Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-02-14
The Crittenden Resolutions

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The C,is,enden Resolutions
Analvsed and their Practical effects upon the South and
Southern and Border States, by a Correspondent OF
the Baltimore Republican.
TO THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND.
am glad to that you of the counties aware of
you danger and that you acting Baltimore city has
length awakened and perceives her danger On the LIST
of February people assembled in council and expressed
one of the people, endorse all the resolutions except the
one relating Crenden resolutions for which
rights which and the South have claimed and now calm
are rights but they old as the Constitution
asking only for the surrender OF these by the
free States that they well those you yet retain
snail the future be guaranteed to you by the Federal
Government whose duty is to do These old consu-
tiona rights you freely and fully enjoyed and you ere
secure the possession Cf them until 1920 and until the
free States obtained the ascendancy in Congress The Su
Court the United States has said the South upon
iona rights equal and that it is the duty of the Federal
Government to protect and guarantee these rgn 10 al OF
the States the Federal Government has not done so to
the South. 1t has permitted the North to rob the South
from time to time.
Thirty in Congress- and at the Cenden and other
resolutions do they give back guarantee to the South
their old Constitutional rights? These Committees have
been in labor for tme and have brought orthnoth
ing, unless it be " cockatrices eggs These Committees
even nowaer Southern States have assumed the
powers they Gegatedreuse to surrender up yoar
rights and they also refuse that the few which you still
in the tree what shai be done in the dy If they
you the Border States do you suppose
that you will be likely to obtain them and be made
enjoyment when Lincoln and his vampires have
full control of the Federal Government and over your
trow not. See how meanly. cOntemptlbly sparlngiy
and nggardy OF the on these committees and IN
Congress condescendng' propose to protect small pit
to permit YOU enjoy upon conditions dictated by them
selves which conditions eXaced in violation of the
stituon and laws thus adding insult to the Injuries the
South has received These Cenden and other resolutions
aders and abetors to the aggressons and robbere
hIyf Nrrfh tha Lat to
what xtent these Crenden resolutions go. These
ouons propose that the South shall give up to the North
all Of its rights above Sc deg 80 min in 1900 900 square
miles of Territory equal to hreef0urths Of all United States
territory and in all territory above that line Slavery shall
be prohibit while under territorial government and that
the be under the eGcSlUe control of the North
the remaining fourth 900 miles south
OF said lne SdUeTy ecOqzed erSg and that when
territory admitted into the Union as States the States
come in free slave expressed In their constitutions
These resolutions propose that the South shall make further
and greater and sacrifices to the North than
made 1t not evident that this three fourths
of territory given to the North will become free States
Has not the South given up and compromised too much al
ready p?
or compromised? Not Why should the South always
be expected to surrender it's rights to the North 1t not
nominated in the bond" These resolutions don't
put the South upon an equality with the North all conces
and surrender of rights be made by the South
and by the North These resolutions unjust
quail and humiatng to the South and make the South ad
nit its inequality with the North which the North
has awas asserted to be the not only respect
States but also respect the people these States be-
cause of their recognizing and toleratng slavery.
Out OF this threetOurths of territory which slavery
prohibited and whic4 proposed you shall at give
exclusively to the North, tie North WILL in time, make
various free States and doubt the right we'll be given
to to vote, the in New York. Ohio &C.,
ana tins Pgnt also T De gwen IN all OF the other free
power by electing Their President and this party which
then will be forever in power will rule always the South
slave States.
This why the Republicans insist upon and
demand that slaves are not and that
Sambo will at Presidential election kill his
and NC all
es and probabilities can it be possible that the border
or anvil ME ae to be by
have serpent sting thee twice " Do you plainly
that nothing less than the rights the CONSTITUTION now
ou, and the Supreme Court of the United States
says entitled to, will suit you? This is why reject
Grittenden other resolutions why ask you to
Mi, Breckenridge says in his reference to
these the Northern States and
their property to be protected all their territory
citizens OF tie southern states with their property
Is this Crittenden compromise such Border
Southern States willing to accept? Have they
position? Are these States willing to thus robbed
with their eyes open Comproms have been the
all the troubles that have befaen the South and that
has shattered what the Union 1t is corrupt
tree which planted in 1920, and has brought forth
nOlhng but evil and poisonous fruit which then
now being gathered Compromises OF Constitutional and
legal rights which not based upon al concessions
lhese rights robbery under an assumed name and
tted D the stronger upon the weaker the weaker all
time being OF the outrage yet possessing the
power to resist The true Southern States which are
longer IN this Union of Free and Border States
aware OF what is here said Such compromises will not
SUIT ihe Ihey are watching the Border Southern States
which are almost in the serpents coils with pity and al.
most scorn These Border States have warned and
the South now looks with suspicion upon them
The President in his recent message even recommends
that the Border States accept this shonorabe and unjust
Crttenden compromises nay, he says the South ought to
accept it, spurn with indignation contempt ali such
so-called compromises by which the South is to give up
everything and the North nothing reject all proposals
compromises which less than your old rights which YOU
now have by words in the Constitution you cannot have
these guaranteed to you and you upon an
equay with the North and you yet freemen and
desire to live and die SUCH all of your sovereign
power ana rights by Withdrawing those You delegated
the Federal Government, which has failed to protect your
rights and liberties and let your refusal craven with an
iron PEN Feel for once, only at this tine that you are
sOveregRs and reemen you are the of ali
political power and Of human and that Federal
wants. o N "
You should decide by the ballot box before 4h March
next Where Maryland shall stand if you shall have DELAY.
ed doing 80 until that day, Hicks Davis Co.'S
acts will have been completed Hicks is permitted to
exercise MS opsnae determined and stubborn WILL Mary
land then lost and with her, al your constitutional rights
and beres resistance will then be useless and impossibe
ana will be scorned and looked upon with con-
tempt by the North and will be monument of utter con
tempt scorn and cowardce to the South. Maryand's old
ana true sisters OF the South have almost despared
and the other Southern border States.
They have borne all the heat burdens all of the Soub
erh states except Maryland and acting almost
ready to announce their determination. Maryland has been
acting the principle that strength is to sit still
when she should have acted; her fate almost that OF
erusaem her institutions well nigh DESTROYED and she
almost delivered up to her enemies, by of sedton
and differences OF opinion by her people, and people
trusting too much to Hicks Davis and Crittendens
lutions
You are now called upon by of the perous posi-
ton of Maryland caused by the of the Governor
well as by being admonshed by the military forces (Which
VIII soon be under the control of Lncoln which day
after day being augmented and surrounding you and other
States, and which are now menacng you Virginia to
your high and ultimate sovereign rights
ers by acting for yourselves This your
rights claimed by you in Bill of Rights. The time has
io5 you to resort to this last resort Avail your
selves and act under these promptly and Maryland
being true to the South. ~
The Commissioners from North Carolina to the Southern
Commemorative Congress, in session at MONTGOMERY
Ala have presented their credentials and were