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of the slaves of the State are held, lands are worth 

 only from $7 to $8 per acre.&quot; The same paper says, 

 that three years previous, &quot; A band of 300 Swiss 

 emigrants arrived in New York with, all their ar 

 rangements made to settle in Delaware. They were 

 farmers, with money to buy land ; and hearing that 

 land was cheap in Delaware a State settled by 

 their fathers they concluded to settle there ; but 

 finding, on their arrival, that Delaware was a slave 

 State, they passed us by, settled in Ohio, and helped 

 to augment the wealth of that young giant of the 

 Union.&quot; The sagacious editor declared, eight years 

 ago, that an act of emancipation would at once in 

 crease the value of real estate in Delaware five 

 millions of dollars. But emancipation is now at her 

 very door rebellion has destroyed the institution, 

 and the few slaves are rapidly disappearing. 

 Northern immigration will soon secure an entire 

 eradication of this only remaining drawback to the 

 prosperity of the State. Delaware may therefore 

 be considered a free State, running with Maryland 

 a race for freedom. 



The Puritan element having never predominated 

 in Delaware, churches and schools are scarcer than 

 in New England. Slavery has cast its usual blight 

 on the religion and education of her people. Yet 

 these indispensable elements of a high civilization 

 are not wholly absent. They exist in larger extent 

 than in most places where land is equally cheap. 

 They are incomparably better developed than in the 

 new States and Territories of the extreme West. 

 There are churches of different denominations in 



