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4. Resolved, That the loyalty of the people of
Maryland to the General Government, established
by the Constitution, is untouched by any shade of ,
servility, and they must ever regard with extreme
jealousy all attempts, from whatever quarter, to
make the present war for the restoration of the
Union, the means of interfering with the domestic
institutions of the States ; and they solemnly pro-
test against all schemes, the object or tendency of
which is to excite insurrection among the slaves,
declaring the same illegal, and calculated, if put in
practice, to produce results too horrible to contem-
plate.

5. Resolved, That this Legislature is gratified to
know that the true principles on which the war
should be conducted, have been expressed in most
emphatic language by both Houses of the present
Congress, in their extra Session of July last ; that
they fcave been declared by the President, in his
latest message ; and that they have been conspicu-
ously illustrated in the Proclamation of Major
General Dix, to the people of the Eastern Shore
of Virginia.

6. Resolved, That although in the immediate
presence of armies, when war or insurrection
exists, it cannot be expected that the civil power
should at all times maintain its supremacy, and
there may be cases of extreme necessity where the
safety and preservation of the Government would
excuse a resort to extraordinary measures, yet the
dangers of a departure from the forms of law,
which are the protection of individual rights,
should never be forgotten, and all irregular pro-
ceedings should be abandoned as soon as it is clear
that the extreme necessity which gave rise to them
has passed away.

7. Resolved, That the people of Maryland do
not hesitate to express their approval of the course
and policy of the President in the conduct of the
war thus far, as exemplified by his official acts, and
they hereby tender him their thanks for the earn-
est desire he has manifested to avert from them the
immediate horrors and calamities of civil war ;
assured by his firmness and honesty in the past,
they confidently expect that, in spite of the im-
portunities of pernicious fanatics, he will keep