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fied forms, and enabling each and every man irrespective of
color, to enjoy as God intended, the fruits of his own personal
labor. The 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 distinction open to all classes of the white race, every one,
whether native or naturalized, becomes the peer of every other
man—nay, even of the proudest aristocrat, who will have
either to content himself with the daily contact of the things
he loathes or seek other more congenial climes for the enjoy-
ment 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 multiplicamint, " and, with the
increase of her people, I hope the love she has ever manifested
for the Union and Constitution will be strengthened, purified
and intensified.

Permit me, gentlemen, in conclusion to express my thanks
for your emphatic approval of my official course, for your
courteous and kind deportment at all times, and in bidding
yon farewell, to renew my wishes for the prosperity and hap-
piness of each individual member of this Convention.

I do now proclaim this Convention adjourned, in accordance
with a resolution heretofore adopted.

Attest:

WILLIAM B, COLE, Secretary.

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