The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1864-04-23
THE CONVENTION.

1hh SVNv ENI1ONs
On Wednesday next tho Maryland
Constitutional Conyen ion will assemble
At Annapolis. The Union men of Mary
land center their hopes Of dcliyerance
from the bondage which has been fast
ened on them by the slave power, on the
prompt and unhesitatiug action Of that
Convention. The Convention will have
PLAZA duty before it to perform: Let
II annul the DEGREES of the slave aris-
,ooracy, which has been forging letters
for half a century for the limbs Of the
laboring white classes, while they preps-
gated the stupondous lie that those
bonds were alone intended for the negro.
10 foster and perpetuate slavery, it is
necessary that enterprise and education
should be eramped and dwarfed; for the
moment those Jewellers have untrsmmel-
ID freedom, the slow and sluggish insti-
tuition Of slavery is overrun and ohokod
eu,.
In the northern couHtiss of the State
the eneroaohments of free schools and
Individual enterprise have stranglcd
slavery, and nothing but lis name and
t;tles remain to insult and threaten the
/ thrift Of those eountios with its arrogant
! DYetepsions.
II the forthcoming Convention fuldlls
is dusy, it will set to work in earnest,
and uproot the noxious institution, and
/ make clear the soil Of Maryland for the
thrift and enterprise, uuincumbcrcd by
sho dark nightmare Of slavery, which is
I waiting to advance and cause orr State
! TO tcam with the busy hum Of industry,
and the wealth Of commerce, agriculture
and the arts.
Z This fundamental change in her or.
| sanic law and few other alterations
I effected, tho Convention may dissolve
/ and wait the fruits of its labors With that
vell-founded hopo whish accompanies
the husbandman who has scattered his
seed upon good ground. The people are
ia earnest in this matter and expect their
Delegates to shake off, or rather repel
/ the FIRST feeling Of that slavery stupor
which is said to settle upon, and cloud,
Siikc Morpheus, the brains Of oil law
makers who assemble in tho city of
I" Ancient Severn"
I They will doubtless ind tho slave
power warm advocates Of Emancipation,
fvi,h State, and all other kinds Of eompen-
tset,on, that they can lay hold Of, for
they, too, appear TO be progressive be-
Fings, and draw nearer to the great
siaminary of the moral world, Liberty, as
HtAe planets are supposed to approach the
sgreat light and center Of their system,
she Sun. AT the beginning of the rebel
slien to establish the empire of slavery as
sths chief power on the Western cont,-
snent, its advocates spurned the slightest
advance toward compensation, just as the
~hole rsbol tribe rallied out against tho
"ea.h Of allegiance. Now, however,
che oath Of allegiance is quito favori.e
9th them, when that other doctrine Of
aisfranehising rebels has begun to make
i.s way among the progressive ideas Of
The rebellion so, also, Emancipation
rttA compensation" is quite popular with
ssho slavery party, since the institution
mas boen shorn of its former strength. -
s7he rebels evidently advance but they
manage to advance no faster than to take
lup those old positions which have been
abandoned by tho Union men as things
sef the past, and to which they were
invited, but refused with scorn to occupy,
when aid to their country would have
been rendered BY their doing SO. -
Let the Delegates be not moved by
.the out cry of the rebel emissaries who
will meet them in the Convention, but
proceed to knock of the shaekles Of the
wealth aud industry Of our State in the
shortest possible time. Don't parley
with those slavery exousers, for they
,assn Southern Coufederaey and slave
-smpire, and all assertions to the contrary
are plausible lies invented by the enemy
The people expect to see in the Conven.
tiou little less--aye, good deal less
--eringing to the slave power, and more
living interest ia tho affairs Of those WHIT
ordered it TO meet, than was shown b.
.ths last Legislature.
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REMOVAL OF HXNRY CLAr's RE-
MAINs.-'rhe remains OF Henry Clay
after Al iuterment of twelve years, were
removed last week. upon tho death o
ahis wife, and placed side b. side viii
ahers, beneath the beautiful mona men
erected to his memory in the Lexington
t,emetery. A wreath Of immortelles
placed upon bis coffin by the poetess