Year: 1862

a deprived of her markets South and West 70,
S her manufacturers, cannot compete with the
= great workshops that lie north of the State
: The lines Of communication from Pennsyl
vania, from New Jersey, from New York
D and from all of New England, penetrating
the great Northwest with population Of
y eight or nine millions of people, have the
i advantage over us, while We had only the
1 advantage over them in the markets that
lay adjacent, south of us, for our forty-fve
millions of manufactures and instead Of
the city of Baltimore being, as she has been
heretofore, the third commercial emporium
of this country, I fear that the day is to come
when the grass may grow in her streets and
her vessels be rotting at her wharves.


Then, Mr.. President, let me ask why
seek to impose upon us principles and mea-
sures of policy which we do not want, and
which tend only to still further derange and
embarrass us-tend further to surround US


with complicated questions from which we


have no escape? Why not allow us to work


out our own destiny, and to accommodate


ourselves as best we can to the disadvantages


which this unhappy revolution has thrown


around us


Sir, think the statement have made


in regard to the condition of the population


OF Maryland is the correct one: that the


tendency of our population will be, even


upon the settlement of this war, to emigrate,


because | fear there is no hope of restora-


ton of that kindly feeling upon which we


depended so largely for our commercial pros


perity with the people who are south of u.s.


This agitation must break down slavery; it


must throw waste whole regions of country


for long time to come. There are to be


imposed on us heavy burdens of taxation.


We have already assumed an amount of


taxation to defray the expenses of this war


nearly equal to the expense of our State


government; we have assumed to pay as


part of our proportion of the expenses Of the
war, within fraction of one million of dol


lars year; while the whole annual expenses


OF the State of Maryland are only about one


million one hundred Thousand dollars. Then
is it not plain to be seen that the people of


Maryland, already taxed high. must meet


these increased burdens from what is left of|


her deprecated property and ruined trade.


But may not be allowed, Mr.. President,


to ask one question here. What possible


benefit can occur to the North, by the abo-
lition OF slavery d this District, when it Is
TO be 50 deffterious md - iniurious ID it, |
8 IeafInly consuofsssGa .. =; 3. :s-.e .s1zL<.l
b the peopae Of the North that does net a<ia,


tenfold corresponding evia, not only apou
!, the people here, but upon the people Of m,
e State


n Sir, I will not detain the Senate longer
# The day for argument upon this question
J. has long since passed. It would be vain il
1t me, as I think it would be for any othe
i Senator to attempt to change the foregon'
d conclusions of majority in reference to thi
If question. / shall leave it, however, t,
= abler and wiser men to show the illegalit,
d and the unconstiutionality of this measure
d This Government was created to promote
: domestic tranquility and to insure the genera
e welfare. The passage of this bill does no
e promote either the general welfare or insur.
If the domestic tranquility of my State; it vii
# create strife in our borders as forerunner o
s that other question, which is shortly to be-
d come leading and important question in tht
e future discussions and organizations of par
n ties-and that is the emancipation policy o
0 the President. You can show me no possible
# way by which emancipation can be effected
!, by the general government without violen
Il convulsions and the total overthrow of the
: social organization of the slave States. II
It my judgment it is absurd to talk of any ex
}, tended scheme of colonization. It has beer
e shown by the Senator from California, Mr.
If McDougal] that to colonize 200, 900 slaves
Il would cost the government $75, 900, 900
It is this feasible-do you suppose for one mo-
: ment the people of this country would seri
l. ouslv entertain such proposition, even i
: they were not burdened with the presen
If overwhelming taxation, which must rest likt
a a great nightmare upon the energies ane
II resources of our country for succeeding gen
IS erations to come-if we ever recover from
IS it. If you do not carry with emancipation
e colonization at the same time, if you eman
IS cipate these eli ghty y-seven thousand slaves il
+ the State of Maryland, making one hundred
d and seventy-fve thousand colored people t
e remain there. one race or the other will ul
: timately perish; and scenes of blood ant
# carnage that we have little idea will resul
8 from it. With the free negroes we hav


now in the State of Maryland, we have Il
h encounter the prejudices and worst passion
# Of a large class, in order to prevent law
f violent and inhuman in their operations up
D on them. You say you will not receiv'
: them when this policy shall be adopted
y they will not be allowed to remain with us
That is fixed purpose on the part of th|
D people of the State Of Maryland. In max
ing that remark, I will say here that there
is not gentleman on the Northern side o.
the Chamber who has higher consideration
D for this class of oppressed people than my.
{ self; indeed, sir. will say more, challenge
any abolitionist in this country to prove;
that he has as much real sympathy for them
as have.


Mr.. President, from the character Of the
l various measures of this class which have
, hoen nronosod to ConOross from limo m