Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-12-20

'presto change" of the jugler, mighty natior
may be destroyed to-day and another far better
Phoenix like, spring from its ashes on the NOR
row, full grown, armed and equipped as Minervs
from the brain of Jove
i Whence may we look for all this magic? II
what quarter shall we turn to find out this
modern miracle? For surely it exists, else mer
could not or would not act and speak on the
subject az they do. For information sake then
We ask, where shall we find it if it exists, and
if it does not exist, why not act as though our
own deeds, our own efforts must make and un-
make nation? Oh for that calculating judy
ment and wisdom which was so characteristic
of our fathers.
Men assign as reason for this angered excite
ment, that the North is the aggrcssor-the North
has FIRST violated the compact by the passage of
personal liberty bills, &C., and consequently we
must forthwith dissolve with them. No one for
a moment attempts or presumes to deny the
aggressions of the North and the violations of the
Constitution BY the same party, nor will any
one of sane mind attempt to defend their con-
duct, but this much we would ask in all candor,
when we see error in our brothers conduct, will
it justify us in committing error or if our bro
Their has broken faith with us, and upon our
hearty and earnest remonstrance, sooner than
dissolve with Us, shows contrition and dispo-
sition to repair the damage and cure the fault,
is it not our bounden duty, at least to give him
time to act, in order, if he is disposed to deal
fairly, he may have proper opportunity? Some
Of the Northern States, whose Legislatures have
recently been in session, have exhibited spirit
of conservatism and shown a disposition to re-
turn to the first love- shall we be behind land
in accepting their repentance? True, Hale and
other mad fanatics of the North still adhere to
/ the "irrepressible conflict" doctrine, but where
SO many better men than they ask us to wait a
moment longer, for the sober second thought of
the people, should we not do them the justice to
give them at least opportunity for a trial Hale
| is fanatic, and has his fapatical supporters.
The South has men as obstinate and reckless as
these fanatics. When the conservative men oil
the North call upon the conservative men of the
South to wait yet little longer, does not justice
demand it at the hands Of old Maryland to
grant them one more trial? The conservative
portion of the North, having put their shoulders
to the wheel, promise to do the work if we but
give them our countenance. Justice demands
that we Should believe them in earnest and old
Maryland should ever keep in view the time
4. ut
Still it becomes us, as Marylanders, not to sleep,
not to fold our arms upon an uncertainty not
to suppose, because the work is promised it is
really done, but to be preparing in case of need.
sin time Of peace, prepare for war" Lay this
to your hearts, Marylanders, and act upon it,
not in excitement, but calmly, deliberately, yet
determinately.
H$An error occurred in one of the resolu-
tons offered by Gen. Mitchell at the public
meeting of our citizens on the 9th instant and
published in our columns last week. 1t should
have read thus:
Resolued. That for the purpose Of carrying out
our views in this matter, and for the further pur-
pose of taking such other steps for protection
as State, which may be necessary, we believe a
call of extra session of the Legislature should be
made, we there respectfully ask the Executive
of this State to convene the Legislature speed
ly as may be-
16At the meeting of Citizens of Charles
County, held 10 this village the 9th instant,
Major VIM B. Stone read the following resolu-
| tons mot offered to be acted upon) as an ex-
position, in a condensed form, of his views upon
the important subjects to which they refer:
Resolved, That we, the people Of this county and
the whole State of Maryland, have Dor in Jury to
our rights under the Constitution and will as long
any rational hope remains Of change of feeling
and conduct in the States and people of the North,
forbear any decisive revolutionary resistance; but
if all hope of change is destroyed by continued dis
regard of constitutional rights, if riots such
at Christiana, where one Of our citizens was mur
dered and his property taken from him,-mobs, as
at Boston and esewhere,-la aids at Harper s Ferry
and laws passed by States under the name OF
personal Liberty Bills, continue, or any OF them
it ought to be known and we here solemnly declare
and pledge our lives and honor to resist these and
any and every aggression upon our equal ana just
rights by every means.
/ Resolved That Northern fanaticism has caused a
most dangerous and lamentable state of feeling in
the South, hurrying on to the destruction OF the
fairest fabric of civil government erected By
patriot and sage.
Resolved, That the masses of the North are de-
ltied with the false assertion, that there is
especially COuECt u DetWeeu slave
labor and white labor, the truth and fact being
that white labor never has and never can be sue
cessfuy applied to the culture of cotton, tobacco,
sugar and rice, and that these the great staples
the chief products of profitable slave labor; that
these great staples, in the raw state are proiably
manufactured into useful form by white labor only
80 that instead of conflict there is mutual benefit.
Resolved, That with the view of convincing the
whole people North and South that this fatal delu-
sion ought to be rected, the South and aught
to cease all commercial intercourse with the North
especially the purchase of shoes, agricultural i'm
plements, clocks and Yankee notions in general,
and cotton and wooden fabrics for negroes.
Resolved, That although there has been and still
is continued aggressions and injury to and upon
the rights of persons and property by Northern ia
natics, yet so strong is our love and admiration of
the constitutional union of these United States, that
we will and do hope this fanaticism will cease its
destructive action that the equal rights of persons
and property in all and every State may be fully
recognized every where and Injustice, and VIC TO-
mutual respect and kindness.