Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1860-11-01
THE TIMES.
PORT TOBACCO, MD.
Thursday Morning, November !, 1860.

PORT 70 BACCO. NIL.
Thursday Morning, November !, 1860.
HTWe understand that General WALTER
MITCHELL has accepted the invitation of the
Executive Committee of the Charles County
Agricultural Society, to deliver the Annual Adj
dress before the Society, at the approaching
Exhibition
n& Before another number of our paper shall
have been issued, the great political race, which
has so occupied the minds of our people for
months past, will have ended and the result be
made known That result will be, either the
election of Lincoln by the people, or his defeat.
No other of the four candidates can be elected
by the people, and in the event of IIncoln's de-
feat the National House of Representatives will
have to decide the momentous question.
The campaign is over, the time for argument
is past, and it becomes us now as good citizens
to assemble at our respective voting places on
Tuesday next, then and there to cast our votes
in accordance with our individual convictions of
right. If our conscience tells us, and our judg
ments sustain our consciences, that Breckenridge,
Bell, or Douglas, is the man for the times and
chat our vote should be cast for this or that of
the three, it is our privilege, right, nay, our
duty, thus to cast it. No vote in Charles county,
we are confident, will be recorded for the Sec
tional Republican candidate, Abraham Lincoln,
much as may be said and hoped by Northern
Republicans, in reference to the vote of Mary
land Charles county must and will be true to
her own and to her sisters of the South so far as
right, justice and equity shall demand.
When the result is known, should Lincoln be
the successful man, it then becomes another
question We must then look not to the ballot
box for his defeat, but in other quarters for his
behavior. In our editorial, of October the 18th,
we spoke somewhat at length upon this subject.
nor have we one iota Of reason to change our
reiterate and endorse, and still maintain the
point, that it becomes our duty, as good citizens
not to act too precipitately, but like those who
"know their rights and knowing dare maintain"
stand fat-footed upon our rights as guaranteed
to us by that sacred compact, the Constitution,
and saying ethus far shalt thou come and no
farther" resist any eneroachment upon these
dear rights, witha bold and undivided front.
We owe allegiance to our State, but we also
owe allegiance to our National Government.
The one binding and sacred, the other not less
80, and while we boast allegiance to our Nation
al Government and Will boldly own and defend
that allegiance, yet when that National Govern
ment shall be so perverted as to deny to large
and respectable portion of our country that pro-
lection, those rights and privileges, which are
properly due to it, and shall render oppressive,
that very form of Government which was de-
signed as protection to all parts alike, we hold
that it is not only the right, but the duty of that
people so oppressed, to throw off the yoke which
gals them and "throw about them fresh guards
of protection" Experience, however, has taught
us that this should not be done for light and
trivial reasons, and before such all-important
steps are taken, it becomes us to weigh the
matter deliberately, calmly and seriously. Never
will we, by word or deed, countenance the dis
mption of this government, until after long and
calm deliberation.
We may be called lukewarm we may be
styled craven-spirited for counseling deliberaton
and calm reflection we own we are not young
and fiery, but when the time comes, should it
ever come, which God forbid, when it shall be
considered necessary for the just maintenance of
our rights to dissolve the ties which bind us to
our Northern brethren, no word from us shall
be uttered which does not accord with the will
and wish of Maryland. Maryland, our mother
State, whose balmy atmosphere first we breathed
on earth, and whose generous soil has furnished
our daily bread since, who is dear to us by every
tie which binds one to his native State; Mary
land shall decide for US, whether we remain in
the Union or go out. If she goes out, we go
with her. if she remains in, we remain with her.
And here we may say to her sons, in the beau
tiful language Of Ruth to Naomi: whittier
shou goest, will go and where thou .lodgest,
will lodge; thy people shall be my people,
and thy God, my God. Where thou diest, l
will die, and there will be buried"
When the FINAL issue comes, it is for our State
to find the path and for us to tread therein.
We make these declarations under the full con-
viction that oar good old State will take no step
rashly, but that having fully considered the sub
ject and counted the cost, will act for the best,
be that action whatit may. We wait the issue.
nH- When a new steamer is launched, one OF
the first things done is to look to her machinery
and see that it is in proper working order be-
fore getting up steam. If the machinery is in
working order and considered trust worthy, then
fire up. This is exactly our notion of the great
question now being agitatcd throughout the land