Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1853-04-22

House at II o'clock, on Saturday whe
e the guests will be introduced to the tw
n Houses in convention assembled.
e Third That the Governor welcome tn
r guests on behalf of the Legislature, on til
: occasion.
+ Fourth. That the convention partake O
dinner at three and half o'clock, Pm
at the Exchange building, prepared for tn
.. occasion.
The report was read and adopted
r The Militia Bill blouse bilD was re
; considered, and passed-l7 to II.
In the House, the Girard Bank charter
was extended twenty years, by a vote O.
Sc to So.
SATURDAY, April 16.
MARYLAND VISITERS.
The Maryland Visiters were met at the
cars by a committee at York, and escorted
at noon into the Hall Of the House, ac.
companied by two Bands. Col. Slifer and
MIR. Ely Speaker of the Maryland Senate
led the procession, consisting of some 2OC
Members of the Maryland Legislature,
Baltimore Councilmen, and "ropers in
or interlopers from Baltimore &c, and
concluded by the Members and Senate of
the Pennsylvania Legislature. Speaker
Carson, of the Penn'a Senate, took the
Chair, with the Speaker Of the Maryland
Senate on his right and Gov. Bigler on his
left
Gov. Bigler welcomed the distinguished
guests-the Governor of Maryland and
the Mayor of Baltimore being detained by
iliness-ina speech of half an hour, closing
with theassurance that in case ofa division
of our National Union the line between
Maryland and Pennsylvania should not be
the division line, which was well received.
Speaker Ely, a member of the Mary
land Senate, and Member of the Balti-
more Councils, responded, and various
"reminiscences of our Colonial, Revolution
ary, and Internal Improvement history
were revived in happy manner.
A half hour was spent in looking about
the Capital, when the procession was
formed in drizzling rain) and procee-
ded to the Exchange Hotel, where a splen-
did dinner was served up. After the sub
stantials were disposed Of, speeches were
of course in order. We entered when
John c. Kunkle was on the table, reply
ing to some previous insinuation that
Pennsylvania had injured her sister
State of Maryland in her domestic re-
lations. Mr., Kunkle repellcd the insinu-
alton with dignity and with an eloquence
that brought down the most enthusiastic
applause. He declared that he spoke not
alone for those in power but for those on,
of power-for Wings as well as for Dem
ocrats-and lie declared that WHENEVER
the constitutional ghts of Maryland should
be invaded-wHENEvER her domestic
peace should be lawlessi y assailed, Penn
sylvania would do for Maryland what she
had done in 1914. From ere,y free val
ley Of Pennsylvania, from ereJy mountain
side throughout our vast Commonwealth,
our stalwart freemen would combine, and
shoulder TO shoulder would march to the
defence Of their border State.....After Mr..
kunkle, Gen. Packer, Mr.. Southren of
Maryland, Gen. Cameron, Gov Bigler,
Gen. Spencer, Y. Collins Lee, Esq, and
DIR. Watkins of Maryland, Mr.. Henderson,
H. r. of Carlisle, followed, and the meet
ing broke up in perfectly loose and
con-sti-tu- tion-al manner, all hands well
assured that the Union would stick togeth-
er six months longer at least, or there was
no virtue in champagne.
There was some fun on 81 the delicate
subject" after Kunkel's bold and manly
position. One Marylander said there was
very little difference between blacks and
whites anyhow, and he thought our steal
ing them tended to strengthen the bonds
of Union. Another said be liked Penn
sylvania frst-ratc, for his two best slaves
were there. Another said he didn't blame
the darkies for running away. A Penn
sylvanian stated that Maryland had stolen
about as many of our freemen as we had
of their slaves Gen. Cameron paid up
the joke Baltimore had at the expense of
Pennsylvania year before last. (The Bal
timorians expressed surprise that our Sena-
tors and Members could talk so much Eng
GA) The General said an honest Ger
man at York, who was with his frau when
the Marylanders came in, told her who
they were "Why," said she, "Chake,
they are most all ,ohite .tolks r' There
were dozen or twenty colored men watt
ing at the " festive board" some of whom
eyed the Marylanders very intently when
they were speaking on the dedicate
question" and "our Southern brethren"