Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-01-24
Thursday Morning, January "a, 1851.

COUNTY CoNvENTIoN.-The County Conven-
.;on preparatory to State Sovereign Conven-
lion, for which call was made in our paper
was held here on Monday last. An election fol
twenty delegates was held on the Wednesday
previous in each of the Election Districts, though
the vote was very small-not moro than one
third of the voters of the county exercising the
elective franchise. This was partly owing to
the inclement weather, though mostly owing, we
lave no doubt, to an indisposition on the part of
the people to holding Sovereign Convention,
as the term was generally understood. Some
900 votes were cast in the whole county for a
Sovereign Convention. We may here State, in
order to correct wrong impression which may
be drawn from the Suns correspondent of TIES
day last, that our county votes from 1900 to
1900 votes, and 3O3 were all the votes cast for
& Sovereign Convention, thus showing that the
handsome majority" spoken of by the corres-
pendent, was majority of those who were in
favor of Sovereign Convention, and not by
any means of the whole vote Of Charles ccun-
ty. On the assemblage of the Convention the
Hill Top delegation, in body, protested against
a Sovereign Convention, in accordance with the
vote of that district, and purposed withdrawing.
Several gentlemen addressed the meeting and
.>rl..;..a .."+ thn Convention was not a Socer-
eign Convention in the light in which gentle
tnen had viewed it, but simply Sovereign as
originating with the people. Mr.. BRENT NOV
ed that the word Sovereign" be stricken out,
and that all the people of what political creed
or complexion soever be united in council and
for consultation as to the best means Of averting
the ruin which seems to threaten our beloved
Union. He thought this was no time for divis-
sion among the people Of Charles county, but
that our councils and efforts should be united
for the public good.
Judge BURGESS was opposed to a Sovereign
Convention, though he was strongly in favor Of
the people being a unit in their councils for the
good of our common country. He was for ex-
hausting every means of settlement in the Union
before he would consent to 60 ont. ...
After some sharp shooting and cross firing
in which number of gentlemen joined, Mr..
BRENrs resolution, with an addition offered by
Gen. MITCHELL, absolving the delegates from
all ties or obligations to the acts of this Conven-
ton, was adopted, and Hill Top came in, after
which peace was restored in the family, and the
ball moved smoothly OF. A committee having
been appointed to propose business for the &C.
ton of the Convention, reported series of reso-
lutions, which appear in another column. MOI
being of the Convention, we could not vote on
the resolutions, but believing they cover our own
ground fully, we heartily endorse them.
Mr. STONE, on the part Of the committee
read the resolutions and prefaced them by . very
fine and patriotic address, in which he argued
strongly and quite logically in favor Of 6orsr;;
eign Convention. He was, however, proud ia
know chat all difficulty was passed and that
now they were prepared to act with perfect
unanimity. r.. T..
After the meeting adjourned, aud before the
crowd dispersed, Mr.. BKENr's friends called lus-
tily for him, when be appeared and addressed
them briefly but earnestly as patriot and a
lover of the Union which our fathers had given
us. At the close of Mr. BRENT's address, calls
were made for Mr. COMPTON and others, though
we were compelled to leave without hearing
them.