Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1836-11-24
RI His ErccHeacy, THO'S w. YEA
ZEY. Governor Of Maryland.
A PROCLAMATION.

perpetuating an essential branch OF the
Legislative Department of the Govern
ment, as Of providing for such changes
in the members thereof periodically, as
the people might desire to make, 1t was
provided that the people of the several
counties, and of the cities OF Baltimore
and Annapolis, duly qualified as elects
ors, should, on the first Monday OF
September last, elect two persons Tor
each of the said counties, and a per-
son for each of the said cities, to be
Electors ofthe Senate, who we're re-
quired to meet in the city of Annapo-
lis, on the third Monday Of said month:
and they, or any twcnty.four OF tllen'
so met, we're directed, after having
qualified in the manner provided Tor,
10 proceed to elect fifteen Senators,
who, when so elected, and duly quail
fed as such, were TO constitute tine
Senate of Maryland" in the place OF
those who then constituted that pfahch
Of the General Assembly.
And Whereas, eighteen of the per-
IONS who we're chosen as Electors, IN
pursuance of the aforesaid provisions
ofthc Constitution, and in conformity
to law, have failed TO perform the duty
enioined upon them us aforesaid, by
refusing, and continuing to refuse, or
neglect to meet the other Electors who
have attended, qualified and held them
selves in readiness to perform their du-
ty in consequence whereof no new
Senate has yet be~en-elected.
And Whereas, the said unfaithful
agents of the people, in addition to their
violation of the duty as aforesaid, seem
vainly to have imagined that the effect
Of their conduct would be the destruc-
ton and overthrow of the Constitution
and Government Of the State, which
many, if not oil of them, had hereto
fore sworn to support /; and, according
ly presumptuously proceeded to recom.
mend measures for substituting another
Constitution and Government for that
which they seem to have supposed they
had destroyed, or, at least, mortally
wounded.
And Whereas, sundry evil disposed
or misguided citizens have taken, and
are continuing to pursue and prosecute
measures IN accordance with said re-
commentator, and designed to carry
out and consummate the disorderly de-
signs and purposes aforesaid.
And Whereas, these unprecedented,
unconstitutional, disorderly and revo.
dictionary occurrences and proceedings
although wholly inefficient to accom-
plish any of the avoweo objects Of those
engaged in them, are fraught with in
c~alculable evils and m~ischiefs, and mast,
if persisted in, and sustained by any
considerable portion Of the people,
greatly disturb thetranquility and peace
of the State, impair her credit and re-
sources, arrest her great works of in
ternal improvement, blight her lately
brilliant prospects o~fincreasing prospe-
rity, and, finally, involve US in all the
horrors and unspeakable calamlties of
anarchy, intestine commotion, and CT
VII WAR, and therefore demand from
the Executive the adoption of such
Constitutional AMI legal measures as
may seem to them best adapted to quiet
the public mind, which has been thus
wantonly disturbed /: to defeat the un-
holy designs AMI purposes aforesaid,
and maintain and support the Consti-
luton and authority of the Govern
ment, by all the means and powers with
which they are entrusted.
And Whereas, we are well advised,
and entirely satisfied, that the afore-
said unfaithGul "Trustees of the pub
lic," and their abettors, have as entire
ly mistaken their power of destroying
the Constitution and Government of
the State, as they have clearly violated
a solemn duty-that the Constitution
and Government yet exist IN all their
integrity and power-that tho Senate
elected in September, 1881, continue
10 be "the Senate of Maryland,' and
will SO continue until superseded by the
election of successors, as constitution
ally and lawfully provided Cor, and
with the House of Delegates elected in
October last, now constitute " the &c.
neral Assembly" Of this State.
Now, THEREFORE,, !, THOMAS w.
VEAZEY, Governor Of the State OF
Maryland, with the advice ofthe Coun-
Gil, and in virtue of the authority vest
ed In me by the Constitution, deeming
1t proper and necessary, in the present
crisis oil our affairs, hat the General
Assembly should be convened before
the time fixed for the next annual SEES.
sion, to which it stands adjourned, do
HEREBY APPOINT q PROCLAIM MON.
DAY, the 2ISt Of Norember, instant,
as the time of the next meeting Of the
General Assembly, and call upon and
require the several Senators and De-
legates to attend at the Seat OF Co.
vernment, on that day, to take INTO
consideration the present condition of
our Dublic affairs aud adOnt Such mea.