The national Republican., 1861-01-03
REVOLUTIONARY PROCEEDINGS IN
MARYLAND.

RENOLU UIlONAh1 fhOCEEDlNOo IN
MARYLAND.
The Baltimore Sun, the organ Of the Mary.
land disunionists, discloses in its yesterdays
issue, the revolutionary project which has been
started by the men, who have been foiled by the
frmness aud sagacity Of Governor HICKS, IN
their attempt to procure the convening OF
Legislature controlled by Democrats OF the
disunion school. This project is spoken OF BY
the Sun as san initial increment" and NOBODY
will be at a loss to understand of what policy
it is the beginning.
1t seems that selfconstituted Jacobin club,
of persons ",chose sentiments and feelings
identil them ,ciM the rights, interests, and
,celG1re of the South,' determined at meet
ing recently held at Bdrnum's Hotel," to issue
cards of invitation to a number of other per-
sons in the different counties, double the mum.
ber of their representation in the Legislature,
to assemble at Baltimore on the 10th instant.
What class Of persons are summoned to this
conclsve, it is very easy to conjecture.
The mask is pretty well off. These men
have been, until now, piteously protesting to
Governor Hicks, that their sole object in trying
to get the Legislature together, was to sare the
Union, but in their proceedings in Anne Arundel
county, reported in this same Sun of yesterday,
the Union is denounced upon grounds which
preclude the idea Of preserving it by any COM
promise whatever. These Anne Arundel nulli.
fers take the broad position Of their South Caro-
lima allies, that no safe alliance dettceen free
and slare States is possible.
And in this come ction, we renew the ex.
preston of our fears, that the proposed con.
more in February, BODIES no good, but much
evil, in the present condition of those States,
which has resulted from the imbecility and
folly of the (so called) Union party. Instead
of doing anything to preserve the country,
these men, as a general fact, have imposed
upon themselves the alternative, Of either join.
ing in secession at last, or Of losing all weight
with the people, by retreating from the unten.
able positions they have been taking. MIR.
Crittenden is the conspicuous exponent Of these
men, although his age exempts him from any
conspicuous personal responsibility in the
views of others, from the eminence of posi-.
ton based upon an iustrious career of public
service, great abilities, and undoubted patriot.
ism. His name, it was hoped, would give
weight to propositions, which, coming from
others, would have been instantly and univer
sally branded as incendiary and revolutionary
Excepting, Of course, such persons as Mr.
Bolts and Mr.. Fl. W. Davis, the leaders Of the
(so.called) Union party in the border States
have rendered terms of reconciliation which are
preposterous and insulting to the common sense
of the country. Until the day when Mr.. Crit
tenden offered his resolutions of socalled com.
promise in the Senate, there had never been
offered anything so outrageous, in the whole
history Of this Government or from any quar-
ter whatever. JEFF. Davis, in his widest mo
ments, never reached such pro. slavery climax
as was attained at one bound, by this pacif
Gator, Mr.. Crittenden. Not satisfied with de.
manding guarantees for slavery in the present
Territories, which Mr.. Davis, within one year
has pronounced unnecessary, Mr.. Crittenden
demanded such guaranty Of the Africaniza
tion Of Mexico and Central America, as would
have plunged us inevitably into an endless wal
of flibusering and conquest.
In all this, Mr.. Crittenden acted, not upon
the better judgment Of his better days, but upon
the shallow suggestions Of political incapables,
and until we can see some Union party in the
border States, which does not make the preserva
ton of the Union contingent upon condition,
equally impossible and ridiculous, we have nc
wish to see a Convention of those States as
sembled anywhere.