The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-04-19

State vs.. John Moore, larceny, for prisoner,
lamar.
State We. Henry Tibba,ts, larceny, fer prisoner
lamar.
State VS.. John Repshire, larceny, for prisoner,
lamar and Crcswell.
State vs. Edward Helmsley, (ncgro,) larceny,
for prisoner. lamar.
business, for prisoner, Constable, Archer and
Mccullough.
THE FIsuERIEs.-The success of the
fisheries along the rivers of Cecil is
very important matter to the county,
md we regret to learn that thus far they
have been unsuccessful.
THE REFORM CoNvENTroS.-We have
passed this Convention by without re-
mark, for some time. We have not at
tempted to give summary of its pro-
c,edings, because we could not often
very well see what IT was doing-nor
do we know that it has yet certainly
done anything. And we have express
sed no opinion about what it seemed to
be doing, for we did not suppose our
opinion would make any difference in
the result.
We opposed this Convention at the
start, for the reasons that we were sure
it would be attended with heavy ex.
pense-that we believed the chief mo-
vers in it had party political object in
view-that we foresaw it would be det-
rimental to the interests of the Eastern
Shore, and, that we knew the old Con-
stitution provided for all necessary chan
ges; but the majority Of the people hav-
ing determined in favor of it, we babe
it God speed, and hoped it might be pro-
ductlve ofgreat advantage to the State.
And we have not been an idle watcher
Of its movements. While there are
some noble spirits in it, who stand up
for the honor ofthe State and the good
of the whole people, it is to be regretted
that such does not seem to be the char
acter and the object, of a majority of its
members.
Look at it. OF the 1903 members,
80 to 40 are nearly always absent, and
again and again the half of them are not
present, and as consequence business
has to be suspended. Is this the con-
duct of men who felt the truth of what
they avowed before the electon-that
the good old State of Maryland was
about to go to destruction for the want
of new ConititutIon9 We say that a
gross imposition has been, and is still
practised on the people of this State by
TITS interminable Convention.
Regardless of the hallowed bounds
and landmarks established amongst us
as Christian community, it has blotted
out the necessity for office holders to be
believers in the Christian religion; and
while thus allowing an infdel to obli-
gate himself by an oath on an Evangely
which he rejects, it enacts that into the
General Assembly ofthe State no Preach
err or Teacher ofreligion shall enter. Is
this the kind of action a Christian peo-
pie, whose bible is part of the law of the
land, expect from their representatives I
1t may be done in spirit Of boosted lib
eralism--such liberalism as is the boast
of France at the same time that tits her
curse.
Was it like spirit of liberalism which
induced the Convention to give foreign
ers an advantage, so far as the right of
suffrage is concerned, over our native
born citizensl Or will not even the
sensible foreigner see in it, a crooking of
-''the pregnant hinges ofthe knee
That thrift may follow flwning,"
and while they accept the boon, despise
the trucking spirit of those who grant it.
But we did not take up this subject to
follow the doings of the Convention, so
far as it appears to have settled upon
anything. When it issues constitution
that can be seen and thought upon, we
shall express our opinion. We trust it
may be of such character as to war
rant its adoption, yet fear it promises to
be marked with more incongruities than
the one it is intended to supplant. On
the LIST Wednesday in June, it is to be
submitted to the people, and the Con-
vention seems to intend they shall have
no time to examine it, so as to vote on it
Understandings. 1t is as yet scatter
ed shapeless set of resolves and nrono.