Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-11-01
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Mr.. EDITOR NO orator knew better how
to excite the Imagination or stir the depths Of
human feeling, than Mr.. Webster. In your last
number, you present one Of those highly-fnish-
ed specimens of rhetorical art and power, which
is well-Gttcd to thrill the heart with intense
emotion and to hush angry passion into silence
But do you believe that generous and high
spirited people, goaded by sense of violated
faith and impending ruin, and fortified by an
undoubting consciousness of right on their side,
would be alarmed into submission to their OPP
pressor by this eloquent picture of the possible
horrors that might attend their just and right
full effort to save themselves and the liberties of
their posterity Methinks the cry of Patrick
Henry, tGve me liberty or give me DEATH, would
be more likely to find an echo in the hearts of
such men and to impel them to manly action in
defence of their rights. Tyranny was never yet
conciated and won to justice, by the abect
submission of its victim and Abolition fanaticism
is compound Of religious and political intoer-
ance, generated by lust of dominion and an inf
del philosophy, warning against the laws of God
and man and the Bible and the Constitution
Webster died its victim the city he had adorn-
ed by the lustre of his genius and made famous
by the glory of his name, shut upon him the
doors of Fanuel Hall, where he was wont to cleo
trify them by his eloquence and the voice of the
great orator, when lifted in the streets to address
them; was drowned in the Kisses of an infuriate
and besotted populace. Such was the tribute
paid by Boston to the man whose great 7th of
March speech had not only swayed the counsels
of the Senate but penetrated, to its Utmost re-
cesses the mighty heart of the Nation. What
may the South hope, at this crisis, from such a
people? Let us learn to depend upon our own
wisdom and courage for our safety and rights
IL,
But the purpose of this hasty essay is to show
that the only argument it contains is that, seces-
sion could not be peaceably exercised. 1t is not
inconsistent with the doctrine he laid down at
Capon in 1851-it is no denial of the right
An appeal of this kind to restrain the rash use
of an ertrenae remedy is the height of wisdom
and patriotism-but as an address to the fears
of people to submit to the destruction Of four
thousand millions dollars Of their property,
yielding a surplus of $50 millions for exporta-
tion and to the substitution of negro equality
for our high civilization and liberal social sys-
tenn, it is vain pomp of words, utterly power
less to control their action. The orator admits
this in the words, II will not state what might
produce this disruption" If there be wrongs
to justify it, who is the judge of those wrongs? p
the oppressed or the oppressor. Between indi-
viduas, courts are the arbiters to decide whether
contracts have been kept or broken. The Con-
stitution has made the Supreme Court the final
arbiter, in all cases arising IN la,o and equity.
But suppose, as in:the cases of the fugitive slave
law and of bred Scott, the decisions Of the Su-
preme Court are not respected by the States,
who commit the wrong, are the States, who suf-
fer, to have no remedy? If one party refuses
to observe the compact, is the other bound by
his obligations If he is not bound then the
relation of contracting parties is dissolved and
the contract may be treated by the party injur-
ed, as a nullity. Is this not, IN its nature ana
Of ITSELF pcaceable remedy? Does it change
It's character from peaceable to belligerent
right, that the wrong doer, who had broken his
faith and infracted the contract should break
the peace and assault you for not observing a
contract, which he had refused to execute The
right of suffrage is the Constitutional privilege
! of every white adult citizen of Maryland and
per Sc, pcaceable in its exercise. Did Know
Nothing armed and bloody resistance to its ex-
ercise alter the nature and character Of this right