108 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [May 9.

seech and implore the President of the United States, to ac-
cept the olive branch which is thus held out to him, and in
the name of God and of humanity, to cease this unholy and
most wretched and unprofitable strife, at least until the as-
sembling of the Congress at Washington shall have given
time for the prevalence of cooler and better counsels.

Resolved, That the State of Maryland desires the perceful
and immediate recegnition of the independence of the Con-
federate States, and hereby gives her cordial consent there-
unto, as a member of the Union, entertaining the profound
conviction that the willing return of the Southern people to
their former federal relations is a thing beyond hope, and
that the attempt to coerce them will only add slaughter and
hate to impossibility.

Resolved, That the present military occupation of Mary-
land, being for purposes which, in the opinion of this Legis-
lature, are in flagrant violation of the Constitution, the Gen-
ral Assembly of the State, in the name of her people, does
hereby protest against the same, against the arbitrary re-
strictions and illegalities With which it is. attended, calling
upon all good citizens at the same time, in the most earnest
and authoritative manner, to abstain from all violent and
unlawful interference of every sort, with the troops in transit
through our territory or quartered among us, and patiently
and peacefelly to leave to time and reason the ultimate and
certain re-establishment and vindication of the right.

Resolved, That under existing circumstances it is inexpe-
dient to call a Sovereign Convention of the State at this time,
or to take any measures for the immediate organization for
arming of the militia.

Resolved, That when the Legislature adjourn, it adjourn
to meet at ——— on the —— day of —— next.

Mr. Ford moved, that the report be accepted and ten thou-
sand copies be printed for the use of the House ;

The yeas and nays were ordered and appeared as follow :

AFFIRMATIVE.
Messrs.

Kilbourn, Sp'r., Miller, Harrison,
Durant, Bryan, Thomas,
Morgan, Wootten, Wallis,
Rasin, Jones, of P. G., Sangston,
Briscoe, Legg, Morfit,
Parran, Starkey, Scott,