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he Departsangesabject | .■ratio (1 the d the craltl, have icracv , and who a few York York, eclar-unlil .'rsoii, father in his y on, a, old lt;idc of reeledOC 'Court ■upied i ecret0118, toLlltl 1110of the Cnion n posed at the urticul-ltioiml i their March, iOa to a eiliuid l«4, to ■cation liaated t such v roteis and i who |uain-nform t end ; true [lit to f the efined sition f any Jbcn nd if it in-isscr-thisand onbt-hown there ioccB-rc to ■iting their esent lion” ile of ib de-nd of , hadtion that no true fnend* of the Lnton have, or can have any hand in this movement without being caught in the sccei-tion trap orfaction.”CompensationA great outcry is being made by certain would-be true constitutional Union men in regard to taking private property (in the shape of negroes) without compensation. Freemen of Allegany, do you know that you have for years been buying and paying for those negroes and yet have no ownership in them ?Under the laws of the State, a negro man between the ages of twenty-one and forty-five years old is assessed to his master at four hundred dollars, and pays tax for him at that rate, though that same man would have brought before the rebellion twelve or fifteen hundred dollars. If you had a horse worth eighty dollars you had to pay tax for him at that rate. If your horbc, in running away, got killed, the State did not pay you one cent for tliut horse. But if the negro gets hilled in attempting to run away, the the .State pays for him, and you are taxed to make this payment, and not at the taxed value of the negro, btft at more than double. As an illustration of this matter: the last session of our Legislature passed a bill directing the Comptroller of the Treasury to issue his wur-rant ou the Treasurer to pay to a citizen of Anno Arundlo county the sum of one thousaml dollars for a negro man shot by an officer, who was attempting to prevent his running away ; from this wound the negro died, uml was appraised by two citizen^ of that county at one thousand dollars. This was all done in conformity to the laws of the A’tate, and although the .State received tax on him at four hnndred dollars, tho owner was by your laws entitled to receive from the A'tnte one thousand dollars. Is this compensation 't Aro you willing to stand such compensation ? If your house or burn is worth one thousand dollars, it is assessed at that, and you have to pay the .S'tate a tax on the full amount, but if your house or barn be burned by an incendiary, the State don’t pay you one cent for it, not even if it bo burned by tho rebel friends of theso true friends of the Union.”It would be an interesting calculation to make, as to how much tux you have paid for committing, tuking up, advertising und boarding runaway negroes; how much you havo paid for uegroes hung for raps, murder and other capital crimes ; how much you have paid for negroes banished the State, or killed in attempting to arrest them as runaways ; how much you have paid for tho support of superannuated and helpless negroes left by insolvent estates. If such a calculation were made you might find that you have been robbed of more than the value fixed by law of all the negroes in the State; aud yet tho State and General Government have provided fo pay four hundred dollars for every negro man manumitted and mustered in the Union army, and yet these true friends of the Union” talk about Abolition’ robbery” and ‘‘compensation.Nomination! for the Convention.
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Cumberland Civilian and Telegraph
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Thu, Mar 24, 1864
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