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disastrous circumstances, feel it due to her dignity and independence,
that History should not record the overthrow of public freedom, for
an instant, within her borders, without recording likewise the indig-
nant expression of her resentment and remonstrance.

Now therefore, be it resolved, That the Senate and House of Dele-
gates of Maryland, in the name and on behalf of the good people of the
State, do accordingly register this their earnest and unqualified protest
against the oppressive and tyrannical assertion and exercise of military
jurisdiction within the limits of Maryland, over the person and property
of her citizens, by the Government of the United States, and do solemnly
declare the same to be subversive of the most sacred guaranties of the
Constitution, and in flagrant violation of the fundamental and most
cherished principles of American free government.

Resolved further, That these resolutions be communicated, by the
President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, to the Hon.
James Alfred Pearce and the Hon. Anthony Kennedy, Senators of
Maryland, in the Senate of the United States, with the request that
they present the same to the Senate, to be recorded among its proceed-
ings, in vindication of the right and in perpetual memory of the solemn
remonstrance of this State against the manifold usurpations and op-
pressions of the Federal Government.

NUMBER 13.

EESOLUTIOKS requesting the Representatives and Senators of the State of Mary-
land, in the Congress of the United States, to urge and vote for an immediate recog-
nition of the independence of the Confederate States.

WHEREAS, a series of resolutions accompanying the report of the Com-
mittee on Federal Relations, of the House of Delegates, indicating
the policy which justice and humanity dictates to be pursued by the
State of Maryland, in the present crisis in our national affairs, and
Her desires as a sovereign State with reference to the policy which
ought to be adopted by the Federal Government towards the Con-
federate States of America, were adopted by the General Assembly,
on the fourteenth day of May; therefore,

Be it resolved, That the Representatives of the State of Maryland
in the Senate of the United States, at the approaching extra session of
that legislative body, be and they are hereby earnestly desired and re-
quested to urge and vote for an immediate recognition of the independ-
ence of the government of the Confederate States of America.

Resolved, That the speaker of the House of Delegates and the Presi-
dent of the Senate together, forward to the Hon. James Alfred Pearce
and the Hon. Anthony Kennedy, the representatives of the sovereign.
State of Maryland in the Senate of the United States, a copy of the
Report of the Committee on Federal Relations and the accompanying
resolutions together with these resolutions.