Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-01-11

America. There should be no delay in
this matter. Maryland has right to be
heard, and should be heard at once. -
Hence her legislature should be conven-
ed at once, and convention called to
take action upon this vital subject.
There is another consideration, Mr..
President: BY this course. Maryland,
with her sister border slave States, will be
in a condition, if their ultimatum should
be refused, to join their destiny with that
of the other slave States--ro make COM
mon cause with them-to share their
veal or their woe--to bring about with
them, if possible, peaceable separation
from the North, or to mingle their blood
together in defence of our common rights.
1t is well, Mr. President, that the
people of Maryland should know at once
that this is the question which they may
soon be called upon to decide whether
Maryland shall be abolitionized-wh
Their she shall remain an insignificant APP
pendage of Northern confederacy. or
whether, in the spirit of a noble indie
pendence and manly self-respect---if all
efforts to save the Union shall be unavail-
ing-she will determine to share the fate
of her Southern sisters, whatever that
fate may be! Sugar. coati as they may,
this is the question.
Mr.. President, "not that I love the
Union less, but Maryland MORE" in the
judgment which shall make upon this
question. | am bound to Maryland by
every tie which can bind human heart
to spot of earth. IT'S the home of my
birth, of my childhood my youth, and
my mature manhood. | have known no
other, IT'S the home Of my wife, and
my children. My ancestors, for four
generations, sleep upon the banks of the
beautiful Patuxent. l love her, sir, with
the deepest devotion of my soul, and ]
would pour out my hearts last drop Of
blood to save her honor from tarnsh, OIL
her escutcheon from a stain. Sooner
sir, than she should separate herself from
all her southern sisters, at the bidding o.
selfish demagogueism-sooner than sh,
should remain in this Union upon term
Of dishonor, would have every hill-tol
within her boundaries crowned with hec
atombs Of her slaughtered sons, and ever,
} valley red with the blood of her best ant
bravest.
She is bound to the South by sympa
thy, by interest, by common institutions
} and indeed by every tic which can bint
States together. She must make com
: mon cause with the slave holding States
Let her announce this fact at once, an,
emphatically, to both the North and tn
! South. If it comes 10 separation, sh
; must bid the North farewell, though
should be with weeping eyes and dishe
yelled hair, and with all the sad insignii
Of a wild and hcart-sick agony.
Mr.. President, my time has nearly
expired, and | will close with one or two
words more. | have expressed my SEN
timcnts freely and fully. have talked
to those assembled here as to brothers,
assembled to consider the most important
crisis which has ever occurred in the
country's history. ] believe, sir, that if
the Republic Is saved, it will be through
means indicated by the resolutions re-
ported by the minority of the committee,
and, therefore, | will vote for them. If
we stand steadily and firmly by cur
rights, all difficulties may be adjusted
and settled, and our institutions may be
saved to shed the benifcent light of their
elevating power to all the nations of the
earth. We may still be free, happy
and united people.