Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-07-17

We havea General G government, embracing
now thirty free States, each having State
government of its own. The General Gov
ernment and the State governments, moving
in their respective spheres, may, in their
harmony, their beauty, their glory, suggest
to the mind the image Of the great solar
system, the sun, and the planets revolving a.
round. Our government is popular in It's
form, representative in its character. Its
object is TO secure the greatest good Of the
whole people. With us the most powerful
are not above the restraints Of law, and the
(eeblest are not below its protection. Hum
Bile merit does not wither and die beneath
the cold shade of an unfeeling aristocracy;
but the road to honor and to profit is open
alike to the dweller in the hut and the son
of the palace. We have no royal road to
greatness; and it is from the ranks of the
people that we see such men as Clay and
Webster rising to the highest honors and
Offices of our government. What cause of
gratitude have we to the Giver of all good,
when we contrast our condition with tha.
Of the less favored portion Of the earth.-
Under their in,oerable expressions, we have
seen the people of Europe endeavoring to
free themselves from their tyrannic govern
ments and it is melancholy 10 reflect with
wha, little success. The fall of unhappy
Hungary, is indeed deeply to be deplored.
The brave Magyars fought long aud well,
bu. they had to battle not only with their
Austrian tyrants, but with the colossal pow
er Of the Autocrat of Russia, whose despo-
.ism extends over sixty millions of subjacts,
forty millions of them abject serfs. He
with his Myrmedons was bu, too successful
in hunting down and butchering the Hun
garian Patriots. And the fate of many Of
those noble defenders of mans dearest
rights, and chief among them, of the great
Kossuth, now exies from their ma tive land,
has deeply enlisted the sympathy Of the
world. Many Of these distinguished exiles
have come among US, and found hearty
welcome in a land which is the asylum OF
the oppressed Of every cline. Here they
6nd room for free bosom to expand, for a
free arm to work. The people Of Europe
who were struggling to free themselves seem
to have paused as if in despair. Their des-
pots have subdued them into peace, or ra-
ther, "solitudinem faciant pacem appellant"
but may we not hope that the struggl le of
the oppressed against the oppressor, may
have. been put down but for season; and
,ha, all the nations of the earth, profling
by our lesson, led on by our example, will
finally be free.
Our good old State of Maryland has ever
taken front rank in the advocacy Of free
principles. II was upon her soil that uni
versal toleralion of religious opinion, free
dom to worship God according to the die
tates of ones own conscience, was first pro-
claimed to the world. Among the signers
Of our Declaration of independence, proud-
ly stand the names Of her Stone, Paca,
Chase and Carroll In our revolutionary
war, in the war with Great Britain of 1912,
in our late war with Mexico, Maryland
stood shoulder to shoulder with her sister
States in defence of the country. Her sons
were foremost in the charge, last in the re-
treat, and on the fields of death her dead
and wounded lay thickest. In her improve
ments, in peace, she has been conspicuous.
Her great commercial emporium, Baltimore,
ranks now as one of the largest, and mos,
rapidly increasing cities of our country
With generous spirit Of enterprise, she has
the most extensive in our country. And we
may congratulate ourselves, that the debt
contracted in the prosecution of these works
is, as our worthy Executive informs us, in
a fair train soon to be paid, and the people
relieved from taxation on account thereof.
Our inexhaustibe mines of coal, with con-
venient transportation to market, must prove
a source of immense wealth. And mari,
found in greatest abundance and richest
quality throughout our State, together with
various other resources for the improve
ment of our land, enables our agricu.urists
to CONVEX. broom-sedge field into gar
den spot. Our farmers of old Charles seem
to be getting into the spiri, of improvement,
as IS manifested by our Agricultural Fairs,
which have been rendered vastly more inte-
resting by the fair daughters of our county,
who touch nothing but what they adorn and
beautify. Every success to our Asricultu-
raj Fairs! The voters of our State have
elected to hold Convention, to form for
US a new Constitution. i, is subject of
pleasing reflection, that though among other
people, in other times, grea. changes in gov
ernment have been generally effected by the
mailed warrior, on the field ot battle, amid
all the paraphernalia of war, the helmet, the
banner, and the dazzling plume; yet, among
US, the force of reason and the enlighten-
ment of public opinion, are all-sufficien, to
effect, through the ballot box, any changes
in government which the people may desire
Let US then hope that the people will con-
duct their election of delegates TO the Con-
ven,ion in spirit of harmony and good
feeling; and that the delegates, when they
shall proceed to the execution of their great
work, will 60 with wise heads, pure hearts,
and clean hands; that they may consult for
the interests of the people of the whole
State, now and hereafter, in their work.