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a5-A large and respectable meeting
was held in centreville, Queen Annes
County, on Saturday last, to express op-
position 10 the proceedings Of the late
slavery convention OF Annapolis. The
Meeting was called to order by the Hon.
I. b. Hopper. After chairman and Sc
cretary were appointed, VIM. Carmichael
Esq. proposed that committee should
be named by the chair, to report such
measures in regard to the Slavery Con-
vention as they should deem proper and
advisable, whereupon, himself and four
Others were appointed to draft such re-
port. When the committee retired Judge
Hopper addressed the meeting. He had
heard, he said, that the meeting was cal.
led an anti-slavery meeting, he denied it;
he was a slave holder himself; and was
surrounded by slave holders; and said he,
while referring to the proceedings of the
convention, "whilstI willingly accord to
others the right to do as they please in
this matter, will not tamely yield up the
government of my consieuce, or my pro-
perty, to any set of men," The Judge
read long and strongly written memorial
to the Legislature, which he had prepared,
but which he declined submitting to the
committee, having been shown report
which he lik ed better His memorial and
the report of the committee have been
laid on our table, but we have only room
TO give the ending of the report, which is
as follows, sin conclusion, your COM
mt'ee say, that believing as they do in
sincerity and truth, that the resolutions,
which they have commented on at large,
are unwise, unjust, partial, and unconsti-
lu'ional, they will, in what ever shape
they assume, never cease to oppose them,
by all legal, and constitutional means.'