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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
Volume 107, Page 1991   View pdf image (33K)
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REPORT.
The committee on Registration, to whom was referred the
memorial of the Anti-Registration Convention, beg leave
respectfully to report:
That your committee, on consideration of the said memo-
rial, find it to be one of insolent self-assertion, whereby it
claims to represent the majority of the citizens of' Maryland,
and arrogates to the said majority the possession, of all the
talent, wealth, moral worth, and social elevation in the State.
It starts out with the assertion that the present Constitu-
tion was framed at a time unsuited for calm deliberation upon
fundamental rights. "Established," it says, "during a
civil war, it was made under the influence of passions which
clouded men's reason and judgment."
This is an argument against the Constitution itself, strange
in the month of one who spoke and voted for the Constitu-
tion little more than a year ago; for if the Constitution was
made at a time unfit for securing fundamental rights, and
when men's reason was clouded by passion, it ought not to
hare been made. This is the inference which the memorial-
ists would draw from the fact they state. We deny both the
fact, and the, inference. Every great settlement of funda-
mental right has been made in times of revolution. The
English settlement of 1655 was the result, of a revolution.
The Declaration of Independence, more fundamental in char-
acter than any document the world has ever seen, was made
in the midst of civil war. The Bill of Rights of this State,
to which the memorialists appeal, and which has lasted
almost unaltered to this day, was made in 1776, in the very
midst of the Revolution. Details of legislation and the per-
fection of municipal codes may be .largely the sequence of
long years of peace, but great fundamental principles have
always been the offspring of great public crises.
The assertion that the Convention who made, and the loyal

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