St. Mary's beacon., 1858-04-01
From the Planters .4dvocase. J
One Of their Real Objects.

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One Of their Real Objects.
We are glad to observe that the Reform
Conspiracy has been very zcaloiisly and ably
denounced by the Democrats press throughout
the State, as an illegal and despicable piece of
partizan tickery, and as a movement highly
dangerous to all County interests And we
witness with no less satisfaction the hesitating,
stammeIing and timorous manner IN which
many of the opposition journals appear to ap-
preach its advocacy There appears 10 be a
great debut on the minds of the opposition as
| to the policy OF the movement they have made
and they seem u 60 into the contest under
Ethe conscencc-forced belief that they are going
| to be licked out Webelieve there was ALWAYS
a difference among them as to the expelicncy
Of'thc movement. Hicks was Confidently be-
lieved to be opposed to it all the time, and
many of his most sagaciouS partiZans pro-
;lOunced it an excessive piece Of greenness and
stupidity for their party, after it had swept
decks in Maryland, to furnish gratuitously to
their advcrSariCs sure opportunity Of turn
ing the tables!
Some OF their papers however are warmly
in favor of the Convention and among them
appears to be the Rockville Journal, very
rabid but quite impotent apolueist. of every
measure right or wrong, set on foot by the
Know-Nothing party. In its last issue it has
brief, but 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 constitu-
ton should be amended or altered, only in the
way provided by itself, as the safest and most
conservative method OF proceeding in SO i'm
pOrtant matter. But different policy has
been recognized and acted upon by the people
Of Maryland, and the doctrine that the people
have an inalienable right, at all times, to alter
their organic law, without respect to the re-
qurements of that under which they NAV, be
! living, seems 1T this day to he acceeded to
| throughout the country.
| Well. suppose this be so. Grant that the
People hace he right at all times, to alter their
form of government Does that prove it COM
petent for the Legislature to pass the late Act?
| Does the present Reform movement proceed
from the People? Did the People have any
agency in originating the movement ?--or was
it not hatched by handful of corrupt, de-
signing politicians a... .....,.
| The journal proceeds: ''This being the fact
we see no reason why we of the American par
ty, SO largely in the assendcncy in Maryland
should NOT take Advantage Of to .fx upon our
organic la,c, the peculiar p1IHcirleS srhich tre
adrOcate" (D -. .A
There's how the milk got into the cncna-nut,
There's one Object of the Reform We arc
called OH, forsecth,' to overturn tic government
for the sake OF embodying m car Organic
Lar the partizan tenets ef a political pttyty :
That's the meaning, is it, of all the fudge about
defects in the preseut Observation-Disclosures
because it doesn't embody the civil and reli-
gious disqualiRcations OF the Philadelphia and
Louisville platforms
But hear the journal with tie limited
powers which it now possesses, the Legislature
can do but little, and ti0t lille 1t has moi as
yet seemed disposed to do-.,for reasons ace can
not ezpIdin-for the promotion of American
principles" ~
Another crack at the Know-Nothing MAORI
ty in the legislature 1t was MT disposed to
do even what little it could do for the sspromo-
ton of American principles y And the Jour
nal does MT know the reason why it wouldn't
| We beg to correct the Journal as TO the facts,
and also to supply the why and wherefore.
The majority ,ras disposed to do what it could
| for those so-called principles, and indeed a
great deal more than it could do constitutional
| ~. And the reason why it did Mt was the
same why Jack would Mt eat his supper. The
minority was little tho active, and trifie too
strong, AID ran the majority mp to the saddle
flaps So constantly that its absurd party niea-
sures had to be mostly dropped amid the
derision and contempt Of the press and Of all
men Of sense.
! But, as Americans sRaEa rule Ameri ca
somehow or other, the Journal adds: TsThe
people, therefore, must look to a convention
to remedy the crying defects Of the present
constitution, and provide tine proper, barriers
against the fragrant evils of our loose RatuTuii-
| cation lascs, and of that foreign influence which
is sapping the foundations of the Republic,
! &c.-kc. tss..- -tlc
AS i. VIZ, rs State. have anything to do
with the naturalization laws, that belong to
Congress. Aud observe toIs ''tilat Joreigss an
ffsessee which is Saprin2 the foundations Of the
/ Repitblic, &c. How that ''saEue cid coon
sticks in the craw oi these srntry--that insici-
ouss iystcrious, foreign age,cy that IS welded
!, by the Pope as a central power. and already
!; las got the country by the thruat.
/ This will do pretty well Tor the Rochelle
Jos:rsdA We have no dJsibE il has spoken
j! sinceFely-but, as innocents are won't 70 do, il
! hasNse think told great deal more truth than
! it wot of And the only comment we vii
make j. ;iaat which must sugssest itself 70 eve
4 " vuteT il the State that we have most Ger
tainiy arrived at o fearfully dangerous epoch
in ohr hist.ry, when the Constitution Of The
State, the conflicting interests already settles
by cunpTOTnisc, the rights Of the counties, th.
rights OF the people, and all the guarantees Of Law
: and its obligations. may, withOas any sxpres