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of Maryland who have by a fell swoop of the oppressor,
been deprived of more than half their property, not of
$30, 000, 000, but of $64, 000, 000 worth, ask only at our
hands not to do any act which can weaken or embarrass
their claims for compensation for this great wrong done
them against a solemn compact known under the style
and title of the constitution of the United States. They
ask nothing from the public treasury to aid them in pur-
suing their claims for remuneration in the Supreme Court
of the United States, when its constitutional authority a
a co-ordinate and independent branch of the federal gov-
ernment is restored. We hold it clear that the constitu-
tion of the United States has provided a remedy for our
wrongs, and the justice of the United States will award
it when the dark day of a nation's insanity has passed
away. This was their position—one of a people smarting
under a sense of wrong and outrage, and whose sensibili-
ties have been more wounded by the false and foul im-
putations cast upon them as to the treatment of their
slaves than by the loss of their property. He acknowl-
edged that African slavery no longer exists in Maryland.
If you please, declare it is not the purpose or wish of any
portion of the people to re-establish it. Will not this
cover the whole ground?
Mr. Vansant called for the previous question, and the
call being sustained, the question was then taken on the
substitute offered by Mr. Jones, which was adopted, as
follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Carmichael, Alvey, Barnes, Barry, Bate-
man, Bell, Bennett, Bradley, Brewer of Montgomery,
Brooke, Buchanan, Carter, Chambers, Cover, Denson,
Devries, Dobbin, Dorsey, Emach, Evans, Ferry, Finley,
Franck, Franklin, Gait, Garey, George, Giddings, Gill,
Goldsborough of Dorchester, Groome, Hall, Hardcastle,
Henderson, Hoblitzell, Hodson, Hollyday, Horsey of
Frederick, Howard, Ireland, Janvier, Johnson, Jones,
Keating, Kennedy, Kilbourn, Lee, Longwell, Mackubin,
Monro, Massey, Maulsby, McCormick, McKaig, Mc-
Master, Merryman, Mitchell, Morris, Murray, C. S. Par-
ran, John Parran, Pleasants, Pole, Riggs, Ringgold,
Rogers, Silver, Syester, Tarr of Caroline, Tarr of Wor-
cester, Thomas, Toadvine, Vansant, Wallace, Walsh, Wat-
kins of Caroline, Whitman and Wickes—78.
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