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

at the
oeIow designated on the evening of Tuesday the
o INST to appoint five delegates from each ward who
a.l meet IN convention at the Law Buildings on the
evening of Thursday, the 9TH inst and elect
aeSes to represent the city in the State Convention
aforesaid which State Convention we recommend
oe heln IN baltimore on the 18th inst.
PLACES FOR HOLDING WARD MEETINGS
53 5S' ward Eastern Avenue and Washington street
"a . - Uhlon HOTEL Bond and Thames streets
Sd " -ottoway Hall, Bond and Pratt street,
4th old Engine House Vigilant Fire COMPANY
''i -'laTon Hail, Ensor street, near Engine
Gtl Gti -Sshumans, Orleans street and Broadway
Sth & Forrest and Monument streets
| IN -Iaylor's Building Fayette near Calvert ST.
| !Uth " Liberty Engine House
Ilth " Peabody House, St Paul and Centre streets
| 1-th Mount Vernon Hall, Howard, opposite Cen
! 18th " John Robnsons Franklin and Fremont
streets
llh = Charles Clouds, Baltimore, west of paca
18th " -yaux-haI Garden, Light street.
+ Iotn -Keystone Hall, Camden, near Paca street
IGh i9hh -Montgomery Hall.
iSth " Evans Pratt street Garden
i''" -sc49ol House, Republican street, north of
Goth d" -HofTman's Pennsylvania avcnra and ~
chard street. "
heSolVed That we repudiate the inference drawn hv
e nacS republican Legislatures of Pennsylvania and
New York-indicated by their resolutions Of conorat,
iaon 10 the Governor of Maryland his refusal to con
enc The Legislature of this State-that MARYLAND IA MO
pared to act in conjunction with those States in The
nponen OF military force to by bloody process
e seeding states, and that recommend local organ
l]aons of the citizens of Baltimore who are opposnd n
ue coercion and are in favor of the Constitution of the
United States and the rights Southern States
Resolved also That respectfully recommend to such
Of our feow-czens of the several counties Of tbis
as concur IN the sentiments of the foregoing reso.
lutIons, and who have already taken action in Tho
9sses TO assemble in primary meeting in the
usrlGts IN each county, on Tuesday the 18th inst at
O'Clock, r NJ. TO appoint delegates to County Convep
uon TO be held at the County Town each County at
II cIocE A 81, on Thursday the 14th inst, who shall
appoint delegates to the number of double their
i've delegations in the Legislature the State Con
Vehon proposed to be held in this city the 18th inst
HON. r. NJ. NJ LANES SPEECH
M President and felo1y.citivcns of baltimore. Tho
manifestations OF your feeling in response to those reso
utlons that have just been read suggests TO me that
there is little necessity of observation or arpument ~
call forth from you affirmative response Nrvertbc
less, will respond to the invitation given me to adros.
you upon these resolutions, and doing so call to mind
those points that seem to me salient and worth o " u
MEDIATE attention Itseems to that never the history
CT this country have witnessed a scene of notcaI
disorder like that which shakes the confedeacv NJ
the Government of the United States VI
Never before in the history this country have we had
crisis which demanded earnestly the attention Of
tne eope Of Baltimore and Maryland than this exisn
crisis tapplause and yet in my experience shall ncr
maps say my long experience, with you in the political
agatlons Of the day tbecause have been one of Won
IN those contests and excemens for some fifteen Years
pastl-neVer in tha; period have witnessed time when
ere was such reluctance, such positive reluctance TO
speak OF the exigency of the and the actual CON
dlon OF this country of ours and what the will of the
people of the city of Baltimore in reference to il And
IN looking for explanation feel as YOU to- nrbt
Hest you feel Indignation not disgust at those officials
sion of the popular will. (Appause1 F'0
say with indiRnation-yes, ndignation-no matter
wat nght be the motive which impes these officials to
oppose lalr expression of the public voice. but with
disgust, because my intelligence suggests to ma that that
motive is neither patriotic honorable Applause
we are obliged in this world in dealing with each oer
we are obliged, say, when the man professno
ms disposition to do right when dealing facts and
pledgng his honor and his faith that he desires to S
Wlth us In vndicaton of the honor MARYLAND and
yet encouraging and subscribing the purposes of party
disgraceful and dshonorabe to MARYLAND we must ei
condemn HIM as as without intelligence or wthout
truth and sincerity. (Applause)
ial to express myself fully upon the sentiments MO
nd IN
consider most material to the issue | wond come
short of presenting you the real nducement that ;
o extraordinary action 1fthe Executive Of MARYLAND
had dealt with you honoraby and rary-if he had nre
sencG 10 you consistent and intelligent of con
uuc he sAould be respected in the difference of opinn
which exists between him and me; but if upon his record
he gives you evidence that he does deal with the sub
lec either lntelligentiy with fidelity he is entitled
to that respect which difference opinion under obcr
circumstances, SI I1!n, would engender. Applause)
, Gov. Hicks, when asked to call the Legislature said
% you snoulu nave 1t wien the occasion arrived-hat
he was IN consultation with the Governors other slave
hoidng States and those with which are most init
would cheerfuy respond the petition of the peopie
but When he next addressed you, he told you was un
cohSutohl ana illegal for you to confer with your sis
ter States of the South when YOU next heard from
him he assumed the power himself to do what he refused
~ CIV you te permission to do applause 1t is this
shortrecord ofhis conduct that my eyes condemns him
and which convicts him of insincery and stamps his
conduct discreditable to the State over which he mo
sdes: tAppiause.1 And in my observations upon him
desiring as do to treat him all official respect
will not Withhold the full measure of condemnation ot
his distinct declarations exact of me and Of
low.citizens. (Applause) -
Will you permit me, only for moment to suggest t
you why governor Hicks should cali that Legislature
that the people Of the State may speak themseves?
lie should do so first because the one imminent
with danger to u.s. the people of Maryland What are the
facts The Republican party, about to be inaugurated
avo"s IT'S to adhere to the Chicago plat
or ana 10 refuse all concession and all cOmnromsp in
consistent with the principles of that platforms and fur
ther ITS determination to execute the laws of the Tnnd
States in the States of the Union tha'ha seeded
know, and every intelligent man in this community |
T", % ~ 1t ahe$ no a%yer or mist to teach this truth
State that has withdrawn its allegiance is practically to
coerce that ate ''' ~
Itis not the of the execution Of the law in State
of the Union where the Courts and the officers whose
duty 1t is to execute the law be found but II il
case where the officers to execute that are no longer
III anu ereore II must be executed by Off
GERS not known to the law and only authorized by the
imperial arm OF the government. (Applausel Thai is
why the execution OF the laws of the United States in
state that has seeded is coercion is subiugatiou. and
hus TO execute the law changes the character tie gov
ethheht OF the United States, and from being a canstu-
tiona government, becomes despotc and arbitrary
government lAppauseJ And will any man say to me
tonight, Union loving and he who is in the T-nion
and who insists that he will remain in the Union and
will remain in the Union when every other southern
State has quit the Cnionwill tell me he is urnarad
to see the turn this confederacy into dos
potism because States have seeded?
care not whether they have right to secede or not
if the government aemainshal change its character
ana cease to be constitutional government all good
men should withdraw their allegiance from it. Thisis
the distinct issue that we the people of Maryland while
in the Union, ought meet in Convention to i,rotest
against the destruction Of Constuton-tha which
we still acknowledge while State of the United States
lAppause) Also to protest against the aggressons of
the antslayery sentiment of the North on the domestic
institutions OF the South and to propose honorable and
satisfactory terms of adjustment or failing in that in the
last resort to determine the future destiny of the State
II we neglect this duty, become roweress for good
and sink to the level of the passive instrument of
pntic government, in destroying the Constitution and
lose all opportunity to act for the preservation of
Perhaps citizens the dignity of the occasion
loroids that should suggest another view yet it pat
et TO all and so dangerous to peace integrity
State that you consider it. You see that tIa
administration of Lincoln is about to be inauguaated
You know you yet citizens State in the MON
You see that these very who will not give Won an
expression of your views for the maintenance of your
rights ana that you may give counsel well sympa-
thy to sister States SOUTH leading by every r
flee as many of our people they the support of
that Republican administration which is as obnox
ious in Maryland South Carolina. (Applausel The |
people cannot bear this insut-cannot allow this blind
every instinct manhood and this base consn
to dishOnor State by submission to black Repu
can rule Identifying them with that administration.
c'Ncver, and applausel
Why, fellowcitizens Of Baltimore are you behind the
patriotic people Of New York. who speak in thunder tones
his r minister of yGh man whom b has saec
the chief his cabinetwhen in the midst al
most universal demand for peace this crv that comes nm
from North and South for compromise for peaceful
separation if need bewhen you that man in duce
tones sing the song glory for this Union our hearts
bound with hope and joy because in all history we
have ever been conservative people people devoted to
the Union Our warm interests and political sympathies |
all identified with it, We have all known it to be our
common country, and love it such (appause and vet
he it is who says to US that he will pray for that Union
speak Union, Tor that Union counsel
ms people to give their money for that Union and also
fight for that Union.
Fight with whom? Fight with those who quilted that
Union? Who seeded that Union? Dare he thus to
avow his determination to bring his banks
OF the Susquehanna2 By the living
men, (appause that river shall red with blood be-
fore they shall be able to soil the banks Of the Potomac
tAppiausel Shall it he said in Boston in New York in
the Tar est-We have children in all those States
our sons oiling upon the praes of Illinois, Iowa and
Minnesota, and shall they hear that the war is to |
commence the banks of the Potomac and be |
told it is because the people of Maryland are afraid of
civil war and boodshed, (applause) and therefore will
not meet the present crisis No fellow citizens for
one, pledge my life and my heart that will march with
you to the Susquehanna. AppIause and three cheers
suspend your cheers. Let feel that nv obserya
tons are in any sense defamation Let me tell YOU whv
would march there To prevent single human being
marching into Maryland any other slave States
under arms, to the laws of the United States
appause when these States have withdrawn from the
Union.
recognize to the full extent at all times-I wish to
make no mstake-l recognize fully, the right of the |
government OF the United States to execute its laws
upon the individuals of State, but require the Coy
eminent of the United States when executes those laws
upon the individuals of State to conform to the Const
tutona processes OF law, applause and whenever it
departs from this ready, for one, oppose myself
10 those that come TO execute the law applause
believe as lawyer citizen, and as man endeayor-
ing to know the truth, studying to know the |
truth, looking to that source to which we
all ought to look for Instruction. that when in the eyer
cise oil her conventional sovereignty State has with
drawn from this Union, that is possible the
Constitution of the United States to execute the laws of
the United States within that State (Appause)
have not time and the occasion does require it,
defend that opinion by argument state it only to
Justify myself in the strong expressions in which have
induiged state it to vndicate my conscience and