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York to get seven per cent, was turned in this direction,
it would prove a much more lucrative investment. Give
these people teams and agricultural implements, and the
rich products of the earth will spring up by magic, and
they will return this amount they ask to the treasury,
in the shape of increased taxation. They will only look
upon it as a loan. Years and years ago a law had been
placed upon the statute books to pay Mr. Reverdy John-
son and others $100, 000 for property destroyed by a mob
in the city of Baltimore, and this claim was certainly as
just.
Mr. Walsh would go to any extremes and incur any risk
in doing justice, when satisfied that justice was due. Ap-
peals had been made here to justice, and the principle had
been maintained that a government was bound to protect
the rights and property of every man in the community
at all hazards and under all circumstances. This prin-
ciple was false, and had never been asserted in the crim-
inal or civil laws of any civilized country in the world.
A piratical crew had seized the helm of the ship of
State, and by the assistance of powers from without had
committed every species of outrage on the people. The
people of the southern section had been foully wronged,
but so had the people of the rest of the State, and it was
not right that the people of the rest of the State who
had lost their property and groaned under this tyranny
for so long should be asked to pay for the losses of
another section the very moment they were relieved from
the yoke. There were wrongs which only eternity could
avenge. There never had been an instance in the history
of governments where the rightful sovereigns restored
to power ever redressed all the wrongs which had been
committed by the usurpers. He considered it would be an
act of gross injustice to ask the people of Maryland to
saddle themselves with an enormous debt to pay for out-
rages and robberies which they were powerless to prevent.
The question was then taken on the amendment of Mr.
Jones, when it was disagreed to.
The question was then taken on the substitute offered
by Mr. Lee, when it was rejected by a vote of 68 to 27.
The following members voted in the affirmative:
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