Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-01-17

thing that is wrong and whatever aH<6e the
result; we shall have the proud conscious $50
Of knowing that our poStcrity will have "a
cause to blush for the deeds Of their ancestors
SMALLWooD.
COMMUNICATED.
Henry Winter Davis has issued his edict He
has decreed that Maryland shall be the ally of
the Black Republican States, and shall aid them
in cocrcing her Southern sisters to submission
Governor Hicks has charged South Carolina
with being not only rash and preciptate in her
action but unmindful of her duty and respect to
the border States, ignoring the rude and unwise
temper with which he, in conjunction with the
Legislature, repealed her considcrate and courte-
Gus invitation to conference one year ago--but
as having little cause of complaint by interlcr-
ence with our domestic relations and loss OF pro-
pcrty, arhen compared ,cih the ,rrongs, IN these
particulars, done 10 tie citizens Of Meu'yland
Hear how Mr.. Davis deals with these wrongs
and the contemptuous regard in which lie holds
them. ''Wil any one gravely propose to rush
ton such ruin? because q FEW negroes haze run
a,coy and not been caught? because some liberty
bills hare been passed and not acted on because
a mob once i1s q uhHe has resisted an UNPopU-
LAR la,o2 because Maryland has been IN u nj
nority on Presidential election ?" Thus it APP
pears all your complaints of Northern aggressions
are frivolous and of no account and this whole
agitation the fruit of few desi gning and fac
tious men at the South. This is what might be
expected from man who defcn led the consti-
nationality of the Wiimot proviso, when Henry
Clay was exertins himself to preserve the Union
by allaying the agitation this proposed measure
had produced. A man who had twice given his
aid to the election'of.a Black Republican Speak
'er. A man who does not possess the confidence,
sympathy or respect Of a loyal or sound-hearted
citizen of the South. A man, whom the plug
uglies, by intimidation and fraud at the polls,
had raised to his present bad emnence, and who
holds it by the favor and guilty forbearance of
a Black Republican House Of Representatives.
A man, whom the State he misrepresents and
is laboring to give over to the rule of an Adolf
ton administration, has branded with her CEN
sure, as derelict Of fidelity to her interests and
honor. Distrusted and despiscd by the great
body of the people of Maryland, he hates them
with intense passion and would avenge himself
by delivering them unarmed and defenceless in
to the hands of her enemies Greedy has enter
ed into his counsels and come to his aid. He
too has issued his edict ''that no State North of
the Potomac shall secede." The slaveholdng
States South Of that line may depart in peace.
Thus these unambitious and patriotic men, Da-
Wis and Greedy, have assigned us our place; and
Davis warns us it would be ruin to resist and
he, Governor Hicks says, is man of ''unques-
tionable nerve" as well as "undoubted patriot
ISM" The one as equivocal as the other The
time is at hand when his courage may be tested.
The poor Governor, with good intentions per-
haps, is held spell-bound by the malign infu-
ence Of this man, who uses him to keep the State
in a condition of total helplessncss and then
mocks them with the horrors Of their situation
no bott1 10 al nfo n;,t;,,
| Hicks! his sssleepless nights have bewildered
his brain. He feels, as though he was the At
! las on whose shoulders the Union rested, and
fears to move lest the precious burthen should
toppe from its place of safety and be damaged.
| He admits that the State is IN condition of
imminent peril, that the Federal Government is
shaking to it's base, but does not regard it as
"an extraordinary occasion to Justify his call OF
an extra session Of the Legislature. Will be
please to define what will constitute can extra
ordinary occasion.n- Does his dissertation go he
| yonI the point of deciding the naked f0ct, that
a crisis exists which menaces the peace and safe
| ty of the State Has he the right or the con-
stitutonal power to provide for such condition
Of public affairs ? Is it an Executive or Legs-
lative duty, under the Constitution to decide
what measures are necessary to avert, or protect
against this danger? Has the Governor any
power to replenish the Treasury which he tells
u.s. is empty? Where does he derive his pow
er to consult the Governors of independent State
as to the measures to be taken for the protec-
ton OF the State or her future action? The
| Governor has constituted himself sole Judge q!
what is necessary for the exigencies of our stu
! alton and dictator of Maryland. He is better
informed as to the State of public opinion and
the course of policy desired by the people. than
all their legislative Representa- YES aud Selia-
tors, who live in their midst and exchange vie IS
daily. Is the Governor not to be influenced by
the examples of his official correspondents -
The Governors of every border State have called
the Legislatures Of their respective States Gov
ernor Hicks stands a solitary exception. Why
| this? Is it the means of REFRESHING agitation
in the State Is it the means of preserving the
Constitution and the Union :? Does this policy
of inaction and resistance to popular WILL OH
the part of the Governor, conduce to the securi
ty and welfare of the State? The end Of the
whole matter is, that Maryland exhibits the hui
initiating and pitiable spectacle of a dumb and
fettered people-exposed to great dangers and
denied the means of self-protecton. Is there
no remedy for the evils which the blind and
obstinate self-wi of one man nflicts on po-
Iitical community of intelligent and brave free
men? 1t is for the people of Maryland to give
the response and exercise the right of self-pre-
serYation. J. T: S.
ECoMMU NIcATED.
RICH HILL, 10th January, 1861.
Mr. WELLs,-Dear Sir: The article published
in the two last issues Of your paper, recommending
that the citizens of CHARLES county should take ac
ton in reference to State Convention, signed by
three citizens and others, observe has left the in
fluence the minds of many that it was conceived
in party spirits whereas, if the names of the TWEEN
y-seven ssothers,' who signed said article, had
been published, such inference could have been
deduccd As an act of justice-to at least disPel
such an idea, request you to publish in your next
| issue, the names of all who iened and ap-
pended when YOU commenced putting the article