The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-05-15

Ny attention. for the first time has been called n b
following paragraph in your paper of the 9TH inst rea
ting to affairs in Annapolis viz:
There was large and enthusiastic Union meetng1ast
at when resolutions were passed in favor of sus
tanning me Government Secession resolutions offered bv
Judge Mason, eXCoilector of Baltimore were received
with groanS and hiSSes.r
The same statement has appeared in the New York and
other papers
1t is strong commentary uron the marnanirnitv of
the persons who composed the meeting that so fragrant
misrepresentation made by the organ of their princple
should have been permitted have passed SO long
rected Besides the injustice of the mis- statement Of the
lact am made to appear ridiculous in having offered &C.
ceSS'o" feSo at'onS at Union eetiag Whatever might
nave oeen my secession tendencies should certainly
nave mad too much wisdom to have sought to have
enforced them, upon such occasion
Every fact stated in the American's paracranb Is
wrong In the first place, the meeting called as
Union Meeting hut exclusively to consider tbe hill
peh1lhS before the Legislature appointing Committee
OF fuoic Safety. No resolutions as remember were
offered sustaining the Government" but those sinh
mted ana passed were confined to the Board of Public
safety Nor did offer secession resolutions Those that
did offer fondly hoped would have met with the nJi
Vdua support of the meeting and confess yerv great
surprise and un!eigned sorrow that hev vsrn HtaS
down, by being laid upon the table, by the unanimous
voice lsaVe my own of the meeting Those resolutions
were as follows: ~
q Resolred, That while may deplore the dissoIu
on OF the Union yet in opinion ii the two sections
of our country cannot live peace they ought in order
in peace ' - " 0' Gu u sep
80. Re$9lreQ. That as basis uron which the e,tis mo-
Pc oi maryland may stand as citizens of the United
states, and upon which they may b. Joined hv neace
loving citizens of every State of the Union we recon-
mend to the Government Washington the imme5iate
recognition Of the Independence of the Southern Cnnfd
eay as the only means of preserving peace avertinr
activity. ~ es'
80 Resolred, That the future position of MARYLAND
must be determined by the will her peopIe
IN their sovereign capacity and that until such will 50
expressed Maryland belongs to the Government If tho
stitution and laws thereof" ~ ~
The hope that my resolutions would hav- baan odo+od
was passed upon the circumstance that many perhaps
majority IN the meeting had relatives and friends who
were either in the army of Southern Confderacv or
intimately connected with the destiny of that Govern
meh and that Maryland had always professed Southern
sympathy. One gentleman, I know who WAS prominent
at the meeting had brother identified wi h the Snutb
81 uo9Nerhlheht; another, am informed, has sons
IN hat army and yet by voting ag inst nv resolutions
these gentlemen present the dreadful alternative TO their
oeh klnSmen either to turn traitors 20 the States
N,er ADOPTION or OF meeting them in deadly conflict
hlhsiheh are nearly all in the South and God knows
N.u Spu[h 10 submit to them any such alternative.
me reteXt upon which these resolutions was rejected
was mat the meeting called for the purnosa of
cohSlucFlnG them; and that they in order did
suppose VII then That propositions for peace Heavens
great pressing were always in order, only in meet
hgS about worldly affairs, but in Gods House in our
prayers to His Throne and all and every occasion
IL Is proper that should state, what tis worth
that alter the adjournment of the meeting Stock
ett W. l. Claude, and Miller, all of whom took consnic-
uous parts IN its proceedings told that they were
unequvocay in favor of my resolutions and under.
stood the elder Dr. Claude say the same THING vi
they virtually voted against them.
JOHN THOMSON MASON