Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-01-31
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. Mr. EDITOR AS I find you have inserted
n your paper, by request, the opinions Of dis
> eEushed men, as Wholesome, | request you
Y insert the views of Mr.. jefferson, which
edyou. This gifted and distinguished though
.S/some respects, somewhat erratic man, was
bnce the oracle divinity of the Democratic party
and even now they will quote his opinion when
it suits then purposes, and act directly against
e La.llep it is adverse to them. There was
tr1s cs hen parry spirit ran enormously higitr
! warred against with ferceness at the South :
md when in the heat Of that fierce rabies, f,l
which the Democracy has at al times been s
noted Virginia, as the leader threatened all sort
If terrible things against the Union. Men will
get mad when they cannot have things Their
own way men will, through the enactmcnts of
treason, seek a historical renown, when they
cannot obtain it by the due and legitimate ex-
erclsc of virtue and talents; and SO. there are
thousands who will acquire fortune by the high
way of theft, or robbery, or fraud, rather than
by labour care and honesty. For postum Jus
fame a man once burned down magnificent
and renowned temple and he was immnrtalized
Guy Faux has won for himself an eternal place
in history by an attempt to blow up a Parlia-
ment. The companion and friend of Charles the
5th Of Spain, once me1tated the throwing of
his master from the top of the dome of st. Pc
ter's church at Rome, and he in this mode
in search of immortality and thousands have
become notorious robbers and expiated their
'rmes on the galows, that they might be gazed
ut and applaudei by the multitude as heroes
No free government has perhaps lived, without
reasonable attempts to overturn it, and no free
government has lived which has not at times
been shaken by violence of passion, fierce deu-
sion, or been corrupted by unprincipled wick
einess One Of those seasons of passion and
deluson, was once discoursed upon by Mr. JEFF
ferson, follows:
an every free and celebrating society there
must, from the nature Of man, be opposite par
ties and violent dissensions and discords; and
one of these, for the most part. must prevail
over the other for longer or shorter time
Perhaps this party division is necessary to in
duce each to watch and deate to the people the
proceedings Of the other. But if on Temporal
ry superiority of the one party the other is to
resort to a session of the Union, no Federal
Government can ever exist. If to rid ourselves
of the present rule Of Massachusetts, and Con-
nectcut we break the Union, will the evil stop
there? Suppose the New England States alone
cut off, will our nature be changed? Are we
not men still to the south of that, and with all
the passions of men? Immediately we shall
see Pennsylvania and a Virginia party arise III
the resit!uary Confederacy, aud the public mind
will be distracted with the same party spirit.
What game, too, will the one party have in
their hands by eternally threatening the other
that unless they do SO and 50 they will join their
Nothern neghbcrS! If we reduce our Union
to Virginia and North Carolina, Immediately the
conflict will be esta blished between the repre-
sentatives of these two States, and they will end
by breaking into their simple units. Seeing,
therefore, that an association Of men who will
not quarrel with one another is thing which
never yet existed, from the greatest Confederacy
Of nations down to town meeting vestry;
seeing that we must have somebody to quarrel
with, Ihat2 rather keep our NeD England asso-
ciates for that purpose than to see our chickering's
transferred TO Others"
| believe Mr.. Jefferson is regarded by some in
this day of conservatism and wisdom, as a fool ;
while for disorganizing purposes, he is quoted as
authority by others and particularly for secession
He shows here that the passions of the extremists
of our country should eXpend themselves upon
one another, for they will act upon some object
and it would be well if the sections would ex-
pend their fury in words rather than in acts ;
and if a permanent disunion takes place and
the border slave States should go with the
South they will be in the contemplate position
of mere battery to defend their abusive ma;es-
ties King Cotton aud Queen Sugar: and unless
their majestes fully protected, 81 as to leave
them in undisturbed tranquility, depend upon it
the borber slave States would be i'm nersed
in Tie foam Of their divine. anil filthy wrath