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This unnatural condition of things is now passing 

 away, and a new era is opening on the South. 

 Delaware and Maryland, the two slave States near 

 est to the North, and, therefore, the most accessible, 

 are already beginning to feel its influence. Slavery 

 removed, they are becoming worthy of Northern 

 attention and enterprise. Delaware is rapidly re 

 viving. Emigration already sets strongly toward 

 her cheap and fertile soil. She is less exhausted 

 than Maryland, and will revive the sooner. An in 

 fusion of Northern morals, capital, and enterprise, 

 will regenerate her laws, her institutions, and her 

 habit of thought. Such, also, in the end, will be 

 the happy experience of Maryland. But until the 

 people of the free States enter in by families and 

 colonies, taking possession of the places which 

 nearly two centuries of slavery have made waste, 

 and teaching the inhabitants new thoughts, new 

 habits, and a new civilization, they must remain as 

 they are. Up to this moment they have stood still. 

 If they are to advance, it can only be by help of 

 Northern immigration. As that imperfect form of 

 civilization whose basis was slave labor, has failed 

 to promote State advancement, so the superior one, 

 whose basis has been education and free labor, must 

 be called in to work out in the slave region the only 

 salvation which could prevent it from sinking into 

 a barbarism that was overwhelming the white race 

 as well as the black. Its humanizing influence 

 having been sufficient for itself, it will be found 

 equally potential for others. 



