Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-05-18
MEETING IN ANNA ARUNDEL
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in the lst cleo lion district OF Anne Arundel
county, when Rein Esfsp. Esq having been
called TO the Chair, and Joseph ". Stoeket, Esq
appointed Secretary, they proceeded TO appoint
committee, at the suggestion OF Mr.. John
Mercer, to frame and report the expression of
the sentiments and object Of the meeting The
following gentlemen, Messfs. John Mercer, Ro-
bert Garner, Bent,min Har,cood, Thomas Sim.
mons, John CIafor, Henry II. Hall, and John F.
Wilson, having been elected for This purpose,
reported the subjoined preamble and resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted
| As il is the indsputabe birth.right of the
citizens of our favoured land, TO express freely
their disapprobaton of whatever they deem
censurable in The conduct OF their public func-
tionaries; SO is it, not only their ght, but their
| sacred duty, to sustain them when unlustly as
sailed. And although we sincerely deprecate
the consequence, of premature agitation ofthe
| subject Of the next Presidential election, we
feel constrained by paramount sense OF duty,
to oppose the efforts of the opposition to Danish
from. our COUNCILS the distinguished individuals
who now preside over them, by distorting and
misrpresenting their acts, impugnlng their
motives, and vilifying their persons Aud We
are firmly persuaded, tina, however fercely they
have opposed what has been done they would
! have been fer more oamorous, had the same
! measures been negl.c,ed This persuasion has
been strongly corroborated by many similar a
vowals: but we will quote only one 10 illustrate
the rsasonableness OF our conclusion a seDa-
tor Of the United STATES, aconspcuous member
OF the opposition, expressed the deepes, regret
that the administration had not trowned upon
the mission TO Panama, for it, he Exclaimed, we
were SO near obtaining triumph over them,
for pursuing course, at once congenial with
the best feelings and mos, important interests
of the nation; how signal would have beer our
victory, had we occupied the opposite ground;
or, in otbsr words, If we rallied. so generally,
formed so compactly, and fought so desperate
" in baG cause, what could we not hav. eject
ed, if our cause had been righteous one. Bur
in their efforts TO sustain themselves in this en-
posed and un,enable position, TO what straits
| have they been reduced? We have been dis
gus.ed with the reiieraliOn and prr,ersion OF
the sage counsel of our venerable Patriar h, TO
beware Of cling foreign alliances We
have bushed TO hear from that Hall, whit h her
vo,aries throughout the world would lain re-
gard as the. sanctuary Of liberty, the proposi-
iion to aid her cause, with mere countenance
and counsel, Reproduced with as much bitter
ness as If il had been 10 subsidize Spain in her
efforts 10 Crush it.
And what we reasonably conclude would
have beenthe course of the opposition, had tie
administration rejected the overtures OF the
South NAmercan governments. They would
have arralgned them before the awful tribunal
of an Indignant, people, as hostile To the sacred
| cause Of freednn,, the GOO ret rnadInnr nj ina
Holy Alliance, the pusillanimous deserteIs OF
the principles Of our re, olution And their
yocabuiaries, however fertile they have proved
on the present oc aston, in opprobious epithes,
would have been incompetent 10 characterize
the measure.
| II is not however, upon this occasion alone
that the reckless and detestabe motto, The end
ri2jusfify The MEANS" has been displayed on
| the banners of the opposition They have sworn
that Carthage mus, fall. no matter what public
interest may be jeoparded, wha, public feeling
outraged, or international comfy violated; we
have seen every nerve strained, every vors put
in requisition, to defeat project which Afford
ed prospect of accommodating our difficult
ties with Great Britain, for no other purpose,
as we belive, than hat Of at, aohing 10 the adj
minstration the odium of inv diving the nation
In the predicamen, of either abandoning her
| Just rights, or appealing, to force in order 10
maintain them. Withthe same sacrifice of the
public veal to their own selfish views, we have
| Witnessed the neglect to carry into effect
proposition 10 exchange portion Of the pub
| lie debt, bearing an interest ct per cent, Tor
| stock at per cent, an operation Which would
| have saved several hundred thousand dollars 10
the people.
And since our fellow-citizens of Baltimore
county, have protruded his conduct before the
public, as subjee, of pan gyric, we beg leave
TO call the attention Of his constituents, to the
conspicuous agency upon both these occasions
of their honorable senator from the western
shore, and why this opposition to measures OF
uaqueslionable expediency? The object is
manifest, lest their beneficial results should he
seen, felt. and rewarded by the people, who al
ways act Justly and wisely when not wickedly
deceived.
Although we might safely venture to pass
general sentence of appreciation upon those
measures, which when wrested from their ma
tural tendency, and obvious sense, have been
boldly arrayed against the administraion-we
prefer to bring them separately before the pub
lie, as upon their particular merits we arc will
ling that each should stand.
ReTere however we Droceed to notice his