The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-10-05
District Meeting.

In pursuance of a call for primary meetings in
the several election districts for Hartford county,
to appoint delegates to a county convention, to
be held in Bel Air, on Tuesday, the I'd day of
October, 1866, to nominate four candidates for
the House of Delegates, and County Surveyor,
a meeting convened at Dublin in the 9Th cleo
ton district on Saturday. the Goth of Septem-
Der, 1866, and was organized by calling James
Silver, Esq, to the Chair, and appointing
Stephen S. Johns, Secretary, when Joseph r.
Ely, Esq, offered the following resolutions, which
were adopted and after appointing delegates to
the county convention the meeting adjourned:
Resolved That we hereby reaffirn our devo-
ton to the Union, and our intention to obey,
uphold and enforce the Constitution, and the
laws passed in pursuance thereof, as the supreme
law ofthe land.
Resolved, That the States are entitled to ex-
ercse all the rights not S ecialy granted, or by
necessary implication belonging to the general
government, and while under the Constitution no
State has right TO secede from the Union, so
the general government has no authority to de-
stroy State or to refuse to one State the rights
or immunities enjoyed by other States, or in any
way to interfere with the reserved powers of the
States OF any of them, without their consent.
RESOLVED, That one of the reserved powers of
the States, most essential to their welfare is that
of determining to whom the elective franchise
shall be granted, and we hereby express our I'M
qualified opposition either to the State of Mary
land comforting this privilege upon the negro or
to the general government forcing negro suff-
rage upon us without the consent of the State.
Resolved, That the present registry law has
been made an instrument Of oppression upon
the people of this State that any necessity which
may have existed for such legislation has now
ceased to exist, and that a law so degrading and
obnoxious should be repealed
| ReSOlypd That we hereby eYnress on upnuo1;
fled opposition to any man for the legislative de-
partment of this State, who will not pledge HIM
self to support and vote Tor the unconditional re-
peal of the registry law.
Resolved, That the delegates chosen by this
meeting be instructed to vote for no man for a
candidate for the Legislature, who will not pledge
his vote to the unconditional repeal of said Reg
istry Law.
Resolved That President johnson, in his eff.
forts TO restore all the States to their proper DO
sition in the Union, and to restore peace har-
mony and mutual respect among the people of
the various States, has provided policy founded
on the Constitution dictated by wisdom and pa
trotism, which meets with our cordial approval
and we hereby tender to him our confidence and
support.
ResolOed That this meeting recognize in our
present candidate for Congress- Stevenson Ar
cher, man of unblemished character, wisdom,
integrity and patriotism, and we pledge to him
our confidence and support
Resotoed, That we cordially approve of the
declaration of principles contained in the resolu-
ton and address adopted at Philadelphia, on the
10th of August last, by the National Union Con-
vention there assembled, and that we adopt and
accept the same as our platform Of principles.
JAMES SILVER, President.
S. s. JOHNS Secretary.
Gss" The names Of the delegates appointed by
this meeting will be found in the proceedings of
the County Convention.