Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-12-04

lished until forbid. and charged accordingly. A
liberal deduction will be made to those who ad-
vertise by the year.
For the Times.
"A BRIEF TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT
AND THE CONSTITUTION.
by "MosEs."
In the spring of eighteen hundred and
forty nine, there was held in the court
house, in this village, public meeting, for
the purpose of taking into consideration the
question of slavery. This question was
then deeply agila.ing the whole country !;
and believing then, as do now, that no
expression of opinion would heal the disease
more efectualy than debating the character
and tendency Of a cancer would extract ii
from the human system, but that if any reme-
dy was to be found it must be in the appica-
ton of an elementary and paramount law, ]
drew up The resolutions below, with the IN
tenton of presenting them to the conside-
ration of the public meeting ! have just
mentioned. Further reflection, however,
LED me TO think that if these resolutions
were presented, as stated, the novelty Of the
principle they expressed and lis apparent,
impraclicabil,y, would cause them TO be
rejected with contempt, and the author
treated as visionary fool then hand
ed them to the Editor of the Times, with
the predatory remarks which accompa-
MED them, and by him they were pub
lished as they appear below, and these are
they:
s'.Mr. Editor request you will publish
the following wild and visionary, and it may
be, foolish resolutions. desire them to go
along with the resolutions Of the meeting.
! at first intended 10 have offered them as
substitute for the resolutions of the meet
ing, but fearing they would be considered,
and perhaps denounced, as wild and trifling,
and perhaps foolish, declined doing so.-
] request them published because | have no
doubt of their Truth, and believe it the on
ly remedy for every evil of government
The truth of the principle expressed IN the
resolutions can easily be demonstrated.-
The adoption Of the organization proposed
by them would obllterste the government
by the action of the majority. The govern
ment Of the majority is despotism, let it
be exercised when and where it may; and
the government of the majority has Destroy
ed every government. that has existed on
the earth. 1t is singular that the error Of
committed ever since the world began and
] believe history does no, furnish an instance
of a government on the principles of unan-
unity. 1t is more than strange that the
Christian Church should have so far volal-
ed the principles Of Christianity as to have
organized lis government upon The inorganic
action of The majority. r.
"Whereas, all history and experience
teach, that angry discussion has never yet
settled any question of magnitude, affecting
seriously the interests of men, but tha, an
cry discussion and hostile action have only
increased and produced and Reproduced
angry discussion and hostile action and
,chereas, all experience teaches that the re-
solutions and expression Of opinions, in
whatever form, on the institution Of Slave
ry. as sinful and an evil, or harmless and be-
nefciaI, by Northern and Southern sections
of our Union, has only increased the mag
nilude Of the evil in proportion to the length
of time they have been continued and the
number Of men among whom they have ex-
listed and acted. Therefore,
"Resolved, That The only ef1ectua rene
dy for the present divided and distracted
condition Of our country, arising from the
institution Of Slavery, and for all other gov
ernmen,al evils among us, is the organiza-
tion Of all our governments, State and Fed
eral, solely upon the principle Of unanimily.
"Resolved, That we are of opinion aud
believe, tha, all our governments, State and
Federal, ought TO be SO organized that no
act shall become law unless ii shall have
received the unanimous sanction of both
branches of The Legislature and been signed
by the Executive"
Such were the resolutions and such was
the principle published, and that principle,
as plain and simple TRUTH as it is, fell
slill-born from their lips. The principle is
no vision il is reality, coeval and coequal
with creation itself and forming the very
element of the existence Of all things ma
ieriaI and immaleral. Scarcely had they
issued from the press before the principle
they uttered was prohounced e'impractica-
ble'' and ''absurd ;" and am informed that
il was laughed at by minister Of the Cos
pei, who was inquislive and vigorous, as
wild, visionary, and an impraclicability.
will demonstrate, that il is not "impraclica-
ble'' and "absurd," but tIa. to its action our
freedom and our government are exclusive
ly indebted for their existence and shall
be surprised, if before ! have concluded