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WHEREAS, sundry other citizens of Maryland have been
unlawfully dealt with, in the same despotic and oppressive
manner, by the same usurped authority, and some of them
have in fact been removed by force beyond the limits of the
State of Maryland and the jurisdiction of her tribunals, in
utter violation of their rights, as citizens, and of the rights
of the State, as a member of the Federal Union; and

WHEREAS, the unconstitutional and arbitrary proceedings
of the Federal Executive, have not been confined to the
violation of the personal rights and liberties of the citizens
of Maryland, but have been extended into every department
of oppressive illegality, so that the property of no man is safe;
the sanctity of no dwelling is respected; and the sacredness
of private correspondence no longer exists; and

WHEREAS, the Senate and House of Delegates of Maryland,
recognizing the obligation of the State, as far as in her lies,
to protect and defend her people against usurped and arbi-
trary power—however difficult the fulfillment of that high
obligation may be rendered by 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 Delegates of Mary-
land, in the name and on behalf of the good people of the
State, do accordingly register this their earnest and unquali-
fied protest against the oppressive and tyrannical assertion
and exercise of military jurisdiction, within the limits of
Maryland, over the persons and property of her citizens, by
the Government of the United States, and do solemnly de-
clare the same to be subversive of the most sacred guaranties
of the Constitution and in flagrant violation of the funda-
mental and most cherished principles of American free gov-
ernment.

Resolved, further, That the 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 proceedings, in vindication
of the right and in perpetual memory of the solemn remon-
strance of this State against the manifold usurpations and
oppressions of the Federal Government.