Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-01-25
GREENwooD, January 2lst, 1861.

ilttee 10 dfait resolutions AT TIE meeting; held
a Rockville, on the LIST instant, by WM. VIERs
oUIc, Esq, as published in the " Sentinel"
{ last week, is so framed rs to place me and
hose with whom acted but especially my
elf, in false position. The object of Mr.
'ouic, by statement and insinuation, is evil
emily to make it appear that, while profess
d to him willingness to unite with him and
lis party in giving expression to such scnti-
nents as was betting the country in the pre-
ent political crisis was, at the same time,
,ound by aparty caucus, and Of course to ad- |
rance my own party ends.
'Now mark how plain tale will put him
down"
The meeting was called to order by WM B. |
Howard, Esq, who nominated john BREWER,
ESD, as President. | cheerfully voted for
that nomination, and, after the Presidents
speech, moved the appointment of two Vice
Presidents from each election district Two
substitutes were oiiered--one to appoint
committee to nominate permanent officers, the
other to elect those officers by ballot. OPP
posed both motions, on the ground Of unne-
cessary consumption of time; but chiefly to
avoid a contest, which at once saw would
arise in the choice Of officers, and mar the
harmony which hoped would characterize
the meetlng-expressng, at the same time my
satisfaction with the President already chosen
and the hope that that choice would be acqui-
esced in by the meeting. After brief dis
cussion, both substitutes were Withdrawn,
and my motion adopted, ! Immediately
nominated as Vice-President from the LIST
District (Cracklin,) THOMAS GRIFFITH and L.
j. Hall, Esqrs., the one well known as De-
mocrat, the other as Union man. This cx-
ample was Immediately followed in all the
other Districts Of the county. | then per-
ceiyed that both the Secretaries chosen were
Union men, viz: JONI 7. VINsoN Esq, and
Col GEORGE w. DAWSON, and Immediately
moved the appointment of two additional Sc
cretares, and nominated myself, GEORGE II.
BRADDocK and JOHN T. BENSON Esqs, both
well known rs Democrats. Some other per-
son nominated ROBERT w. CARTER, Esq. as
an additional Secretary, which nomination
prevailed without opposition. Thus the meet
ing was organized, not only by my vote, but
also by my open and direct agency in the Sc
lection of a Democratic Presldent-fye Demo-
cratic and five Union Vicc-Presidents, and
three Democratic and two Union Secrcta-
ries. So much for my party bias in the or
ganizatiOn of the meeting.
The committee to draft resolutions was ap-
pointed as stated by Mr.. Bouic. Upon assem-
bling he Mr.. Bouic) presented the preamble
and resolutions prepared by DR.. Harding
which, he says, received no second. | will
here too remark that, both from their intrinsic
merit and as well the source from whence
they came, they were entitled to better fate
at least from the hands of professed personal
and political friends. Mr.. Bouic then read
his own resolutions Mr.. Bowie then q
thought at my request-Mr. Bouic says at Mr..
Miller's) read his preamble and resolutions,
and before he got through Mr.. Bouic begun
to signify his assent to them; and with the
slight amendment, viz % but the people for
ust cause, in solemn convention assembled,
may throw off its authority" proposed by |
Mr.. Bouic and accepted by Mr.. Bowie, (of |
course no vote taken were, with the excep- |
ion of the third resolution, on the subject of |
the Legislature, together with Mr.. |
8ouic's substitute referred to the general
meeting, and on his motion, as he states,
unanimously adopted,
Thus far, then, was perfect agreement If
there be nything in the preamble and resolu-
tons OF Mr.. Bowie hostile or offensive to De-
Mr.. Bouic and his political friends,
on the committee, are porticeps eriminis, for
they agreed to them, voted for them, and as
Mr.. Bouic himself informs you, unanimously
adopted them, with the exception of the third
resolution above referred to the general meet
ing.
These resolutions of Mr. Bowie's covered
the whole ground in controversy. They
pointed in clear and unmistakable language
and the true bond of security for our rights.
Anything further appeared to me mere sur
plusage-only an incumbrance, and calculat-
ed to impair the beauty, force and harmony Of
those resolutions. This constituted with me
sufficient objection to Mr. Bouic's resold-
tons in the whole, and in detail, in this par
ticular connection, they were not more ae-
ceptabe to me- In their appropriate place,
as mere partizan dogmas they might have !
been well enough; but we had met TO ignore
party, and counsel together for the safety and
harmony of common country. Exciting
topics and disunion resolutions appeared to
me, therefore, entirely ont of place.
Mr.. Bouic attempts to fasten upon Messrs |
Miller, Gott, Waters, and myself, the charge
OF voting against his resolution, on the aboli- |
ton Of slavery in the District of Columbia |
and, like an adroit attorney, who does not |
scruple to mislead the mind of his jury, stops |
in his statement of the case, with the '&c.' |
IL was to this very T" &c.h part of his resolu- |
ton, which Mr. Bouic knew we objected, and |
when requested by me to modify his resolu-
ton in this particular, he declined This |
part of the history of the proceedings of ;he |
committee is, presume, accidentally left out, |
and also that | voted for the resolution |
when it came before the general meeting.
hold that the proviso in the deed Of cession
from Maryland to the United States, guard |
ing the rights of property, completely set
ties this question. Its political agitation adj |
mits il to be a debatable question; hence its |
improper introduction into our proceedings |
To his anti-coereion resolution, objected, |
because it admitted of misconstruction, and |
because it recognized adoctrine which would |
efiecsaelly defeat the enforcement of the fugi-
tive slave Law in the north.
10 his resolution No. ., which he SAYS Mr..
Miller and warmly assailed pledoinp Mary
land to the South in certain Supposed eontin-
gencies, il was sufficient for me to know that
Mary Wand was then, MS now, safely anchored !
in the Union; and when the "intolerable
wrongs and expressions" set forth in Mr.. |
Bouic's resolutions, already adopted should |
ii ever, unfortunately come upon her, itwould |
be then time enough to determine her future
destiny.
must confess the course of South Carol- !
ma, whose cause this resolution seemed to
favor, had not so fayorably impressed me,
MS to induce me to vote to 'hiteh onn Mary
land to her car of folly and rebellion.
II anything were wanting to establish the
party spirit with which Mr.. Bouic came to
the meeting, il would be found in the regret
he expresses at having been induced by me TO
withdraw his resolution of ccnsure of Mr.. |
Henry Winter Davis, for his vote electing Mr.. |
Speaker Pennington. What but partizan
spleen and rancor could induce any sane
man to introduce such resolution in a meet
ing called, without respect to party. to coun-
sci together for the safety of the country, in
n time of peril, gloom and general distress?
Whether Mr.. Bouic is correct in all his
statements of motions, votes, and oppostions
to him, | am unable, AT this lapse Of time, to
say ! took no notes. The business Of the
was crowded into short space of
time, and we were hurried by the meeting
which was impatient for our return. Cer- |
tain il is, he has wholly omitted my resolu- |
lion looking to the cooperation Of Maryland !
with Virginia aud other border slave States, /