The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-08-07
ISI.A I,I-iS G AISSrC QEDR ECs HON.

The following resolutions of the Legislature we
published yesterday but they had been received 80
late on the previous night that many gross blum
ders committed in putting them in type. We
have, therefore, thought it proper to correct and
reprint them.
WHEREAS, The military authorities of the Government
of the United States in Baltimore have assumed
from Office the Marshal of Police of that city an
officer of the State of Maryland and appoint his
cessor and have further assumed to dismiss from Office
the Board of Police of Baltimore body clothed with
high powers by the State of Maryland the protection
of It's citizens and have actually put end by force
the exercise by said Board of its lawful and important
functions, and have appointed sundry individuals in
large numbes,t govern said city POlice.n contempt
Of the constitutional rights of the State Of M.ryland and
| in open violation of its laws; and
Whereas the Congress of the United States instead Of
rebukng the wrong and usupatiou aforesaid, has ius
fed and approved the same under color of a"mihtary
necessity not known to the institutions the country
and fatal to its liberties and has app opatcd large
of money for the said unlawful police force that the
members thereof, maintsned thereby in daily
oppressive hostility to the laws of Maryland and the
rights of its citizens and constitute fact civil govern
ment established by Congress- the chief city of the
| State; and
| WHEREAS Charles Howard VIM H. Gatchell and John
W. Davis. Police Commissioners aforesaid having beer
arrested by orders of the General commanding the army
of the United States and imprisoned at Fort McHenry
under frivolous and arbitrary pretexts without oath
warrant presentment of Grand Jury, lawful
disclosed, trial had have since been removed by mill
tay force under the order Fort Lafayette in New
York, where they held 'pris of State
the arbitrary pleasure of the President of United
States and the officers under him. distance from the
homes and families in defiance Of law and tie constitu
on and in criminal violation of the paines deares
rights to which American citizens are BORN therefore
| be it,
Resolved, by the General Assembly of MARYLAND ha
solemnly protest in the of the State and he
people, against the proceedings aforesaid in all he
parts. pronounciDg the far they affect in
dviduals, gross and unconstitutional abuse of
which nothing paliate excuse and in their bearing
upon the authority and constitutional powers and prv
eges of the State herself revolutionary subversion
| the Federal compact.
| Resolved, That appeal, in the most earnest man
to the whole people of the country, all parties
tons and opinions to take warning by the usurpaton
aforeu entioned and the of the inst
tutions of the country that whatever may be the ssu
of the melancholy conflict which is covering tn
the land with sacrifice and sorrow, and threatens
overwhelm it with death and ruin there may, leas
survive to when it is over the Republican form
government which fathers beQueathed to and tn
inesmable rights which they framed it to perpetuae.
Another resolution provides for the Transmission
of copies of the report to our Senators and Repre-
sentatives in Congress, and to the Governors
the several States, TO be laid before their respectlv
Legislatures. The reading of the report frt
quently interrupted with applause, and the resolr
, tions were adopted by vote of yeas AZ, nays Z
three Union men, Messrs. Nelson, Medders an
Dennis, in the affirmative.