
the present judge who is Republican and was elected
by over twelve hundred majority 10 the Court Of Appeals
from his district taking the Republican nomination and
getting the votes of men without regard TO party. New
ertheless he Southern ympathizer In the war; but
lived regret the Rebellion work OF folly and to
throw his efforts into the line of progress and liberaty
Mr. Frederick Stone the counsel for DR.. Samuel
Mudd well for David G. Herold, two oehe conspir
ators against President Line Dns life, and Mrs surrat
applied him in the midst of her feeling that she
was very mperfecy defended. TO TO her support
also. Said to Mr. Stone: Did not the Government
offer TO pay all you gentlemen for your slaves in Mary
landi" 1t did, in very fair minded way, and yet We
repealed the proposition which can account for on no
other ground than that we had gone stark mad"
paid visit to the grave sgner of the Declaration
last week. and delighted TO find how perfectly his
home and property retained in HIS family. There
were but four sgners of the Declaration from Maryland
the youngest of whom was Thomas Stone. He lived
about two miles from Port Tobacco estate called
Haberdeventure which, from high plateau commands
lovely views majestic Potomac. which Is incom
parably finest river for broad bayke prospects, His
house. which finished about 1771 Is made of brick IN
high story with second story in the broken gable,
and there wings retiring from the building Ia a
segment Of circle, In OF which his Office. One
Of the large in the main building Is wainscoted
to the and contains his portrait painted by Pine
His next neighoer the celebrated DR.. Gustayus
Brown who was called in attend the last illness OF
General Washington The Stone estate, In nearly its
original proportions, is now managed by maiden lady.
Miss Margaret Stone who takes great pride In the family
matters and showed me elegant antique furniture
and tho measuring glass and medicne-chest OF Dr.
Passing through oatneld the flank of the
house TO O clump OF cedars where Ii the signer
and his wife, who died but few months apart and her
death broke his heart at the early age OF The
inscription Is as foowsi "Ihonas Stone Of David
aged forty four years. The Archives of Maryland will
show the Offices of trust he has held He able
and faithful lawyer wise anu virtuous patriot an
honest and good man." The signers brother, Michael
Center Stone, chieustice Of the State and the
grandfather of the present judge who studied law in this
old house. the solitary student OF william b. Stone bis
uncle.
While am upon antiquities I may say that also
visited the grave of washingons physician, Dr. Brown
had NJ he larv mar nOt
River Potomac built about 17G0 with elegant garden
falling from Its 'front.' There medical
colleges in the land at that time. and he took medical
students and they dsected bodies under the house. and
saw the furnace where they worked and the wing OF
brick in which they lodged and took their lessons
Washington visited Dr. Brown and sounded the old
door knockcr handled but yesterday there The
is perhaps seventy by fifty feet with deep cellars
paved and brieked, and the IN which DR.. Brown
died Is preserved very much 1t was. Tho house is
now in possession Of Miss Olivia Floyd, maiden lady
and cousin of exsecretary John b. Floyd OF Virginia
She farms about six hundred at place of Rose
HILL The doctors tomb Is at the base Of the terraces
IN corner, now deeply overgrown with blackberry
bushes and says foowsi SACRED to the Dry OF
Gustavus Richard Browns this tombstone Is erected by
his rect Margaret Brown in testimony OF her respect
and affection, and is a monument o. his skill ply
scian, OF his learning scholar, of his wisdom
citizen, Of his generosity friend Of his elegance
gentleman, Of his hospitality neighbor Of his kind
master, his tenderness husband and parent
and of his benevolence He died September
80 1904 aged fftysx yeals." 80 he was but fty-one
years old when he closed General Washngton's eyes
The descendants of DIR. Brown intermarried with
their neighbors the Stones, and two interest
ing young ladies in the Stone family, whose
Brown. Of whom Ia ut the Normal School Of Mary
land, studying to be a teacher
One Of the remarkable cases Of boldness and right COM
ing recognition afforded In the OF Henry Winter
Davis. Mr. Frederick Stone, who Democrat In
former days. afterward southern man In feeling and
q conservative Republican, said to me; ." Davis
the strongest have produced In the period Of
the Civil War; We did not understand him. but be-
ginning TODD So He was original antislavery
though born the Potomac River His aunt has visited