The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-04


and principles of " the embarked in the scheme o.
calling together charged the existence of conspiracy
capture the Capitol and the federal archives, which
was at the bottom Of the movement he was resist
ing and eudeavored rally the citizens of the State
around himself and his policy by appeal to the
fears their sympathies their creduity and their preudi
ceS Yet in this the most elaborate and passionate
his efforts he does not venture to desert the plan
consultation and united action with the slave states OF
"Beeving's he declares, "that the interests Of Mary
Stand bound up lcih those Of heBordsr holding
SdteS hare been engaged for months past an fuf an
terchqnge Of re,aS th the Governors Of Virginia, hen
'tcLy Tennessee and Missouri, aei rieo TO concerted
sin progress feel jastfedin saying have resulted in good
that The proper time action drrices these sister
StdteS bound common destiny, lct tItfSt, be pre-
''pdTed 10 act together"
And he adds, with increasing emphasis
81 firmly believe that the salvation of the Union de
pends upon the Border Slave States without their aid
the Cotton States could command the influence
land credit and men essential to their existence as ma
tion. Without them the Northern half Of the Republic
wOud be shorn of its power and influence. Within the
Union, firmly believe guaraEt for our
protection, which viii remove these distressing causes OF
'irritation.
erdtiOn refuse to gre them, ci, in alited body
demand and receive far driSioa Of the national do
mann.
On January 18th, committee of most respectable gen
tlemen deputed by ference from all portions of the
State and held in the Law Buildings this city had
interview with the Governor. The Conference had de-
ferred to his declared objections TO the convoca
tion of the Legislature, and the committee were
his proclamation inviting the people to determine by
their ballots whether they desired Convention to be
called In case response appeal,
the Governor requested to designate day for the
election of members to the contemplated body The Gov
declined. He still desired delay. 'He preferred
waiting (accordng to the announcement in the Balti
more Americanl until Mr.. Critendens compromise res
ouons should be finally acted upon, before taking any
decisive step upon the subject at issue On the oath of
January to the stonishmeut of everybody except those
IN e mySf @ there IN te m far
the Sh Of that month"; and addressed to the Hon. j. L.
Cory, Commissioner of Alabama, wherein every prev
Gus suggestion of the Geyernor and OF everybody else
looking united South" ''concert of the Border
States "a united body position side by side with
Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky association
'for veal wo with those States any other States,
Sin destiny" is utterly repudiated and de-
nounced, as fragrant violation of the Constitutional
step to which "the people of Maryland will
sent Such "fraternal concert for any purpose or in
shape is not he says for instant to be tolerated
Let US hear the language in which this doctrine is pro
claimed from the lips by which the people of Mary
land often assured have shown you, that the
identical course bitterly denounced nearest
the Governors heart
81 cannot see how while the Constitutional prohibi-
"ton stands against compacts agreements between
"ang of the States, any mutual eague be had,
eveu between those whose hopes and hazards alike
And if this prohibition has been judciay declared to
'include every agreement written verbal formal
"informal, positive implied, by the mutual under
standing of the parties, then am unable to imagine
chow any league covenant or understanding what
lever, unauthorized unapproved by Congress,
though should he in furtherance of the laws and for
STRENGTHENING the Conederacy, be otherwise than in
violation of the CeareSt
''law of the landn
Instead therefore, hearkening any such treason
instead proceeding with the Border States in united
body demand and receive division of the national
doman;' instead of demanding division of the coun-
try instead of having Governor to lead in fra
ternal concert with the other Border Staes in the u
mate vndicatiOn of our common rights and common
deSny"-we are 10 do what? Submit to the action Of
CongresS
Tine Congress of the United States' says the Cover
ofers the only mode authorized by the Constitu-
ton for consultation and avisement among the several
States To the Congress still look with confidence for
such enacmens shall secure just and equal rights,
and shall satisfy all except those who determined to
be satisfied with nothing but revolution and the hopes
that arise to them from anarchy and confusionn
Fellow citizens! does not this suffice? Is it not as
plain fact and argument make it, that the people
of Maryland have been deluded and deceived Is it not
manifest that they have been entertained and kept quiet
by assurances of desire and purpose to join them in
the vudicaton of their position by united action with
the Border states should the disruption oil the Union De
Inevitable and that all those assurances were hollow and
are to be repudiated and ahured? Is it not demon
srated that the States, which it was declared would be
prepared to act together not to be allowed to act
together if Mr. Hicks preventit?
The result Ofthe whole is perfectly palpable 1t is in
tended that Maryland shall kept inert and silent
pretext another, until the Inauguration OF Mr..
Lincoln and then her people to be rallied to his sup
port the representative of the government and the
their lure and decoy into the practical support OF the Re-
publican party. (Cres of''Neyer neyer.n) welcome
the declaration, not only your sentiment, but the
feeling of the whole people of the State The scheme
erthelesS is plain the sunshineas transparent
the moonlight Happily it is bargain which takes two
to make, and which you thwart. (AppauSe)
In attempting to expose it, have had desire to
throw single spark Of excitement into acontroversy
which the conduct the Governor and his partzans has
rendered exciting enough. But a citizen and gentle
mannyolved with whole masses of the good people of
this State in imputation of treason and perdy to that
sacred constitutional Union, which cherish more than
all things else, in my relations, patriot to my coun
" @ b m %c2 % With e0fe SPn9ns m @
ecutve of my State by the sympathzing Executive of
another have felt it due to all Of that the
ms 6Fip no rl,o
may read it. tApplause)
word upon another branch of the same subject The
Constitution authorizes and in my judgment directs the
Governor assemble the Legislature upon extraordinary
occasions. Even upon his theory he is bound ex-
ercSe that power now for whatever his previous opinions
may have been the very fact that he has sent commits
soners to Washington for the purposes set forth in the
invitation of Virginia. is concession that of the
most extraordinary occasions which could shake an
pre has startl and aghted this Republic Neverhe-
less he will not assemble the Legislature The
said it, He has assumed and his friends and advocates
have assumed with him. that its convocation is de-
sired for other purpose than to fling this State FORTH
madly from its sphere lie and they contemplate pro-
fess to contemplate nothing but secession and secession
in the widest shape and for the corrupt and na.
nous purposes the result Of the meeting of the General
Assembly.
Fellsw-ctzens-No has better right to know
and no one has more incumbent obligation on him
do justice to the present Legislature of Maryland than
have. was before them, long and often, with friends
who around me- in the successful effort restore
by proper legislation, the rights and order of this
muniy. tApplause is to their patriotic and conser
freedom with which you assemble here tonight to speak
your sentiments and for the security which will attend
you homes when separate 1t only because
that conservative action of theirs your behalf and
mine that redhanded murder longer writes election
returns among us for Congressman who msreprcent
and Governors who usurp prerogatives (Tremend-
Gus applause) And tell you fellow citizens, that the
selfsame which make the Governor of Maryland
dsrust that Legislature ought be your reasons and
mine for trusting it,
It natural that you and ne should view with different
eyes the principles aud conduct of those representatives
Of t-trIn 81
break down the brutal despotsm which made him Gov
ernor Of Maryland. (Applause.l l repeat, there
and that the proper mode Of giving utterance
the sentiments of people, is through
convention which that Legislature shall CALL
lfthe Governor persists in refusing to give the people
that legitimate and constitutional opportunity of being
heard the responsibility is his head and they
do the best thing they can by calling convention
themselves. tGreat applause.)
In the presence of what crisis and what ssty dc
we stand, fellow-citzens? Let us look at it like
Six States of this Coniederacy have gone from it
God knows that their departure from this Union has
given me only anguish The ringing of bells and the
booming of cannon, to proper part of the lie
monstrations which belong to an event so sad feel as
every ruehearted should bow to such dispense
tion-inevitabe as it might be-in the spirit with which
he would follow his mother to the grave. Sensaon
applause But whatever be the feeling with which W,
regard the fact it is fact nevertheless Six States
gone from among Call it revolution, or seces
sion or rebeon-ca it anything you please
still they have gone out of the Union, and i
depends upon the result of the conference. whic!
remaining slave States South and West Of Maryland-th
whole broad belt and border from the Atlantic to the Mis-
sissipri, and beyond-shal not go out likewise. Ant
while this great problem of our destiny is being solved
and howsOever At may be solved, told that on
interest and our duty-our obligations to the Republic
and ourseves-reqsire US to be silent and quieo
render ourselves to Gov Hicks and cng to the Union!
Cling to the Union? Cling to what What is the Uniol
into which Maryland entered and to which she belongs
great Republic and undivided, almost covering
continent. Where is she in that Union A centra
Satehe tendrls of her prosperity fastening upon ever
break that conederacy in the midst leaving her borde
province with foreign nation, and perhaps enemy
beside her, and you tell her to cling to the Union STILL
to cling TO what exists no longer, in love association
or peace
Oil but say our constitutional lawyers at Annapoli
Union is not dissOlved-the States hav
only seeded and secession is
thing, therefore, is as it before and Maryland mus
cling to i'll Are talking with men, they talking
to children? Are to look at distractions ant
books, are dealing with the great and pal
pabe and if please the terrible facts of revolution
have heard argument to prove to Maryland that h
Union will continue to exist for her. if the border State
out oft which would not prove with equal demonsra
ton that the United States of America are still the colo
nes ofGreat Britain have heard no logic that esabshe
the constitutional right Of half the Union to call itself tn
Union because it the forms of the
that would not equally prove Massachusetts to be tn
United States, if every other State leave
provided she chose retain the national name and hat
and navy and strength enough to enforce her pre-
| tensions by arms.
The Cotton States then are of the Union The re
sponsbility, it is true is their headsbut they hav
left it. The Border States, to the South and West of
unless it peases Heaven to permit compromise will
out also What is the State of MARYLAND to do? To tell he
to cling to the Union is to bid her cling to the North
and clingng to the North, cingng to the Reput
lican party. (Applause) And this-when she know
that il the line be drawn the Slave border the right
the side and the wrong is on the other and tn
Republican party is the pion of the wrong. In th
olden times when the people of Maryland acted suc
questions and had found the right they did not doub
whittier their lay-nor did it take them thre
months with volume of correspondence, to distinguish
| the right from the wrong. iApplause)