Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-01-03

WHAT THE STATES WERE BEFORE THE
UN1oN-WHAr THEY WoULD BE AGAIN IF
WE HAVE D1ssoLur1oN.-Judge Story gives
graphic picture of what the States were
before the adoption of the present Union,
and what they would likely be again if it
should be dissolved:
"The most opposite commercial regula-
tions existed III the different States, and, in
many cases, aud especially between the
neighboring States, there was perpetual
course Of retaliatory legislation, from their
jealousies and rivalries in commerce, in ag-
riculture. or in manufactures. Foreign ma
tions did not fail to avail themselves of all
the advantages accruing to themselves from
this suicidal policy, tending to the common
ruin. And, as the evils grew more press
ing. the resentments of the States against
each other, and the consciousness that their
local interests were placed in opposition to
each other. were daily increasing the mass
of disaAection, until it became obvious that
the dangers of immediate warfare between
some of the States were imminent.
But the evil did not rest here. Our for
eign commerce was not only crippled, but
almost destroyed, Foreign nations imposed
upon our navigation and trade Just such
restrictions ss they deemed best 10 their
Own interest And .peliey y of them had
snlargs their own. They did not fail to
avail themselves to the utmost Of their ad-
vantages They pursued a a,system Of the
most rigorous exclusion of our shipping from
all the benefits of their commerce, and en-
deavored to secure, with bold and unhesi-
tating confidence, monopoly of ours. The
effects of this system of operations, combined
with our political weakness. was soon Wis :
BILE. Our navigation was ruined our me-
chanics were in state of inextricable power
ty; our agriculture was withered, and the
little money still found in the country was
gradually finding its way abroad, to supply
our immediate wants and state of alarm
ing embarrassment, in that most difficult
and delicate of all relations-the relation of
private debtors and Observation-Disclosures
daily an overthrow even of the ordinary ad-
ministration of justice. Severe as were the
calamaties of the war, the pressure of them
was far less mischievous than this slow, but
progressive destruction of all our resources,
all our industry, and all our credit
THE MAN "W1rHour AN ENEMY" ."-Hea-
ven help the man who imagines he can
dodge ''enemies" by trying to please every
body! If such an individual ever succeeded
we should be glad to know it. Not that
we believe in mans going through the
world trying to find beams to knock his head
against; disputing every mans opinions
fighting and elbowing and crowding all who
differ with him. That. again, is another
extreme. Other people have right to their
opinions-so have you; don't fall into the
error of supposing they will respect you less
for maintaining it; or respect you more for
turning your coat every day to match the
color of theirs. Wear your own colors.
spite of wind and weather, storms and sun
shine. It costs the vacillating and irreso-
lutte ten times the trouble to wind, and
shuttle, and twist, that it does honest, man
ly independence to stand its ground. Take
what time you please to make up your mind;
but having made it up, stick to it
@I say, mother" said regular
street loafer, the other night; after he had
deposited something in rickety old cup
board, and laid himself down upon the floor.
II want you to wake me when get dry. !"
''How shall l know when you get dry 2"
"Oh, just wake me up any time-I am
always dry"
~An Irishman one day found light
guinea which he was obliged to sell for
eighteen shillings. Next day be saw an
other guinea, lying in the street.
''No, no." says he, "I'll have nothing to
do with you; lost three shillings by your
brother yesterday"
wSome sensible chap says, truly, that
a person who undertakes to raise himself by
scandalising others. might just as we'll sit
down on wheel barrow, and undertake to
wheel himself.
wA wag on being asked what he had
for dinner, replied, "A lean wife, and the
ruin of man for sauce" His dinner con-
sisted Of spare rib Of pork and apple sauce.
ETIt would be hard to convince the
magnetic needle that loadstone isn't the