St. Mary's beacon., 1858-04-01
from the Planters .4drocdte. J
One of their Real Objects.

t1EOn1 Me 1tuhucTS s1uUOCOR.l
One of their Real Objects.
We are glad to observe that the Reform
Conspiracy has been very zcalously and ably
denounced by the Democratic press throughout
the State an illegal and de, picable piece of
partizan tickcry, and as movement highly
dangerous to all County interests. And we
witness with no less satisfaction the hesltating
stammering and timorous manner in which
many of the opposition journals appear to ap-
proach its advocacy. There appears to be
great debut on the minds Of the opposition aS
to the policy of the movement they have made
and they seem to go into the contest under
the conscicncc-forced belief that they are going
to bc licked out We believe there was always
difference among them as to the expelicn;v
of the movement Hicks WAS confidently be-
lievcd to be opposed to it all the time, and
many of his most sagacous partizans pro-
nounced it an excessive piece Of greenness and
stupidity for their party, after it had swept
decks i'll Maryland, to furnish gratuitolSly to
their advcrsaries sure opportunity Of turn
ing the tables!
Some of their papers. however, are warmly
i'll favor of the Convention and among th,.l.
appears to be the Rockville Journal, a very
rabld but quite impotent apolo2ist Of every
measure, right or wrong, set on foot by the
know-NOthng party. In its last iss"e it has
a brief, bat quite funny, article on the subject,
which lets out of the Reform bag one of the
cats confined in it, as will appear by one or
two quotations. 1t begins by observing: 1--WE
once advocated the doctrine that the cunstitu-
ton should be amended or altered only in the
way provided by itself, as the safest and most
conservative method of proceeding in so iln-
purtant matter. But different policy has
been recognized and acted upon by the people
of Maryland, and the doctrine that the people
haU" in~liprrahIH right, all Ilmcs To alter
their organic law, without respect to the re-
quirements of that under which they may be
living, seems at this day to be acceeicd to
throughout the country
Well suppose this be SO. Grant that the
People hare the right, at all times, TO alter their
form OF government? Docs that prove it COM
pctent tor the Legislature to pass the late Act?
Does the present Reform movement proceed
from the PeolLe} Did the People have any
agency in originating the movement or was
it not hatched by handful of corrupt, de-
signing politicians?
The Journal proceeds: This being the fact.
we see no reason why we of the American par
ty, So largely i'll the assendency i'll Maryland
sho"d mol take acirdnfage ct'H to Gr upon orr
organic lac, the peculiar principles ghicA re
aetEOcute ~
There's how the milk got into the cocoa-nut.
There's one object of TIE Rclor,n! We arc
called on, lorSooth, to 0yerturn thr government
for the sake of embodying an COR C,ganic
Lar the partlZan tcnetS "f Il pO{ttctl lDUfy!
That's the meaning, is it, of all the fudge. about
defects in the preseut Observation-Disclosures
because it does 1T eInbody the civil and rol-
gious disquaifications Of the philadelphia and
Louisville platforms!
But hear the .Jou1aR: "With TIE limitel
powers which it now possesses. the Legislature
can do but little, dMi Met t'tle IL hes not as
yet Secmrd disposed 10 ,lo--tor reasons ,ce can
not erpdaiH-for the promotion of American
principles.
Another crack at the Know Nothing maiori-
ty in the I.ygislaturc. Ii was MT disposed to
do even what uH.c it couli do for the s'promo-
tion OF American principles" " And the Jour
nal does mt know the reason why iL wouldn't.
We beg to correct the i0urJtdL as to the facts
and also to supply the why and wherefore
The majority Was disposed to do what it could
for those so-called principles. and indeed a
great deal more than it could do constitutional
! ly. And the reason why it did Mt was the
same why Jack would MT eat his supper The
minority was a little too active, and tri1e too
flaps SO constantly that its absurd party mea-
sures had to be mostly dropped, amid the
derision and contempt Of she press and Of all
men Of sense.
But, as Americans ssMst rule Ameri ca
somehow or other, the Journal adds: The
people therefore, must look to a convention
to remedy the crying defects Of the present
constitution, and Provide the proper barriers
against the fragrant evils Of our loose HdtIrGli-
cation hrS, and of that foreign influence which
is sapping the foundations Of the Republic,
&c. &c
As ii We as State. have anything 70 do
with the naturalization laws. tfat belong u
Congress. And observe. tl-' that iorc'gH IN
fuence which is sarpmG the foundations Of II"
Republic. exc. liow tln.t ''>aIne old co0l.
sticks IN the craw nj tn 81 1yntr"-that insldl-
Gus, mysterious. foreign agcn,v, that is welded
by the Pope as a central power. and already
has got the country 10y the threat ,
This will iu pretty well for the Rockville
JoEr.ttR. We lave ITO doubt il has spoken
sincerrly-hut. as innocents are wont to do, is
has think told great deal more truth than
it wOt of. And the only comment we will
make l. that which must suggest itself to eve
~ vutcr in the State: that we have most GER
: tainly arrived at fearfully dangerous epoch
i'll our history. when the Constitution of the
State, the conflicting interests already settled
by c"nIpromise. the rights of the counties, the
rights OF the people, and all the guarantees oflaw
ald its obligations, may, without any express