Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-02-09
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEES ON REG
AS'FRATION.
No Interference with the Law.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEES ON REG
ISFRATION.
No Interference with the Law.
The majority Of the Committee on Registration, to
whom the memorial adopted by the late State con
vcntion, held in this city, was referred, yesterday
made report to the House of Delegates on the sub
icct adverse to the prayer of the memorialists Our
legislative proceedings show that the report was
cepted by the House.
The Committee on Registration to whom was re-
fcTred the memorial of the ant-regstratiOn com
mittee, beg leave respectfully to report that your
committee, on consideration Of the said memorial
find il to be Of insoIent Self-assertion, whereby
4 cans to represent the majority Of the citizens of
maryland, and ar.Ogate to the said majority the pos
session OF all the talent wealth, moral worth and
cial elevation in the State.
1t starts out with the assertion that the present
SonSutution was framed at time unsuited for calm
deNberatlOn upon fundamental rights, established,
It says. during civil war, it made under the in
ilucnce ol passions, which ciouded mems reason and
Judgment; This Is argument against the constitu-
ton itself, strange IN the mouth of one who spoke
ana voted 9r the constutIon little more than year
for if the constitution was made at a time unfit
for securing fundamental rights and when mems
reason was cOudCd by passion, it ought not to have
been made This is the inference which tn memo
IaliStS would draw from the fact they state. We
lnent OF fundamental right has been made in times
of revolution. The English settlement of Sj5 was
the result OF a revolution The Declaration of In-
Dependence more fund Iamenal in character than any
document the world has e,er seen, was made IN the
midst Of civil The Bill Cf Rights Of this State,
cd almost matered to this day. was made III l6 in
the very midst of tn revolution.
Details of legislation, and the perfection OF mum
clpa codes may be largely the sequence Of long years
OF peace, but great fundamental principles have al
ways been the Qfsprn" of great public crisis. The
assertion that the convention who made and the
! loyal people who adopted. the constitution, did
act Of which passion and not reason was the cause,
is only egualled in its abSurdity by the demand which
| follows it. that the qualifications which follow the
right Of suffrage which that constitution prCscrbcs
mast be repealed by The very first Legislature which
lg srr1pf H. l. ar fh. aft1 eti itg1t.t
The assertion aad demand both come with SUI h
bad grace from the mouth Of the spokesman of the
Geworasts, who uttered 10 such opinions when the
constitution adopted and 80 inconsistent with
his former sentiments, that cannot grant to either
lhe merit ol Ste''Ss At sUt[eU I!e interests VI tlF
Spokesman then TO support the dlslrauchsemenI Ol
those who Supported the rebellion; It does not suit
! The address makes the deliberate statement that
tho constitution dsfranchjsed the majority of the
citizens of the State. This assertion in defiance OF
alt fact. and the spokesman of the mCmOraliStS has,
| himself time and again asserted the loyalty of the
majority Of the people of Maryland He has objected
several times. and many OF the yerv members Of the
committee who presented the petition have objected
r@1rly to divers measures of the government while
the war vas going on on the ground that the people
Of Maryland were loyal and that .ueh measures were
reflection their loyalty, low Is 1t then that the
constitution affects thus n majority Of the people?
Et the aientons in this State are the best test Of
thiSGuestIoii.
In june, 1851, an election was held throughout the
state for members Of COnpreSs. No military force
t.r In Baltimore city the election was held under
the auspices Of Marshal Kane and h4 police and yet
here was polled. Mcmbers of Congress were elected
in every district but ouc who were open advocates for
Ter from tho third district III en- cquocai about the
war. and talking great deal about peace, had been,
al through The month Of prl and in the very midst
Of the riot of the 1gth an outspuen opponent of all
reasonable sentiments. majority of the whole vote
# this State then declared for war to suppress the
i hen Governor Bradford was elected the sympa-
hzers with the rebellion then complain ed OF inter-