The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-01-19

Of those States would not command fifty cents
IN the dollar in the markets Of the world. The
only alternative would be q resort to heavy
! taxation. What would the share of Maryland
be! Shall / say a twelfth or fourteenth part
OF the whole sum required? This would
make Marvland's share about three and ahall
or four millions ofdollars over and above her
State expenses and that to be raised in the
midst of war. CONFUSION and lesulation.
People ofBalIimors People of Maryland |!
y on have struggled hard to maintain the
credit Of the city Of Baltimore. as well as the
State at large. In these efforts You have
been most successful. Ifyou leave the Union,
what will become of the debt you owe. and Of
the plighted faith of your city and State p
Can you pay that debt and redeem your honor,
and maintain at the same time war-expenses
in an unnatural contesti Clearly you cannot
If you go ont of our Union, you 20 into insol-
vcncy and disgrace.
No two States of the Union arc more closely
bound to each other by the ties of ancient
friendship, intermarragcs, interchanges of
residence, similarity of Institutions and
social, commercial and business relations
than Maryland and Virginia. If Virginia
stand firm by the Union she may rely upon it
that Maryland will be found at her side, to
the last man and the last dollar. With some
opportunity to form correct Judgment, |
venture to say to you, that if Maryland take
her stand by the Constitution and the govern
ment our fathers gave us, for veal or for woe
Virginia will also be found at her side,
sharing with her a common fortune and a
common destiny. With the historic rccol-
lections which Virginia so proudly chcrishes,
what else can she do. but stand by the Union?
She is its mother. 1t is the child of her
courage and her Intellect. Washington,
son Of her, led our infant armies in battle
Madison, another of her sons. led the some
what unpractised craftsmanship Of our coun.
try IN the deliberations OF the convention
which formed our Constitutions Marshall
another of her sons, presided long enough
over the Judiciary of our country to Law deep
the foundations of our national Jurisprudence.
and to leave behind him name and n fame
which rank him with the foremost jurists of
the world.
If Maryland and Virginia stand firm, so also
VIII Kentucky, Nirginia's daughter. The
brave heart and eloquent lips of Henry CLAY
lie buried in kentucky's soil. But his cour-
age, his cloquence, his truth, his noble dcyo-
ton TO the Union of the States forever, have
engraven themselves on the heart of Ken
lucky, never to be erased. And this day.
the oldest intellectual child of Henry CLAY.
the brave and noble Crittenden, stands forth
before the country, the Ncstor our Senate.
and the acknowledged living representative
OF that deep seated love of country, which.
thank God, still burns in the hearts Of the
great masses Of our people,
Tennessee also contains sacred ashes inter-
mixed, it is true, when in life, with many of
the ntirmiics Of our nature but tue, abso-
lutcly and unflnchingly true in its lofty
lidellty to the country. Neither the flash of
the sword, nor the roar of cannon, nor the
threat OF the rebel, ever startled his lofty
SOU from its high resolve, to maintain our
mon and uphold our sacred flag, on every
field, and in every contingency With his
sacred ashes resting in her soii-his form still
familiar to her memory, and his burning
words still ringing in her ears can Tennessee
abandon the Union! Never! Never! unless
You tear away from her heart all her memories
OF Andrew Jackson. And North Carolina
| nion-lorlng, law-abding, honest, faithful
North Carolina-may we not count with GER
tainty on her proving true to those patriotic
instincts for which she has ever been 50
dearly loved and so highly honorcd!
People Of Maryland ! pardon, | pray your
pardon, faithful son, and none the less so
that he acknowledges 4 higher and holier
allegiance to his country, il he has venturcd
III this address beyond the modest prophecies
of his humble station. If he dared hope that
any word Of his would give fresh resolution
to any loyal American heart or revive in
frrShcr col"rs that true strength of a country
the patriotic love Of her people-that hope
would cheer him now and if it prove true,
would be to lin blessing and consolation
to the latest moment of his life.
WILLIAM II. COLLINS.
Baltimore, December 20. 1860.