Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1862-04-17


~duRSDAY Morning, April II, 1852.
BUT ANOTHER STEp.-On Friday last, the
House of Representatives passed by vote Of
80 ayes to 80 nays, the original Senate bill fol
the abolition of slavery in the District Of Column
bia, and it remains only for the President to put
his signature for it to become a law from its
passage, without once consulting the people in
terested in fact, contrary to their express desire
as exhibited by the act Of their Councils. Thus.
Washington city becomes at once free negro
rendezvous, slave hiding place, the fugitive
slave law virtually annule1 and che second sec
ton Of the fourth article Of the Constitution
virtually defed.
Some persons wonder why we of Charles coun-
ty are so much interested in matter which to
their view does not concern US. We contend
that we are vitality concerned in the matter, be-
cause Of it's bringing the ascending slave harbor
nearer to our door and removing our chances OF
entering it. Common sense teaches us its vital
importance. But we would fain ask the iden-
teal question of our adversaries. Why does
immaculate New England so concern themselves
in a matter which cannot possibly affect them
Will some Of the wiseacres answer?
THE bill repeating or removing the restric-
tfon Of color from mail carriers, &C., was also
passed. Thus, step by step, are we moving
onward towards The great goal Of equality of
races.
Let US ask our New England friends, how
they will take this last act, when negro contrac-
tors and mail carriers come in direct competi-
ton with thenl2 When Mr.. Niger plants his
foot upon figure a few shillings under brother
Jonathan's lowest sum and completes thus sue
cessfulIy with him, how will you take it, gentle
men ? As for US, we can do very well, we are
accustomed to have the negro do our labor, and
now they can even relieve us of the burden of
mail transportation. 1t is not the naked fact at
which we look this suits us as we'll as any other,
but we can see no other tendency than the dam
nable heresy of equality of the races. Will the
quietly to this last E? We opine not, whether
North or South.
lave HEY A DLUSh wv QGQ we LOOK over
the records and knowing the inconsistent course
of the Administration party in Congress and
elsewhere, and when we reflect that time and
again the attention of these very men are called
to their inconsistencies, not to say contradictions
and receptions, we are led to inquire, where is
their blush or have they such an inconvenient
companion as conscience and character The
speech of Mr. VOORHEES,, which we published in
our paper few weeks since, called up the re-
cord in a mastery and striking manner. Not
only Mr.. Lincoln, but Mr. Seward and others
had their attention directed to their recorded
declarations; their assurances of firm adherence
to constitutional principles, and as set off their
acts were canyassed. Other able pens and ynicesl
have again and again called them to the record.
The tongues and pens Of the whole country
have ruug it in their ears have contrasted their
declarations with their acts have shown that
their word is broken and their pledges disowned,
and yet they proceed in their violations of faith
and confidence. Their pledges and declarations
are numerous and written in indelble characters,
and their open violations Of those pledges, not
forced or wrung from them, but voluntarily
made, are as glaring as the MONDAY sun. They
assure us that the institutions of the States shall
not be molested and as finishing stroke to such
assurance they strike to destroy wherever they
find opportunity. They declare to the people
their intention to uphold the Constitution and
they aim the dagger at its vitals in the very
instant
Their only excuse in all this is military ne
cessity. Are they necessitated by military ext
gences to make the promise and the pledge,
when they know they will at the next moment
find 1t necessary to violate it Did military
necessity impel Mr.. Lincoln to his inaugural
and after declarations Did such military ne
eessity inspire Mr.. Seward in his letter to our
Minister to England Was it military necessity
which led Mr.. Holt to speak to the people OF
Kentucky in such language as his able letter
contained Did military necessity drive the
old Congress to the passage Of that memorable
resolution on the causes and objects of the war
We rather opine that military necessity had
more to do with this than one would at first
sight imnagine. 1t may be that this immense
army, with all its vast equipment, would not
have found it's way to the field had not such
course been pursued and such language and de-
elaratons been uttered. In this light, it is true
we find much of military necessity, but here
should we stop.
They uttered the pledges recorded, and when
occasion requires they reiterate them they
cashiered Fremont and deceived the people
their after deeds stultifed the whole previous
act. Was the first or the last part of the pro-
gramme occasioned by military necessity?
They volunteered the pledges they wantonly
broke and disregarded them they are daily be-