Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-09-27
PORT ToBAcco, MD.
rhursdeys Morning, September ~, 1860.

OlSCudIS Ecu our uuCS as stu AtuCIlCdu CltlLCu anu
a lover Of the Union, if we fail to cry aloud i'll
behalf Of conservatism, in behalf of Southern in
terests. and against Northern fanaticism, and
disunion. And in waging this war against fana-
ticism, we have no word for the Black Repubi-
can, no word for the "irrepressible conflict"
party, no word for the fanatic, whether of the
North or South. Our mission is to the national
man, the conservative man. whether he calls
himself supporter Of Bell, Breckenridge or
Douglas, and our object is to ask him, in behalf
of his country to stop and reflect before it is too
late, to ask hinl.to count the chances of success
of defeating Lincoln and Black Repablicanisnp
while the conservative men are so divided. TO
ask him, for the love of liberty, to lay aside
minor differences, for little season, in order to
meet and successfully combat with the enemy to
our Union, the sectional Republican party, to
ask him to unite in a common cause for the
common good-the common country. Is not
the prize worth contending for? Should not
the preservation of our Union, under the Com
pact and Constitution given us by our fore
fathers, be an object worthy of attainment !?
Who shall deny it? On the 18th day of Sep
TENDER 1776, eigbty-four years ago, in placing in
our hands the chart for our future guidance and
surrendering to us the helm of State the reins of
government, the great Father of his Country
Washington-said "The unity Of government
"to you. 1t is justly so; for it is the main pill
':lar in the edi6ce of your real independence
"the support of your tranquility at home, your
"peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperi-
"ty, of that very liberty which you so highly
"prize. But as it is easy to foresee that from
different causes and from different quarters,
much pains will be taken, many articles en-
s:ployed, to weaken in your minds the convic-
"tiot Of this truth as this is the point in your
political fortress against which the batteries of
':i,ternal and external enemies will be most con-
''stantiy and actively Though often covertly and
'insidious1y} directed is of infinite moment
chat you should properly estimate the immense
"value of your national union to your collec-
''tive and individual happiness that you should
"chcrish cordial, habitual, and immovable at
"tachment to it,-accustoming yourselves to
stink and speak of it as Of the palladium Of
..your political safety and prosperity /; watching
s'for its preservation with jealous anxiety; dis
"countenancing whatever may suggest eren a
"suspicion, that 1t can IN any euent, be abandon
"ed !; and Indignantly .tio'oning upon the first
""daWning Of srgx astsmpt to asisnote any por-
"the sacred ties .ohich no,c link together the vari-
'tous parts"
Here we might safely STOP nor add one word
more to the volume spoken in this short quota
ton. The voice of WASHINGTON comes in
thunder tones from beyond the grave to reproach
us for our remissness, our recreancy and warn us
against the very course we are now recklessly
running. But let us make one more quotation
from that sacred document : "In contemplating
''the causes which may disturb our Union, it
occurs, az matter Of serious concern, that any
"ground' should have been furnished for char
"acterizing parties by geographical dscrimina-
"tions-Northern and Southern-Atlantic and
Western:--whence designing men may endeavor
"to excite abelief that there is real difference
"of local interests and views. One of the e9pe-
"dients of the parties within particular districts
sis to misrepresent the aims and opinions of
"othcr districts You cannot shield yourselves
"too much against the jealousies and heart burn
"ing which spring from these Misrepresentation,
''they tend to render alien to each other those
'who ought to be bound together by fraternal
affection"
A prophecy truly verified. Party spirit has
run high, desire for Office, for power and emolu-
ment has seized upon politicians, and the very
danger pointed out by the great "Pater Patrie, -
has been presented to us, and we are now tan
gled and writhing in its intricate meshes. De-
signing men have already set one section of the
country against the other and the war wages
bitterly, Northern and Southern party has
sprung up in our country, and though the only
direct effort is being made by the North, how
soon will it be, at the present rate before we
find strictly Southern faction, answering the
North with its own argument, arraying the one
section against the other in determined. and it
may be, bloody and deadly combat. Kind Pro-
violence, avert such an issue!
There never was time when elimination
and recrimination was justi6able, and more par
sicularly now, should we avoid it. No good,
but much evil only, can result. Fault finding,
in how small degree soever it may be, must
sooner or later, result in hate. Jealousy, the
hane of all affection, FIRST made the differences
among us, and elimination, charges and abuse
has led lis to the brink of ruin on which we now
stand Quarrels, over impossibilities and alb
stract principles, lead to real warfare, and hav-
ing INDUCED in the former, we must of necessi-
ty suffer the consequences of the latter, If nc
improvement is made in our political course,
and that speedily.
The negro, the all absorbing question Of the
negro, is the distracting topic of the day. The
right to carry him into territories, where the
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