Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1862-03-06

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THE LEGISLATURE OF MARYLAND.-OnM Mon
day next, the 10th instant, by constitutional
limit, this body will adjourn, and so far WI
know of no remarkable acts by it passed or per
formed When we say remarkable, we simply
mean, none 50 remarkable as to hand it dowI
"a superior to any other Of bygone days. True
there have been attempts to enact bills of ex
cecdingly remarkable character, for instance thu
Oath Of Allegiance bill, but so far we arc hap
py in knowing that no such enactment, as t.
place the solemn administration Of an oath upor
the common footing of jest or by-worf ha.
been placed upon the statute books Of our good
old Maryland.
We confess to much surprise at the sagcrness
With which Maryland's Legislature has beer
disposed to hunt Maryland's sons. That Mary
land possesses bad men within her limits, as well
as any other State, we are not disposed to deny
but that it becomes the Legislature Of Maryland
to bear harder upon their own people than
Massachusetts would have done in her stead, we
do deny. Is Southern sympathizcr in Mary
land worse from his location than one in New
York? Is a man who openly deies the Con-
sttution Of the United States worse than State
thus bidding defiance? Is man who simply
claims that which the Constitution emphatcally
guarantees to him, to be set as mark for the
Legislature of Maryland, simply because Of
geographical position or because forsooth he
differs, upon political question, from those in
power? Or is it, that to show their own loyal
ty they must needs involve some other? Upon
what grounds do they of one section Of the State
of Maryland base their pharisaical doctrine of
Il am holier than thou 2" 1.-THE good old State
of Maryland cannot be trusted by her own Leg
islature. in the name of Heaven, by whom can
she he trusted? Why then should Maryland
be so hard upon Maryland? Is it species of
self-instituted and self-inHicte6 punishment for
her conservatism and criminalty in being bor
der State, or is it that all this is aimed at the
three or four lower counties of Maryland be-
cause of niggerdom? True we Of the lower
counties Of the State are possessed of few ne
groes, while tho more northern part of the State
is exempt FROM this incubus, as they are pleas
ed to call it, and thus, like the dog in the man.
ger, they cannot consume the nay themselves.
nor will they permit the OK to eat it. And it
may be we'll indeed, whilst they are thus pre-
venting the OK from partaking of that which is
Wholesome to him, they may virtually starve
themselves
One question we would put to this honorable
body: If State has no rights within itself,
why should State Legislature travel beyond
the record and take upon itself that which Con-
gress would blush to do? Perhaps, however,
State has the right to Cypress her people though
not to protect them. If so, we succumb
We are not disposed to be fault finding, but
there is yet another point ia whichMwe would
suEges = 15t0Tmatiou Tor Time to
come. II is this: The newspaper reports Of
give only the title Of a bill without
throwing any light upon its provisions, and the
people are not informed of the law or enact
mcnts till June following. Would it not then
be greatly advantageous to the "dear people"
were their representatives to furnish them with
more minute details of important bills, or, bet
ter STILL to order their publication in all the
newspapers Of the State at the time the law is
made? How are we to keep the law if We know
It not z
l%We are happy to learn that Mr.. q. '.
Posey, who was supposed to have been drown
ed while attempting to cross the Wicomico in
small boat during the severe gale of last Mon
day week, has safely returned homo. Kisses
cape from drowning, VIC learn, was almost
miraculous.
LATE FROM EURopE.-The late foreign nows
received by the Arabia, places the answer Of
Earl Russell, in regard to the stone blockade, in
a somewhat different point of view from that
which was at first made public. When Lord
Stanley called attention to the reports Of add-
tional stone blockades at Charleston, and asked
what steps tho Government would take, Earl
Russell replied that no official information of
the fact had been received, and be could not
therefore say whether the reports were correct
OF not. The British Government, be said, had
already protested against the permanent destruc-
ton Of any harbor, and the American Govern
ment had disclaimed any intention of perrna-
neutly destroying them. The British Govern.
ment is about to lay all the correspondence and
other documents relating to the blockade before
Parliament. Captain Craven, of the Tuscarora,
has written strong letter to the London Ame-
rican, charging the British Government with
collision in relation to the escape Of the Nash
Vile. Mana Sahib, or the man supposed to be
him, for his identity does not appear, as yet, to
have been satisfactorily established, has been
sent to Bombay in irons. The Independence
Beige declares, positively, that the Arch-Duke
Macmillan, of Austria, has accepted the prohhr
of the Mexican throne; but the British Govern
ment disclaims all intention Of supporting any
candidate that is not sustained by the votes of
the Mexican people. The French papers ex
press the belief that England will withdraw