St. Mary's gazette., 1867-03-14
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tionarv rish: TO chauge the forn Of gov
erumnnt That right was Inherent III the
] people. inalicraole and beyond the C"ns'l-
tuition Mr Y. read section ; Of the Bill
Of Rights
! He would ask the gentleman if the con
rention of 1881 was revolutionary body
It was not called " the mode prescribed
/ by the Constitution of l776, and be asked
if tho convention of 1864 was reYolu iona
ry?
He did not know what new light had
come over the Senator from St. Marys,
but the views he entertained now were not
those held when he first came here.
Mr.. Maddox sad he had answered all
the questions of the Senator. but the SEN
a-or 5 last observation brought up new
issue. He believed the Senator homes;
an I intendel right-thcy both had their
OF ions when h y came here. A caucus
had decided the matter; he was willing to
abide by the action 1oi the caucus, and re-
quested the Senator from Kent to stand
upon the same ground with him and go
hand in hand TO .hc work, and whatever
might have been their individual views,
be governed by the action of the party as
decde1iu . ,hs caucus. The Senator seem
chs; raid him as if he disregarled the
decision Of tho party. He would say, as
gentleman and Senator from St. Diary 3
county, that he would abide b. tho deci-i n
OF the party and So gcsted to the honorable
Serator that he pursue the samo codrse.-
The Carmichael amendment was not IN the
agreement; strike 1t out and lie wolId go
with the party IS the party had decided,
Would the Senator pursue The same honest
course, strike out The amendment and sub-
nit TO the agreement? He would ask the
Senate, ho occupied the best position as
regards consistency!
Mr. Eickcrs WAS not aware OF any IN
consistency on his part. The programme
as agreed on in caucus IN reference to
convention had not been devlateG from ex-
cept in provision of the bill inserted by
the House since the caucus was held. MIR,
Nickers here read from the journal OF the
Senate, showing that Mr.. Maddox was Il
member of tie joint committee OF the two
Houses to consider and report a bill t,r
calling a convention.
Mr.. Maddox would say that he was on
the committee, but did not know at what
time the committee met, and had no actlcn
in The matter an1 knew nothing until this
moment of it5 report. Tie must hcve been
absent
The vote was then taken on the amend
mcnt and resulted
Yeas Mcssrs Billingslea, Davis OF
Caroline, Davis of Washington, Frazier.
Maddox, Mules, Phiipot-7.
Nays-Nlcssrs Bowie, Compton, Fare,
uenklc, Jump, kimmel, Mackall, Spates,
Stephenson, Stirling, Nlckers, aters,
Ioung-13.
Mr.. Maddox moved to amend section |
by striking on; the provision or restriction
recurring the convention to insert Il clause
in the Consultation prohibiting payment
for slaves This is known as the Carml-
iinnul meat
said he was confident that
What he might say on the subject could
have no effect uIon the S:nate, because
he was well convinced that at this late day
the Senate had made up It's mind on the
subject. But he has had his Individual
opinions, and those opinions were The sem.
tim-nts of his people ; he desired that they
should be heard upon this floor against th>
extraordinary outrage which was about to
be committed against their rights and IN
tcIests.
The programme Of the party was agrecd
upon the Enfranchisemcnt act and Con
vention ILL. The latter bill vas sub
mitsed to those in caucus and agreed upon
as the bill. Since that time the IL az
mates, without counsel with the Smaller
!nninares, pat in clause abnoXious to
his peo:lc. e..;ircly withou. his knowl-
edge, and never could have received HE
consent The convention was to be cal
led to remedy the evils of the Ntat"'
under which AZ laborcd so far ali might
be right Western Maryland, Baltimore
city and Eastern Shore were subjected
to the tyranny of an unscrupulous judi
ciary. their legal rights were anprot'c-
ted Justice never mctet oct to their
neop(e. Southern Maryland laborcd not
! under these disadvantages. Their Jud-
ces were men of character, spo'icss ami
pure. Whatever might DO tho nature
of the cause, or the character Of the
parties interested, they acted with
nroper sense Of duty imposed upon them.
But she was more injured than the st
Tho whole attack OF the Radicals IN
forming the present constitution was to
strike at their peculiar institution of sla-
very and emancipate thelr property the
c,eat,st outrage was enacted then the
cry went throughout the State against
the iufamy Of the act; they wore forced
to Weld their property; new system
was inau1ula,ed upon them. entirely un-
prepared for, with pecuniary loss caus-
lag serious embarrassment. This was
their evil ; they were afflicted with no
other. \ constitution IS 10 be made. by
which the acts proceeding from the past
political frenzy of Radicalism were to be
renudjatcd and old Maryland was to stand
for,h r4geucra;cd and 6iscnthralled from
the incubus which overhung her, v hist
con graduating themselves m con'empla-
ton of the happy future they are told
that this happy result Is only to DO en-
;av,d by the favored few Before this
blil can be passed the rights OF the weak
,r norton OF the State must be over
sbsdowcd-a fear arising in. regard to