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joiced at the burning of our houses and the plunder of our
property, who only want the opportunity to place the lives
and property of loyal people at the mercy of their rebel
friends, by pointing them out for destruction, and under the
protection of the rebel army usurp the government of the
State; and whereas, the experience of the past two weeks
now clearly shows that the presence of such persons in our
midst in time of war is no longer to be tolerated, and justice
to ourselves, our families and our country, no less than to
weak minded disloyalists themselves, the only hope of whose
reclamation is in a vigorous policy, requires that the sternest
justice should at once be meted out to those who persistently
refuse to obey the laws, and the active and dangerous class be
separated from the peaceable and loyal, by the exercise of the
undoubted power of the Government to arrest and detain
dangerous persons during times of war;
Therefore resolved. That this Convention, on the part of
the loyal people of Maryland, demands of the Government of
the United States that all adult citizens of this State, who
shall refuse to register on oath their allegiance, submission
and obedience to the United States, and thus persist in the
position of public enemies, and all persons who shall be
proved to have taken part with or openly expressed their
sympathy with the recent invasion of the State, shall be
banished beyond the lines of the army, or imprisoned during
the war;
Resolved, That the President of this Convention transmit
certified copies of this preamble and resolutions to the Presi-
dent of the United States and to the commanders of the mili-
tary departments in which Maryland is embraced;
Which were read the first time,
On motion of Mr. Thomas,
It was ordered to be entered on the Journal that had Mr.
Thomas, of Baltimore city, and Mr Sykes, of Howard, been
in their seats on yesterday, they would have voted in favor of
the order of Mr. Hatch, tendering the thank-* of this Con-
vention to the citizen and patriot, Ishmael Day, for his heroic
act in shooting the traitor who dared to pull down the Ameri-
can flag; and would also have voted in favor of the order of
Mr. Schley, of Frederick, requesting the President and the
commandants of the military departments to assess upon
sympathisers with the rebellion residing in this State the
total amount of all losses sustained by the loyal citizens of
this State by reason of the recent rebel raid.
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