Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-05-01

Fayed or our rights Sacrltced, II must be
through the treachery or incapacity Of the
delegates selected to represent US in tina,
Convention: Is it prudent or just or gene
rous, on the part of the minority section, to
requite such confidence by distrust-such
magnanimity by narrowness Of spirit and
impotent opposition What is to be gain.
ed by it? We are advised to organize an
opposition to the new constitution, in ad-
vance of its formation; to PREJUDICE and
condemn work before its done, and before
we can tell whether it may not be entirely
acceptable to US. Ifyou destroy the work
of your own delegates-,he child O: your
own bege'sing, | tell you plainly, the majo-
ri'y section will, on the next trial, take the
control in their own hands; they will or
ganIze the next Convention on a basis
founded on numbers and taxes, and you will
have TO take such securities for your inte-
rests as their justice and liberality may die
tale An aimless and obstinate opposition.
If systematically pursued to the overthrow
Of The present plan, can have no other efec,
than to embister the majority and make them
regard their ultimate success as triumph
over an enemy. Were it possible to delea,
this reform measure, it would not increase
your power of resistance, but rather give a
new impulse and augmented force to this
popular movement. Revolutions, in popu-
lar sentiment, never 60 back-thefr course
is onward-and the ant-reformers of Mary
land, who cling with so much pertinacity
to old abuses, may plant their feet upon the
ground and thereby as we'll expect to stop
the diurnal revolution of the earth upon its
axis, as to hope to arrest the progress of
reform-the march Of intellect and know
ledge in the affairs of government. The
resistance is as vain and futile as it may
prove mischevous and dangerous. The
opposition in the minority counties to re-
form is now mainly from the Wing party
in the majority counties, it has broken down
Whlg discipline and absorbed that party
Wsat mus. be,he political effect of keeping
up this opposition but to separate the Wings
of the populous counties from those of the
minority counties, and thus give the Demo-
cratic party great advantage over them
In the next gubernatorial election an obs,i-
nate and systematic opposition to the Re-
form Convention, by the Wings in these
counties, whilst the opposing party give it
their support, would tell with great effec,
against the Wing candidate in the majority
sec,ion-it would probably ensure his de-
feat. A popular principle, like that of re-
form, vindicating the sovereignty Of the
people and offering the only efficient and
certain correction of long-standing abuses,
will bend the discipline of any party asso-
citation to its service, or scatter it into frag-
ments. The passage Of this law is an illus
tration of this truth it is the measure of a
Wing Legislature, in the face of a strong
and active Whig opposition; it sriumphed
by disorganizing large Wing majority.-
And tell my Whig friends, who think it q
duty to preserve their Whig organization
at least within the State, that it is fortuna It
for them that this Reform measure did pass
otherwise the result Of the coming October
election would have shown that hundreds
had abandoned their standard, and that their
ascendency as party was completely over.
thrown. No Whig politician Of ordinary
sagacity would counsel the course indicated
by cold Charles" Whether our county
men of that political school will so vote
matters but little as to the final decision 0
the question. 1t will be af1irmatively car
ried by three-fourths Of the whole numbe
of votes cast. But it may do harm by i'm
pairing the influence of those who may b,
chosen 10 represent the county in the Con
vention; and can have no other effect.
! The writer, before referred to, asks us tt
tell him what is to be done in this Conven
ton, and true to the instincts of an office
holder or seeker, can see nothing of higher
interest and importance than the mooes o.
appointment Of officers. And in this con-
nexion, avows his preference of popular
election as the mode of appointing ou'
Judges. Now,'if may be allowed to ex.
press my honest convictions on this point
should no. hesitate TO say that regard
this as one Of the very worst changes that
ould be made in our fundamental law