The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-02-16
The County Convention.

seventh district determined in primary meet
ing to send no delegates, bat was represented,
informally, in the Convention by gem lemen
from that district who were here attending
Court. George johnson. ESQ.,, of the 4th
District, presided over the Convention, and
ii. r. Tor bert, Esq, Of the 3rd, acted as
Secretary. 1t will be seen that no delegates
were appointed to the State Convention. Two
gentlemen. AIrssrs. {. ii. Haines and A.
Mclntire, E<qs., were appointed to lay be-
fore the State Convention the proceedings
and resolutions Of the Convention as a protest
against the attempted revolutionary move
protest against any attempt to represent
Cecil county in the State Convention. The
following arc the resolutions of the County
Convention.
Hhereas, At n meeting held at the Mary
land Institute, in the city of Bil,lm,re, on
Friday February lst inst, among st others
the following resolution was adopted:
Resoirod, That we respectfully recon
mend to such of our fellow citizens of the
counties of this State as concur in the senti-
mcnts of the foregoing resolutions and who
have not already taken action in the premIs-
es, to assemble in primary meeting in the
several districts in each county on Tuesday
the 10Th inst. at o'clock p NJ, to appoint
delegates to county Convention to be held
at the county town of each county. at | l
O'Clock A. NJ, on Thursday, the 14th inst,
who shall appoint delegates to the number Of
double their respective delegations in the Leg
islnture, to meet the State convention proposed
to be held in this city on the 18th inst.
And Hhercds, The said meeting at the
Mary land Institute appears to have been held
in response TO a call made by certain persons
ofFrcdcrlck county, at a meeting held in
Frederick city January 10th ut., asking the
people of the State to take action to be rep
resented in State Convention TO be held in
the city of Baltimore, for some purpose not
very well defined, but which nigh. he very
well understood, from the revolu,ona ~
language employed by the speakers, and which
has been understood in various parts Of the
State. as an attempt to inauguratc a Soy
ereign Convention in disregard Of the Com
stitucd authorities of Tho State, and without
the least sanction Of law or precedent.
-1nd Hhercns. The resolutions adopted at
the meeting Of Frederick and Baltimore,
taken i'll connection with the revolutionary
language held by the Speakers on those oc.
caslons, were such as to leave little doubt of
an intention, on the part Of those engaged,
to commit some act in disregard OF law and
in defiance thereof, in orucr to carry out a
purpose Of recipitating the State into seces-
sion, or some other revolutionary act calcu.
lated to disturb the peace Of the people
Am Whereas, The people Of Cecil county
have not felt it consistent with their duty
and their feelings of loyalty to the government
established by our fathers, and under which
they have enjoyed so much Of prosperity and
happiness, to let this occasion pass by, with
out expressing their sentiments upon the ac-
ton taken in the citing referred TO- There
fore, VIC the people of Cecil county, in Con-
vention assembled regularly chosen by the
people Of the several districts thereof without
regard TO party, and in accordance with the
MARYLAND Institute call, do resolve
LIST, That the resolutions adopted at the
meetings of Frederick and Baltimore, refer
rcd TO in the foregoing preamble, and the sen.
Iimcnts uttered, and purposes declared by
the speakers on those occasions were inflama-
matory, revolutionary, and calculated. if per.
sisted in and generally responded to, to dis
turb the peace Of the people Of the State and
being reluEnant to the sentiments Of the
great mass Of the PEOPLE of Cecil county re.
ceive their unqualified condemnation.
2nd, That having no sympathy with the
object and evident DIES ign for which the State
Convention (inauguratcd by the meetings Of
Frederick and Blllimore) was called, and en-
teItaining no doubt as to what those designs
a. bn 1ny of li,1,
be so altered by change of programme as to
relieve it OF its original revolutionary and obi.
Gus features, we declare, that the people oil
Cecil county, who with insignificant eXccp.
tons arc Union-loving and law.abiding cIti.
zens, do not desire to be represented in tho
State Convention, so called, for purposes
so directly in conflict with the peace and in.
tcrests Of the people.
Sd, That the appointment Of dclgatcs tc
represent Cecil county, in the proposed State
Convention, by meeting having a very in
considerable number of sympathsers, held l.
Elkton on the 18th inst, is calculated to
place Cecil county in a wrong position, mas
much as. in the call of said meeting, M
sach purpose was expressed or intimattd; and
that the delegates chosen, whether from tn,
IL amer Of their appointment. the irregularity
of the act, the small number Of persons
taking part in the said meeting, or the dis.
similarity Of views expressed by the speakers
fIom those entertained by the great majority
| o our citizens cannot claim to represent our
people: in this view we are happy to say,
larger number of those chosen fully coincide
and in consequence will not claim to act
and in the name of The people of Cecil county
we protest, that such as she'll presume to d.
so, will greatly miSrepIcsent her sentiment.
4th. That the people Of Cecil county arr
opposed to the call ola State Sovereign Con
v.ntion," or any action leading thereto, anC
by any process, whether revolutionary O
legal such proceedings would be open t,
nnsconstructlon. and Misrepresentation, no
only in our own State but out Of it, and par
ticularly in other border Slave States; and
whilst it. can do no good, may produce meal
culable harm in weakening the bonds of tn
Union.
9Th, That the State Convention to meet il
Baltimore on the 18th inst. from the name
Off its call; from its purposes, as evidenced
by the language Of those engaged in getting
it up: from the exclusion of large ma ioritl
of the people of the State from participation
in it, thus exhibiting their knowledge tina
they were in minority in the State: ant
viewed with all Its surroundings was design
ed and intended for revolutionary purposes
and as such We dcnounce it and protes
against it.
9th We cordially endorse and approv
the course of Governor Hicks in refu
sing to convene the Legislature in Extra SEES
sion, or take any action calculated to lea(