Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-01-24

ing horrid mirth with it's madness, puts
into the hands of the advocates Of secession
the very fans with which to blow the embcrs
of strife into a fame. One man threw
torch into the great temple of the Epesians,
and kindled conhagration which a hundred
thousand brave men could not extinguish.
One man fddlcd and sang, and made his
courtiers laugh, amid the burning of Rome
and the abolition preacher ''fcels good'' and
ovcrfows with mcrriment, when he sees our
merchants and laboring men running after
their chests and the bread of their families,
''as if all creation was after them," and
snuffs on the Southern bceeze the scent of
servile and civil war.
this, and the name of our holy religion be
| so blasphcmcd Let us hope in Christian
charity that such men do not comprehend
the danger that stares them in the face. =
Indeed wLa-Ac--~-1-vv fafiy co1nprrnchd
It! In the eloquent words of Daniel Web
ster. "Whilc the Union lasts, we have high,
exciting gratifying prospects spread out be-
fore us, for us and for our children. Be-
yond that [ seek not to penetrate the veil.
God grant that in my day at least, that cur
tain may not RISE A kind and powerful
Providence has so tempered the body ofthese
States together, so bound and interlaced
them with commercial and social ties, to say
nothing of legal obligations, that no mem
Der can be severed, and especially no con-
test can be waged among the members with
out quivering and anguish in every nerve,
and stagnation in the vital currents of all.
Let one star be blotted out from our ensign,
and the moral gravitation which holds all
in their orbits will be paral yzed, if not ut
terly destroyed.
The living example of successful secession
for one cause, wilksuggest the same course
fer another; and unless God gives our pub
lie men wisdom and forbearance Of which
the past few years have afforded too little
evidence, the dissolution of this Union wia
be the signal for the disintegration of its
elements In such chaos let us not fatter
ourselves that we shall be in entire peace
and safety. The contest on whose perilsus
edge we seem to stand cannot be merely a
sectional one-all the North ON the one side,
and all the South on the other. 1t is con-
fict that will run the plough-share Of divi-
sion through every State and neighborhood
in the land. Abolition orators may talk
aboct what 'we of the n orth'' will do and
viii net do. as though all the people had
bowed downto worship the imaSet shsd
3sss - sofllzs q = ;llk
claim the right to speak other infetests
will need to be conserved besides the cause
upon which they arrogantly assume that
victory perchcs and the smile of heaven
/ IT ~ hin, ,bo n,ff,fh Ii.
armor boast as he that pulleth it off,
/ When the thousands of workingmen whose
subsistence depends upon our trade with the
South, many of whom have been deludcd by
abolition demagogues, shall clamor in our
streets for bread, free labor may present
some problems which political economy has
not solved. And when the commerce of
this cosmopolitan city is paralyzed, and all
1 her benevolent and industrial institutions
are whitening in the heat Of this unnatural
contest. it may become qucstion--nay, is
it not already whispered in your counting
houses-whether this great metropolis can
be separated from the people with whom her
interest and her heart is bound up, and con
tinue to be controlled by legislative policy
against which she is continually protcstingy
or whether, following the great lights Of
history, she will at all hazards set up for
herself. and unbolting the gateway of her
magnificent harbor, invite the free trade of
the world to pour its riches into her bosom?
Such are few of the problems which
bring the question Of dissolution of the
Union home to us. If we were sure of
peaceful solution, at whatever pecuniary or
social sacrifice, VIC would not feel so deeply
nor speak so earnestly. But who knows
that it will be peaceful? Where is the sur
gcon who can sever even one member from
this body polite without the shedding of
blood! here H. the statesman or political
17ov-.~--;&t who will undertake to c0nCrUf
parties, or direct the fhuustf-ta4~
any one State, amid the confusion and alarm
of dissolution Let us not deceive ourselves.
The chasm before us is a yawning abyss, in
to whose depths no eye but Geds can pcnc"
trate. Other men may cry who's afraid?'
and whistle to keep their courage up; but
[ confess my fears. Through the curtain
that is about to rise, see shadows at which
the horror of a great darkness settles down
upon my spirit and the hair of my flesh
stands up Let us appeal to the God of
: Peace. in whose hands are the hearts Of all
men, to dispel the fearful vision, to infusc
his loving Spirit into our national councils,
to give our public men the meekness of wis
dom, and to bind the hearts Of all the peo-
pie once more in bonds of brotherly kind
ness.
But if we would have these supplications
!, answered, let us prove our faith by our
works; take the beam out of our own eye,
and obey the two-fold precept of the text:
These things teach and exhort, and if any
man teach otherwise, from such withdraw
thyself. "
EgA Scotchman asked an Irishman =
"Why were half farthings coined in Eng
landY' The answer was .'Te give Scotch