Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-05-31


them lNggoot faith. now >'apd always, if need be
until they we, and the Republic perish together
in a common -rHia-~~f see no injury that car
possibly arise to us from them-not even if tn.
constitutional impossibity of their containing
'fsquatter sovereignty did not exist as has beer
eonclusively demonstrated. For, if it didex S
in them, and were all that its most ardent adj.
vocates claim for it, no serious practical danger
to lis could result from it.
Even according to their doctrine we have tLt
unrestricted right of expansion to the extent o.
population. They hold that slavery can and
will go, under its operation, wherever the peo-
pie want it. Squatters carried it to Tennc
see, Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama Mississippi
and Arkansas without any law to protect it, and
to Texas against l;rw prohibiting it, and they
will carry 1t to all countries where climate, soil
production, and population will allow. These
are the natural laws that will regulate it under
non-intervention, according to their construction;
Territory against these laws any more than it
could make the rivers run to the mountains in
stead of the sea- If we have not enough of the
right sort of population to compete longer with
the North in the colonization of new Territories
and States, this deficiency can never be supplied
by any such act of Congress as that now asked
for. The attempt would be as vain as that of
Xerxes to control the waters of the Hellespont
by whipping them in his rage.
The times, as you intimate, do indeed portend
evil. But have no fears for the institution of
slavery either in the Union or out of it, if our
people are but true to themselves-true, stable.
and loyal to fixed principles and settled policy !;
and if we are not thus true, have little hope
Of any thing good, whether the present Union
lasts or a new one be formed. There is, in my
Judgment nothing to fear from the .sirrepressible
conflict" of which we hear SO much Slavery
rests upon great truths, which can never be sue
cessfully assailed by reason or argument. 1t
has grown stronger in the minds of men the
more it has been discussed, and it will still grow
stronger as the discussion proceeds and time rolls
on Truth is omnipotent and must prevail
we have only to maintain the truth with firm
ness and WELD it Alright. Our system rests upon
an impregnable basis, that can and will defy all
assaults from without My greatest apprehen-
sion is from causes witlin-there lies the great
est danger We have grown luxurant in the
exuberance of our well-being and unparalleled
prosperity.
There is tendency every where, not only at
the North, but at the South, to strife, dssenson
disorder and anarchy. 1t is against this ten
dency that the sober-minded and rejecting men
every where should now be called upon to guard
My opinion then, is that delegates ought to
be sent to the adjourned Convention at Balti-
more. The demand made at Charleston by the
seceders ought not to be insisted upon. Har-
mony being restored on this point, a nomina-
ton can doubtless be made of some man whom
the party every where can support with the
same zeal and the same ardor with which they
entered and waged the contest in 1856, when
the same principles were involved.
fi,,f fIoro l1o fail Lot fl,a
bility not rest upon us. Let onr hands be clear
Of all blame; let there be no cause for casting
censure at our door. If, in the end, the great
National Democratic party the strong ligament
which has so long bound aud held the Union
together, shaped its policy, and controlled its
destinies, and to which we have so often looked,
with hope that seldom failed, as the only party
North on which to rely in, the most trying hours
when constitutional rights were in peril, let it
not be said to us, in themidst of the disasters
that may ensue, "you didit r In any and every
event let not the reproa,h of Punic faith rest
upon our name. If etsrything else has to go
down, let our untarnihed honor at least survive