New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-05
FROM MARYLAND.
PLANS AND PROJECTS or TIE MARY
LAND SECESSION DEMOCRATIC FAIRLY.
matters.

From Our Own Correspondent
BALTIMORE Feb. >, 1861.
/ have just got clue to the plans and projects
Of the rcbrnious Democratic party of Maryland
for oyertnrpDg the State Government, and seiz-
ing upon atd holding the City of Washington, as
the capital e the Slave States, which are to pro-
claim themselves the real United States. Add III
carving ont this scheme, they rely upon tie
countenance and aid Of President Buchanan
Fooled BY Gov. Hicks in getting the Legisla-
ture together according 10 law, the President of
the Senate and the Speaker Of tie House of Del
egGtes have resolved upon conyeniug this body,
upon their own res possibility. They recently
spit their spite upon the Governor for refusing
10 become the fomcnter Of rebellion, by furious
onslaught ON him in the columns Of The Bate
more Sun.
The Legislature once assem6led-not in the
State. House, for Gov. Hicks viii prevent that
outrage-it il the solemn determination Of the
House Of Delegates TO impcach hun for such high
crimes and misdemranors as they may yamp up,
and Of the Senste to convict and depose HIM.
II he makes any resistance, then, in the elegant
language Of ex-Goy. Lowe, at the Secession
meeting Last evening, they "rW giJJet him.'
But once out of the way, no matter how, the
President Of the Senate will take bis place, AID
then the work of strife VIII commence in earnest !!
In the mean time, the spontaneous Sovereignty
Convention, now in progress OF being packed
with Secessionists, and called to meet in this
city on the 18th inst, will have come together,
and will play into the hands Of the Legislature,
which will legalze it's existence M representing
the sovereignty of the people of the State. Then
will follow in quick succession the repeal by tie
Legislature of the act ceding the District of Co
umbia to the old United States, aud it's cession
10 the new United States, consisting OF the fiji
teen Slave States by name; the passage by the
Convention of an ordinance Of secession from
the old Union and Of an ordinance of adhesion to
the new Unon the authorized seizure and occu-
patton of the City of Washington by the troops
of Maryland and Virginia in conjunction, and the
delivery Of the District over to the authorities of
the new United States, under the existing Con-
stitution, as it shall be modified ut Montgomery.
The proposed movement of Virginia in the 4th
Of February Conference, that the Federal Gov
eminent shall remove all Federal forces now
concentrated in Washington, as preliminary to
further negotiations, is part Of the scheme
above Swallowed forth, and if the Conference
agrees to i. Mr.. Buchanan will gladly comply,
if, indeed, he does not do so at the instance Of
Virginia, which he is expected to do if required.
Gen. Scott is for occupying in tho capital, with
sufficient force TO ayerawe all attempts at dis
turbance, being fully apprised of the designs Of
the conspirators. He demands ample forces, or
he will not be responsible for the consequences.
The question at Washington now is, whether his
demands will be complied with
You will have seen the reports Of the Secession
meeting at the Maryland Institute of this city,
last evening. There were not more than 900
people present at any one time. The parties who
differed the assemblage are nearly oil the pillars
Of the ancient Democracy, with here and there
IN spostate Wing and American. They represent