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CHAPTER IX. 



The neglected Lands of Delaware Repeopling the Slave Re 

 gionCondition, Soil, and Products Crops and Lumber 

 Farms for Sale, and Prices Railroads Maryland Farms. 



THE State of Delaware is rapidly coming before 

 the public in a new and regenerated attitude. The 

 immemorial blight of slavery is fast disappearing. 

 A wholesale Northern emigration is coming in to 

 enlighten and control the remaining heresies which, 

 for a generation at least, must linger among those 

 who were born and educated to believe in them. 

 About eighteen months ago, an association of prom 

 inent citizens was formed, with no view to individual 

 profit, but having for its sole object the circulation 

 of knowledge touching the cheap and fertile lands 

 of the State, so that Northern settlers might be 

 drawn thither, thus at once crushing out at the bal 

 lot-box the pro-slavery element which had ruled and 

 blasted the region. Many such have become pur 

 chasers in consequence of this information, and 

 the number is constantly increasing. 



As Delaware presents great attractions for those 

 who desire a farm, much pains has been taken to 

 obtain a full insight into the condition and prices of 

 land, and of, its facilities for reaching market. A 

 leading object of the association referred to was the 



