Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-07-26

| t,v set up in the hearts of the Northern people :?
Not for the white race, they don't need it.
/ Not for the negro, it is not intended to make
him the equal Of the white. No good to any
one can be discovered in this agitation. Like
the frogs and locusts Of Egypt it infests every
corner Of the land it goes up into the chambers
and closets, into the kitchens and kneadng
troughs, and yet not particle of good can be
discerned in it. What then is the solution of
| the matter ? | can discover in it nothing but
':the spirit of the power of darkness, ':blndne
the minds Of men chat they cannot see the
truth" 1t is not love for the negro, but hat,ed
of their white brother! A lie and a delusioa
as at BoJd, as in the gohlen cali, have taken
possession of the hearts of this people, and like
them, it is a delusion without a remedy; or a
remedy so fearful that the ear shall Hagle that
hears of it. Can a divided house stand? Will
oil and water mix? Will light and darkness
agree? When will this land, agitated from CEN
tire to circumference with ''envy, hatred and
malice continue its accustomed course Of pros
perity and happiness ? Some fondly argue that
we have been and are still the proteges of Pro-
violence, and therefore cannot mscarrv | an
swcr, only so long as we are lawabiding God
fearing people. No longer. Are we more beloved
than were the Jews? Can we lay higher claim
to Gods protecting care? No sir. The same
Genunciations and warnings given by Masses to
the Jews stand as our beacon lights for good or
forevil. Wehave no claim upon that omnipotent
aim when we have cut loose from His laws
His Bible. When we t'grow fat and kick" He
will put "hook in our nose" and humble us
and perhaps scatter and destroy u.s. A repub-
can form of government of all others has its
stability in the rirtue and Intelligence of it's peo-
pie. The great God is the only King, and when
there is no fear or respect for this King, the
bands are loosed, Tie tie IS broken. The fabric
falls to pieces by its own weight-the weight of
human passions, prejudices and folles.
Mr.. Editor, have been lead into this train
of thought by the contemplation of the present
political agitations Of the country. 1t is indeed
a very sad reflection, that circumstances and
events are tending to prove that mankind are
not capable of self-government but it is fact
which experience proves that men are controlled
more by passion and prejudice, than by right,
reason and sound judgement. am not vain
enough to suppose that my unused pen can do
much to stay the tide of fanatcism and dsunion
now rioting in the land, but if anything said
here, shall in the most remote degree help to
prop the falling fortunes of our noble land |
shall have accomplished all I could expect. My
object has been to place before the minds of
men, extraordinary examples of the follies and
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ordinary chastisements and to impress upon
them the conviction that departure from law
and order will be followed by punishment pro-
portioned to its magnitude. That the Northern
mind is irrevocably poisoned upon the subject
Of slavery is beyond doubt; that the fanatcal
interference of that people with this "peculiar
institution" has retarded the hopes and efforts
of true philauh1opists is also undoubted That
the South has become intensely exasperated by
the intolerant puritanical, dictatoria spirit of
the North, is beyond dispute, and is no more
than to be expected. The platform of the
Republican party stripped of its lies and subter
fuges is nothing but this: Gan anti-savery Con-
stitution, an anti-slavery Bible, and an anti
slavery God" This is the sum and substance
the gst and gristle of their principles, varnish
them as they may. What are to be the conse-
quences of this state of things? Alas it is be-
sober second thought, the conservative, patriotic
feeling of the North come to the rescue, I great
ly fear that the writing upon the wall has
numbered the days of this mighty Republic.
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county and have no more authority to advise
than the humblest in the land; what therefore
have said stands upon its own merits-com-
mends itself to the Judgment (either to agree or
dissent) of all who may read it. I am well as
sured that the consideration of these questions
has forced itself upon the mind of every reflect
ing man, and whatever solution he has given to
Them to me they have doomed up as the Scylla
and Charybds through which the ship of state
has to pass. asked awhile ago, sir, for what
or whose good is this agitation. I could dis
cover benefit to any of the parties Immediate
ly concerned, either white or black, North or
South but men do not actso madly without
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fore very naturally led to look for cause suf-
fciently potent to account for this interminable
agitation. Sir, my mind, forewarned by the
great Pater Patrioe, has settled upon a suspi-
cion-a conjecture, that the cause is to be found
in foreign influence at home and abroad. Are
all the traitors dead Did they all expire with
old John Brown? For what did certain great
Senator make the tour of Europe recently? Is
the doctrine of an anti-slavery God banefu to
the health Of traitors, or do they live and thrive
upon it? Yea verify, they do.
Who have greater hatred of a republican
government than the European nobility? What
has greater influence than the gold and patron
age of this same nobility Where or how would
they find a better chance, or filter opportunity
of wrecking our noble ship, than here and now
upon this accursed question of slavery? Sir,
this conjecture of mine, if true, would pretty
clearly explain the Developments of Northern
fanaticism and abolitionism in the last twelve
months. That any such plan is cognizant to
the masses of the North, could not for mo-
ment believe, but that>a few orcA-ayitators and
traitors, active, Jealous, untiring, might head
and lead such a scheme, is not at all beyond the
bounds of possibility. Such leader, cunning as
the arch fiend Observation-Disclosures the subtle desig-
nation of capital States and labor States in re-
cent famous speech Possessed of that eloquence
and intellect to make the worse appear the bet
ter part" would have no hopeless task, working
upon the diseased imaginations of sensitive
and self-righteous people, to persuade them that
they were doing Gods service by the perpetra-
ton of all kinds of enormities upon their breth-
ern. But is there way-of rebuking and de-
feating the wild fanatical spirit in the land? I
will not take upon me to say. There is Union
ticket in nomination, composed of gentlemen of
known ability and .patriotism-whose success
would undoubtedly |signally rebuke, if not for
ever silence the enemies of our country, but can