Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-01-18
Hon. Punlp T. THOMAS.

Mn. LATRoBE' VIEW OF SEWARD > SPEECH
The Philadelphia Inquirer publishes letter
addressed to a gentleman OF That city by John
II. b. Latrobe, Esq, of Baltimore. 1t is
dated the 18th instant, and discusses the ma
tional troubles. or Senator Seward speech
I. Mr.. LatrObe remarks
" The long-expected speech has been made,
and thehopes which hung in expectation upon
ii have been bitterly disappointed. The OPP
portunity for political greatness, such as was
never yet achieved, was offered to Mr. Sc
ward, and he has suffered it to escape. lie
might have checked the progress Of disunion;
he has contented himself with depicting its
consequences. Announcing that the day for
mere words had passed, he has confined him
self to set phrases and rounded periods.
When the times demanded clear distinct pro-
positions, expressed in firm, statesmanlike
language, in the ringing tones which carry
the thoughts oftruly great men over the land,
he has proposed remedies which he declares
are unconstitutional, and suggests that their
constitulionality may be secured by changes
in the organic law at some future time.
At a season when liietimes, almost, are
crowded into hours, he speaks Of one, two or
three years Of delay as though he were putting
of dinner party or getting rid of an unfor-
tunase solicitor of aims. When the whole
country look to him to suggest some rcmedy
for the troubles that surround us, he speaks
oftheir settcmentasa preliminary to his plans
without a solitary reference to the agency by
which itisto be effected. The conclusion that
his speech leaves on the mind is that incapa-
BILE Of any action likely to keep the nation to-
gether, he is willing, in the language of the
President elect, 10 run he machine as he finds
a.; in other words he would be the premier
OF such portion Of it'as may be left"
INTERVIEW WIN Gov. HlcKs,.The commits
tee, consisting Of Judge Carmichael, Of Queen
Annes county, Ross Winans Of Baltimore
city, A. b. Hagner, Of Anne Arundel county,
William 7. Goldsborough, ofDorchester coun-
ty, John Contee Of Prince Georges county,
and A. Bowie Davis, of Montgomery county.
visited Annapolis, on the lth instant. and
laid before GOV. Hicks the resolutions adopted
= at the meeting of citizens of the counties and
Baltimore city, held last week at the Law
Buildings, in Baltimore city The resolu-
tions which they presented avow the fidelity
of Mary land to the Union; that she will accept
the proposed constitutional guarantee known
as the Crittenden proviso; and request the
Governor, in the name ofthe meeting, to take
such steps to the end that the people of the
State may express themselves either for or
against the calling of State convention.
The Governor, il is stated, received the COM
mittee with marked courtesy, and the inter-
view, which was quite protracted, was char
acterized BY reciprocal expressions of friend
ship. Both parties discussed with much earn
estness the propriety Of calling a State con-
vention at the present. time. The Governor
eontended that the members Of the conference
had as much right TO call convention as him
self and call cmanating from so many we'll
known gentlemen throughout the State must
necessarily have much weight and influence
lie was firm in maintaining his own position
however, and assured the committee that he
could not agree with the views which they
entertained. lie preferred waiting until Mr.
Crittcnden's compromise measures should be
acted upon, before taking any decisive step
upon the subject AT issue. After that was
done, he would give the subject his most earn
est and serious consideration, and ifhe con-
cluded not to acquiescc in the request of the
conference, he would inform the committee I;
but ifotherwise, they would hear Of his con-
clusion by a published proclamation.
COMMISSIONERS TO EuRoPE.--lt is stated that
Dudley Mann leaves for Europe this week.
lie goes out as commissioner on the part of
south Carolina TO arrange some system with
foreign governments respecting their varied
interests, and more particularly in regard TO
opening commercial facilities and direct trade
with the South
I. Butter King has bcea appointed commits
sioner on the part Of Georgia for similar
purpose, and will leave for Europe in few
days. Other Southern States are taking tho
initiative steps for the same lue of policy.
GSo- The Alabama editors appear 10 be NJ
fected with military ardor. Messrs. shorter
Of the Montgomery ddcytisp, Whitfield of The
Maii, Sayre OF the Tuskegee Republican. and
keizer Of the Democrat, have all gone TO Pen
saeola to help Florida.