if Maryland should secede from the Union,
Union sympathizers would not be permitted
to live in the State. He said they would be
enemies, disturbers of the public peace; that
if not active agents against the rights of the
South, they were indirectly, and therefore
must leave the State. That proposition of
Ex-Governor Lowe has been repeated in my
community more than once by those who
think with him. It has been repeated, and
acted upon too.
In getting at the known sympathizers with
the rebellion, I apprehend there will be no
injustice done. I think there will not be as
much difficulty in finding who fall under that
description and who do not, as the gentleman
from Kent seems to apprehend, It is not tor
me here to indicate and define who they are,
either by class or by name. It is sufficient
that if the crime is not already defined by the
constitution existing in this State, it will be
defined by the one we are now making; and
not only the crime but the criminals will be
distinctly recognized by the people.
The gentleman makes the objection that
this discovery is referable to the military au-
thority. As has been already well said,
Maryland is under martial laws. It is the
only means by which men can be brought to
punishment in the manner that the exigency
requires. To talk about carrying out the or-
dinary processes of law when rebel raiders
are riding through the State, is ridiculous.
To talk about carrying out the processes of
law, when their known sympathizers are aid-
ing them to destroy life and property, is an
absurdity. To talk about bringing these men
to tardy justice is a mockery of justice, and I
will none of it.
I do not design, for the reason I have just
given, to expatiate further upon this subject.
What we want is decisive, definite, practical
action. It is necessary to our safety. It is
necessary for the restoration of order. It is
necessary for our future.
I have listened to the ingenious perversions
of constitutional law, not only as I have
heard them in this hall, but as they have been
hackneyed time and again through the press,
to mislead and disguise the truth, until I am
nauseated; and until I should feel that an
attempt to refute them would be derogatory
to all intelligent men. The public mind is
educated upon all these questions, thoroughly,
practically, by the irresistible logic of events.
There is more persuasion in one bayonet than
in all the logic of the learned gentleman from
Kent or those who think with him upon the
questions of the day.
Therefore, sir, to bring to a close what I
deem an unnecessary waste of the time of this
convention by further discussion of the pend
ing order, I call the previous question.
Mr. JONES, of Somerset, I rise to ask the
yeas and nays on that proposition, and to ex- |
press my amazement that the gentleman
should make it.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The question being taken, the result was—
yeas 39, nays 16—as follows :
Yeas—Messrs. Goldsborough, President ;
Abbott, Annan, Audoun, Barron, Brooks,
Carter, Cunningham, Cushing, Daniel, Davis,
of Washington, Earle, Ecker, Galloway,
Hatch, Hoffman, Hopkins, Hopper, Keefer,
Larsh, Markey, McComas, Mullikin, Murray,
Nyman, Parker, Pugh, Ridgely, Russell,
Sands, Schley, Sneary, Stirling, Stockbridge,
Swope, Sykes, Thomas, Wickard, Wooden
—39.
Nays—Messrs. Belt, Chambers, Crawford,
Dail, Davis, of Charles, Dent, Harwood,
Henkle, Hollyday, Johnson, Jones, of Somer-
set, Lee, Mitchell, Miller, Morgan, Smith, of
Dorchester—16,
So the call for the previous question was
sustained.
Mr. CHAMBERS demanded the yeas and nays
upon the adoption of the order, and they
were ordered.
The question being taken, the result was—
yeas 40, nays 16—as follows :
Yeas—Messrs. Goldsborough, President;
Abbott, Annan, Audoun, Barron, Brooks,
Carter, Cunningham, Cushing, Daniel, Davis,
of Washington, Earle, Ecker, Galloway,
Hatch, Hoffman, Hopkins, Hopper, Keefer,
King, Larsh, Markey, McComas, Mullikin,
Murray, Nyman, Parker, Pugh, Ridgely, Bus-
sell, Sands, Schley, Sneary, Stirling, Stock-
bridge, Swope, Sykes, Thomas, Wickard and
Wooden—40.
Nays—Messrs. Belt. Chambers, Crawford,
Dail. Davis, of Charles, Dent, Harwood,
Henkle, Hollyday, Johnson, Jones, of Som-
erset, Lee, Mitchell, Miller, Morgan, Smith,
of Dorchester—16.
So the order was adopted.
On motion of Mr. MULLIKIN,
It was ordered to be entered on the journal
that Mr. Valliant, of Talbot, having been
drafted, is absent from his seat in this body
in order that he may procure a substitute.
Mr. STIRLING submitted the following reso-
lutions:
Whereas, There is in Maryland a class of
persons whose desire for the success of the
rebel arms is a matter of put lie notoriety,
who have been demonstrated more clearly by
the recent invasion to be the inviters of rebel
raids, the guides, welcomers and entertainers
of rebel soldiers, who have rejoiced 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 point-
ing them out for destruction, and under the
protection of the rebel army usurp the gov-
ernment of the State; and whereas, the ex-
perience of the past two weeks cow clearly
shows that the presence of such persons in |
