And it is respectfully submitted, whether a for-
mal proposition, by Constitutional Amendment to
repudiate the faith of the Government, pledged
to a portion of its citizens, is calculated to inspire
confidence and a sense of security, in another por-
tion of its citizens, or others, who hold the evidence
of its public debt.
President Washington, in his inaugural address
at the organization of the Government, adverted
to the encouraging circumstances which led him
to hope that "the pre-eminence of Free Govern-
ment would be exemplified by all the attributes
that can win the affections of its citizens, and
command the respest of the world." And he re-
minded his auditors that the preservation of the
sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Re-
publican model of Government, are justly con-
sidered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the
experiment entrusted to the hands of the Ameri-
can people. Justice and good faith are indispen-
sable to the success of this experiment.
Your Committee recommend the adoption of
the accompanying preamble and resolutions.
Respectfully submitted,
ISAAC D. JONES, Chair'n House Corn.
A. LEO KNOTT,
RICH'D B. CARMICHAEL.
ODEN BOWIE, Chair'n Senate Corn.
GEORGE VICKERS,
LEVIN L. WATERS,
ALFRED SPATES.
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Report of the
Committee.

WHEREAS, The Governor of Maryland has laid be-
fore the Legislature a communication from the
Secretary of State of the United States, con-
taining a proposition to amend the Constitution
of the United States as follows, viz.
Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress Assembled, (two-thirds of both Houses con-
curring,) that the following article be proposed to

Preamble.