New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-22

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to acknowls>"e that compliment. II was long since
the part, which COW controlled and gave character TO
that Legislature bcd been 60 fortunate as to have ma
oIy in both brancSee and II had now conducted it.
SET probably be long ere woua be so for
tunate again. The gentlemen comprising that party
seemed TO be surprised at bSr present power thar
theropponens and reminded him OF tie story Of the be-
wildeTed individual, who, awakening ap6 finding him
self surrounded with the appliances of Idxury,
imagined himself lord Sudden elevation had changed
tie character Of the individual accidentally raised to
position for which he was never intended. Those
who imagined it ever would be otherwise might fud
themselves undeceived by looking at the Maryland
Legislature Within the brief period Of rs power it
had applied its fingers to every department of legisa-
tioD and, though perhaps deficient 10 common sense
it had shown extraordinary aptitude in teaching
everything TO the world inexperienced in the ordi
nary affairs of legislation, II was not strange that
should have appointed attorney to keep it from
perpetraiing endless folIes. Adverse to open de-
bate, and the public consideration Of measures,
and not elevated by the great memories around them,
il turned the Legislature into caucus Of whose de-
the Legislature the only recording clerk.
In that body debate was silenced, and consideration
banshed, by the whisper iu the from Baltimore
attorney, OF a suggestion from partisan out OF
doors. The sacred rights Of men Of every class and
grade were sacrifced to a whisper, the reasonable
sense Of which nobody outside Of that party could dis
cover. Every responsibility surrounding legislation
was gone and the result had been series Of legs-
lative measures which awoke the people of Mary
legislation to such party. In the first week Of its
session, this honorable body passed, without read
ing an act disposDg Of the rights and adjusting the
right of every citizen of Maryland The residue of
the brief period assigned them by the Constitution had
been pretty much occupied in reviewing this fret blum
der. Anxious TO override popular WILL and touch the
points Of political success where that success was not
likely 70 accompany it, it bad been anxious to empty
some offices, which, in Baltimore, were filled by the
popular vote. On contest of members it allowed
evidence taken behind the backs of parties interested
to he used against them being perhaps conscious thsta
willing witness can't safely be resworn even after
lapse of time. 1t had men in it exceedingly anxious 10
follow the deplorabe example set by one or two South
err States of passing bill shocking to the sense
of every gentleman In Maryland, was introduced
reducing to Slavery the their fathers freed and
con6seating their miserable earniDgs-and he rather
thought that nothing but the unanimous shock Of ndig
nation that ruDg from one side of Maryland TO
the other prevented tie final passage of that
disgraceful measure. This honorable body had
in il diligent but not successful students of
tie deba,es in Congress. They. were written
with admiration at the resolution offered by
the gentleman from Missouri MIR. Clark. At that time
bill was pending before the Legislature to dsfran
chise great city, and certain attorneys conversant
with the arts Of special pleading advised the appea-
ton of microscopic principles to the construction Of
the Constitution. The result enactment which
by induction annued and by direct language repealed
tie fundamental law Of the State. There was only
one point failed TO touch, and that was the negro
question. Therefore proviso was moved In these
words;
Provided hst Black Republican ind supporter
Of the Helper book shall be appointed to o under the City
Board" -
This was passed by yeas aud nays by The Legisla
ture of Msrs land He would not read the names, but
he would place them the record of these debates,
erd hand tbeu down as far toward immort atty
these records woud extend. Not content with thus
protecting the interests Of MaTyl land against the in
truson Of the great Northern party TO the high and
lucrative position Of policemen they we're called upon
shortly afterward to pass upon aDother-a street
railroad in Baltimore. They then remembered that
the PEOPLE would IN daily contact with the con
dnctors and managers Of that road, and thus the
subtle potion Of ALt-Slayery might become dilused
Trough ell Baltimore without anybody being wiser;
and 10 protect Baltimore against this poison in the
atmosphere, those ssgaciOus statesmen in like man
ner provided in the bill that Black Republican u-
dorsr or approver Of the Helper book shall receive
any Of the benefits privileges OF this act or be en-
pioyed in any capacity by the Railway Compa-
nv. Laughter He therefore warned honorable
gentlemen on the Republican side that when they
passed through Baltimore on thciI way home they mus;
be prerared 10 respcnc TO their political principles al
the car door, loose the lightning train Some days
after another bill before them Tor the purpose Oh
ipdoIipg lie State Agricultural Society, and an ndis-
Greet member of the dominant party proposed TO ADD the
same provsO but they knew that contamination does
net spread readily il the rural district, aud they
also reflected that there are, at the North, Morgan
horses Durham cattle, and South Down sheep, aDd
that occasionally Black Republican Yankee invents
plow SO the proyisO Yves voted down; but they
fet that In tbis they had made themselves, IS the
chin of Southern Institutions and 90 thoy next as
spmed the guardianship Of OF the Repre- eutatlye
of the people Of Maryland on THE floor. Ihey ms
passed resolution requiring the kepitseh.aliEes ol
g,Ylard 10 vote for come one OF the Democratic side
for Sneaker He knew The resolution was aioiCd
at him but those gentlemen more fam'iiar Win the
Cincr nat Platform than With Blalrs rhetoric Were
entirely incapable Of saying what they meant, ana
drew The retouton in such ambiguous terms that ola
political friends actually supposed II was INTENDED 10
censufc he Democratic members, aud All voice Tor IT,
He had intended 10 warn the badness Of the plea and
the ambiguity and respond To the resolution IN Tue
spirit 10 which it Was moved, bnt he was oVenued ~
tfe ranid pressure Of events. The elevation of the
gentleman from New-Iersey 10 the Speakers CHAR re-
yiyed the zeal OF this honorable BODY lor ooutneIh
rights ard they felt compelled to conoemn tie 20"
completed act and therefore the Honorable the heg~
latufe Of Mar land ihos refoved'
B,oI,ed BY the General Assembly Of Maryland that Henry
Winter Davis ing IN Ccner'; as one Of the bs @
Sdaic Of the Republic perly fer The SPeakefhip OF the
Houo Of IL plese sy,s a. ~, ne sds ~
The people.
He told the honorable gentleman who voted for
that resolution 10 take back their message 10 tnelr
masters, for only to their masters Wouiu ne SPEC en-.
lace 10 fce and net TO them II had always been the
characteristic of that party temporarily pred0m-
nant il Mary land, that they would allow no oppoI'u-
1v TO pass to Indicate their peculiar bdelny 10
the South by stiGnng up sectional et.lei by mo0uu5
toIic5 which sensible men Ought not TO argue; BY Ii
beI.ng their neighboIs ard making tue men VINO i've
next Goor to them hateful 10 their fellw-ctzens oy
proclaiming that nan who Is not Democrat Is an
hho,orief; nv rerfuaGig fanatics that IL they come
1tbip the liniis Of Southern Sstes 10 DO mischief,
they will find men who, though too cowardly to ION
them will vet secretly sympatbize WITH them. ihat
Ifrealnre could be described in ITS principles aims,
and poicy IN ne Othr GOrcs 80 well as those In winch
Milton de. cribes Sin sitting at the portals Of He'll.
They stood ready at any moment to let loose upon
this blessed LAID the heli-hOunds Of Gomonisc Pas-
sion taat determined to break up, destroy ana