Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-08-07

Union that no compact OF ASSOCIATION WIN
YOU is of any avail, since you in effect claim
The privilege of disregarding the law of the
land at pleasure, and of being dispensed,
not by any papal authority, but by your
own capricious conscience, or pre.ence OF
conscience, from keeping your implied en-
|gagements, or even your solemn, express
oath of fealiy TO the Union.
By these acts and doctrines, steadily per-
severed in, you, the Stale of Massachusetts,
may hope 10 succeed in dissolvlng the Union,
so far as that consists of a written constitu-
ional compact.
or the individual citizens of Massachu-
setts, each and all may do much to the same
end, by exerting themselves TO kill the spirit
of the constitution.
In this aim, you will let pass unimproved
no occasion for violent, habtuaI, systematic
instrumentation and denunciation Of the
character and principles Of your fellow-cili-
zens Of other States. In order to do this
more thoroughly, you will establish news
papers, form societies, and hold anniversary
and other meetings, for the sole or chief OBJ
ject of exaggera,ing their faults and maIlgn-
ing their motives and actions. accustom-
ed to writing or public speaking, you will
publish books or pamphlets, or perambulate
the country, delivering lectures in the same
sense. And if you hold any station confer
ring on you authority as one of the reli-
gious, moral, or political guides Of society,
you will not fail TO make your office the
special means, as much as possible, OF dis
seminaling such obloquy and detractlon.-
Thus you will eventually succeed in COM
pleteIy alternating from you The regard of The
citizens Of other States, and preparing them
TO accep. the disunion you tender them, and
to change readily from the condition ofyour
coun,rymen to that Of your foreign enemies.
Blu, the people of the several States mus,
cooperate in the performance of political
acts, without which no common government
can exist among them, and the Union ex-
pires of ITSELF You are TO elect Congress
to enact and President to execute the laws
of the Union. If you sincerely desire dis
union, as would appear from the acts and
language of many, you will, accordingly,
make the election of President a merely
sectional question and you will be careful
to vote for no person as member Of Con.
gress, unless he will previously pledge him
self 10 hold such opinions and propose or
support such measures as shall render it
impossible for him to cooperate with the
members Of Congress from other States in
the enactment Of any laws for the public
good. If one Of your representatives in
Congress dedica,es himself TO The task Of
imbI,'ering sectional prejudice, innaming
resentments, and resisting all measures of
cancellation, peace, and constitutional har-
mony, him you will gori(y and maintain ;
for be is doing your work in Cur'hering the
your representatives presumes to speak To
you of your duty as good cillzens, to appeal
10 your constitutional engagements, to plead
for Justice, moderation, wisdom, common
sense, him cruelty for he stands in .he
way of your endeavors to dissolve the
| Union.
| If by all these means and appliances you
do no. accomplish your object, you need
lake but one step more, and the resul, is
sure. You violate the constitution. You
tell the other parties to it that you do no.
consider yourself bound by any engagement
you may have made with them however
deliberately in time, however solemnly ii
form. BY preserving calumny Of your fel'
ow-citizens, you have a. length got them
to hate you sufficiently. You will suffer
no public functionary of yours to cooperate
with them in the common councils Of tht
nation. What remains to be done Bu
one tblng-namely, to assure the o,he
States that ii is not for their interest any
longer to bear with you and this you now
do in proclaiming that your ultimate pur
pose, y our sole object, the main business o
your life, to which you stand prepared te
sacrifice both the constitution and the Bible
is to bring upon certain Of the United State!
violent and revolutionary change in ,hei
social condition, which is to constitute
Of itself their utter poverishment, ant
which involves, undeniably, and beyond al
possible doubt, a sanguinary and destructive
,rous to both, and at the mere anticipation
of which it would seem that every rightly
constituted mind would recoil with horro
and dismay. Yes, say to you, my fellow
countrymen Of the N orlh, it only needs te
satisfy the South that you are in earnes
in the aggressive purposes in this respec
which youavow, and for the accomplishment
of which you have already taken so many
preparatory s,eps-satisfy the South of this
and you will then surely succeed in dissolv
ing the Union for you will have rendered
it impossible for the South to remain in
without death or dishonor.
Fellow-cittizens, have thus briefly
: skelched the means by which the Unior
may be dissolved-nay, by which it is nov
already placed in imminen, peril Greasl.
do they err who imagine tina. this or .ha
. shadow OF notification, whether in Hartford
!, Conventions or Nashville Conventions
, really constitutes the dark cloud Of DANCE