Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-02-15
MEETING IN KENT COUNTY

large meeting of the citizens of Kent
county was held at Chestertown, on the 5th
instant. Judge Chambers, on being called
to preside, remarked that he understood the
object OF the meeting to be 10 name a COM
mittee or delegates to meet similar delegates
from the other counties in the State to confer
and consult as TO the propriety of inviting
the people of the State to express their wishes
and opinions whether or not a convention Of
the sovereign people should be held. lie was
no party man, and would not willingly par
ticipate in any meeting designed to accom-
plish party objects, Regarding this, how
ever, as a question beyond and outside of
party considerations, he could cheerfully par
ticipate in the action of the meeting. The
following gentlemen were then unanimously
appointed vice-presidents Doctor Perecrine
Wroth, Samuel Comegys, David G. Blackis-
ton, George D, S. Handy, George H. Will
son; secretaries, William A. Vickers, H.
Rowland.
\ committee. consisting of j. A. Wickes,
g. D. S. Handy, George II. Wilson, David C.
Blackiston, and Josias Ringgold, having been
appointed for the purpose, reported series OF
resolutions, which were unanimously adopt
ed, to the effect that the people of Mary land
in the present crisis should sanction the call
of q convention declaring the Union po-
litical blessing, to preserved by all honora-
bic means accepting the Crttenden resolu-
tons; and setting forth that when all efforts
fail to secure the rights of both sections, Ma
ryland will link her destiny with the slave
States. The resolutions also utterly repudi-
ate coercion, and the idea of interrupting by
force the peaceable occupation of the District
of Columbia. The following delegates were
then appointed to the State convention -
Judge Chambers, John NJ. Comegys, George
w. T. Perkins, Joseph W. Wickes, George
ii. Wilson, William T. Spry.
Judge Chambers then addressed the meet
ing, showing that the opponents of the con-
vention had thoughtlessly, to say the least,
charged its friends with being secessionists or
disunonists. 1t was to avoid this very curse
that he desired to have conventions CON
vention Of conservative men non-loving
men-men who could by authority Of the peo-
pie Of the State actively urge Cancellation
lie believed if such body of men had been in
the field. welding the power and influence of
Maryland they could have exercised Il most
effective influence in arresting the course of Sc
cession which we all deplored. No State in
this Union has more at stake than Maryland
has in this crisis. Her business relations with
part Of the North are intimate and impor-
tant, and yet it is very certain if left alone by
the other States Of the South, it is quite inn
possible she can continue 10 be united to the
North. She will not be so left if the North
will secure TO the slayeholding States their
constitutional rights. If, then, the North
shall refuse this and shall continue to deprive
us of our property, and when we attempt to
reclaim it, meet US, AS they have done, with
denunciations and abusive language, with vi
olence and MODS, and as has actually occurred
with death, how can we remain in a Union
with such a North? Impossible every in
stinct of human nature, every dictate of pru-
dence, every demand of patriotism, forbds
it. The Judge also set forth the propriety
aud right of the people to call the proposed
State Convention