The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-11

The resolutions offered in the Legislature on
the Committee on Foreign Relations. will, we have
no doubt, be heartily endorsed bv the large ma
jority OF the people Of the State They set forth
in becoming, though clear and energetic language.
what must be the sentiment of almost every NJ
rylander in regard TO the arbitrary proceedings of
the Administration and the lawless occupation of
this State by Northern troops The measures of
Mr.. LINCOLN and his Cabinet are so plainly and
dehanty in violation Of the explicit provisions of
the laws and Constitution, so contempuously in
contravenon Of The whole theory and practice of
our Government that this State would have been
forever disgraced if no word Of protest rem0n-
STRANGE or condemnation had been uttered
| by any OF her representatives,. Nor do we
see how the Legislature could have taken any de-
cided course in regard to the immediate arming O;
the State or calling Convention sovereign con
vention has for some time past been demanded by
the people, and by none has the PROPOSE ion been
more ardently advocated than by us. Bat ov-
ernor HICKS has perSistentIy refused 10 allow The
people Of this State any opportunity to exrres:
their views or wishes, either through a Conyen-
ton or the Legislature, until the State has been
sutJuga'ed, as we long since predicted it would
be by the Federal troops And it is not the mo
ment now for us TO attempt to exercise III. priv.
ieges Of freemen. We are under the dominion o
military despotism, which cuts us off from CON.
munication with our brethren tlrouel,out tbt
Safe, and prevents numbers of orr citizen;
from speaking freely or from acting accord.
| ing to tie dictates of their Judgment. The Norl
has explicitly avowed its determination to keen
iorcoe possession Of Maryland, and its army has
fallen upon Us uuawares, aud holds us with
strong hand. 1t would, under such circumstan
ces, be absurd to select the present as q prone,
time for discussing acting on the question 0
| adhering to the North or South. When Governor
| HICKS therefore, urges, as he now does the i'm.
mediate assembling Of a convention, il is because
he knows that the geld and the threats Of The
! Administration would lie potent agents here tc
promote the objects he has in view. Nor is this
| the moment at which it is possible to ATTEMPT tc
arm the State. Tie danger against which we
wished to be able TO guard ourselves, has already
overwhelmed us. We are not only overpowered
but uuOunded, and any effort TO brine
arms into the State would assuredly be
defeated through the vigilance of the sol
diers who are chartered among MS, aided
by the Vaccinations of our own Governor 50
long as Governor Hicks has the ierious Of the
North at his command no man can tell toward,
what point his devious course is tending, or which
side he will finally betray, and, as he is in posi-
ton to turn the arms of Maryland against her
own bosom, it is at this unc;ufe the wises policy
not to give him the opportunity. SO long as we
are under the lhraldom that now Expresses rs, we
must he patient and wait when we are once
more free agents we can act. On these grounds
! we may presume the Legislature to have proceeded,
and we are satisfied the propriety and wisdom OF
lis course will be generally approved We take
1t for granted, however, that while the committee
has deemed it ineXpcdient 10 adont any definite
measures for tie Immediate armng Of the militia
1t will take such steps, through the appointment O
a Board or Committee of its own members. tt
| place itself in position to take II necessary
Instant action as as ii again assemblies.