White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-01-24
Gov. Hicks Of Maryland Still Firm for
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Gov. Hicks Of Maryland Still Firm fol-
~ tho Union. a
BALTIMORE, Jan. 6.-Qovernor Hicks
publishes an address to the citizens ol
Maryland. giving his reasons for refusing
to convene the Legislature. 1t fills two
columns of the American. and sbounds
with most emphatic Union sentiments.
The following are extracts:
1 firmly believe that division Of this
Government would inevitably produce
civil war. The secession leaders Of South
Carolina, and the fsnaticsl demagogues
of the North have alike proclaimed that
such will be the result, and no man OF
sense, in my opinion, can question it.
What could the Legislature do in this
crisis. If convened. to remove the present
troubles which beaet the Union We
are told BY the leading spirits of the
South Carolina Convention. that neither
the election Of Mr.. Lincoln. nor the non
execution of the Fugitive Slave Law. nor
both combined. constitute their griev.
ancss. They declare that the real cause
of their discontsnt dates as far back 70
1888.
Maryland, AMI every other State in the
Union. with united voice then declared
the cause insnffi cient to Justify the cour.s
Of South Carolina. Can it be the people,
who then supported the course Of Gen.
Jackson. will now yield their opinions at
the bidding Of modern 6ecessionists? I
have been told that the position of Mary.
land should bs defined, so that both see
tions could understand it. Do any really
her position? Who that
wishes to understand it. can fail to do 10
If the action Of the Legislature would
be simply to declare that Maryland was
with the South in sympathy and feeling.
that she demands from the North the re-
peal Of offensive unconstitutional statutes,
and appeals to it for new guarantees, and
that she will wait reasonable time for
the North to purge her statute books 90
as to do Justice to her Southern brethren.
and, If her appeals are in vain. will make
common cause with her sister border
States in resistance to tyranny. If need be,
it would only be saying what the whole
country well knows. and what may be
said much more e1sctual!y BY her people
than BY the Legislature chosen
eighteen months since, when none of these
questions were before them. That Mary
land is Southern conservative State all
know who know her people or her histo.
~. The business and agricultural classes,
planters, merchants, mechanics and labor
ing men, those who have the real stake
in the community, who would be forced
10 pay the taxes and do the fighting, are
The persons who should be heard in pref
,rsncs to excited politicians. many of
whom, having nothing to lose from the
Of the Government. may hope
10 derive soms gain from the ruin of the
State. Such ruin would naturally urge
vou to pull down the pillars of this " ac-
cursed Union" which their allies at the
North have denominatsd q covenant with
hell. .r-s.. asr-
The people Of Maryland. if left to them.
elves, would decide with SCARCELY an OF.
,sptiou that there is nothing in the pre-.
'ent causes of complaint to justify imms-
liats secession and yet against our judg.
nents and solemn convictions Of duty,
70 arc to bs prscipitated into civil war
because South Csrolina thinks differently,
Are We not equals? OF shall our opinion
,ontrol our actions? Aftsr We have
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