The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-03-09
PROGRESS OF THE wan.
rHR MARYLAND sEEAroRs ON rHs mcsIF

PROGRESS OF THE wan.
THR MARYLAND sKEAToRs ON rHs CorsCsIPr
ACT.
On Monday last, liz the United gtates Senate,
while the bill for enrolling AZ enlisting tbs ma.
tions' ;sces" was before that body. the two ssna
tors from Maryland had something to say uptn
that and o!hsr subjects, The notorious trAIlcr
Hicks deprecated crimnation and recrImination on
the part If ths "ex!rsmists' On both sides of the
senats Chamber. He raid:
Here was party on one side charging the other
wish being the Cause Of this wsr, or having con
Quoted II Improperly. BE knew the Northern eI.
tfemlsts had said many provoking things and done
maeh to wound usSf the Border Slave States e..
ps scixliy. but 1t " as war OF words But be would
6" back to the beginning Of our troubles ths re-.
peal OF the Missouri eompromiss, and then down
to the Charleston Convention. and the time when
the traitors left ths Senate The extremists Of tn.
South hsd long bssn trying to set up q separate
Government. he charged On the ext ems South
ern men that they we're the Cause OF this war.
He was not Republican. and, thsnk God, he
never was Demo crat. He belonged to no party now
bat the Union party. MARYLAND was always loyal
to the Government of Washington. True, she
faced about at time but icamedisteiy en- the
curyente Of the second sober thought sne returned
crat ia his life, but always with patriotic par w.
de had been an old Wing and WAS proud that
Maryland had voted for the model President Nil
lard Fillmore, though she did 1t oil alone. He
lated circumstances which he said had taken place
in ction with forts to tahe Maryland on. Of
the Onion, saying he could tell moro rerhap. Of
that than other men. Sons particulars he here
related could II be distinctly hesrd He referred
20 talk ln Baltimore Of the streets running with
blood, aud Of message sent 10 him at Annapolis,
with the form Of q proclamation for calling tie
Legislature, aud the ordering of al election in Rsl
timore Immediately after the 19;h Of April riots fer
members Of the Legislature He determined that
the conspiratOrs there and those ao Ing with bem
In Virginia. should be fustfatsd far az pc sAb,s.
He therefore subsequently called meeting OF the
Legislature, but not a. Baltimore. when the Lo-
gislssars met at Frederick. Mr.. Asscn Of sinia
wAs there but he soon found It was best to leave
He mentioned the name Of Coleman Yellott "a
State Senator As among those most active In at
tempting to fcIc, revolution at that time, and who
subse q1ently went into Virginia ard remained
there. Threats ID previously been made against
nj, Mr.. Hicks and ropts carried to ang him and
revolvers to shoot him.
Nj. Hieis Paid he wss for supporting the Govern.
meut Ia all proper measures to put down the rel e.
lion. He bad vo'ei to indemnify The Presi5a Mt
and authorize him TO suspsnd the wri. Of Aabea,
corpus. Arrests had been nAdAia his own stats
of Nary land but 30 belt q that these ar.
rests had gave the Stste and r the Preaiden. lad
hung forty of these men hs should have voted to
tlonsliy ct the measure Of suspsnding the writ Of
ka6eas corpus but he went for that which way ex-
pedent to save the Union. He lad no eonscisn.
tious scruplss about sav ery-he had been a slave
holder ever since he was eighteen years old; bu: If
1t was necessary that slavery should 60 down to
save the country why lot 1t go.
Hr. Saulsbury asked II tho Senator thought Il.
was necessary
would fight against any attempt to take biz slaves
away by force.
In response to another 1estion az 10 the arrssts
In Maryland, he sad he thought that the trns had
Of his remarks that Baltimore was expsrieu cling
new prosperity under present circumstances
Mr. Kennedy said he differed eomewha; with
the views Of his colleague. His only guide wss
the Constitution which hs had sworn to support.
He regarded himself as stricken down mar; and,
ss regards Maryland, he raw no hope In the dark
gloom that spread al out him, and hs b id no heart
Ia this contest. He looked upon this bill as the
most odious and despotic he had ever re.d Here.
gsrdsd the policy now pursued as tendirg z to do.
stroy al the bonds which bind together The Uriop
and destl uctve Of the last vastjgs of the Consti
tuition He had opposed this pslicY and he aloried
in bis record. that his career here was almost
ended. thOnsh Efforts had besn made by h.rsd
apd vspal press TO misrepreseps and glaadey him,
and some spoke Of him as traitcr OF ssmL traitor
who formerly denounced him as Uul1n.ssvsr
BE went on TO refer to the condition Of Nary.
land, showing what she had done In developing her
ing great public works, with population Of only
40 0C0 at the time, and maintaining her honor ali
through, till lsttsT!y she lad had = populston OF
over ;0o. 600. She lay inms diately upon ths bor-
turing intsrests, bat south OF liue which ,arows
her whole identity With the Southern Gtstsa And
yet it 10 said the war does not affect Maryland -
He was frank now to say slavery was nothing to
that the value Of such property ID there destroyed
and by nothing e:se He had been slave holder,
but he had get them free Yet he warned Senators
that to introduce tbs question OF emancp alton Into
his State was to introduce revolution. Thers ras
bill in the either Houae prog osIne t. give TED nall
lions to Maryland TO- ass s!ay5 property. For
himself e-d tue state he partly represented is
spuFhed as an Insult such tenders presam ptuous
interference II 1t WAS attempted TO turn loose
thousands Of these l. nGIapt semibarhasiSns to
compete vita tho white citlz sns OF his Gsa.s it
vouid raise an insure con nhlcA 1t gould COS. ll
lions to put down.
he wanted 20 AJpoesit.sa'. cartlns devil to come
TO his a.sse pEesch;Dg philanthropy and equality
ss. free be wanted them taken away. Let than
60 their near Of KIM base In heart aud dec Sit fsi
IN the objects for which they pros;;s se lsSor He
saw no brilhs intgr: far tks Ststs Of Nary land
Decs!t Ay2ocrisy, and politics seem to have com
hinsd 70 bfeAk dovn that State.
Mr. Hicks aaid there WAS sn honest difference Of
Of in.ou between himself aAd colleaeus. His COL
league thought the valns Of alAss property vas de-
0roye0 cy 0S AeHuoucso pAV; No hiul ELI
Thought 1t was BY the eYtreGs men VI the South
The 6aba.s was continued at length by Msssrs
DayS. Powell. Richardson, Saalshafy, and oshsri,
agsirSt tbs BILL
aRzILlY On THE cLAIHs OF THg RIBsls-rhs
WAR AND THE WAY TO CLOSE 1T.
Greeley thinks the only way to get pescs Ia .
vigorous prosecution OF tie war. He wishss cescs
were pOssbls without further ,sss1. bat 1t Ia
not Tho pr.t,.s,ss .. sAs rebels that th.y only
.,l1 - Ds ut Ionsa Is utterly fAlss. He thus
discoursss:
They ask impunity Ia t:smRilAS oct what rs.
mains e life In loyal AAst Tennessee; they ask
that West vRsinis. whleh abhors them and was
Htver auasr their sway, 10 given up 70 military
ekesattbn at tlsIr hands they aak dat Missouri,
T. which they DO not now - . nae. be susrsA.
4 red te ths;r SWay they ask tnAs New Msxieo
and AIisaua, out u whieh they have been driven
by wsT. b given ap to than by peAes t1sy ask
that The nn0oeoas Untoaists of the UootA and
6osihwsst - ahaadonsd 10 thslf tsndse msFelss -
part Of thsa 70 b enslGvsd otAsp - - killed !;
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