Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-09-27

enacted. One of the deputy marshals was
shamefuly maltreated, and another fired upon
by the mob.
THE DIsUNION QUESTION.
Hon. Amos Kendall in Denunciation of the
Disunionists.
Hon. Amos Kendall, in reply to a letter from
Hon. J. L. Orr, requesting his views, discusses
the disunion question from practical, common
sense stand, and enunciates some views worthy
of the deepest consideration
THE DIsUNIoN REMEDY.
! Let US briefly consider the practical working
of the remedy for Southern wrongs which you
suggest, in case a Black Republican is elected
to the Presidency. You ask, sis it wise if we
| do not intend to submit to such consequences,
to allow Black Republican President to be
inaugurated," &c., and you say. eff the South
should think upon this subject as do, no Black
Republican President should ever execute any
law within her borders unless at the point of
the bayonet, and over the dead bodies of her
slain sons"
| know there are men in the South who would
sacrifice their lives and endanger the communi-
ties in which they live, upon a point of honor,
and that such men often fire up with unwonted
ferceness if reminded of the probable consequent
ces of their own rashness. But the time has
come when consequences should be looked in
the face, not for the purpose of defiance, but
that we may consider whether the policy which
would lead to them is required by Southern in
! terests or honor.
How do you propose to prevent the inaugu-
ration of Black Republican President should
such an one be unfortunately elected? Will
you come to this city with an armed force, and
attempt to prevent an Inauguration by violence
In that event, force would be met by force, and
there would be instant civil war; in which the
country and the world would declare the South
to be the aggressor.
/ He acould be inaugurated here or elsewhere in
spite Of you. Well, suppose you then attempt
to secede from the Union and resist the execu-
ton of the laws? Every lawyer in the South
knows that every citizen of every State is as
much bound by the laws of the United States
consttutionally enacted, as by the laws of his
own State, and that it is as impossible for the
State to relieve its citizens from allegiance to the
United States as it is for the latter to relieve
them from allegiance to their own State. And
it is the sworn duty of the President to take care
that the laws of the United States shall be faith
fully executed upon every citizen Of every State,
and as long as we have faithful President they
will be so executed if the Courts, the Marshals,
the Army and the Navy, remain faithful to their
respective trusts.
! know that much has been said in the South
I dUouC reservoir T1gnrs OF nuIncaTuH, SUCCESSFUL
and not coercing sovereign State &c., when
in fact the conventions representing the people
of the several States which adopted the Consti-
tuition made no such reservations, but bound
their constituents one and all, to allegiance to
Tosk
as similar conventions bound them to the State
Constitutions And although the General Gov
eminent cannot, technically, coerce State, ii
can rightfuly coerce all the citizens of State
into obedience to its constitutional laws. The
pretended reserved rights of notification and
secession, therefore, are in effect, nothing more
nor less than an outspoken right of rebellion
when wrong and oppression become intoer able.
But when the crisis comes, there are two parties
who must necessarily decide each for itself,
whether circumstances justify the act-the Sc
ceders and the Government of the United States
And do you conceive that the mere election of
a President entertaining obnoxious opinions, or
even entertaining hostile designs against the in
situations of the South checked, as he. must
necessarily be, by Senate and Judiciary, if not
a House of Representatives, without one overt
act, can justify any portion of the South, even
W IiieII OWu COilSCleuCeS LII tL aCC VI TeOelllou
There is one notable feature in the attitude OF
the South. The cry of disunion comes-not
/ from those who suffer most from Northern out
rage, but from those who suffer least 1t comes
from South Carolina, and Georgia, and Alabama,
and Mississippi, whose slave property is render
ed comparatively secure by the Intervention of
other slaveholding States between them and the
free States, and not from Delaware, and Mary
land, and Virginia, and Kentucky, and Tennes-
see, and Missouri, which lose hundred slaves
by Abolition thieves where the first named
States lose one. Why are not the States that
suffer most loudest in their cry for disunion 1t
is because their position enables them to see
more distinctly than you do at distance the
fatal and instant effects of such step. AS i'm
perfect as the protection which the Constitution
and the laws give to their property undoubted-
ly is, it is better than none. They do not think
it wise to place themselves in position to have
the John Browns of the North let loose upon
them with no other restraint than the laws of
war between independent nations construed by
reckless fanatics They prefer to fight the Abo-
litionsts, if fight they must, acitlia the Union
where their adversaries are somewhat restrained
by constitutional and legal obligations. No,
sir; Delaware, Maryland and Virginia do not
intend to become the theatre of desolating wars
between the North and the South Kentucky
Tennessee and Missouri do not intend that their
peaceful channels of commerce shall become
rivers of blood to crafty the ambition of South
Carolina and Alabama, who at remote distance
from present danger cry out disunion.
THE PEACEFUL REMEDY.
have said that the South has all along had
peaceful remedy and has it still. The Union
sentiment is overwhelming in all the Middle and
Western States, constituting two thirds of the
Republic. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois are as little inclined to become frontier
States as Maryland, Virginia and Kentucky
Had the present Administration cut loose from
the disunionists, instead of virtually minstering
to their designs. and planted itself firmly on
Union ground, the secessions at Charleston and
Baltimore would never have occurred, the ''Con-
stitutional Union Party" would have been an
impossibility. the Democracy would have recov.
cred its ascendency in the North, and an united
party, embracing two-thirds Of the North and
South would now have been marching to GER