Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-11-28

vIsoai OoVernOf 10 ORDER special election tor
Members of Congress; the sixth gives to the
Governor authority tn make temporary appoint
. ments to official vacancies The Convention
then adjourned, subject to the call of the Pres
} ideut. Gov. Taylor has issued his proclama-
ton for an election in the Second Congressional
District. which will be held on Wednesday, the
9th inst
MIR. Russell's Letters.
The last letter of Mr. Russell bears the date
Of Washington, October 1922, and is published
in the Times of November 5. se
Mr.. sEwARD's CIRCULAR
1t has been the favorite dream of party in
the United States to get IN war with some
foreign power, in the hope that the sentiment Of
regard for the common Continent and of enmi.
! ~ to Europe which exists in America, would
Weld the North and South together for the pur-
poses OF defence, and in spite of failure and re-
i'1diatlon, the politicians go with their work,
and are never tired of inventing 7s.Reinforce-
ments for Canada !"-"25,OO0 Men Ordered
Out Aggressive Insoence of England" and
such like. But no one pays any heed to them.
Therefore it was that Mr.. Stewards circular
caused alarm, as it seemed to give support to
the rumors which have been SO sedulously set
atioat week after week, that England was going
to break the blockade, or to do something else
which would lead to declaration of hostilites
Any way, the effect was startling and unpleasant.
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I 1t may be shown that it would never pay us
to drag cotton out by force and bring on war
with our best customers, that our neutrality has
been most distinctly proclaimed and most hon
orably maintained. There is fixed principle
in the head of every American, North and South,
that the British empire rests on a bale of cotton
just as the Lord Chancellor sits on sack Of
wool, and the speeches of some of our foolish
speech-makers now and then afford support to
their hallucnation.s War would destroy our
1 trade, but then it is supposed that the British
people have morbid taste for spinning cotton
regardless of profit, and that, like slkworms,
they must spin as nlition of existence.
THE LYONS CORRESPONDENTS
! The whole American people WILL doubt not
sustain Mr. Sewards's tone and positions, and
certainly the despatch to which he had to reply
was not very remarkable paper, not quite
worthy, perhaps, of the Foreign Office The
effect of these arguments will be best treated at
the other side the Atlantic, but it may be re-
marked that the cases selected for renonstrance
were far from being the strongest that could
have been found. Every word that comes from
Great Britain, every act that is done by her, is
oiOoSiJ ubJuotty-COuotTutu ny #AuJcTt-
cans. She may not look over the hedge, while
France can steal horse if she pleases.
THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT.
| There have been no great reinforcements re-
ceived by this army lately, in consequence of
the diversion Of Ohio, Illinois and Indiana troops
! to the State of Kentucy and to the West, and
the largest estimate of the forces in the field does
not raise it much above the number given in
one of my recent letters 1t is the New Eng
land States and the emigration from them in
the West which have put forth their strength in
this war for the Union, and the Puritan and
Quaker element of the other States has been an
mated by similar spirit. In the regiments in
camp there are prayer meetings and preaching
and revivals, and the Young Mems Christian
Associations the colonies give benelictions, the
lnaaioraapreach. the ssrgeaptS pxaY and the bat
tallois march, singing stefnly:
cold John Brown lies Wondering in his grave.
"But his soul is marching on;
| 'sHallelujah Hallclujah, e -
| sHalleluiah, Hallelujah; - ->
cold John Brown lies moulder ing in his grave,
| s'But his soul is marching on sa-z
| No army was ever SO well provided, in guam
tty at all events, with chaplains, and in some
mems minds, the war for the Union is a cru
SADIE for all that is good and holy in the world.
! The gulf that separated Christian Knight from
Saracen Emir was not wider than that which
divides the Northern volunteer from the South
err chivalry.
i AFTER THE WAR cRoAKING.
There seems to be no apprehensions that this
Great mass of armed men cannot be disposed Of
by few circulars. They are all immense pow
er in the State and Of the State, and they can
determine issues not only with their votes, but
with their bayonets. The regular army, of
course, views the volunteer associates with feel
ings it dares not express. But each is a check
upon the other, and, while the former would
gladly reform some of the misehiefs, as they
conceive, of democracy as it exists here, and
would resist any attempt to turn this into an
abolition war, the latter are determined to keep
the power they have got, and are leavened by a
strong anti-slavery feeling, which, in some re-
giments, is nearly unanimous.
To suppose that the immense mass of men
collected here can ever return to their usualavo-
cations is to give them credit for more tenacity
in civil pursuits than human nature exhibits
generally elsewhere. What will be their humor
at the end of the war if it last three years p
They WILDE entitled to their discharge, but long
/ before that the farm must have found some
other superintendent, the trade and the profess
sion must have gone to the dogs, and to tens of
thousands eleven dollars month and food and
clothes must be a better thing in. the present
than anything in the future can offer to them.
1t will be very glorious proof Of the patri-
otism and purity Of the American peopleif they
overcome all temptations which usually beset
i men in power, and lay down that (which they
have had conferred on them for special object
as soon as it shall have been accomplished. To
all but the eye of Faith that object is still far
1 off indeed. zs.sss-sss .tzs -
/ GENERAL MCCLELLAN.
/ General Mcclellan left his quarters in Wash
ington on Friday and spent nearly all Saturday
. in examining the front of the position along
which he is slowly pushing his battaons and
his unusual absence from the city gave rise to
many of the queer eccentrcites of expression
called rumor. 1t must be pleasant to get away
sometimes from Cabinet Ministers and states
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