Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-07-04
State Convention of the Friends of Pence
in Delaware.

In Delaware.
The friends of peace in Delaware held a State
Convention at Dover, on Thursday last, and as
1t is the first organized movement of the kind
since the present disastrous troubles have cul-
minated in civil war, its proceedings cannot fail
to attract public attention. We therefore make
up the following report from the Delaware
Gazette
The cars left Wilmington in the morning at
. o'clock with about $50 on board. This num-
Der was increased at every station along the
route. Notwithstanding many of the farmers
were cutting their hay in New. Castle county.
and others were in the commencement of both
the wheat and hay harvest In Kent and Sussex,
I 10 apsnaon wnIcn was very rnJufr1ls the uUpc
and sinew OF the land ss1efe present in great
numbers. The Stars and Stripes waved beauti-
fully above the cars, and amid the beams of a
brilliant sunlight and famed by gentle breeze,
the mass landed at Dover about III o'clock,
and forming in procession marched to the town.
train of eight or ten cars had already arrived
| from Sussex county.
The meeting was declared by many present
to be the largest that was ever held in Dover.
Certainly it was immensely larger than any we
had ever attended there
Ex-Gov Temple presided, assisted by thirty
one Vice-Presidents. Ex-Gov. r., on taking
the Chair, declared that he was both a Peace
man and a Union man, land II the language Of
the late MIR. Douglas, believed that war was
| fiisunon
| On motion of the Hon. VIM. G.. Whitley,
committee OF ten from each hundred was APP
pointed to prepare business for the melting
During their absence Mr.. Whitley was called
upon for speech, in the course of which he
declared that he did not believe there was sim
gle secessionist in the State, and that the flag of
his country Was as dear to bin as ever ; chat he
had done all that he could to prevent the States
seeding, but they had gone ont, and that he
did not believe it was in the power of the North
| to subdue the South.
Thomas F. Bayard followed in speech Of
about three-quarters of an hour When he con-
Guided, DR.. John Merrett, the chairman of the
committee, read the following resolutions, which
were unanimously adopted:
1. Resolved, That whilst we deeply dep1ore the
revolution which has severed eleven States from the
Union, we prefer peace to civil war, and believe
that if reconciliation by peaceful means shall be-
pendence of the Confederate States is preferable
an attempt to conquer and hold them as subjugated
provinces.
2. That the reign of terror attempted to be in
augurated by the war party, by denouncing all
men disunionists, secessonists and traitors who
are opposed to civil war, and to the palpable and
SIOSS VI CIle COInInlttcO Dy
the present Adminstra ton, will not deter us from
the expression of our opinions, both privately and
publicly. -
3. That we believe the effect of the doctrines and
measures of the party, if not their object and
intent, under the name of preserving the Union,
will be the subverson of the State governments,
and the erection of consolidated government on
the ruins of the Federal Constitution.
Resolved, That we te ndcr our grateful thanks to
Senators Bayard and Salisbury for the bold and
patriotic stand they assumed, in the second session
of the 36th Congress, for the maintenance of the
peace and prosperity of our now distracted country
means to bring the civibwar which now hangs
us like incubus, to speedy close, and that if
in their judgment other mode presents itself
whereby this end can be attained, advocate the
acknowledgement by the United States government
of the independence of the Confederate States,
that peace and prosperity may be restored among
US.
RESOLVED, That the menace demanding the resig-
nation of the Hon. James A. Bayard, one of our
Senators in the Senate of the United States, orig
mated in mob spirit, and should receive from him
| the scorn and contempt which it merits from every
honorable man.
Resolved That in the opinion of this meeting.
there is necessity for converting the Legislature
of this State
The meeting was ably and eloquently address
sed by A. f. King, James r. Booth, Edward
Ridgeley, Esqs., and Messrs. Henderson and
Paynter and DR.. Edward Worrell. The meet
ing then, about 81 O'Clock, adjourned with three
cheers for the Constitution Of the United States.
NOTICE.
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