The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-01-11
Governor Bradford's inaugural.
The crowded state ofour columns prevents
us giving the entire address of the Governor.
We make the following extracts:

SO long as the Federal Administration
shall continue to devote, as we believe it has
hitherto done, the powers at its command
! faithfully to the accomplishment of the same
national objects; and steadiastly resisting
all attempts to misapply these powers, shall
continue honestly to exert them with the
single and sacred purpose of sustaining the
supremacy of the Constitution, so long will
Mary land, impelled by every instinct of
interest and affection, unite AS ardcntly as
she does to-day in upholding the Union of
which she is proud to be the heart.
! The sooner that those engaged in this
rebellion come to understand that this is the
position and unalterable determination OF
the people of Maryland, the better will it be
for all concerned.
SECESSION PALACES.
If there is anything connected with Seces-
sion more grossly fallacious than its claim
to be considered constitutional right, it is,
especially so far as Maryland is concerned,
its adaptation as remedy for existing evils.
That we have endured heavy losses of Slave
property-that these losses have frequently
occurred under circumstances well calculated
to irritate and provoke our people, no one,
we presume, will deny. But even in mo
ments of greatest evaporation growing out
of these grievances, it never entered into
| me IMAGINATION OF amy man III ."ar!laha
that such.evils could DE avcrteo ny disso-
luton Of the Union. Or all the thirty four
States ours should be the last tohearken to
such counsels and of all the interests which
we have at stake, the one just referred to
should be the first to deprccatG them. |
will not pause to inquire into the more
extensive and universal class of calamities
consequent upon dissolution Of the Cuion,
in which this Continent and the world to
some extent would participate, but refer
only to those immediate household evils
living at the door of us in the Border States.
| AS this Union now exists, MARYLAND is its
very centre. connected by her railroads and
rivers with all points of its extreme circuiu-
ference, but divide it by any line ever vet
snarested. and rrhr bcine the centre of a
preat not;on destined To h@cn,ne in time the
mighty cmnire of the world. we are shifted
tn fhn outnr vrraa If one of two rival and
wrono,;nn ronrnIoroc;ns L,rr,s,nd hr n.r.
netunl causes Of disnutc and necessarily
ttuh;nctol hv our ,ncition to Ln,r rho brunt
~ Hvor,. cojl;S;n, in which thav must snanI.
H., Loa.,oo ;n,.nlvnJ
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WIEN We SHALL HAVE fhAeh'
The question Is frequently asked, ana with
national sollcitnue-wheh VIII thesc thlhes
END ana now ana wheh may we look lor
returning peace
10 harbor douot OF the proper answer OF
these questions IN 10 protfact thls var. In
the very nature OF thihSs there Can be out
one solution VI me Problem. Inc gcoSraph-
Zeal cohatioh oi our county! he character Vi
our people, thc'' i,'u'SpenS'oie necoSs",uS'
anu thcir not less ihoispehSioic au'ies, "i'Ac
iorbId the possibility oil any other.
Their very existence depends upon their
nationality. II never car, therefore, DC sur
rendered. 10 SURRENDER II Is 10 aunt
Iallure OF hePuotcah ihsll'u'iohs-ls 10 CON-
less before Inc hatiohs VI inc eafth that we
are Powerless lof sell government, ana 10
transmit our names TO future generations to
stand forever III 1snoDle contrast WITH the
glorious sircs from whom we nave descended,
to see ,h. ruardian spiril of thi, venerable
chamber, hallowed as it is by such memories
of the past, rise W to rebuke the recrean
thought.
The leaders of the rebellion may assert
over and over again that the South never will
submit to tbi, National rulc--that it will
resist to the last the proposed reunion. So
far as those leaders are concerned, We may not
doubt the sincerity Of their protest. Their
oHcnscs against free institutions are too rank
and too recent to allow them willingly again
to submit to the will Of the majority. But,
to say nothing Of the popular voce-which
they have for the present stilled-to admit for
arguments sake that but one sent iment per
yadcs the entire South, and that it clamors
for a separate Government. earnest as that
purpose may be there is a still stronger force
| opposed to it ; not merely the force of a vast
numerical superiority, but a power made
irresistible by the force of necessity; con-
ironing ana decisive power, growing our OF
tion ,n,k. ;mnnrative N,,inn,litv win ne
therefore. is a necessity. and peace. anxiously
"a wo NAV await II can never come mill maj
necessity il rrconnized and our whole
country once more united under IFS old
established rule. Who can doubt that such
will he the Ultimate r,sult of the war If il is
confined to the faithful nurspit of tbat object .
EMANCIPATION DISCUSSED.
1t is impossible. to believe that a policy
traught with such incalculable mischief to the
cause Of the Constitution can find any advo-
Gates in an administl alton whose course thus
far whether as regards our domestic or for
cign relations, has been distinguished by its
prudence, patriotism and ability.
Nor - this movement, believe, to be con-
sdered as expressing to any great extent the
sentiments of the Republican party but to
my mind it seems rather sort OF diving strug-
gle of desperate minority, the last spasnl
of an expired faction premontory to its dis
solution,
Assuming, therefore, as l think we safely
, may, that the Government in the conduct OF
the war will adhere to the policy which has
secured to such an extent the confidence OF
the countly il Incomes us to consilp how