Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-05-11
SATURDAY MORNING. NAY 10, 1861.
The Abolition Domination I'm Mary
Land.

The Abolition Domination I'm Mary
land.
1t appears that the anti slavery admins
tration at Washington has obtained a com
plete mastery over the slave-holding State
Of Maryland The rod of despotism has been
extended over it. 1t Is cursed by a Cover
nor who is hand in glove with its enemies
and who has thrown and will continue to
throw every obstacle in the way of its eman
cipation. 1t is now the subject of unlimited
tyranny. The people of Maryland sympa-
thise with the South in this struggle. They
consciences by their false Governor, or by
their false representatives in Congress They
went beyond Tennessee in the race of disun-
ion in the last Presidential election, and are
now as true to the interests and the honor OF
the South as they ever were, but are crushed
born vandalic incursion from The North
Unfortunately the administration has the
power to sustain its assumptions, and the
people ere reduced to the necessity of chOos-
ing between liberty and determination prompt
and immediate. AS throwing some light on
the condition of affairs We subjoin the follow
ing from our last Baltimore papers
From the Baltimore Patriotl
Our local attachments, and love for our
institutions, may incline US towards the
South but when we become the agencies of
Remembering happy Union, in order to in
dulge our predictions. it is like gratifying
feeling at the expense of a nations prospect
ty. Duty demands that we should at least
accommodate our preferences to the public
good. And there is another difference that
must be considered in this connection. 1t is
the difference between peaceable secession
and secession with civil war upon it. The
choice would be more free and much easier
determined, if not limited by such fearful
considerations as those presented in tne pre-
sent contest.
In view of the whole premises, Maryland
has acted wisely in maintaining a dignified
silence, while the events of the crisis have
been agitating every thing around her; and
it were better now that she should not speak
at all than that she should betray herself in
the utterance of conflicting sentiments, and
meet the issue OF even a decided preponder-
aDce on either side.
1t is most important and fearful duty
that the crisis imposes upon the Legislature
A single move in the wrong direction may be
fraught with disaster. and il were wisdom in
Legislators when they know not what to do, to
do nothing. The strength OF a people is some
times in being still and allowing the trouble
or calamity that threatens to pass over with
as little damage as possible. There is moth
ing at all to BE- gained by Maryland in this
family contest, and the only security she has
is in waiting until the calamity be overpast
From the Baltimore Americana
What we all now recognize as the immedi-
ate duty OF the hour, Is to preserve ouI city
and its interests from further harm, and to
prevent its streets from being made battle
field, which could only result in subjecting
US to a military domination, under which,
simply because 1t was military domination,
we should feel humiliated. The position of
the State, for the present at least, il fixed,
and no devotion TO any rights, fancied or
real, can justify us in exposing our property,
our lives, and the lives of those most dear To
US. to the perils OF hopeless struggle. 1t
is the duty aud wisdom of all, therefore to
excitement, to urge compliance
with what is part of our duty as State of
the Union, and OF those who have the oppor-
tunity OF placing their views before the Gov
eminent, of representing TO it the justice as
well as expediency of Withholding all unnec-
essary exhibitions of its military power to-
ton, for the calming down of the public
mind, and for the reception Ofthe concurrent
and irreversible circumstances which will hold
MARYLAND within the Union, are only needed
to place our city right in deed, as 1t has ali
along been loyal in sentiment.
From the Baltimore SUM-
There is purpOse manifest here and else
where, and it appears in the editorials and
of the Northern press, to rep
resent the character and action of the Legis-
lature of Maryland as hostile to the admins
tration, and exhibiting a tendency to seces-
sion If this Is true, We confess ourselves to
be totally ignorant of it, and unable to per-
ceiye is. Moreover, We do not believe a word
of it, and We are confident that any move
meut towards secession would receive an
overwhelming rebuke from the popular SEN
timent, alike in the counties and the rural
districts of the State. a natural and ire
pressiole sympathy with the cause Of South
ern rights Is constantly and wilfully misinter-
preted as q spirit OF secession. In this thing
very great injustice is done 10 our citizens,
and We are consequently, placed in false
position to the general government, which
naturally withholds confidence and amity,
because it cannot rely upon our good faith
and honor, with this perversiOn of facts thrust
upon it.
Ii seems 10 Us that Il Is quite within the
purview of the Legislature to adopt a deci-
ded and conservative resolution with respect
to the relations of this State to the general
government. 1t may with propriety be de-
clared, that during the contest between the
administr alton and the seeded States, there
shall be no determinate and final action on
the part of the State of Maryland, without
the prior submission of the question to the
people, through convention, to be by them
elected. And furthermore, that IN any act
authorizing the election of convention, that
body shall be prohibited from passing an or
dinance of secession, so long as the national
capital of the United States is continued at
Washington. And as the rational probabili-
ties are that this contingency will not occur
during our day and generation, it will estab
lish the most intimate relations between the
State of Maryland and the general govern
ment that our circumstances Immediately
admit o. If with this frank and friendly ex-
Intuition of loyalty to the Union, aud alliance
with the government, the latter should still
indicate lis purpose to Cypress, and annoy,
aud injure u., We shall be relieved from the
just imputation of an aggressive spirit, and
must do the best We can, remedialiy, for the
promotion of our domestic enterprise and
general welfare
From these ii is quite plain that Maryland
is at least with the South and in favor of
Southern independence and her own;bat it is
equally clear that she is already saeJugated.
Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri
must next bow before the tyrant's sceptre
If they fail to resist the encroachment- But
we will resist. We will die freemen rather
than live slaves We defy the naughty in
vader, and if unable to make good the def
ance, we are ready to I'LL the honored graves
of freemep-
OF course we desire to live and to live in
the full enjoyment of liberty. To do 80 We
must prepare for defence. Let us take WARN
ing from the fate of Maryland. which waited
too long, and placed too much reliance in