Year: 1861

bAlHhokE, jan o, 1901.


Governor Hicks has published address to the citizens
of Maryland giving bis for refusing
the Legislature. II fills two columns Of the American
and abounds in the most emphatic Union sentiments.
The following extracts


firmly believe that a division OF this government
would inevitably produce civil war The secession
leaders in South Carolina and the fanatica demagOgues
OF the North have alike proclaimed that such would be
the result, and no man Of sense in my opinion,
question IT, What could the Legislature do in this crisis


convened TO remove the present troubles which beset
the UnionS We are told by the leading spirits Of the
South Carolina Convention that neither the election Of Mr.
Lincoln nor the nonexecuton OF the Fugitive slave law,
nor both combined, constitute their grievances. They
declare that the real cause OF their discomfort dates as far
back as 1888 Maryland and every other State in the
Union, with mild voice, then declared the cause INSULT
cient to justify the of South Carolina Can II be
that Il is people who then unanimously supported the
cause Of General Jackson, will yield their opinions
the bidding Of modern secessonisis2 have been told
that the position of Maryland should be defined, that
both sections understand IT, Do any really misun-
aersanu her poston Who that wishes to understand IL
can fail to do soS If the the Legislature would
be be simply to declare that Maryland is with the
south in sympathy and feeling that che demands from
the North w repeal Of Offensive sta
tutes and appeals to 1t for new guarantees that she viii
wait reasonable time for the North purge statute
books to do justice to her Southern brethren ana T
her appeals vain, will make cause with her
sister border States in resistance to tyranny need be-
it would only be saying what the whole country well
knows, and what may be said much effectuay by
her people themselves in their meetings than by the
Legislature, chosen eighteen months since, when of
these questions were raised before them That Mary
land is conservative Southern State all
know who know anything of her people or
her people. The business and agricultural and
agricultural classes planters, merchants, mechanics
and Mboripg men, those who have real stake in the
community, who would be forced to pay the and
do the fighting the persons who should be heard in
preference TO excited politicians many Of whom, having
nothing to lose from the destruction Of the government
may hope derive gain from the ruin Of the State
Such will naturally urge you TO pull down the pillars
of this accursed Union which their allies at the Nor
have denominaed covenant with hell" The people
of Maryland, If left to themselves would decide with
scarcely exception that there nothing in the present
Of complaint to justify immediate secession and
yet against judgments and solemn convictions Of
duty to be precpitated into this revolution be-
South Carolina thinks differently Are equals?
Or shall her opinions control ac0ns2 After have
solemny declared for ourselves, every must do


eWe TO be forced to yield opinions to those Of
thef State and thus effect ober her mandates9 the
fuSes to wait for counses Are bound 70 obey her
eofnmandsf The who have embarked in this scheme
to the Legislature will spare pains 70 carry
their point The whole plan Of operations in the event OF
sthe assembling Of the Legislature s, as have been in
formed, already marked out, the list OF am
bassadors who are to visit the other States is
agreed on and the resolutions which they hope will be
passed by the Legislature fully committing this State TO
secession said to be already prepared In the course
Of nature cannot have long to live and ferventy trust
to be allowed to end my days citizon Of this glorious
Union. But should be compelled to witness the down
fall Of that government inherited from fathers, estab
lished it by the special favor of God will at
least have the consolation at my dying hour that NEITHER
by word deed assisted in fastening its disruption.