Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-01-24
Total,
$lS7,569.15

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powers conferred on this Department by the
Constitution and the Laws, will be exerted to
maintain the admirable character of the State $
faith.
COMMUNICATED.
Mr.. EDITOR Feeling, as every one must. a
deep and abiding conce IN in the crisis of our
country, beg leave to offer few remarks.
which L think accord with the necessities of the
times. Without arrogating to myself any SUI
perlor wisdom, l shall speak only as every man
Is entitled to speak,--as man to his fellow
men-submitting my views and opinions to
their calm and better judgment. Politics. in
the sense of party is or ought to be totally ig-
nored in this day Of trial. Consideration, vast
ly above party tactics ought. and do engage the
reflections of honest, men. The disease of the
country, as said by SENATOR Hunter, Is deep-seated
ana radlcat,-and none other than radical reme-
DIES can reach it,-and even for such remedies
there is no ground for strong hope for the pa
tent SO to speak. seems to be almost IN articulo
mo'ts l DO not propose to offer any remedies,
but leaving that for wiser heads, to inquire into
some of the causes of this condition of things
and to endeavor to ascertain some of the effects
likely to result from them. In the first place,
then, will say that there is in every hlma
heart an inmate desire for happiness, both in this
world and the next, and every man, and com :
munlty proposes some plan false or true) for
the attainment OF this very natural desire-a
desire, which no one an get rid of, if he WOULD
1T Is one of the principles Of his nature. From
considerations of this sort, which have deqene-
rated into religious .fanatcism, maintain that
the great slavery agitation is now, and has for
SO long time, been kept up at the North
They have read and thought about it so long and
intensely. that they have come to look upon it
as part of their religion to persecule tor in
deed as substitute for the religion of the Bible,
by which, they can "woRK out their salvation
not by "faith"-that old fashioned and Aunsizi-
dttn9 condition of acceptance with the Most
High-but by maeritimg it, by their superior.
holiness, and their misunderstanding efforts to
persecute somebody for conscience sake They
90 not stop to inquire whether it is sanctioned
or condemned by that great standard of moral
law, the Bible,-but finding it a most prolific
source of contention, and persecution, they are
blind and deaf to every consideration, but the
idea OF DOING something to propitate the favor
OF Heaven by setting in bold relief their superior
claims to favor, by showing that sTHEY are not
as other men are" Can any one doubt this
solution of the abolition problem at the North
They 60 about to establish their own righteous
ness. If they firmly believed it repugnant to
the Word of God, can they find any authority
therein for the use of the means they propose
1r its eznssSn ~ s hHt hsS essa a
the Gospel and by false teachers. and prejudiced
minds, they have come to think the battlements
of Heaven are to be stormed and taken by
devoted course of meritoaious acts, against what
they conceive to be the errors and crimes of
others-that they are "doing Gods service in
prosecuting for conscience s0ke Is this an I'M
fair picture =? l judge them by their aoorks, and
[ believe it is not, but true to the life. And
this state of morals has been produced by host
Of inJfdel isms-and sects and divisions amongst
themselves-so that the honest minds amongst
them seeking qfier TRUTH have been so puzzled
and perplexed that they have finally given up
search, and relapsed into in1fdelity-or made
for themselves their own affairs and snrifces-
which as a matter of course has resulted in the
offering of the sacrifices of acorks of merit, which
is the natural prompting of the human heart.
This l believe is the great cause of this agta-
tion-of course, there others politicol) which
have had their influence. And here let me say,
that I do not in my heart believe, that there is,
in any portion of the South, one man in hun-
dred, who would maintain, continue or sustain
the institution of slavery, if it not recognized
in the Word of God-not one, l firmly believe
and this to my mind is proof of the strong
hold that the Gospel has upon the South. When,
sir, with this institution sanctioned by local, con-
stitutional, and divine law, might not the South,
after the example of the Declaration of Inde-
pence, make out a long list of grievances against
the North, something like the following:-They
have denied and trampled upon our rights-by
their personal liberty bills-by opposing and
numbering our citizens in pursuit of their pro-
perty-by aiding and encouraging raids upon
our territory-by exciting Internationally
scattering broadcast incendiary documents and
speeches-by-but forbear, Mr.. Editor, to 60
on with the black catalogue, simply remarking
that the grievances of the Colonies against the
Mother Country sink into insigni6cance by the
side of them And in the face Of all this and
more the Black Republicans in Congress oppose
compromise, and with affected innocence, COM
placently, and insolently ask aohat hare they
doneP Only, they say, elected their President
in regular way !, Yes, they have elected
President, regular or irregular, by as bold a
stroke of usupatioa as the history of the world
affords-a President in whom is concentrated
all the odious doctrines Of abolitionism and OPP
preston to the South. If you think | make a
bold charge of usMpation | would ask you to
allow me to suppose a case for illustration. Sup
pose Mr.. Buchanan, or any other President re-
gularly and legally elected by the achole country,
should inaugurate.in his administration policy
of open and fragrant hostility to the institutions
of the South, or any other section, would it not
be an act of usurpatio,e and so regarded and
resisted by that section ? And where is the
difference of being elected, on the ground and
with the purpose and intent to carry out such a
policy, contrary to the le1er and spirit Of the
Constitution am unable to see the difference,
the one is as much usaupation as the other-in
both cases the intention of. the Constitution to
protect and defend is violated and annuled.
But sir, as l proposed in the beginning, lot
us inquire into some of the effects Of the doc
trines of the abolitionists, if carried out. En-
ancipation equality suffrage II! What
would be the effects of these measures? who
would suffer most by them? l say, sir, that the
. moor negro would for after having emancipated
him. he would be left to take care of himself