The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-06-29
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SPEECH oF-TIIE HON. II: WIN,
TER DAVIS: BIZ. =....: ...

Hos. HESRY WiSrRR DAVIS publicly
accepted the nomination for Congress
from the fourth Congressional district OF
Maryland. on Monday, May goth, and
made speech in defense Of bis position,
from which the following is extracted -
We are now In the midst Of that crisis
which wise men have foreseea, which good
men have feared, aud which base lnea
have entleayored to produce; and patriots
nay yaiRiy strive 10 avert it. nc there
ever existed a time when the dcstinies of
great uatiOn hung 10 the breeze, 1t is the
present BY the maItreatmcnt OF those
then 10 power, what was last winter but ii
sight disturbance, has been aggravated
into 4 formidable rebellion, and expanded
oser nearly Que half Of the United States.
Here, in Maryland, we were not without
Revolutionary faction, bnl the wise reso.
luton OF Gov. Hicks, and his refusal To
summon the Legislature. had prevented
The Inauguration Of civil war in Maryland
let. the very men @ho.were then furious
~ their endeayors TO secure the people. Of
MARYLAND M opportunity TO express their
sentiments. have, become determined III
their objection TO granting them that or
Portunity on the conviction that the sen.
udents Of the people Of Maryland, il now
srpressod, would be such as they would
not desire to hear, Since the treaty Of
Hhent, continued Mr.. Davis, there has
Afssen no crisis in our history requiring
more wisdom aud Statesmaflike discretion
mits management than the one now upon
rs Let Us, then, forget the past. No
nan VINO Is not willing, to Danish from
Do heart all personal and political raucor,
and 70 subordinate all ambition to the
duty Of patriotism, Is worthy TO be trust
60, Ths issues now before US are the life
ot death Of the nation, and an questions
should Sink before the overw heining in
curry Of How shall the republic be main
iained@ Upon the supremacy Of the.
government depends oil the personal and
political freedom which We now enjoy, aud
40 tbst government we all--indiylduals
ale corporations --owe an absolute and
qnllnilted obedience As to the right OF
secession, Mr. Davis said it was ght
when can only be maintained by arms,
and which mnst also fall by arms APP.
psause: He Illustrated the abs1rdities
aeto which the practical recognition OF
me right OF secession would Inevitably
lead the nation, and said there are ma
lional necessities in which the people will
not stop TO ask whether writ of eject
Meat will lie. They will take the right
70 ACT IN all cases where the national ex-
,steace is involved He knew no brother.
mood outside the limits, Of the United
;e.atea III any body Of men have taken:
.srrlaory belonging TO the Government,
Aad placed themselves beyond the limits
% me Uaion, he was for treating them as
sheetenoniOusly AZ we would have treated
epaln OF France had the necessary pos.
session of Florida or Louisiana been de.
NED ~ if5ths States which claim the
llle Of Confederate States are yst within
we Jurisdiction OF the Union, then lot
.nem obey It's laws He neither knew
eoF would Tecogni1s any intermediate
olates. Tie learned Legislators ~ Freder-
- bad pronounced the war nnconstita-
ne.,as bet - would sappoas that u1con.
,.,,pslel1 proceedings Wenh b dealt