New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-07
FROM MARYLAND.
THE INAUGURAL IN BALTIMORE.
sECEssIoNIsM ON THE wASE-rHE ooRWN

SENISStONlsM On IHI WhNt-ihb NSh"''
AMENDMENT.
From Or Own Correspondents
BALTIMORE, March 5, le6l.
The ith Of March has gone, and left behind
il cold, raw, and snow-like day, contrasting
quite as sharply with yesterdays inyigOrating
temperature as Mr.. Bucbauan's reasonable reign
stands in bleak contrast With the beneicent
opening of Mr. LiDcoln's assumption of the rcins
of Government.
The rush for the Inaugural, yesterday, at the
newspaper Offices, was unexampled, and tho gen
eral feeling was favorable, SO far as it obtained
utterance. The telegraph made sad work OF it,
but enough could be gathered to give pretty
clear idea of the tone of the address, and the
opinion, even OF some Of the fire eaters, was,
il would do.
The morning newspapers have given vent to
their feelings in vastly different moods. The
american, the organ of the mercantile eommunl-
ty, is for once satisfied with Repubicanism as
interpreted by Mr.. Lincoln, and that too, With
out snarling. You may hail this as sign OF
returning sanity on the part of the merchants
and capitalists of our city. The Clipper, the
mouthpiece of the fre-eating Belleyerctts, has
chopped right round and almost praises the Al.
dress. 1t accepts its doctrines with an onion; I'd
est if the Federal Offices are given TO its follow
ers. The Patriot, independent has no complaint
to make. The Republican. the organ of the
ice-holding Breckites, hounces about good
deal, but does not fly of the handle as those pure
and simple standard-bearers of Secessionism, The
Sun and The Exchange do. Tie San is in utter
despair, and go is The Exchange. They evidently
contemplate suicide, if one may Judge from their
complaints. The German papers, one Republican
and the other SecessiOnist, of course, follow their
feelings.
/ learn that Mr.. William II. Norris, one of the
most prominent members of our bar, and lead
inc Secessonist hitherto, has been'reinvestgatlng
the question of Secession, and that his conclu-
sions are the opposite of his former opinions on
this subject. He is said TO have found out that
Secession is not constitutional remedy for
grievances. No man exe1tS a wider influence IN
Baltimore than Mr.. Norris, and | am glad to
hear that he finds himself treading in the foot
steps OF the patriotic Reyerdy johnson. l have
too high an opinion Of Mr.. Norris's legal acumen
to give credence to the insinuatiOns of those who
ascribe his change of opinion TO the failure Of the
rebellion in the Border Slave States. 1t take IT
that Mr. Norris will have many other llustriOus
followers before many days, from out of the ranks
of the Secessonists, unless indeed, their Conyen-
ton, which is to meet on the 18th instant, shall
engineer our State out of the Union, Willy nIly.
The last and the first Of the traitor Presidents
is to arrive in town to-day, on his winding way
from Washington to Wheatland, and is to be
entertained by mine host of Barnum's Hotel,
at his private residence. The Exchange news
paper, by the by, salutes him this morning with
a raking fire of denunciatOn, for failing to stand
by and complete the treason that was to consign
the Federal Government over to the keeping OF
| the stakeholder aristocracy of the Cotton States.
| Nothing that Republicans have over said of the
/ SAGE OF Wheatland, in their most angry moments,
| can equal the violence Of this his quondam sup
porter.
Several of our prominent SecessiOnst merchants
or rather sympathzers with Secessionisn, are said
to have expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with
the Inaugural. Among them, hear with pleasure
the name of William Z. Walters, esq, one Of the
Wealthiest and most influential members Of cur
mercantile community, and benefcent patron Of
the fine arts.
1t is hardly probable that Gov. Hicks will call
together the existing Legislature, to pass upon
the Corwin amendment TO the Constitution
There is no need for hurry in the premises, now
that it has been voted by Congress. Besides
it would be quite as well TO let the people speak
their views on the subject next Fall, when the
new Legislature is to be chosen. The Democ-
racy are urgent, however, to get the Legislature
together, for the purpose Of impeaching the Gov
ernor and making capital tor the next Fall cleo
tions. They owe the Governor no love, but will
certainly depose hin for refusing to execute their
orders in the matter of the election Of Controller
They have also other charges OF mal-administra-
ton in Office against him, which they profess are
sufficient to break him, if they can get at him.