Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-12-27
Com MUNICATED.

! G. on the address Oh Il portion OF the Senat IFS
an Representatives of nine Southern States t.,
their constituents. They announce the painful
intelligence that there is no hol to the South
of security against future aggrcssions upon their
rights from the Party in Congress, whose section
al hostility has embrocl the federal relations
of the States and pat in imminent jeopardy of
disruption the ties which have bound them to-
gethcr for nearly three-quarters of century.
This statement receives confirmation from the
report of the proceedings Of Congress. The
composition Of the Committee of Thirty-threc
elfectuay excluded all reasonable expectation
of adjustment. "Mastery inactivity" is the
policy of the Black Republican leaders-to do
nothing and suffer nothing to be done, until
Lincoln is put in possession of the army, navy,
treasury and post Office, to be used as means to
intmidate the wcak-nerved and to bride the
corrupt and to diffuse incendiary appeals to in
snrrection. Then the craven and disl ,yal spirit
of submission will grow bold and threaten man
who are honest and true to the State its rights
and its honor, with the wrath and the power of
their master in the White House at Washington.
Contention like a wild horse, will be let loose
in our midst and the blood of our people will
| flow like water The first sword drawn in
| Maryland to repel British aggression was drawn
IN Charles county. 1t is the last county in the
State that will submit to the domination of
Black Republican rule as Swallowed forth in the
| platform and sectional doctrines and policy of
that party. 1t may be made ''the cemetry of
treemen-but never, never the habitaion of
bondsmen'' to the arbitrary authority Of sec
tional and hostile ma jorty, who proclaim the
Northern conscience as a ''higher law" than the
Constitution Of the United States The people
of this county not the degenerate sons Of he
rolc sires-they know and appreciate their rights
and liberties as guaranteed by the Federal Con-
sttution and they have the courage to asser. and
maintain them. During the revolution not
Tory was found within her 1orders-in these
days, it would be rash for ary man to raise the
Black Republican FLAG rpon her SOIL with the
hope OF forming Lincoln party. Calm and
oehoerate out re .olute and fixed in their purpo-
seS, tne reo,re of Charles will keep the faith Of
tlle:f TAR .crs and labor to make the Constitution
what 1t was designed to be and in operation was
! Entil the demon Of abotionsm was engendered
in New England, shield and defence to the
rights of all and bond of peace and good will
among its sovereign members. If Maryland
fails in her endeavor to save the Constitution as
the compact of Union of thirty-three States, it
is my fervent hope and prayer that she will take
it with her as the bond of union and fundamen-
tai law of Southern Confederacy. If this be
treason or disunion. let my enemies make the
most of it. If the Union is to be employed by
a sectional party to it's own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and
the injury and oppression Of the minority Of
States--ifit is to deny to any Of it's members
the s.ustice" it was intended so establish IF
it is to be used to disturb the domestic tran
qullity," it was made "to ensure"-if it is to be
perverted to the destruction Of those, for whose
"defense' it is pledged ''to provde'-if it is to
destroy :'our liberties and the liberties of our
posterity" which it was its great object 'to Sc
I,,tx,
to God and man to dissolve it. But the time
for discussing abstract rights has passed. The
period for action has come. What is Maryland
to do, when the nine States of the South with
| draw from the Confederacy? Is she to stand
with her arms folded, in state of silence and
inaction Is she to trust to the forbearance and
magnanimity of the North and the South for her
safety and the SECURITY of her property Is she
| to confess her imbecillity and put her destinies
| in the hands of one or the other of these oppos-
ing and divided sections and appeal to their
generosity to think and act for her? Have we
lost the power and wisdom to govern ourselves
and to inspire in our sister States respect and
trust in our counsels Then, indeed, has the
glory of our honored and renowned State de-
parted forever The fault is not in the people
but in the Magistrate, who occupies but does
not fill the chief seat Of honor and trust at this
moment 1t is her misfortune to have a small
politician, at the head of her government, when
the highest qualities and attanments of states
manship are demanded by the urgency and
magnitude of the events, which are hurrying us
to our fate. Let the people of the counties then
take the care Of their own safety and protection
in their own keeping Let them assemble and
appoint Committees OF S lfety and authorize them
to organize military companies-borrow money
on the faith of the counties (which can be as
sumed by the Legislature at its first SESSION. and
arm these companies forsthe protection of our
iresides. This is our first duty. The next is,
to appoint a CORES onding Committee to COM
municatc with Baltimore city and the other
counties as to the expediency of invoking the
members of the Legislature to convene and pass
a law for asse- milling the people Of Maryland by
their Delegates in Convention, SO that the poen-
tial voice of sovereignty may prescribe the line
of duty and action for the individual citizens of
the State. This concentrated will would be our
laws and each and every man would then feel
bound by his allegiance to give his undivided
and earnest efforts and influence to carry out
her counsels and measures for the general safety
and welfare. Difference of opinion and boot
less discussion would give place to harmonious
cooperation for the preservation OF all that is
dear and valuable to our people. If the FEEDER
al Union a mot, by our aiG and influence be
confidence to the North and the South, we may
be able to save the country from the horrors of
civil war-as useless as it would be cruel and
bloody-and establish relations of commerce and
a,nity between the two confederacles. This
would be a moral triumph of self-government
and of the spirit of republican liberty as signal
and illustriot,s as that, which originated our
present Constitution: We should teach the
world the great lesson that, American revolu-
tons in government were peaceful and bloh-
less-the achievements of reason and mutual
interest and not the bood-stained results Of
| brute force.
The great blunder, which has made our situa-
ton one of complication and danger, was the
inconsiderate and indecent haste, with which
our Government, Legislative and Executive.
jumped at a conclusion on the wise and courte-
Gus invitation Of the State of South Carolina for
a conference of the slave holding States to devise
plan of mutual action. By such ccnsulta-
ton the influence of the border States would