New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-29
THE UNION FEELING in MARYLAND.

The fact thai Tie Bah.Bsore SIN, Journal that has
been hSorng Secession elsewhere, has come out
agains. the Secession Of Maryland from the Union,
has already been stated. The following article, from
The Pa,r,ot Of Friday, clearly shows that there is
lively Union feeling in the State, which, after all, is
likely 10 prevail;
We were informed by several of our friends who
strongly IN favor of the Union, that they voted
the Delegate ticket on Wednesday because they be-
Eeved the gentlemen whose names upon IL are
worthy Of the confidence of tho people and thai they
would consider well She great ques ion rpOn which
they are 20 at anc moi ior secession, uDe's in their
judgment, there no hope of adjusting our national
diicll,e4, nor for the peace and prosperity Of orr
state, IN its connection with the Northern States
With them, with very large Dnmher Of fellow
citizens of the whole State dlsunioI is alternative
which they anXioJsly DESTROYS Of avoiding, but
which they viii accept rather than rk what they lear
may be a still more uDplcasant issue Those gentle
meD occupy The position often prere"ed by us 10 me
reader OF THE pdtrtOt, "a southern Union mon, whose
feelings ard Interests are with he Soutb, and Who are
not willing that their own any OF the States OF the
South shall occnpy places in the Union In any other
way than upOn perfect equality with O.hcr states:
AZ to MARYLAND herae II her time Sons may be allowed
:, speak for her. she will bear neither the oppression
the ditaton Of either the North Or thc South, but
she will claim her petition and all the respect that
belongs TO the position Of sovereign Commonwealth,
in connection with 0tbeF sovereign commemorative
cOnlcCefdlcd lOf lufpOs'b ol ihIlub bititr anu PIV
lection.
will be impossible for the secessonists of Mary land
TO force ihOae Who in favor OF TIE Union INTO
Union ~ litical party. Ihey may talk AZ they pease
about Union with re North, and with political and
sectional parties, and they may swear as much a. they
ike about il bu, they viii never be able to remove the
Union Men OF Maryland from the rock OF their old
nationality IA abliehed by Washington and Jcier-
SON and other patriots of the Revolution and sanction
ed and sustained by their patriotic successors in the
management Of the Government. IL L. The Union OF
orr Revolutionary fathers that the rne sons Of Slary-
land wOnh maintain, and not that OF any OF the paIfi-
seciionalsts That have succeeded them. IL is
tits old Union that IL committed to the keeping of
Legisarors and is laced in the hands OF che dele
gates elected on Wednesday When called upon to act
in relation TO this momentOus subject they will doubt
less give their undivided attention and not impel
their State into The occupancy of lalse position RON
which il will require the action Of the people them
selves hereafter 70 relieve II.
In her Southern utilization Mar land is still loyal TO
the Union and ciDgs to the Stars and Stripes the
banner under which that Union is TO be sustained.
When forced, she may be, By circumstances, from
this position, before she will unite either with the
North or the South in their sectional character, her
choice would be an intermediate ground with Virginia,
and North Carolina and Kentucky, and other States,
and interpose kind of medlatoral agency through
which the old Mon of the Revolutionary patriots NAV
he restored and perpetnated.