Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-11-10

The great Mass Meeting in Baltimore, on
Thursday night, 1.-THE I'd instantly adopted the
following ringing resolves:
"Resolced, That we view with apprehension
and alarm the course and conduct Of the Pres
ident of the United States in the alacrity with
which he has assumed an arbitrary authority
and the wantonuess with which he has exer-
csed despotic power; that the reign of terror
inaugurated in South Carolina appeals t" all
that is wise in craftsmanship, dutiful in pa
triotism, humane in Christianity. and mainly
in frecmen, to condemn and deplorc; that his
invasion Of that State is as unwarranted by
necessity and as nnjustificd by facts AS it Is in
eXcusable in morals aud unauthorized by the
Constitution that his conduct is at variance
with the duties, trusts and obligations "f his
office, and is sustained by no constitutional
precedent or public necessity; that the man
uer Of the late proclapiation, equally with its
matter, displays reckless contempt of public
opinion, the organic law, and popular liberty;
and We deprecate and ,leuounce the act As un-
worthy of patriot and revolutionary in a
President
"Resolped, That the principles assaled by
the outrage upon South Carolina constitute
the vtals. the life-spring Of republican insti-
buttons; that wound inflicted upon them
through the most distant State or humblest
citizen, is death blow at our whole political
fabric, and that their prompt re-assertion and
vigorous vindication is the first grave and SOL
emn duty of the American people.
"Resolced, That the impnDty of past nsur-
patous has encouraged the arbitrary assump-
ton which has produced the present moment
Gus crisis: that popular patience has been per-
verted and abused by per6dious partisans and
misconstrued into a submission that would
brook subsection and that, taking advantage
of such misplaced faith and confidence, they
have ventured upon the monstruus crime which
wounds the Republic in its most vital part,
and arms President with a de>pot's sword.
"Resolced, That the Constitution provides
that Congress alone shall have power to sus-
pend the writ of ha5eas corpus, and then only
| in the presence of grave aud serious national
emergency and by solemn and formal act !;
that Congress has no right or authority to del
egate such power and to invest the discretion
of a President with its most important aud
solemn function that the assumption Of such
a power by the President dspaces and 3es-
troys the fundamental system of our Govern
ment, and. in the language of President Fierce,
ieaVeS IL repuOlIc III uauIe, ouI " ihouaiCuy
in fact; and that Congress- having no right to
confer, nor the President to receive, such pow
er, the recent precipitate and arbitrary exer-
else of it tends rather to show the dangerous
greed of an ambitious mind than the Jealous
patriotism of dutiful officer.
"Resolved, That we perceive in the recent
conduct of the President manifestations of that
weakness which yields readily to the tempta-
tons of power, and symptoms of an ambition
most dangerous in man entrusted with au-
thority. That as the wisdom of our fathers
strove to guard against the very conduct of
which the President has been guilty, by erect
ing the safeguards of late overthrown, we de-
mand their immediate and thorough restora-
ton, and arraign their assailant at the bar of
an outraged country.
"Resolued, That the blow which strikes
down nine counties of South Carolina wounds
American liberty and dsgraces and degrades
American intelligence, and that we appeal to
every patriotic citizen of the land, no matter
what his past political predictions may have
been, to unite with US in our solemn protest
and to make common cause with us in our
efforts at the ballot-box to restore the Consti-
tuition our only ark Of safety-and the in
situations what alone guarantee the blessings
of liberty"