The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-04-02

MARYLAND.-The loyal members of the
Maryland Legislature have issued an ad-
dress to the loyal people of the State, con-
them on the progress Of Eman-
clpation, and exhorting them to be watch
full that the cause take no step backward
The bill to ascertain the sense of the peo-
pie on the call Of q Constitutional Conven-
ton having passed, and the sense of the
people being known to be Overwhelmingly
in favor Of the plan, there seemed TO be q
little danger OF . light vote on the right
side, while the Pro- Slavery faction Of rebel
sympathizers are sure to muster all their
forces in opposition. The control Of the
Convention is to be struggled for, also, be-
lion, which works to the advantage Of the
disloyal counties, and which necessitates a
full vote from those in favor of Emancipa-
ton. Hence these earnest words Of appeal
to the people.
On the all important questions which the
Convention IL 70 settle, the language of the
Legislature is uneQuivocal. ave are in
favor of Emancipation, immediate, final
unconditional, unfettered by negro serf-
DOM" All the counsel Of the address il
conceived and urged in the spirit Of this
sentence. II il u spirit which rebukes on
the one hand the conditional, protranted,
halfway Emancipation offered to the State
by reactionists Of the Montgomery Blair
school, and on the other, pronounces with
equal emphasis against the policy OF "ne-
gro serfdom," under which ut this moment
Louisiana vainly struggles toward = re-
Slavery. Her loyal people repudiate the
sympathy With slaveholdsrs which found
expression at Rockville. Their eympa-
thies are all with Union and Liberty, one
and insepArAble.
OF course there ID no effort to deny the
existence oftwo parties in the State. The
gradual enAncipationists, If mot strong in
numbers, are virulent in feeling and des-
peratein purpose. They may yield mere
fy to necessity which they cannot control.
II when the Convention meets, Slavery il
evidently dead, they will make the best
bargain Tor the sale of the corpse''-which
is as good q description Of the gradualists
as we remember to have seen. How apti
is, and what would be the danger from the
success Of such party, let the fraudulent
and delusive emancipation act Of the Mis-
souri, CONSERVATIVES" declare. Maryland
does notmean to DO similarly cheated. She
has such . party indeed, but it will be
ground to powder At the polls.
The people Of Maryland are reminded,
moreover, that the policy Of Freedom,
which they are aboutto Adopt is the same
policy which was recognized as just in ear
lier days. I'VE rejoice that this war gives
the people OF Maryland the opportunity to
remove from among them an incubus on
their prosperity, and enables them to do
what our fathers could not see their way
clear to do, but what the Harpers and
Pinckneys, in common with the men of
their days, the golden days of Maryland,
earnestly desired to do-to free every foot
of their soil ffom the tread of Slave, and
consectrate it unreservedly to freedom. p
So cherishing the memory and recalling
the instruction of the past, these loyal
freedom-loving men look forward to the
day which already dawns upon their sight,
the day which shall copsumate the work Of
Emancipation, the day when Maryland
shall be absolutely and forever q Free
State. The welcome and congratulations
Of the rest await her final redemption.-N
Z. Tribune.