Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1852-09-29

gates would have abandoned the Convention,
whilst sxty-sx of his friends recorded their votes
against it. Is any man so creduous as to believe
that Gov. Johnson considered himself bound, eth
er in law or honor. to carry out that Platform =
One of It's provisions, and the gist of the whole,
was the reclamation of fugitive slaves Since the
passage of that law Gov. Johnston was the Chief
Magistrate of Pennsylvania, when the most afro
cious outrage which was ever committed by the
citizens of one State upon those OF another was
enacted during his magistracy. What steps did
he take to protect the innocent Victims or to bring
to punishment the ofenders' Let the proceedings
Of that investigation bear testimony. His Demo-
cratic successor did, in some measure !satone for
the foul stain which his Wing predecessor left up
on the State of Pennsylvania.
Now, suppose that Gov. Johnston, who voted
for the Platform out and out, had been nominated
by the Wing National convention as the Presiden-
tial candidate, is there a Wing in Maryland, or
in the South, who would have supported the nom-
nation? Why not? Gov. Johnston is Wing
as much a Wing as General Scott, or any other
Wing.
If, then, it be true, that the South have nothing
to expect in support of its rights from the Wings
OF the North as party, with many honorable,
noble exceptions and it be true that the Demo-
upon these questions, is it not the duty ofthe South
the whole South, to weigh well the consequences
of afating with men who have no feeling in COM
mon for their country.
| A Maryander by birth, whom my ancestors
were from ages; having participated somewhat IN
the political questions which have agitated the
State and General Government, do not feel that
am intruding upon my friends in expressing my
honest convictions for doing which it seems that
am to be inundated, although | have endeavor-
ed to refrain from giving just cause of offence to
| any.
| Abstracted as have been for some years past
from active political life, has afforded me an OPP
portunity of calmly rejecting upon the probable
consequences of the existing state Of thngs-to
give proper direction to which, requires the dis
passionate consideration and unprejudiced action
of all who prefer the harmony of the country to
political party ascendancy.
| The Wings of the non-saveholding States, in
conventon, regardless of the feelings, the mte-
rests and claims of the -discarding their
own favorite sons, whose whole administration was
approved by them, save in one, the only vital mea
sure to the South-is to ''as strong as proof Of
| Holy Writ" that their ultimate object IS the pre-
valence Of their abolition Higher Law principles
If, then, the Northern Wings abandon their South
ern friends upon the only vital question, how car
the South affiliate with such party? If Mary
land is true to herself, she will not. Loving my
native State better than my party, | cannot.
elf this be treason, make the most of it,
Now, one word with regard to the numerou
Recommendations my letter has brought down upol
me. 1t cannot be expected that should RESPOND
to them. 1t is a liberty of the press which no mai
may complain of-certainly do not-nor of thu
insldious attacks of irresponsible scribblers.
Having sustained through life an irreproachabl
character, no honorable man will say that any &C
of mine, political or moral, has ever brought dis
credit on my name. mean to sustain that char
iacter, and it will be found that whenever prope
occasion calls for it, "Nemo me impune lacesst.
| DANIEL JENlFER.
| To Honorable