We do not doubt the result, and expect, freed from the trammels which now bind her, to see Maryland, at no distant day, rapidly advancing in a course of unexampled prosperity with her sister free States of the undivided and indivisible Republic.
Creswell expresses optimism about Maryland's future prosperity following emancipation and alignment with free states.
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