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The Union" with Abolitionism.

The Kent Conservator hits the Union
shriekers hard rap in the following ex-
tract, which we commend to the serious
consideration of the people of our county.
The light of day is breaking upon many
who have blindly followed in the snaky
track of Unionism; they begin to see they
have been used as the tools of Abolition
ism, and hundreds are leaving the deceit
full concern and nobly taking their stand
for Peace and State Rights. The Conser-
vator says:
we do not say that every member of
the Union Party in Maryland is an Adolf
zionist. On the contrary, we have no
doubt that many members of that party
are loyal to the institutions of Maryland,
and at the proper time and in the proper
manner will vindicate them But we have
another class, those who have assumed the
leadership, the Field Officers and the Drill
Sergeants, who nsidiousy and stealthily
have been and are now educating the pub
lie mind and step by step leading those
who confde in them, to association and
union with the Black Republican Party.
Northern Senators and Representatives
have declared in Congress, that the end of
the present civil war must be the emanci-
patton of the slaves, and above all the des-
truction and overthrow of all State Govern
y,an &c =. L IL L
Governor from Massachusetts, appointed
by Mr.. Lincoln, and Virginia, the mother
of States, the birth place of Washington,
of Henry and of Jefferson, is to be pro-
vince controlled by Pro Consul from
Illinois. Turn to the proceedings of Con-
gress on the End of August, and we find a
bill under consideration, for the forfeiture
and confscation of all property used du-
ring the war by the Southern States.
What does this mean? Has it any other
purpose or end than the liberation of the
slaves? The negroes will not only be
employed to build Notifications, and to dig
trenches, but they will one and all be re-
quiTed to cultivate the crops, the cotton,
the corn, the rice and the tobacco. These
crops are necessary for the support of the
Southern people, and the aid which the
slaves render in the production and cult
walton Of these crops, will give quite as
much aid and comfort to the " rebels as
the more direct means of defensive warfare
Mr.. Crittenden, of Kentucky, denounced
the measure in the strongest and most en-
phatic terms. He said at had long been
conceded that the Federal Government
has no right or power to interfere with
State legislation on the subject of slavery,
or to go into the separate States with its
own legislation on the subject; and the
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-08-17
The Gardeners MONTHLY,

1t has been our intention for some time
of calling the attention of our horticultural
friends to the above very instructive and
useful monthly, published and edited by
Thomas Meehan, at No. % N. Sixth st.,
Philadelphia, at the very low price of 81
per annum. To any of our readers who
are cultivating fruits, flowers or vegcta-
bles, either as amateurs or for the market,
we can with every confidence recommend
this modest and unassuming publication as
one from which they can Gull much that
will assist them in the successful prosecu-
ton of their labors. One thing to the Gre
dit of its management must be noticed,
that is, while nearly every periodical, SCI
entific, religious, or devoted to any special
ity at the North, has espoused the cause Of
the administration in prosecuting the pre-
sent civil war, the Gardeners Monthly
has carefully abstaincd from any interfer-
ence in the matter, and has confined itself
entirely to it's legitimate purpose.
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-08-17
The County Convention.

Our call for primary meetings and a
County Convention has met with the una
nimous appreciation Of the friends of Peace
and State Rights, and will probably be
more numerously and enthusiastically at
tended than any meetings of the kind held
in this county for years. We are glad to
find that, in the present crisis of public af-
fairs, the patriotic citizens of Hartford, of
whatever party designations heretofore
known, have nobly sacrificed all personal
feeling and private prejudice upon the al
tar of their country, and, under the glori-
GUS banner of Peace, are willing to devote
themselves wholly to its welfare and pros
perity. Actuated by this spirit, then, let
us pledge ourselves to support such men
and measures as are best calculated to res
tore to our unhappy country that state Of
peace and quietness which has so long
been the true source of its unexampled
prosperity and happiness. ."
We believe that the evils which have
befallen our country, the freest and most
benefcent which was ever devised and es-
tablished by the wisdom and patriotism of
man, are entirely attributable to the unjus-
ti6able warfare waged by the Black Re-
publican party upon the domestic and So
cial institutions of the South. And we
believe, also, that there is no hope for our
country except in the overthrow of that
dangerous party. To accomplish this re-
suit is the paramount duty of all true pat
riots. In view of such a desirable end, all
private and personal considerations sink
into insigniGcance. Let the various dis
trict meetings, then, select their best men
as delegates to the County Convention,
and we are confident that, in old Hartford
at least, thd advocates of war and Lincoan-
lam will meet with a telling rebuke. q
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Hold the Traitors RESPONSIBLE.

The Black Republican party, and its
aiders and abettors, by threatening and
prac'icing violence upon the citizens Of
this State and elsewhere for expressing
honestly entertained opinions, by suspend
ing the writ of habeas corpus, by making
large additions to the regular army with
out the authority of Congress, by forcibly
Selling and examining private correspond
ence, and unlawfully searching the private
houses of our citizens, have shown them
selves TRAITORS TO THE CONSTI-
TUITION AND THE UNION.
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Peace Movement in Kent County,

The Chestertown (Md) Conservator
contains a call, numerously signed, without
regard to party, for district meetings in
that county, to nominate candidates for the
Legislature and county officers, and also to
appoint delegates to State Convention.
The signers to the call set forth their views
as follows:
Regarding the settlement of the present
distracted and unhappy condition of public
affairs, as infinitely more important than
mere party or political considerations
undersigned, representing every election
district in the county, and members of
former different political parties, cordially
and earnestly invite their fellow-citizens
who agree with them, to unite in organiz-
ing party, which shall be totally indie
pendent of all other political associations.
We advocate peace and a prompt ter
mlnatlon of the present civil war which
now devastates the land. We advocate
peace because we know that the continual
ton of this war must result in ruin and
bankruptcy, to all classes, and must inevi-
tably result in the overthrow of free gov
eminent. We advocate the rights Of the
State Of maryland. We protest against
the usurpations of the Lincoln administra-
ton. The State government is set aside,
and our people are now governed by the
military rule of Northern soldiers. Let US
unite, and at the ballot-box vindicate those
rights, which have been thus violated
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absence of such right and power in the
time OF peace must equally prevail in time
of war. Constitutional power certainly
does not como and 60 with changes of cir
cumstances. That such law as the one
now proposed, would be a fragrant usur-
patton of the dearest principles of the
Constitution; and he repeated if slaves may
be emancipated in time of war on a pretext
of circumstances, the same pretext will
serve in time of peace" Mr.. Stevens, of
Pa, the Black Republican leader in the
House of Representatives replied "That
In times like thez5 the laws of war alone
should govern us. Those who apply such
doctrines here, as those that have lust been
heard are the legal advocates of rebels. x
: All the world is agreed that ma
ton has the right to strip its enemy of
every dollar-to do all things to disable
him even to putting him to death. When
these slaves of the South are confscated
and set free, God forbid that they should
ever be returned to their masters. He did
not mean to say that the war was inaugu-
rated with this object: Gue If nc sehole
South should be laid aoaste, so be a.: he
had no objection SO that the FREE UNION
qcas preserved" We refer to this as one
instance to show the object of the Repub-
lican party, and assert, without fear of con-
tradiction, that the proceedings of Congress
during every day of its session, will furnish
as conclusive proof The Union Party of
Maryland are pledged to the support of the
Administration in the prosecution of this
war. The Convention of that party which
assembled in Baltimore in May last, de-
clared their determination to sustain Mr..
Lincoln, and joined in the war cry in eoort7s
as fierce and bitter as the language used by
the New York Tribune. Their Represen-
tatives in Congress have voted for the
enormous taxes levied to aid in the vigor-
GUS prosecution of the war, and supported
the Administration in every obnoxious and
abominable measure. The pretext of the
war is the preservation of the Union. 1t
is apparent that the means to accomplish
this is the subjugation of the South, and
that the subjugation of the South, is the
emancipation of the slaves Does it not
therefore follow, that those who advocate
the war, and oppose peace, Black Repubi-
cans, the unconditional Union Party ct id
ona'e genus, arc united in one common OBJ
ject, and equally responsible for the inevi-
table result, the abolition of slavery, and
the ruin OF every Southern State"
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DEFEAT OF THE REPUBLICANS IN ST.
LoUIs.-On Monday the 9Th inst, an
election was held in st. Louis for clerk
of the law commissioners court, and result
ed, says the Missourian, in "the success
of MIR. VIM. G. Huffman-the outspoken,
anti-subjugation, anti-abolition anti-coer-
cion, fair and square States rights caudid-
ate-by about 1000 majority in the city
of st. Louis, which will be very largely
increased as the vote of the county pre-
cincts is received" Counting the votes
thrown for other candidates holding views
similar to Mr.. H., the Missourian says the
clear majority in the city over the Repub-
licaa candidate is 2,S40.
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HANDOUTS FOR THE SoUTH.-The
Southern press should keep before the peo-
pie of the South, and of the world the as
founding and unparalleled fact that the
army which invaded Virginia, took .xith
them thirty thousand handouts, which
were taken with the other spoils from the
enemy! This surpasses all that we have
ever heard of Russian or Austrian despot-
ism. L is almost impossible to realize that,
in the United States, Boosting itself as the
freest and the most civilized of all nations,
the most deliberate, inhuman and atroci
GUS plan should have been formed to de-
grade and enslave free people, of which
there Is any record in this or any other
age. Who ever heard, even in dcspotic
Europe, of an invading army travelling with
thirty thousand handouts as a part of it's
equipments?
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-08-17
MORE TREASON

Amongst other queer things uttered by
President LINCOLN, in his Inaugural, on
the 4th Of March last, was the following
f" This country with its institutions be.
long to the people who inhabit it; pheneue,
they shall groao aoea,y Of the ecssting Gou.
ernnaent they can exercise their constitu.
tional right Of amending it, OR THEIR
REVOLUTIONARY RIGHT TO DIS.
MEMBER OR OVERTHROW IT." ~
u would seem that the Secessionists
taking Mr.. LINCOLN at his word, are "ex
ercising their revolutionary right"
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-08-17
REFUSE TO COALASCE,

1t will be remembered that the New
York Republican State Central Com.
mittee at its recent convention at Albany
adopted a resolution cordially "invitine
the Democratic State Committee to Join
with them in designating a time and
place for the holding of the State Conven-
tlons for the two parties" for the purpose
OF uniting on common ticket in the ap-
preaching State election.
10 this proposition the Democratic State
Committee, through its Chairman, Dean
Richmond, has made reply, decaiming the
Republican overtures.
After stating that none can be more pro-
toundly impressed than they are with a
sense OF the duty of foregoing partizau
. views and purposes in the present critical
condition of our unhappy country, the
letter says:
The Democratic party has, in every cri-
sis of public danger, risen to the magni-
tude of the occasion, and devoted its ener-
gies and its sacrifices to the call of patriot
ism.
1t is then declared
But we would be false to the party
which we represent if we considered any
proposition of union with former political
opponents except upon the basis of princi-
pie. 1t is of little Importance what men
OF what party occupy public positions,
whether OF power or emolument butGt is
OF the utmost moment that citizens of COM
mon principles should unite at this time
In support Of the Government, and in the
vindication of the Constitution and. the
Union.
he idea is repealed that there exists be-
tween the two sections of the Union such
an incompatibility of institutions as to give
rise to an irrepressible conflict between
them, which can onl terminate in the
subjugation Of one or the other. Repelling
the doctrine that any State can rig htfully
secede from this Union, they bold next in
adherence that aggressive and fanatical
sectional policy, which has so largely con-
tributed to the present danger of the coun-
try.
They propose, therefore, to invite to
ohioA Will tuem I'LL ciClZenS, OF Whatever
party, who, believing in these views, will
act with them to secure honest administra-
ton in Federal and State affairs, rigid
maintenance of the Constitution, economy
an public expenditures, honesty in the award
Of contracts, justice to the soldier IN the
field and the tac payer at home, the rigid
safeguard Of pubRc credit, and the erpm-
SION Of corrupt men from public office.
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-08-17
The Comptrollership and Reverdy John


We notice that the Hon. Reverdy John
son has given an opinion in regard to the
Comptroller's Office, and comes to the con-
clusion that DR.. CLAUDE is the legal incuma
bent of that office. This opinion is based
upon an assumed statement of facts. In
his first paragraph he assumes that Mr.
Jarrett neglected to bond; that Mr.. Pur-
nell was in Office in the character of one
holding ouer, and there was vacancy al
the time of DR.. Claude's appointment;
neither of which facts are admitted.
Immediately after Mr. Jarretfs being de-
clared elected by the House of Delegates.
on the 10th of March, 1860, he entered
into bond as prescribed by law, which was
duly approved by the Governor, as he was
advised by eminent counsel, including Mr..
JOHNSON. Mr.. Purnell was commissiel
ed, bonded and qualified under the election
of 1859, which Mr.. jarrett contested be-
fore the House of Delegates, the proper
and legal tribunal to decide the contest
The House not only declared Mr.. Jarrett
elected at that election, but declared fur
ther that Mr.. Purnell was not elected; and
he was therefore, under that decision, a
mere trespasser in office. A person can
not hold over without his first having been
legally placed in office, and Mr.. Purnell,
having bonded and qualified under the cleo
ton of 1859, virtually abdicated the right
to hold over under his former election of
1857; and therefore cannot be considered
in the light of one holding over.
MIR. jarrett has never abandoned the Of
flee; on the contrary, after having bonded
he offered to qualify, and did take the oath
before magistrate in the presence of the
Governor, who refused to administer it.
He then filed his petition for mandamus
both against the Governor and Treasurer,
and has persistently sought to have them
determined, but has been baffled by the
court up to the present day. At its ses-
sion in June, the Legislature authorized
the Judges of the Court of Appeals to ap-
prove the bond of Mr.. Jarrett, and qualify
him. The approval of the bond dates
back to its execution, which was on the
10th March, 1860. Now, the idea that
vacancy existed under the present state of
: facts when DR.. Claude was appointcd, is
absurd.
According to Mr.. Johnson's argument,
any officer at the expiration of his term
can resign before the newly elected one
qualities, create vacancy, and thereby put
it in the power Of the Governor to reap
point him or fill the office with any other
person, and by so doing prevent the pro-
per and legal officer from taking his seat
Such a proposition is too ridiculous for any
man of common sense to entertain.
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ETAn honest confession the New Y

TAn honest confession the New York
Herald makes when it says the Crittenden
compromise was defeated by the abolition
hot-heads in the last Congress and that
"the same disorganizing and bloodthirsty
abolition clique overruled the better judg.
ment of the President and Gen. Scott in
reference to the relief of Fort Sumter, and
without consulting the consequences,
plunged the country into this bloody civil
war" ,......... ~. 49,.
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Another Great Battle in Missouri,

Another terrible slaughter of Federal
troops has taken place and Gen. Lyon has
fallen. He placed his forces against those
Of Generals McCulloch and Price near
Springfield, Missouri, and had pitched
battle. Near the close of it he was struck
by ball and killed instantly. Gen.
Siegel then pursued the Secessionists, and
it is said at last retreated to Rolla, taking
with him s250,OO0 in specie from the
Springfield Bank. The loss of the Federal
troope is said to be 800, and some prison
ers have been taken from the other side.
1t is rumored that Generals McCulloh and
Price we're killed during the engagement.
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-08-17

h1-No body with common intelligence
now believes that the war will restore the
Union or that it is prosecuted for that pur-
pose, but to CRAFTY the revenge of the
Black Republican party, against the South
and to liberate the slaves.
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-08-17
Ng2During the confederation of Canto

baT During the confagration of Canton,
caused by the bombardment of the British,
the extensive medical warehouse of our
countryman, DR.. j. G. AVER, of Lowell
(the depot of his Cherry Pectoral and
Cathartic Pills, for China was totally de-
stroyed. He now makes demand upon
our Government for indemnity from the
loss Of his property, and hence will grow
another nut to crack with our elder broth
er Johnny. Stick to it Doctor; and if our
Government maintains our rights wherever
your Pills are sold, we shall only be un-
protected on tracts that are very barren. -
Retormer, Trenton, ~ j. ~
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FOR MAGISTRATE.

AT the request of numerous friends, the under
signed announces himself candidate for Magis-
trate at the ensuing election, and respectfully So
licts the suffrages of the people Of Bel Air Dis
trict JOHN cox.
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Conscience Va. Constitution.

It'll becomes party at this period to
profess devotion to the Constitution and the
enforcement of the laws, that during its
whoIes existence has placed Conscience
above Constitution, and that has preached
open defiance TO all laws which their ten
der conseienoes did not approve. .,
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-08-17

CIRCULATE THE DOCUMENTS. Every
friend Of Peace in Hartford should endeavor
to increase the circulation of the Egis
The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-08-17

15-The " Southern Egis'' has a more extended cir.
culnon among the intelligent farmers and business men
OF Hartford, than any other paper in the county. No
L6ck Hospital" other obscene or Lottery' adver-
tisenenIs will appear in columns at any price, A
large number OF subscribers pay for their paper
vance, and consequently are just the class advertisers de-
sire 10 reach.
The attention of respectable and legitimate advertisers
ia directed to the above facts.
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4 B ELrAiR, Md
Saturday, August II. 1861.
CHARLES H. CRAFT & CO..

No. 8 Second Story, Franklin Building, ". E.
Corner Of Baltimore and North Streets,
Are our authorized Agents in Baltimore for re-
ceiving advertisements and making collections.
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TRANSPORTATION.
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