Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-07-25
Rag When we listened through Saturday an,

REg- When we listened through Saturday AM
Sunday last at the roaring artillery and rchectc
that two great contendng armies were dcalin,
death and destruction into each others ranks
and when we further reflected upon the cause
of all this sacrifice of human life and this use
less, as it appears to U.S. expenditure of rich trea
sure of the fields laid waste, and cities almos
deserted when VIC reflected upon the imme
diatc causes Of all this. our hearts sickened with
in u.s. and we could but feel sad. Itwoud indeed
appear that all sense right has been ignored ant
that brute force is to decide matter wherein
reason alone should have held the balance
Eooking no further back than TO the proceedings
Of the present Congress, we find quite enough to
fill our minds with wonder and amazement, not
manner in which business, connected with this
trying affair between the two sections is trans
acted, Die. sorry attempts at wit by those who
should represent the people in all the dignity of
nationality, who BY their years, their learning
and their virtues, (God save the mark y should
now, if ever, present the appearance Of sagcs
whose souls should be bent to the work as men
equal to the times, we say, to see them acting
the part sometimes of branless boys, again as
circus clowns and then again as mad Infatuated
wild beasts, thirsting only for blood-to observe
all this is we'll calculated to fill our souls with
horror as we reflect chow the beauty of Israel
has faded"
In the days of the Revolution, and for
many years thereafter, when the houses of Con-
gress assembled, there was collected the wisdom,
tho virtue and the flower of the land when the
Speaker of the House or the President of the
Senate took their seats and called the members
to order, there was indeed order. No sorry jests,
no vulgar cramp expressions, no bullying or
tisticuff but grave, sage-like dignity reigned
supreme. But, alas, alas, how changed Who
can visit the halls of Congress in the present
day without returning filled with sorrow, gloom,
shame, contempt at the proceedings there wit
messed? And is it any wonder that our beauti-
full land should be visited by the war plague
Is it any wonder that this great, this peoples
S3OSC w It's uLIcI
such influence? When the bitter passion and
rigid tcnacity to party sways the Congress of
the United States, as we might expect it to con-
troll and bias narrow and uncultivated minds, is
it any wonder that ruin and destruction should
threaten the nation on every side? We surely
think not.
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Tho conduct of NJ r J,r;p bic
short administration of the government has
most certainly not been in keeping with the
letter or spirit Of the Constitution and Laws
which he is protesting to administer
he freely confesses as much when he, in his late
message, asks Congress to legalize his previous
acts And at his bid and command Congress
does 'sIegalize all bis acts previous, and in spirit
informs him that he can do so as often as he
wishes, or any thing else he desires. and on ap-
plication to Congress entire absolution can be
had, the old score can be completely cancelled
and the President can 60 on to sin in clean gar
nncnss again Will somebody inform us where
Congress got the power to legalize an unconsti--
tutional act If the act be unlawful can Con-
gress render it lawful and yet not er post facto
1t appears to us that two errors are thus COM
mitted, but "who cares we have the power"
saith the mighty.
BJs Mr.. Lincoln in his late message to Con-
gress says, that in all the South, save perhaps
South Carolina, there is a majority Of Union
men. Thus attempting to show division in
the South, white the North is unit. In a let
ter recently received in this village from "away
down East" the following language occurs -
II do not know how you feel, but hope the
South Will fight while there is a man left. The
tyranny of the North is becoming more hateful
every day"
We are led to enquire-Is the North unit
IF so will it continue a unit after the affair at
Manassas? Gentlemen of the Senate, House of
Representatives, Cabinet and Mr.. Lincoln, had
ye not better sscease firing" and "retire" before
any more are s'hurt ?"
QUERY If all the Cotton States are yet
considered part and parcel of the United