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away slaves to their respective owners, and if possible, to
make some arrangement with the said authorities for the sur-
render of runaway slaves who may hereafter escape into any
military camp or other place, under the control of the United
States;

Which was adopted.

Mr. Morgan, in the absence of Mr. Harding, chairman,
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 Con-
federate States of America, the resolutions as passed by the
Legislature of the State of Maryland, beg leave most respect-
fully 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
consideration 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 ob-
ject 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 com-
mittee, your committee therefore content themselves with
simply asking the attention of your honorable 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