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the motion wan adopt©*! and the meeting ais- 1 missed.That Dreadful .Ihlabf.j Our friend of tLe Alleganian seem* to le j ' greatly troubled about our exposure of hi? fViewe on Free Negroisin and Foreigners, and i ! tries to explain away hi* meaning, by say nig J that lie refers to a northern population. We , • hope that Pennsylvanians and other north-i ern people, who have settled in Maryland,! will take too compliment. What aav you brother Alleganian, shall we gut tip n mob ! and drive them out? lint we contend that I the meaning we attached to the Aliega-nian’a arti«*l© wan the correct one, arid the only one that it will bear. Our free negroes are principally engaged an laborers n farms, ah porters, and domestics in the families of our citizens— w hen you drive them out there will be k vacaut field in these, occupations.— Who will fill it? Not the Yankees, because they do not generally engage in these occupations. Not the Pennsylvanians, for Pennsylvania laborers seldom emigrate to Mary-land. Not the English or Scotch, f r they i are generally miners or mechanics. Who else then lt;nn be meant but our German and j Irish fellow citizens, who work upon our farms and roads, and in our families, where | these colored people are employed.For ourselves wo oppose the infamous free {! negro bills, not because we fear the coming j ; of freemen to nettle upon our roil urn! to raise j 1 up nn intelligent and hardy population for f our State, but because humanity and justice ,I do not allow us to tolerate an act of oppros-!aion. Our friend would do better, by no IJ iknowledging his fault and begging pardon of this good German and Irish frieuds, whom he 1 has so wantonly outraged.In order that he may do so, in the exercise of our good nature, we give him the benefit j of such a course, by publishing the entire paragraph containing the obnoxious sentiments,1that seeing it in the columns of an opposition journal, he may ho able to put a just and le-1 gifimat# construction upon his damaging j charge against a majority of his party, a- .iNo I to afford our fellow citizens of foreign birth, , an opportunity to s^e how far tbsi vfast friend i of the Alleganian i* disposed to correct his ! blunders and to do them justice. Hern i? the 1 paragraph:“The enactment of oppressive Ians, instead • of abating th© evils for which the)’ sie de- j designed, would, we opine, produce a dama- j ging reaction upon the interests they are intended to protect, and would lt;io much t«-!aooli- •wards the promotion of the cause of I tioniain. It would doubtless cause an exodus . | of at least n great portion of the free negro j i j population—an important elenient lt;| the la- i i I boring clao*- -which v. mid certain’)* operate ]I seriously again?* the industrial -%!.«i ngricul-tural interests of the tie, WHILE THE SnPPLY OF OTHER LABOR. DEMANDED BY THE WITHDRAWAL OF SO LAP.OE A NUMBER OF IRES NEGROES, IIiGHT BE FILLED WITH A POPULATION FAR MORE DANGEROUS TO THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY AND TEE SECURITY OF 3LAVF PROPERTY T2UHTHE FREE NEGR0ESTHEMSELVE3. Th? iutrea»e of the tree negro class, it must be conceded, la s crying evil, but even that we think, might le managed without recourse to such extreme meu*Qre* as those proposed.”A Deiiiuriatic Feud.
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Cumberland Civilian and Telegraph
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Thu, Mar 01, 1860
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