Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1897-07-16

He said the Rappahannock did the trade
instead Of the Potomac, and that the
Weems Company, though a monopoly,
was Just and reasonable one.
We next ran up Bretton's Bay to
Leonardtown. Leonardtown was once
called Seymourtown, aId was establish
cd under the present name in 17OS. It
is twenty-five years younger than Bene
dict (Leonard) town. on the Patuxent.
St. Mary's County hes 202, 600 acres.
1t was settled 263 years ago In 1850
it had only 6,223 whites. ,633 colored
free people aud 5.s42 slaves, and only
l6 foreign-boln Itgrew nearly 1,SOO,
900 pounds of tobacco. The Potomac
is set down at $50 miles long. The
navy yard at Washington is 300 miles
from the ocean. or twice the distance
from Albany to New York. The Poto-
mac is set down as forty-two feet deep
at its mouth. The Potomac peninsula
had most of the slaves Of Maryland.
Charles county established 1858,
settled the year before Charles I was
executed, had 9, 5S4 slaves in 1850 A
Maryland gazetteer Of 1852 said it had
only twenty-eight foreign-born people
and was untitled by the guano Of for
eign exuvlum." The conspirators
against Lincoln were all but one or two
recruited from this county. 1. raised
near 5000, 00O pounds of tobacco
Hardly a dozen Union men lived in the
county among its 5 1905 whites.
Prince Georges County had IL $50
slaves and only $500 whites.
Calvert the county of fancy, had
4 1856 slaves but 1880 free colored
people probably the emanCipated seed Of
the Quakers who removed to Pennsyl-
vania it had only 10 foreigners and not
single manufacturing establishment.
in 1850, but produced over three million
pounds of tobacco.
Prince Georges produced nearly
eight and a half million pounds of to-
bacco be fore the war.
In 1850 the slaves Of Maryland were
900, but the free blacks, rs, 900; the
whites 41S,OOO.
After the revolution following the ad-
vice of Frahcis Asbury and other moral
leaders the best blood of tide water
Maryland went either West or to Balti-
more, Western New York, or Western
Maryland. A very few and generally
second class family names attached to
lower Maryland. Washing tons brothers
crossed the Blue Ridge from the North.
ern Neck
"A very bitter man who helped bring
on the war surprised me, said Vir-
ginia passenger with a missing chin, the
probable effect ofmollusk food, by break
ing his silence lately and saying,
Doctor what pity we ever brought
slaves in up to 1920, when the Consti-
tuition gave us twenty years grace to do
i'll And then what pity we did not
emancipate as we we're disposed to do
about 1880, when the emancipation
movement was so strong Why do
you say that, Judge2' Because it is
the undue proportion of blacks which
keeps Nothern and foreign immigration
away from us. With one-half blacks
we scare white people away
All the conditions of our society
under slavery we're depraving to self
substance. The more of a gentleman
planter vas the more be depended
upon his over-seer Frugality the basis
of wealth was well-nigh impossible. TIC
this day we have no railroads in our
peninsulas because we had not De Witt
Clintons. Virginia ought to have fol-
lowed Cen Washington. He was
lobbying at Annapolis and Richmond
for canal to the Kanawha, while oul
Masons, Tayloas and Tylers were trying
to split an abstraction and keep Other
societies from growing past us. Now
the school books are being attacked for
stating these facts but the young gen.
Grafton is bound to learn them if they
must 60 somewhere else to do SO. )"
Small OK and COW carts we're used in
Maryland, the hauling was of phosphates
Of tobacco mixture which | should think
they could manufacture themselves from
refuse fish, oysters, and shells. The
colored people seemed indispensable,
happy and locally patriotic. At Leonard
town Landing far up sylvan bay ex-
pansive and wooded like English waters
we tied an hour while four milling ma
chimes, tobacco fertilizers. and terre
Gotta pipes were being landed The
negro folks seemed to enjoy the breath
ofprogress. This district is now repre-
sented by Sidney Mudd, Republican,
related to the first recruit of John
Wilkes Booth. The chief business man
in the peninsula is Adrian Posey ma
tive and Republican District Attorney.