Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-01-12
Important News.
Maryland Spurns tie Rebels Eloquent
Letter Of Coz. Hicks-Pu6lic Meeting
IN Chicago-Loag John Mems to
Preserve the Unioa-s Sammoas Gen.
Jackson to back him.


IN Chicago-Long John Mems to
Preserve the Uaioa- tum0aons Gem
Jackson to back him.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 5.-Gov. Hicks pub
fishes All address to the citizens Of Mary
land, giving bis reasons for refusing to con-
vene the legislature. It fills two columns
Of the american, and abounds with most
emphatic Union sentiments.
The following are extracts:
| fervently believe that dsunion Of this
government will inevitably produce civil
war. The secession leaders Of South Car
DINA, and the fanatical denagogues of the
North, have alike proclaimed thatsuch will
be the result, and no MAJ of sense, in my
opinion, can question it. What could the
legislature do in this crisis, if convened, to
remove the present troubles which bcset
the Union? We are told by the leading
spirits Of the South Carolina Convention
that neither the election of Mr.. Lincoln or
the non execution Of the fugitive slave law,
nor both combined. constitute their gTiev-
ances. They declare that the real cause Of
their discomfort dates as far back as 1888.
MARYLAND and every other State in the
Union, with united voice then declared
the cause insufficient to justify the course
of South Carolina.
Can it be that the people who then
supported the course Of Gen
eral Jackson, will now yield their opinions
at the bidding of Northern secessionists
/ have been told that the position of Mary
land should be defined, so that both sec
tons could understand it. DO any really
misunderstood her positions Who thai
wishes to understand it can fail to do SO
If the action of the legislature must be
simply to declare that Maryland is with
the South in sympathy and feeling, that
she demands from the North the repeal o.
offensive, unconstitutional statutes, end ap
peals to it for new guarantees, that she vii
wait a reasonable time for the North tC
purge her statute books SO as to do justice
to her Southern brethren, and if her ap-
peals are 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 moro effect
ualIy by her people themselves, than by
the legislature chosen eighteen months
since, when none Of these questions were
before them. That Maryland is a South
.ern conservative State. all know, who know
her people or her history.
The business and agricultural classes
planters, merchants, mechanics and labor
ing men--they who have the real stake in
the community, who would be forced tc
pay the taxes and do the fighting, are the
persons who should be heard in preference
to excited politicians, many of whom have
nothing to lose from the destruction of the
government, but may hope to derive some
gain from the ruin of the State Sucl
men would naturally urge you topull dowr
the pillars of this accursed Union which
their allies at the North have denominated
IA covenant with hell.
The people of Maryland, if left to them
selves, would decide with scarcely an ex-
ception, that there is nothing in the present
caucus Of complaint to justify immediate
Secession, and yet against our judgments
and solemn convictions Of duty, we are to
be preeipitated into civil war because South
Carolina thinks differently. Are we not
equals? or shall her opinion control our ac-
tons After we have solemnly decided
for ourselves, as every man must 10, Sre we
to be forced to yield our opinions to those
of another State, and thus in effect obey
her mandate? She refuses to wait for our
counsels. Are we bound to obey her com
mandss
The men who have embarked in the
scheme to convene the Legislature will spare
no pains to carry their point. The whole
plan Of operations in the event of tue as
semblage of the Legislature, is, as | have
been informed, already marked out. The
list of ambassadors who are to visit the
other States, is already AGREED on, and the
resolutions which they hope will be passed
by the Legislature fully committing this
State to secession, are said to be already
prepared. In the course of nature | can
not have long to live, and fervently trust
to be allowed to end my days citizen of
this glorious Union, but should / be com
PEELED to witness the downfall Of that Gov
eminent inherited from our fathers, estab-
lished as it were, BY the special favor Of
COP. will at last have the consolation at
my dying hour, that I neither BY word or
deed, assisted in Fastening its disruption.
Signed, THos. II. Hicks.
GETTING UP A WAR SPIRIT.