Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-02-25
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THE VOICE OF MARYLAND.


Of the Legislature of Maryland, opposed 10 the
policy of the present Administrations convened
nv annointment in the Hall of the House OF Dele
rates. ON Thursday, the 18th of February, 1851,
Zen. James Thomas, of the Senate, was calico
to the Chair, and Gen. Solomon Dickinson, OF
the House Of Delegates, was appointed oecreta-
nv; whereupon the following resolutions were
submitted. considered, and adopted, mem con.
Resolred, That it is the duty OF all who love
ther country. TO unite in a strong endeayor, at
the next Presidential election, to deliver 1t from
the hands of men who have threatened, assailed,
and greatly endangered all that Is valuable and
venerable in our institutions.
Resolped. That il is expedicnt that National
Convention be held, to which the people OF all
the States shall be invited to send Delegates, IN
which their will can be automatically ascertained,
and that concert of action produced, which IS es-
sentai to the success of our cause.
ResoIued, That it be, and tits hereby recon-
mended to all persons in tins State, opposed to
the reelection of Andrew Jackson, to elect, IN
such manner and at such time as they may deem
convenient. one Delegate from each Congression-
al District, to meet i'll General Convention IN the
City OF Baltimore, on the second Monday OF De-
cember next; and that this meeting will appoint
two Delegates; one from the Eastern and one
from the Western Shore TO attend the said Con-
vention.
Resoired, That our brethren Of other States,
who, with Us, deprecate The reelection OF An
drew Jackson. be, and they are hereby, invited
TO meet in general Convention, at Baltimore, on
the second Monday of December next, by dele
gates equal in number to the Electors OF Presi-
dent to which their States are respectively emit
tied, in order that, after full consultation, the
H.. NJ Ilntoc far he
Presidency and Vice Presidency. Statesmen the
best established in public confidence, and cacu-
lated to promote our common object-the safety
and welfare of the country.
Joseph ]. Merrick, Esq. for the Western, and
Gen. Solomon Dickinson, for the Eastern Shore,
were then appointed Delegates to the National
Convention.
And having ordered that the foregoing resola-
tions and proceedings be published in the Mary
land Republican, and other friendly prints, the
meetins adjourned.
JAMES THOMAS, Chairman.
SOLOMON DICKINSON, Secretary.
The message adopted on Friday by the Senate,
proposing to defer the close of the session until
Saturday next, was replied to on Saturday last,
by the House of Delegates. They declined to
concur, in hopes that the Senate may be enabled
to close at an earlier date. Ibid.
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RICHMOND, Feb. 81.
The Legislature.-On Saturday, the House
having, in Committee of the Whole, gone through
the Loan Bill, an attempt was immediately made
ia the House, by Mr.. Goode, to postpone it in
definitely, (which proposition he supported at
length, declaring himself utterly opposed to the
principle of borrowing money to carry on i'm
provemements. He was supported in these views
by Messrs. Knox and Jones-both of whom OBJ
jeced to the principle ofloans; the former pre-
ferring recourse to direct taxation, it the peo-
pie required the construction Of Improvements
beyond the adequacy of the funds already pro-
vided; the latter viewing them, as in fact, but
another mode of taxing one part of the Com
monweatll fer the benefit of another, comparing
them in this, to the Tariff, so much reprobated-
and contended that nothing but the public safety,
justified the anticipation in this way, of the re-
sources Of the Republic.
The motion was very warmly opposed by
Messrs. Mason of Frederick, Gholson, Venable,
Preston, Garland of Nelson, Terrill, Anderson
of Botetourt, Williams of Shenandoah, and Cald-
well-on the grounds that the bill had been plac-
ed in Committee of the Whole in an obnoxious
and even odious shape, to its friends, by tack
Ing 10 IL many schemes Ol IOCdt Improvement,
which ought to be effected by the ordinary means,
and which were unworthy to be considered State
Improvements-that the enemies of the loan,
had contributed to put the bill in shape which
ensured its rejection by the House, and the dis
appreciation Of the country-that it was illiberal
while it was in this imperfect condition to get
rid of the subject by side wrnd-that the obvi-
GUS necessity of improving the State, receding
from its elevated station in the Union, for want
of internal Improvement. and the loud call upon
the General Assembly. made by the people, to
do something, demanded that the friends
of this measure should be permitted the oppor-
tunity of putting it in form, which they thought
the most perfect, and which should not force
even the most jealous advocates of improve
ment to vote against the Loan Bill, as they
would be compelled to do in its present unac-
ceptable shape. Appeals were made to Mr..
Goode to withdraw his motion; but that gentle
man was too experienced Parliamentarian, to
forgo the advantage given to those against any
enlarged system Of State Improvement, by re-
framing TO press his motion. at the instant, when
the bill, by the righteousness Of friends. and
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