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merits in new village locations, in lots, and in man- 

 ufacturino 1 and other establishments, which would 



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greatly appreciate in value with the growth of the 

 place. Destined, as Delaware is, to be the great 

 thoroughfare to Eastern Virginia and the further 

 South, when a general tide of emigration shall set 

 in that direction after the war, investments wisely 

 made in that State must be highly remunerative. 

 In the past, many properties have doubled in value 

 within a few years. 



After Delaware has been thus unionized and 

 emancipated, the idea was to present the same 

 potent example of the superiority of free-labor en 

 terprise to other portions of the South. Maryland 

 was to come next, then her neighbors. It is averred, 

 as the most probable hypothesis, that at the close 

 of the rebellion, a large standing army must be 

 maintained for years, or the sentiment of union and 

 liberty must be rapidly created in the South by an 

 infusion of Northern emigration. The blood of the 

 two sections must be made to mingle the Yankee 

 taking his seat beside the Southron, there teaching 

 him a new lesson of life, how to work or whittle 

 until he is educated to the right sentiment. Such 

 infusion must be an overflowing one. But the signs 

 of the times indicate that such will be its character. 



In Delaware, slavery would still be, as it always 

 has been, a fatal objection to settlement there. The 

 Milford News stated, in 1858, that &quot;in Newcastle, 

 the most northerly county in Delaware, where there 

 are scarcely any slaves, improved lands are worth 

 over 50 per acre, while in Sussex, where the bulk 



