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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1866
Volume 107, Page 557   View pdf image (33K)
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REPORT.
To the Honorable,
the Senate of Maryland:
The undersigned, from the minority of the Select Commit-
tee, to whom the annexed joint resolutions proposing to amend
the fourth and seventh sections of Article first of the Consti-
tution, and the annexed Bill to restore the full rights of citi-
zenship to all persons disqualified by the fourth section of
article first of the Constitution, from voting and holding any
office of honor, profit, or trust under the Constitution and
Laws of this State, were referred, respectfully submits the fol-
lowing report:
Civil wars afford the opportunity for the development of
the highest degrees of patriotism in a two fold form. Dur-
ing the last four years our country has been the theatre of
one of the grandest exhibitions of military power known in
all history. Many of the noblest and the bravest men have
sacrificed their lives upon the field of battle, fighting in dif-
ferent causes, but endeavoring to maintain what they honestly
and conscientiously believed to be the right. However opin-
ions may differ in regard to the causes of the great war
through which we have passed, and the issues involved in
the struggle, no one can fail to pay a tribute of respect to the
courage of the honored dead who dedicated their lives to the
cause they espoused. In the military service some of the
highest standards of patriotism have been moulded.
But when the storms of civil commotion cease, when
- peace returns demanding united effort and purpose to restore
those amicable relations of the citizens which formerly exist-
ed, a higher form of statesmanship is demanded, and a lof-
tier patriotism is invoked to secure a re-adjustment of great
political questions, and the re-establishment of civil liberty,
founded, upon the affections and loyalty of all sections of the
country. Accordingly we find the present Executive of the
United States, suddenly elevated to the first office in the gift
of the American people, in the midst of an outburst of pop-
ular indignation, caused by the assassination of their chief
ruler, in carrying out the work of restoration, laying aside
the feelings of a partizan and devoting himself with the patri-
otic and "persistent effort" to the re-establishment of the
rights of the States and the authority of the Federal Gove'rn-

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