The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-20
LETTER FROM FREDER1c1x.

FREDERICK, June 18th, 1861.
| The popular attention was almost wholly absorb
ed to-day by the unusual military excitement. an,
the proceedings of the two Houses attracted there
fore comparatively slender attendance of Iookars
on.
MIR. Brown, of Howard county, presented to-da,
an amended order, requesting the Governor r.
open negotiations with the authorities at Wosbino
ton Tor the surrender OF such fugitive slaves as
seek the protection of Unted States military can,n
IN other places under the Governments control
The order was adopted without dissent
number OF influential members appear IN he
getting restive under the continuance of the soc
SION This feeling is evinced in the propostion NJ
MI. Brlnlng to-day to ask the concurrence of tho
Senate In motion to adjourn sine die on Thursdav
next: Inc message, together with a substitute Of
fered by Mr.. Jacobs, was referred to the Commit.
Zee on Adjournment, who, upon motion of Mr.
burgess, were instructed to report on Thprsdo =
next. "J
A MEMORIAL NOT To ADJoURN
"A Peup"h was presented by Mr.. Starkey from
hlchard Is. Carmichael and Others citiZane NJ
Queen Anne's county, praying the continpanca n
me session. Inc document, which is a lengthy
one for legislative petition is from the men NJ
Judge Carmichael, and declares that:
The Constitution provides that the Legislature sha
De conVoked at Annapolis unless the preseace of an
my or some other cause should render that place
or the meeting of the Legislatures that Annapolis
taken possession of by armed force-sranger to the
he
petitioners to designate but that if they were friends
was not unsafe for the Legislature meet at AnnanoIs
the Governor, summonng the General Assembly To meet
at Frederick dscloses the estimation in which he held
them" " ''' ieiu
The petition, after recitng "the dailv acts q,
outrageS perpetrated by the Northern troops, re.
ates that:
"On the holy Sabbath last an armed force strancar,
and aliens TO the State marched into neiphborina
peaceful village; private citizens were arrastsd o ,h
n n
and acts Of outrage pepetrated by outlaws bearn The
a4th9ly OF the person who is styled the Governor o
Maryland On yesterday (tlth) gang similarly arm ed
and bearing the same authority, visited our countT
town. and subjected our people the like oppression
rms aay 'hey are rayersing the country invading te
tender seX with their Mimic rifle in one hand and the
Governors warrant in the othern ~ ~
The petitioners assert that
They who ask honorable body To adionrn ,ra tb
contedeates OF the Governor and of these outlaws and
declare that while they hold their highest obrafion
their allegiance to the State they are fully conscious o
the obligations which their relations to the General
ernment imposes They decline, however IN recogn.,
powers IN that Government except such were de
egated at It's adoption and are expressed the Consn
ton, and with all Difference to the presence basora
they come with this petition, they pronounce and de-
nounce the eXerton of power manifested in the acts NJ
power above recited, usurpation and their aidsrS o
IN the state OF Mary where
they owe allegiance, and traitors the United states
whose Constitution they subvert hy force ,,
Inc petitioners in conclusion desire the continuance
Of the session. in order that when the end which .tn
come" shall come, the Legislature "the oniy row
through whose agency the sovereign will can exert eff
cient action " may supply the means of redressn
This petition was ordered to be entered upon the
journal, and 1000 extra copies printed
The letter from the Governor, which you pub
llshed yesterday, relative to the State arms in
which he charges the House of Delegates with i'm
pertinence, read.
The reading of the first categorical reply was ra
ceived with buzz of dersive laughter and at the
conclusion of the communication Mr., w allis moved
that it be not received. ' W
Mr. Jacobs, by whom the order referred N bv
the Governor had been submitted to the House
SAID ne had always esteemed Governor Hicks per
sonaly, but meant not the slightest disrcspect in
ofering the order, but that this insulting reply
was not to be borne by this House. He had the au-
thorlty of gentleman just from the presence of
the Governor for saying that hereafter no State
arms would be entrusted to the possession of snv
but Union men; aud, in support of this assertion
read an extract from a business letter of a mambor
of the firm of William Chestnut CO. RsItimora
as follows:
1.-THE guns for Captain Moore's comnanv aro s.;,, ),
talhed at Fort Mcttenry, and likely To he nnlo
and some others of their friends can ro,cb f , gu
secession principles. The writer had an ;nt; nl non
governor HICKS to-day MAY 2lstl and was d;s,i
hormeu that hey would not be placed in the hands ~
secessonlsts; that il satisfactory assurances ,vera
hat the company were secessonists the arms Could
Se ad through an order from the Adiuant General of the
State at Annapolis" '- NeA'i"i Vi VIC
rhe dlihculty, said Mr.. Jacobs, is in determining
VINO are seeessonists. If they secessionists who