The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-03-27

AN EASTERN SHORE CoNyENTION.-
4 call for an Eastern Shore Convention,
to assemble at Easton, emenating we
believe from certain citizens of Talbot
county, has been in circulation here,
and we understand that some gentlemen
here have united in calling q meeting
for this county, to be held on Tuesday
the 9th day Of April, the purpose of
which we suppose to be to send dele
gates to the proposed Convention.
The reasons assigned as producing
the necessity for this convention are
{" that injustice has been done the
Eastern Shore by the rejection of her
claim upon the State for the money due
her for works of e Internal Improve
ments )" and the fear g that the Con-
vention provided for by the recent
Legislature will render us less able to
maintain and preserve our rights"
We shall not now point out the cat
which we believe to be covered up in
the meal, i'll this case but We shall state
our decided objection to this proposed
Eastern Shore Convention. The idea of
such difference Of interest between the
Eastern and Western Shores as to make
a necessity for such movement, is an
idea not entertained by us. The
Eastern Shore has failed to obtain an
act to authorize the payment to her Of
some 100000 stated to be due for In
ternal improvements. She has quietly
allowed the claim to lay without demand
ING pay mcnt for number of years, and
now, failing to secure the money, we
have talk Of reputation, secession. a
sectional convention, &c. That the
counties Of the Eastern Shore are taxed
to pay for the Internal improvements on
the Western Shore, without receiving
direct benefit therefron, is as true, as
that st. Mary's, Charles and Calvert on
the Western Shore arc 50 taxed under
similar circumstances but considering
that our private enterprise failed to meet
the donation from the state and complete
the old Eastern Shore Railroad, it does
not appear that VIC are so far injured
and the Western Shore so far in the
wrong, as to demand a special Sectional
Convention at this time. We object to
these sectional conventions, whether in
sections of the Union or in sections Of the
State. Maryland is one her people are
one, aud the safety of the Eastern Shore
is in preserving that oneness.
Do not those Eastern Shorcmcn who
join in this Convention movement, in
order to defeat the proposed Convention,
or to fill it with men of this or that
political Party know, that the cause of
the defeat of the Eastern Shore Claim
lies IN the existing Constitution. The
Eastern Shore cannot obtain the sum
she claims until the present Constitu-
ton is amended. The argument against
her was that by Sec. % Of Art. III, the
General Assembly cannot by any mode
further involve the State for internal
improvements, and that to pay the
Eastern Shore claim would in fact be a
further involvement. just or not, this
was the argument. 30 also, was it
argued that Sec. 40 Of the same arti-
Gle made it impossible to divide
certain amount of d. 4 o. r. r. Stock
among the Eastern Shore counties as
proposed by Kimmcl's bill bill which
might well have been opposed by every
Eastern Shore member, on the ground
that deprecated stock, even could it
have been so distributed, was no liquida-
ton of an equitable claim.
We shall refer to this subject again.
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