The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1899-08-04

MEETING OF DIRECTORS.
October 10, II, 10 and tS the Days
Named for the Fair.
q amblinG Devices 10 Excluded and
Every HAY to be IL Big bay.

Every Hay 10 be u HE bay.
The Directors of the Hartford County Agricul-
| tural Society met in Bel Air, on Tuesday
There were present Messrs. james Lee, Presi-
| dent; j. W. McNabb, Secretary; John H.
keckord, Robert c. Richardson, Martin +.
Ridgely, Christian Smith, George c. Proctor
and Joseph ii. Archer.
The ommittee on Repairs to the bui dings
and grounds, consisting of Messrs. ReckOrd,
Lee and Bruins, reported through Mr.. Reckord
that they had made thorough examination of
the premises and thought nothing was reQuireI
on the main exhibition building. They recon
mel. dcd hat the swinging doors in front of the
grand stand be TAXED AWAY and permanent
mood be substituted for them. The doors, the
committee thought, not only require repairing
but are dangerous. They advised tearing down
the unsightly and unsafe sheds used for the
sale OF Ice cream, &c, and the erection OF Il
continuous building III place OF them. The
fencing should all be taken down, new posts
inserted and the old boards used as far as prac-
ticable. They advised fence or feet in
height i'll The rear of the fair grounds, with
three strands oil barbed wire on top OF It, For
the front they recommended hgn and solid
board fence. Thirty new horse stalls Tor trot-
ting horses are needed. MIR. richardson sug-
gested that these be built on the high ground
above the present stalls. The hog and sheep
pens and poultry house are in need of repairs.
The report was adopted, subject to such
notifications as may hereafter be deemed
necessary and eXpedient by the GARD.
The subject OF water on the fair grounds was
discussed and it was suggested that the town
water supply could be made available at
moderate cost by laying tine pipes from Dr.
kellys farm or from tine man pipe on the
turnpike. The pumps on the grounds are out
OF order and the water unpalatablef for want of
use.
1t was determined to hold the fair on October
10th, 18th, 18th and 18th.
The stock subscribed for namely, So 900, is
required 10 be paid by August 18th, and an
effort will be maue to increase the capital stock
to $4,000.
1t was resolved to admit the public school
children OF The con ty 10 The fair free OF cha re
during the entire four days. For this purpose
tickle S OF admission will be sent t. each teach |
er to be distributed to the pupils |
\ Committee on Premium List and Printing
was appointed, consisting OF Messrs. Archer, |
Reciord aud Ridgcly.
TIE Committee on Races consists of MCSsrs
Richardson, Andrew and Bruins.
1t was hoped 10 make every day big one by /
offering attractions and by cndeavoring to have |
the exhibits on the ground the day before the |
fair opens.
Tile board determined to exclude from the |
fair grounds al gambling devices.
The next meeting will take place on Monday,
August 18th, at l A. NJ.
The Meeting AT Bush. March 22 ', HTS.
As there seems to be rapidly getting abroad
in the county and state gross misconccpton
the purport of the resolutions |
adopted by our local revolutionary committee
at Bush tthen called Hartford TOWN., ON the 22d
HlarCb, 1I15, L Will explain, as briefly us the !
as derived from iEcontrovertible |
authorizes. The resolutions were as follows:
We, the committee OF Hartford county,
having most seriously and maturely considered
the Resolves and Associations of The Continent
tai Cor q .esS and the Resolves CT the Provincial
Convention do most heartily approve of the
particular manner entrusted by our constitu- |
ents to see them carried into execution, we do
most sOiemnly pledge ourselves to each other
and to our country to engage ourselves by
every tie held sacred among mankind, to per- |
form the same at the risque of our lives and
fortunes"
The resolves and associations referred to had
leen adopted by the Congress in the preceding |
November, and following their lead, by the
Convention, in December, the latter |
loGy urging that the people should put rway
Ill differences religious and political, and cor
Italy unite in defense Of our common rights
md liberties" The committees of the several
counties sanctioned, in their turn, these !
measures of the two higher bodies
If course, the whole question turns upon the
nature OF "re-olves end associations adopted
" the Congress and approved by the Convcn- |
ion, as no otuer matter was referred 70 in the ,
resolutions Of 22d March. The object of the ;
congress was, to touch the pocket-nerre Of the
mother country, and with this view. they q
pledged themselves TO non-importation, eX-
uding ever, thing not necessary for subSiSt-
nee; and although going much into detail, they ,
.ept closely to this one subject The Maryland
Convention merely resolved to carry out this 9
Measure, and the revolutionary committee of i
uch county came to thu same resolution
The language used by the Hartford County
Committee was certainly more earnest and de-
ermned than that of other county committees;
nut in none of them was there even hint OF d
or of anything resembling it.
| owe it to self TO make here a personal
EXPLANATION, having once been led INTO this +
mistake; and, truth to say feeling
revolutionary Ass citation formed in Bel Z
.ir, | WIS assured by a prominent member, ,
hat among the papers then on hand, or which
Don would be Exhibited, was u "declaration of !,
adopted at u meeting of the =
Ocal committee, ante dating the declaration of
uly 4th, 70 This was the very document -
which 1 am now dlscrediting. On the mere '
Vord of this member. and without having an
opportunity of examining il, l published in ,
TIE 1EytS short communication especting the
natter, Just as had been Informed On seeing
he original, soon aftet wares, at once detected
he error and have never since, for one mo-
nent, thought that the resolution in question :
lad any reference at all to independence, and l
AVE more than once said SO in print.
So far has this gross misinterpretatiOn gone,
# late, that the claim is now made that the | +.
amous Mecklenhurg Declaration of Indepen- L
lenee. drawn two months later, was c0pied from -,
he Bush resolutions.
Now, the Mecklenburg declaration was in
he sc unmiSakahle words: I'VE do
hereby dissolve the political bonds which have
connected us with the Mother Country.
We are. and of right ought to be, a sovereign ,
ind self. governing people, under the power of
} cd and of the General Congress-"
Such language speaks for itself, and COM |
nent would be superfiuous.
will venture to add that the actual deeds of
)ur local revolutionary patriots are quite suf- |
fcient to transmit their memory to remote |
us msntully equal to the momen- |
Gus occasion that confronted them; and that !
sny Interpolation of the fictitious into the ir |
record, so far from hOnOring them-howeVer |
Kindly intended-wCuid be an insult TO their |
The mSintcrpreted document was, however, |
I cary tHl"ifGtR ore. That the signcrs them |
selves SO considered it is shown by the fact that,
If all their meetings Uhirty- one in nUmber) this |
S the only one i'll which their autograph sigma |
lures are appended II 8 resolution. IN all the
other proceedings the Secretary has merely
riven the names of those present at each
meeting, stating that the gus stion has been de-
tidc'i SO and SO, by II msjorly, or unanimously,
as the case may be.
By all means let the proposed celebration Of
Lha I2orh anniversary OF the Bush meeting
he held. No one viii give il more earnest sup |
port than myself. Nearly ali the meetings of
the Revolutionary Committee of the county |
were held there lat our Chamber in the Court
House. us they sometimes expressed them
selves. This court House had, before 1773, |
been known as The Brick Tavern" 1t is said
to have been burned down about Fl 'ty yeas
ago. and now its site is marked only by an area
Of scattered rubbish. 1t is, however, none the
less spot sacred to liberty-being the ions ct
that was done in our county |
towards promoting independence. And surely |
no one can say that Hartford county, the infant, |
(she was born in 1TI3D was not, therefore, in |
the front rank in the good cause.
GEO. w. ARCHER.
July %, 80.
AN EX-SECRETARY OF STATE.