Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-03-09
THE MARYLAND RESOLUTIONS.

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We are happy to be able to publish the Resolu.
tons of the Legislature of the State of MARYLAND,
with the explanatory introduction of the Baltimore
paper from which copied the first notice of their
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BALTIMORE sus MAacH2.
MARYLAND SLAVERY REsoLUTIoNs.-The Ma
tional lntelligencer of yesterday copies our an
nouncement of the fact that the series Of resolu-
tons previously adopted by the House of Delegates,
declaring the position of MARYLAND as slavehold-
ing State, had passed the Senate with slight
amendment and ventures to predict that the amend
ment made by the Senate will be found to be ma
! teriai. The Intelgencer is evidently laboring
under the impression that the resolutions, as first
introduced in the House, were passed by that body
without amendment, whereas the tWo sets of reso-
luiions acere essentially different in almost erery
particular. The following are the resolutions as
passed in the House, and we learn that the only
amendment made by the Senate was mere tech
nicality, in nowise affecting their character or
substance:
st. Resofred unanimously by The General Assembly of
Maryland, That the State Of Maryland ceded the United
States that part of the District of Columbia originally en-
baced within her Territorial limits in good faith for perma
nen seat Of Government of The Union, relying upon the
tegry of purpose the part Of the General Government and
upon its strict compliance with the Of cession in their
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I'd. Reoiped unanimously, That the State of MARYLAND
designed did the General Government a, the time
Of cession, contemplate the using of the sovereignty the
District Of Columbia to the dement Of the local Institutions
of the State cf Maryland.
Sd. Resolued unanimously That the State Of Maryland
Was the time Of the adoption OF the Federal Constitution,
and is now, in feeling and in all the features Of her consu
ton and her laws, essentially fully, and unequirocaly
slaveholding State
4h. Resolred unanimously, That any attempt by Con-
gess abolish slavery in the District Of Columbia would be
violation Of the implied conditions of the cesson just
Of alarm the slaveholng States and have direct
and inevitable tendency to disturb and endanger the Union
5rh. Resoired unanimously, That the State Of Maryland
loves and values the Union for the gloes Of the past the
happiness Of the present. and the high desnes Of the FUTURE
and she believes truly American and patriotic heart would
wish to disturb the great compromises which have made and
can alone sustain and preserve it would willingly the
powers of the Federal Government for the purpose foppess
ing rampng upon the rights and interests Of any Of the
States.
6th Resolced unano,ssly That the Territories Of the
United States belong the several States Of this Cnon and
the Congress Of the United States ghuy pass any
aw do any which is calculated prevent dete. the
citizens Of any Of the said States from removing and
Ting with their property of every description, upon said Ter
ritores. ~EM
7th Resoired unanimously, That recu with pride and
satisfaction to the concaory and friendly feeling that per-
vaded the council board of the old thirteen States when
present glorious constitution made and following the
ample then set by our fathers would in this day Of
difficulty and trial, invoke similar spirit attend the dis
tacted councils Of the Federal Union but if be dsap
ourselves and the people of the United States that should
declare that Maryland will take her position with her Southern
sisters in the maintenance of the Constitution with all its
promises the preservation of the Union, and the vndcaon
of her own just rights.
9Th. Resolred unanimousl That our Senator'S in Con-
gess and Representatives be requested to in conformity
to the foregoing resolutions
9th. Resoired unanimously, That the Governor Of this
State be requested transmit copy Of the foregoing resou
tons the Executive of each Of the States Of this Union
with the request that the be laid before their respective
Legislatures and also copy each of Senators and
Representatives in Congress
These Resolves, in the patriotism of their sent-
ments, in their devotion to the Union, in their de
termination to maintain it " with all its compro-
mises"-without which it never could have exist
ed-are all that the most loyal friend of the Union
and of the State of Maryland could wish them to
be. They give no countenance to the proposed
Southern Contention much less to the idea of a
Southern Coyede'acy, which has been held up, in
some quarters, as the end to be attained through
the means of Southern Confederation: for we do
not understand the Declaration in the seventh of
the above Resolves to mean that in any probable
event. MARYLAND will stake her destiny, for veal
or for wo, upon the action of any Convention of
States short of one of all the States, the only sort
of Convention which the Constitution of the United
States authorizes or permits.