Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-11-05
PATRIOTIC MEETING AT SYRACUSE.

RAJ hlOI1C MEETING Al SYRACUSE.
The larges, meeting ever held in Syracuse,
convcned in that town on Saturday week.
The call for it was signed by eigh. hundred
men of both the pleading political parties"
An address and resolutions prepared by
committee appointed for the purpose were
read and adopted. They are replete will,
patriotic sentiments and do honor 10 the
heads and hearts Of their authors. After
expressing its ''unqualifed adherence" of
the resistance made 10 the execution Of
the fugitive slave law on the LIST of Octo.
Der, j. "repels the accusation that any large
number of the citizens Of Onondaga were
engaged in that disgraceful affair" We
give the three concluding resolutions entire:
Resozved, That we will stesdfaslly ad-
here 10 the obligations imposed upon all the
citizens Of the United States of America BY
their adoption Of the Constitution tina, we
will yield obedience to all laws conslitu-
ionsly enacted, and faithfully abide by the
decisions Of all the legally constituted judi
cial tribunals.
Resolved. That we regard with extreme
adherence the counsels Of those msg uidel,
infatuated, and sedIlious persons, who have
repeatedly within the past year, in their
c"nvocaiions in this city and elsewhere in
this section Of the Safe, promal gated the
most reasonable doclrines-blasp hemous
insmany cases, both in language aud senli-
ments-in their tendency promotve Of hos
.ilily to the Constitution and the laws
subversive Of The Union, and destructive of
the glorious heritage Of free Government,
which our fathers beqneathed,as they hoped,
10 the American people for possession for
ever and ever.
Resolved, That the recent resistance to
the law in this city is the natural conse-
quence of the teachings of these preachers
Of sediion that they should therefore be
held morally responsibility as accessories be-
fore the act, and in consequence Of such
parties patton as morally guilty Of viola
lion Of the law, and, as such, deserving of the
severe repr oba.ion of all good men.
The meeting then adjourned with three
cheers for the Constitution and the Laws.
The death of the wife Of Governor Uihazi
took place on the 11lh of this month, a,
New Buda, Decatur county, lowe. In let
ter from Governor Ujhazi to Major Toch-
man, the Hungarian Pa,rio. IN announcing
the sad ,idngs, thus concludes "The cup
Of my sorrows is full. have lost my be-
loved wife She departed this life after few
days. illness. Could have forseen that my
exile was TO shorten her days would have
given my head to the foes Of my country to
preserve the life Of the best OF mothers"
The Republic says :-Experiments have
recently beenmade at the Washington navy
yard with a cannon, as improved by Mr.. B.
E. Chambers, Of that city. The breech is
movable and swings on hinge, and is made
fast to the cannon by means Of screw,
which is frs. moved through the breech in
a horizontal direction, and then, by quarter
turn of lever, The thread is made to fit the
interior groove. The charge is put into the
chamber while the breeeh is open, and the
printing is igni,ed by a percussion lock,
which is arranged within the breech.
Mr.. Mccormick has contracted in Eng
land for the manufacture Of FIVE hundred
wheat machines, to be in readiness before the
next harvest, at which time he intends visit
ing England 10 dispose of them. He has