The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-02

your whose voices have int
nAi or elsewhere but in the sacred Justice and
law and in defence of the peoples rights; men who's
e8ft' are III the right place patriotic in spirit sound
judgment anxious for peace, but more anxious f.
our rights our honor and the llI performance Of on
duty as people and state and the faithful execr
ton Of tsust as one Of the original sayehniip
StateF, adopting the national Constitution with all it
CT ec&S and guards to transmit that Constitution tgim
P'Hea to our Descendants for their security and peace
listen and attend to the voices Of such men, and the
speak 10 NE Stdts-to the Notwithstanding your ru
rights and those of your sister States of the South
guaranteed by the Constitution, as understood by Won
60 = au ultir fdthers who framed it, and my wore
'or 1t, in spic Of all that political leaders can say
SEtty THe American heart among the people of tn
Notl, East and West, will respond brothers, in tn
language and spirit of the significant response of Charlie
a. Naming OF the Salem Light Artillery to Gov An
drew, of Massachusetts,, and then our true constitutions
t' n may be restored, and all will be peace again
At the close of his remarks Mr. Vapsant an
nounced the following Vice-Pregidents and Secre
taries, who were also unanimously confirmed:
C ltcs ,PreStdeM@-William Henry Norris, Samuel W
omltii llllam Il. Harrison. John v L. MclIahon Pete
| NOVEL;, George Brown, Ross Wnans, James Hodges
James carroll, Samuel X. George. William H. Graham
T E9nert ) Holns S. G Hand. William T. Walters, H. l.
TWrnitfluSG solomon Hillen. Hamilton Carter Thomas
"inaos, Ezra " itman, & W. Lurman J. Mason Camp
nell Lambert Cuttings, $. Teacke Wallis, George Evans
robert N. McLane Adam g. Kyle Sr Saml II Tarart
! JoIn Sharkey, William II. Ryan, John Hoffman Charle.
n "ethered Charles D. Slngluf, r. V. Lanier William
Graves, James ]. S. Donnell, Morgan Coleman Edwarf
!. Jenkins, John Spear Nicholas Wilson NJ Carey An
drew Reid Frank Sullivan, John S. Donnell, j. Nico
Myers Daniel j. Foley C. Morton Stewart Captain Johr
W.. M.attifson George L. Harrison, William Pinkney
Lanahan, Alexander Penn, Henry Garrett Thomas Par
KIN KIN scout H. Straus Robert Hough, Hugh A. Cooper
Daniel j. Warwick, DR., j. Hanson Thomas Benjamin
freshman Basil 5. Elder, William Lightner Henry
0crichs, Henry F. Stickney, Hugh Sisson, John W
BrGh, John Yeott, William A. Hack.
Secretaries-Charles j. NJ Gwinn, c. Hughes Arni
stead, John Donnell Smith, Langdon Erying, Henry
Spiman Francis 3. Loney, William IT Ou;ncv Rar
nard Carter, John W. Seby.
In reading the list of officers, as Mr.. Vansant
announced the names of Ross Winans, Thos.
Winans, Hamilton Easter, S. Teacklc Wallis Adam
B. Kyle, Chas. F. Pitts, r. NJ. McLaue and 7.
Parkin Scott, at each Of these names the audience
cheered, and particularly to those of Adam B.
Kyle, Thos. Winans and S. Teackle Wallis was
the applause tumultuous. After the officers were
selected three cheers were given with will for
Hon. Joshua Vansant.
Wm Henry Norris Esq, then stepped forward
and said:
Felo0C-sns rise 10 propose series of resolutions
and to move their adoption regret my inability to ad
dress you tonight Ny voice is in such condition that
it utterly impossible for address this vast assem-
Dage deeply regret this indspositon the present
time, for should like measure reason with those who
desire to keep the State of Maryland in her present
position feel that this is solemn occasion feel Nh
surrounded by circumstances and events well
culaed to awaken the Yeles apprehensions The nrida
f my heart and of yours is about to receive perhaps
fatal blow We to be wounded in that feeling which
we have most cherished and loved. This great misor
tune to be the dsmemberment Of this Union and the
destruction of the confederacy
feel this sadness only because these direnI
may take place. but for other reasons feel so on ac
count Of the position of my native State at this time In
slean oil Deng IN position where her influence could be
exercised poently for gOodr the preservation of the
Constitution of this countryside has been parayzed
into Iaeron Had she been placed in position where
an expression Of her people could been heard she
might have done much to have stayed the tide of disso
luton, but, guided by false policy her power ana her
81, has iII
approached destruction. Bad all the surroundings
are, will not say all is lost.
On occasion, when the Emperor NapoIeon had
fought one of his great battles and the fortunes of the
day had been against him. Marshal Dessaix arrived on
the field with his command, when Napoleon addressed
him, saying, Marshal this is battle lost" The Mar
shall drew his watch from his pocket looking at the
nme OF day ans wered Sire thereis plenty of time to
WIN another and leading his soldiers forward rou the
enemy and won the day. So nOw if the State of Mary
land can rouse herself to worthness Of past glorious
recoIlections-f she will promptly position
where her influence may be feltsne may be able to do
much towards reconstruction of the conederacy She
is without any representation She alone of all the
Southern States inactive Her Governor refuses to meet
the demands of her people, He processes to speak for
this State who has no right to occupy the position he
He placed in the position by perversion of the bal
lot box not less noinous to the citizens than the most
atJect submission to Republican domination Yet men
WHO denounced his election as fraud and outrage
accept appointments at his hands speak the voice of
Maryland in the most mOmentOus crisis in her history
on the 4th inst Mary and will be misrepresented in that
conference as sh is msrepresente in Congress Those
who are there in her from this city owe their COM
missions to the bascs fraud pracsed on free com
munity-commiSsons botied with blood which the law
Is at TINS hour ayenging by sending to the Penienary
the brutal agents of their elevation
Baltimore at this time is without representation in her
Legislature 1t IS Time then for the for the people be
represented 1t is their right and it should be exercised
We nave asked the Governor to call the Legislature to-
geher that provision could be made for placing the
state in condition to act This has been refused We
nave asked him, on this refusal, to call Convention of
the people, that expression of opinion couId he sent
forth. This also he has refused We are now left no
other alternative than to exercise the greatest of M
rights that OF calling Convention of the people This
right IS guaranteed to you in the Bill of Rights You
must now speak in the most authoritative all modes
There class in this community who think that they
only are honest in any opinions which they
All who differ from them dishonest seeking bv i'm
pure means the qualification Of base ambition When
they wish to injure those who hold different opinions
they call them bad names. They call US secessopsts he
differ with them to the course of action the
State should take in the present emergency. Secession
lists, because we will not be Black Republicans Seces
sionists because will not allow Governor to speak
Tor US VINO does not represent sentiments This class
IS ike George the Third who thought all WHO differed
with him should be damned.
He repulsed the wise and the good whose advice would
nave saved him his coonies-Chatham, Burke and
}arre-and comorted himsefi in his opinion by denounc
ing patriots as traitors We may say of this chap what
Bancroft said of him. He had that worst quality of evil
that he adored himself and thought all opposition TO his
designs offences against integrity and PATRIOTISM So
at this day this class instead Of acting to preserve the
Union which they profess love, it day by day fan
away with wiser sentiments than those of hatred to
those who suggest differing counSes and with an appe
tam other sentiments than their of constitutional
rights did not intend to make speech, and cannot if
utscu' iy voice Is so weak that VIII be compelled
to call in aid my friend Col Erving, to read for the
resolutions.
When Col. Erving came forward he was greeted
with cheers, and when the applause subsidized he
read, in clear, powerful voice the following pre-
amble and resolutions:
WHEREAS, The rights of the Southern States of this
Conederacy set forth in and secured by the Constitution
of the United States, have been deliberately and per
of the Northern States;
AND WHEREAS, six of the Southern States have under
sense Of these aggressions and in the well founded an
prehesons OF evils yet to ensue, withdrawn from this
Confederacy therefore, be it
Resolved That becomes the people of the com
merca metropolis OF border Southern State express
our solemn convictions in the present crisis.
Resolved, That the maintenance Of the Federal Union
with the constitutional guarantees which surround il is
to the people of Maryland paramount to all other things
as the source OF their material social and political
sings and ought to be- and is the object Of tbe aron
devotion and most strenuous efforts
Resolved, That regard the Constitution of the Uni
ted States as the supreme law of the land and that the
attempt to enforce any violation of its provisions the
ment,may be lawfully resisted.
Resolved That we declare attachment to that Con
stuton as the bond of union between the Of this
Conederacy and faithfully adhere the construction
which has udiciay received from the Supreme Court
during period OF seventy years and denounce any
attempt to enforce different Interpretation as an en-
croachmeIt upon the rights of the people, fatal the
tranquility of the Union,
Resolved That our ancestors who this Constitu-
ton in 1877 have left us their lives and conduct as
example They intended that Constitution a char
for the government of freemen, and it taught us
the lesson that should in submit to power
seeking to exercise by force arbitrary claim right
Resolved That the Republican party to be inau-
gurated in power ayows organic law interpretations
of the Constitution fatal to the domestic peace and to the
commercial and agricultural prosperity of savehod
ing States; interpretations contrary the decisions
the Supreme Court and unsanconed by any department
OF the Government during its existence These nterpre-
tations involve the danger which Governeur Morris ap-
Of the Constitution of the United States he
That instrument was written by the fingers which write
this letter The idea of binding egisla
tors by oaths is puerle Having exercise the
powers granted according to their true intent
ing they will when they feel desire 20 further avoid
the shame not the guilt of perjury, by swearing the
true intent and meaning be according to their com
prehension-that which suits their purposen
Resolved That it is the danger involved in this mis-
construction by the Republican party ofits constitution
al which induces the lovers of peace the
Union to offer measure of compromise rather than
hazard the tranquility Of the country therefore we de-
clare that will daily accept as compromise of
existing controversy between the free slave States
the terms set forth in the Crittenden resolutions
Resolved That in this national peril, we earnestly de
sire that some eecual compromise OF the existing diff
hcultes may be made. But il compromises cannot
he made to to the preservation of the
Union and the intended benefits of the Constitution we
declare that of right and Justice no less than
commercial and political interests will decide us to
cast our lot with Virginia and the other savehoding
States of this Confederacy. But if association with
these states should compel our separation from the
Northern States, we declare that opposed to
attempt to interfere, by violence with the District of
Columbia That District and the city of Washington
ought to be left the peaceabe occupaton Of the
authorities until such time as all questions connected
Herewith are disposed of by peaceabe negotiations
Resolved That respond the noble constitutional
follows
Resolved That believing that the people of the South
ern States are and have ever BEEN content to remain in
Ons limit