New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-25
FROM MARYLAND.
From Our Own Correspondent

deal Of ugly prccipitate. Public meetings con-
tinue 10 be held in the different election precincts
of the State, ut which violent explosive feeling
for maintaining the Federal Government in its
entirety, at all hazards, is manifested. But | am
sorry TO see it is accompanied with mass OF
impossible ifs and buts, though to the credit OF
those who make them, it should be said they are
not urged as ultimate.
Secession or rather rebellion meetings, i am
glad TO inform you, are becoming fewer ana
fewer and our ears are no longer dinned with
persistent attempts ut oyerawing the Governor
into submission TO the schemes of the disorgan-
izers, who want him TO convene the Legislature
willy nilly, or with threats to reyoluhomze the
State Government by a volunteer Convention, II
he continues TO refuse to accede to their de-
mands 1t true that Ex-Governor Lowe 10 out
in this mornings papers, threatening to emigrats
from the State and even to remove tho ashes OF
his dead from its soil unless Maryland Will take
the South Carolina chute. But it must be re-
membered, this is way that we Southerners have
of talking, and that the Ex-Governor is gwen TO
fine rhetoric, and sometimes TO poetry
The correspondence between Governors CuSln
and Hicks, published in to-day's papers, and the
visit of Gov. Curtin's Committee TO Gsy. Hicks
might as well have been spared, for, however
prsisewOrthy the design, 1t has only served 10
stimulate the dsorganlzer in our State into re-
newed abuse Of our Executive for being civil to
Pennsylvania and for standing by the Federal
Union. What we all want in Maryland is, Tor
the Free States to do their duty, and We viii do
ours, without talking so much about IT, espe-
cially when to talk about it exposes US to mis-
representation.
new party is springng up among u.s. IL Is
,nado Up Of tho Douglas aud Bell men of tho iaos
canvass. They are TO join forces next Fall, and
run State and Congressional ticket, under the
ralying cry of The Union forever in the
hope Of defeating the Secession or Breckenridge
party. They have already fixed upon success
sor 10 III. Winter Davis, in the person of Henry
NAV. his predecessor. Meantime, the old Amer
can party is giving signs of coming TO life again.
A desperate effort will be made next month
in the Baltimore NJ. E. Conference, which is to
meet ct Stanton, in Virginia, to carry of that
body from the mother church North upon the
question Of Slavery as enunciatcd III the Dsci-
pline by the late Buffalo General Conference
The forces Of the two parties have been duly
marshaled by Conventions held in this city, but
the better informed think the Secessionsts will
be beaten, notwithstanding DR.. Thomas +. Bond
is at their head.
You will have a certain indication of the change
Of public sentiment upon the question Of calling the
Legislature together, when / tel you that when
the matter first came up there were not more
than three or four VOICES on the side vi Gov
Hicks in the Baltimore Club, an association OF
the very first gentlemen in our city. Now, this
state of things is nearly reversed, md the Club
is generally with the Governor. Much of this
healthful change Of sentiment is said to be due to
the manly stand taken in the first instance by
Robert Gilmore, esq, one of the most influential
members of the Club
The rumor is current, and regard it as we'll
founded that The Baltimore Exchange, decidedly
the abcst conducted journal in Maryland, and
now the organ Of the Breckenridge Democracy,
ia about to change its course upon the question
of Secession. With the personal secession of one
Of its editors, il is said it will take high and de-
cided ground in favor of preserving the Union at
all hazards, and become the spokesman Of the
new party which have alluded to above.
Lieut.. Hall, in conversation with gentle
man who Travelled with him on his way from
Charleston to Washington, denied all the state
ments about short supplies and the nutnous con-
duet on the part of the men in Fort Sumter.
lie seys the men are ready to die for Major
Anderson, and that the fort will never be sur
rendered while there is one arm left 10 defend
it. The Lieutenant's description Of the scene in.
eident upon the preparation for opening the fire
of the fort upon Fort Moultrie was animated in
the extreme. Every eye was fixed on their CON-
mander, and when the Star Of the West turned
seward, he simply gave the signal to desist, and
was instantly obcyed
Mr.. Gourdin Of Charleston, who came on to
Washington with Lieut.. Hall, is said to have
conversed very freely upon the purposes Of South
Carolina, and to have stated that the policy Of
his State ia to take Fort SUMTER even if it should
be necessary 10 scac The walls over ramparts Of
dead bodies!
! am of the opinion, froa oil that hear Of
The jmpulsiye character Of the New.0rleans |
troops, which have been sent to Pensacola, that |
40 consideration will Keep them back from as
nultins Fort Pickens The conduct of Louis
ana, after having been the recipient of Federal
eunty for 20 msOy years, u tho form Of prV.
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