Display of talent and enterprise, and a better
remuneration for labor. Every part of the
State is by the removal of its most valued citizens
contributing to increase the intelligence
and the wealth of that city. Our children are
sent there seeking a profession or employment.
From these causes, if none other, the influence
of Baltimore on other parts of the State must
ever be preponderating.
He had alluded to a common report that per-
sons looking towards the gubernatorial chair
had removed from the city into the county, and
settled just beyond the limits of the former.
Undoubtedly there were persons who had thus
removed with no such design. But there were
certainly men in that position whose talents and
eminence would entitle them to the distinguish-
ed election, and who would in all probability,
by the influence of the city of Baltimore, be
placed in that position. There was nothing
improper in this. They would be selected be-
cause they were more fitted for the station; and
to say that Baltimore would influence the election
was no disparaging imputation upon that city.
He had not said a word or made an unkind in-
sinuation either to the city of Baltimore or to
the gentleman from Baltimore county, and he
saw no reason for the course of that gentleman
in asserting that he (Mr. D.) in his conduct
here was acting under the influence of deadly
hostility towards the city of Baltimore.
Mr. BUCHANAN explained that while he had
said that the gentleman from Anne Arundel had
thrown out severe insinuations upon the city of
Baltimore, he had imputed no motives to him in
so doing. It was proper, in candor, that he
should also state that he had been mistaken
upon yesterday. He had imagined him to be
more liberal than he had proved himself to be
to-day.
Mr. DORSEY said that if words and looks
meant any thing, the gentleman had gone much
further than he himself supposed. After the
complimentary remarks made by him on yester-
day, he had this morning, as was alleged, and
in consequence of some observations made
by himself (Mr. D.,) had withdrawn these
remarks, leaving the inference that they were
undeserved, and that it was his opinion that
deadly hostility to the city of Baltimore dictated
the course which he was pursuing.
Whilst he (Mr. D.) always regretted the loss
of the kind feelings and confidence of any one,
much less of the distinguished member from
Baltimore county, yet he must submit to his
fate, being consoled by the belief, that he had
done nothing, had designed to do nothing, to
justify in the slightest degree the attack made
upon him; and being convinced as well from
this ground, as the looks and manner with which
the kind and confiding expressions in regard to
him had been withdrawn, (which kind expres-
sions had now for the first lime reached his ear,)
that those friendly expressions rested upon im-
pressions too light and erroneous to have sus-
tained them for any great length of time.
He, (Mr. D.) lest his conduct, from the re-
marks of the gentleman might he misunder- |
stood, felt himself authorized in repeating that
he had said nothing whatever this morning
which would authorize that gentleman to come
to any such conclusions as he had done. Ha
had felt, he intended no hostility nor disrespect
to the city of Baltimore. So far as Howard
District was individually concerned, he would
have no objection to being thrown into Balti-
more District to-morrow, for Howard District
had no aspirations for executive power. He
could say with the utmost sincerity that he did
not believe there was a man in the district, un-
less he was partially insane, who looked to the
gubernatorial chair with hope, or even with de-
sire. The gentleman seemed to think it gross
injustice for Baltimore county to be attached to
the city. Did that gentleman think that the
city would do them injustice? Such an insinu-
ation by one who had volunteered as its champion
to punish an indignity never offered to it
would be wholly out of place. After the disclaimer
of the gentleman, he was bound to be-
lieve he did not seek the Governor's Chair.—
What injustice then would Baltimore city commit
towards the gentleman or his county? He
believed that if the county and city were united,
the Governor would be selected from the whole
district, according to the talents and qualifica-
tions of the individuals best fitted for that office.
The gentleman from Charles (Mr. Jenifer) had
stated, that of sixteen Governors of Maryland six
had been from the Western and ten from the
Eastern Shore. Either this gentleman's researches
or his arithmetic had led him into error. He
himself had found that of thirty-two Governors
of Maryland, nineteen had been from the Western
and thirteen from the Eastern Shore. But, of
those on the Eastern Shore, John Henry, Edward
Lloyd, Thomas King Carroll, and Daniel Martin,
two of them had solved but one year, and all of
them less than three years, the usual term of ser-
vice; while on the Western Shore, Robert Davis
and Thomas Sim Lee had been twice, or for two
terms, elected and served as Governors. When
the time of the continuance in office was taken
into consideration, it would be found that but one-
third (probably) of the whole time had the Gov-
ernor been taken from the Eastern Shore. He
merely mentioned this in order to show that ill-
justice had been done to the Eastern Shore by the
gentleman from Charles, (Mr. Jenifer;) that it
had not been so grasping after political power as
he had represented it to be.
He had also been accused of inconsistency, on
account of a vote which he had given when a
Delegate from the city of Baltimore. A bill had
been passed in the House of Delegates and sent
to the Senate, to elect one Senator from every
county, and one from the city of Baltimore. The
Senate had returned that bill with an amendment,
as follows.
" Be it enacted. That from and after the first
Monday of October, 1809, the several counties of
this State shall be represented in the House of
Delegates in proportion to their population, after
deducting two-fifths of all slaves in each of the
aforesaid counties, except the city of Baltimore,
which shall be entitled to six." |
