1861.] OF THE SENATE. 179

Mr. McKaig, from the Committee appointed to wait upon the
two Presidents, made the following

REPORT:

To the Honorable,

The Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland:

The undersigned, being that portion of the Joint Committee
selected to proceed to Montgomery, Alabama, and to submit for
the consideration of the President and Cabinet of the Confederate
States of America the resolutions as passed by the Legislature of
the State of Maryland, beg leave most respectfully to report—

That your committee, in performance of their mission, pro-
ceeded to Montgomery, Alabama, and were there received by
the President of the Confederate Government, a majority of his
Cabinet being present, with a frank cordiality and that considera-
tion due to the representatives of the sovereign State of Maryland.
In answer to the resolutions thus presented, the President of the
Confederate States caused to be delivered to your committee the
paper accompanying and made part of this report.

Believing that any expression of opinion relative to the object
your Honorable Bodies wished to accomplish, or to the probable
final result of the fratricidal and sectional war which is now being
inflicted upon the country, would be transcending the limits of
the power entrusted to your committee, your committee therefore
content themselves with simply asking the attention of your Hon-
orable Bodies to the answer of President Davis to the resolutions
thus laid before the Confederate Government.

THOMAS J. McKAIG,

COLEMAN YELLOTT,
CHARLES A. HARDING.

MONTGOMERY, 25th May, 1861.
Gentlemen:

I receive with sincere pleasure the assurance that the State of
Maryland sympathises with the people of these States in their
determined vindication of the right of self-government, and that
the people of Maryland "are enlisted with their whole hearts on
the side of reconciliation and peace." The people of these Con-
federate States, notwithstanding their separation from their late
sister, have not ceased to feel a deep solicitude in her welfare,
and to hope that, at no distant clay, a State whose people, habits
and institutions are so closely related and assimilated with theirs,
will seek to unite her fate and fortunes with those of this Confed-
eracy.