Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-11-01

cess, it follows that their Campaign litera-
ture" would very naturally be concooted
with more reference to the future than the
present. And this seems to be particularly
apparent in the case of their publication
entitled The Record and Past History OF
John Bell and Edward Everett "a docu-
ment to which we have before incidentally
adverted, and which is remarkable for the
asperity of its tone in reference to those dis
tinguishcd statesmen. It seems, however,
that this pamphlet speaks in the dclusive
voice of Jacob only to lay the heavy hand
of Esau upon the most precious Democratic
regulations. That the strategy by trusty
Democrats are denounced over the shoulders
of John Bell has been deliberately planned
by the Breckinridgc Committee we cannot
bring ourselves to believe, when we recall
the honorable names embraced in their num-
her, that most unwarrantable liberty has
to be incontestablc. It was hard enough
that they should be made the medium fol
circulating a document so well adapted tc
illustrate Walpolc's idea of history" Tc
make them besides the unwilling instruments
of assailing the very pinks of the Democratic
chivalry of the present day is hardly less
than ''fat burglary" That something like
this has been done would seem to be exceed
ingly probable, as we shall proceed to show
by citing few elegant extracts" from the
pamphlet which scatters these Ambiguous
voices" If we cannot preserve the Demo-
cratic "Vcnice," we can at least discover
''the plot contrived for it's destruction.
The counts of the Indictment brought
against Mr. Bell by this clectionecring docu-
ment consist, in the first place, of accusa
tions founded on certain votes given by hin
in both branches of Congress, which votes
are allcdgcd to have been unfriendly to the
South secondly, on votes not charged to be
so decidedly obnoxious to ccnsurc in them
selves, but worthy Of blame because giver
in bad company--as "Adams, Slade & Co.;
and, thirdly, he is arraigncd because of hi
absence or neglect to vote on various occa
sions when the interests of the South were
involved.
We propose to give a few ''spccimcr
cases" of the charges promulgated under
these heads, that our readers may properly
appreciate their justice, and in doing SO We
shall freely make use of the citations con-
tained in a document recently published by
the National Executive Committee Of the
Constitutional Union party in refutation o.
the campaign pamphlet which has been SC
industriously circulated by the Breckinri,lge
Democracy in their warfare against Mr..
Bell These citations we have compared
with the official records and find them au-
thentic in every case.
The first charge contained in the pamph-
let of the Breckinridgc Committee is put as
follows: :
ssDuring the Twenty -fom tn Congress the Abo-
tionsts and Fedcralists of New England fins con
ceivcd the idea of annoying Congress by the pre-
sentation of large patches of Abolition petitions,
praying for the abolition of slavery in the States
and in the District of Columbia Mr.. John @.
Adams of Massachusetts, and Mr.. Slade, of Yer
mont, were their chosen mouth-pi sces. These
gentlemen would present these petitions, and then
deliver long haraIsues upon them. To stop this
agitation and waste of public TIM, it usual To
lay these resolutions the table, Accordingly on