sons of honest toil, the farmer, the mechanic
and the manufacturer will be elevated in the
scale of humanity, free and untrammelled—
with the avenues of wealth, power, and dis-
tinction open to all classes of the white race,
every one, whether native or naturalized, be-
comes the peer of every other man—nay, even
of the proudest aristocrat, who will have
either to content himself with the daily con-
tact of the things he loathes or seek other
more congenial climes for the enjoyment of
the peculiar blessings of an institution which,
in its mad efforts to discredit free labor and
free institutions, has destroyed itself.
This change alone, of itself, will more than
compensate the people of Maryland for all
their trials and sufferings. As a central
State her future is most auspicious, bringing |
with it wealth, prosperity and population,
the sure concomitants of free labor. She will
henceforth begin to experience the truth of
her motto " Crescite et multiplicamini ' and,
with the increase of her people, I hope the
love she has ever manifested for the Union
and Constitution will be strengthened, puri-
fied and intensified.
Permit me, gentlemen, in conclusion to
express my thanks for your emphatic ap-
proval of my official course, for your cour-
teous and kind deportment at all times, and
in bidding yon farewell, to renew my wishes
tor the prosperity and happiness of each indi-
vidual member of this convention.
1 do now proclaim this convention ad-
journed, in accordance with a resolution
heretofore adopted. |
