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iature or Executive; but shall be body representing
the sentiments of those who desire together in tn
tne pohcy OF the (so-called) Crittenden resolution
should be the basis of necessary compromise
of coercion against our sister Southern States
and that we feel called upon by every tie OF inter
sister Virginia IN these great questions of the day.
therefore desire the earnestly that our consttu
n9na deberatiye bodies" should be in position to
with her. at such moment as she may invite Maryland
| join her in measures for her and good
Respectfully submitted by
R. S. STEUART,
FRANKLIN WATERS,
CHAs H. STEELE.
DR.. MACBRoGDEN, Chairman.
7. S. MERCER, Secretary.
On the same day the citizens of the same district
met at Brdsville, the usual place of election, and
organized meeting to choose delegates to meet
other delegates of this county at Annapolis, on
the l4th Mr.. Thos. S. Iglehart was called to take
| the chair, and VIM. F. Waters to act as Secretary.
The following gentlemen were selected:
| Jno 5. Seiman, DR.. Thos Mercer,
Thos. S. Iglehart, b. Allen Welch.
DR.. MacBrodgen,
ELECTION OF DELEGATES TO THE STATE CONVENTION.
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. IL, l86l.-On Saturday last pri-
mary meetings and elections were held in Anne
Arunde! county for the purpose of selecting dele
gates to the proposed State Convention. In the
city of Annapolis, Hon. Thos. G. Pratt was elected,
and in the second district, Maj Luther Cuttings. -
| Other districts not heard from.
| DORCHESTER AND WORCESTER COUNTIES.
Meetings were held at Cambridge, Dorchester
county, and at Snow Hill, Worcester county, on
| Tuesday last, at which resolutions endorsing the
position Of Gov. Hicks were adopted.
| CONVENTION ELECTION IN ia LDoT COUNTY.
The following official returns of the election held
in Talbot county on Monday last on the State Con-
venlon question, show majority of one hundred
| and eighty-one against Convention, and a ma
jority of 264 for the Union candidates. The whole
vote of the county is two hundred and sixty-five
| less than that cast last fall.
THE PROVISIONAL EXECUT I'VE OFFICERS
OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.
| HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS, OF MISSISSIPPI, PRESIDENT.
Few men have led life more filled with stirring
| or eVentul incidents than Jefferson Davis A
| native OF Kentucky, born about 1906, he went in
! early youth with his father to Mississippi then a
Territory, and was appo nted by President Monroe,
In 1872, to be cadet at West Point. He graduated
| with the first honors in 1928, as Brevet Second
| Lieutenant and at his own request was placed in
| active service, being assigned TO the command of
! General (then Colonel) Zachary Taylor, who was
| stationed in the West In the frontier wars of the
| time, young Davis distinguished himself in so
| marked manner, that when a regiment of
| dragons formed, he at once obtained com
| mission as First lieutenant. During this time a
| romantic attachment sprang up between him and
! his prisoner, the famous chief Black Hawk, in
which the latter forgot his animosty to the people
! OF the United States, in his admiration for Lieu
| OF amity severed between the two brave men.
In 1885 he settled quietly down upon a cotton
| plantation, devotng himself to a thorough and
systematic course of political and sce ntiic educa-
| ton. lie was married to a daughter of General
Taylor.
In lS43 he took the stump for Polk. and in 1915,
having attracted no little attention in his State by
his vgor and ability, he was elected to Congress-
ten days after he made his maiden speech. Soon
the Mexican war broke out, and regiment of VOL
unteers having been formed in Mississippi, and
himself chosen Colonel, he resigned his post in
| Congress, aud instantly repaired with his COM
mand to join the corps Parmee under Gen. Taylor
At Monterey and Buena Vista he and his noble re-
giment achieved the soldiers highest fame. Twice
| by his GOODNESS he saved the day at Buena Vista.
| Wherever fire was hottest danger to be encOun-
tered, there Col. Davis and the Mississippi Rifles
were to be found He was badly wounded in the early
part Of the action, but sat his horse steadily till
the day was won, and refused to delegate even q
portion of his duties to his subordinate officers.
In lS4S he was appointed to fill the vacancy in
the Senate of the United States occasioned bv the
death of General Speight, and in 1850 was elected
to that body almost unanimously for the term of
| six years.
In 1851 he resigned his seat in the Senate to be-
come the State Rights candidate for Governor, but
defeated by Governor Foote.
! In 1858 be called to a seat in the Cabinet of
President Pierce, and was Secretary of War dur
| ing his administration In 1857 he was elected u.
S. Senator from Mississippi for the term of six
years, which office he held until his resignation on
| tne secession OF MISSISSIPPI from the Union.
] HON. ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS, OF GEORGIA, VICE
PRESIDENT.
This gentleman is known throughout the Union
as one of the most prominent of Southern politi-
! clans and eloquent orators. His father, Andrew
b. Stephens, was planter of moderate means, and
his mother (Margaret Grier) was a sister to the
famous compiler of Grier's amanacs She died
when he was an infant. leaving him with four
brothers and one sister, of whom only one brother
survives.
Mr. Stephens was born in Georgia, on the II th of
| February, 1872. When in his fourteenth year his
father died. and the homestead being sold his share
of the entire estate was about five hundred dollars.
| With a commendable Anglo Saxon love of his an
cestry, Mr.. Stephens has since repurchased the
| original estate, which comprised about two hun
dred and fifty acres and has added to it about six
| hundred more. Assisted by friends he entered the
University of Georgia in 1928, and in 1882 gradua-
ted at the head of his class. In 1884 he commen ced
the study OF law, and in less than twelve months
was engaged in one of the most important cases in
the country. His eloquence has ever had power
full effect upon juries, enforcing, as it does, argu
ments of admirable simplicity and legal weight.
From 1887 to 1910 he was member of the Georgia
Legislature. In lS42 he was elected to the State
Senate, and in l843 was elected to Congress
He was a member of the Whig party in its palmi-
est days, but since its dissolution has acted with
the men of the South, and such has been the up
right, steadast and patriotic policy he has pursu-
ed, that no one in the present Of faction, sell
| hshness or suspicion has whispered accusation
4 OF selfish motives or degrading intrigues against
him. In the House he served prominently on the
most important com mittees, and effected the pas
sage ofthe Kansas-Nebraska bill through the House
at tina when its warmest friends despaired of
success. He was subsequently appointed chairman
of the Committee on Territories, and was also
chairman of the special committee to which was
referred the Lecompton Constitution BY his pa
triotic course on various measures he has, from
time to time excited the ire of many of the South
ern people, but he has always succeeded in coming
out of the contest with flying coors, and his re-
cent elevation is mark of the profound respect
entertained for his qualities as man and states
man.
THE NEW CONFEDERACY.
AT this particular juncture it will also BE- inter-
esting, in view Of coming legislation, to note
of the statistics of the several seeding States with
reference to their population, State debt, &C.
| They as follows: