376 RESOLUTIONS.

traitorous poison of able and reckless emissaries
from rebellious States, openly sent in abuse of
the known comity of our people, to corrupt, and
thus subvert the government of Maryland,—in de-
spite of the example of States and Governors, and
of the most disingenuous appeals to sectional pre-
judices ; and in disregard alike of the solicitations
and threats of men of talents, of influence, and of
high social and political positions, and of menaces
of personal insult and violence—the Governor of
this State, through the deepest gloom of our na-
tional adversity, has stood faithfully by the coun-
try, faithfully by his State, and faithfully by his
oath and his official integrity.

Resolved, That this position of loyalty, so
steadily maintained by Governor Hicks, has avert-
ed from the State violence and bloodshed be-
tween its own people, and the occupation of its
territory by contending armies, and the conse-
quent destruction of its towns and country homes,
as well as the annihilation, within its limits, of
that species of property, whose safety was the os-
tensible object of this rebellion.

Resolved, That of all the States of the Union,
in which the rebellious spirit obtained consider-
able hold, Maryland is the only one whose Gover-
nor has elevated himself to the lofty standard of
patriotism required by the exigencies of the coun-
try : and that this course has proved not more hon-
orable to himself than beneficial to the people over
whom he was called to preside, the deplorable
condition of our sister States, of Virginia, Kentucr
ky, and Missouri, makes mournfully manifest.

Resolved, That had the Governor followed the
examples by which he was surrounded, Maryland
would have had affixed to her name the burning
shame of having repudiated, without cause, that
great constitutional compact to which she was
bound by the most solemn pledges of our ancestors.

Resolved, Therefore, that the thanks of the peo-
ple of Maryland, and of this Legislature, are due
and are hereby cordially tendered by the repre-
sentatives of the State, in General Assembly con-
vened, to Governor Thomas H. Hicks, for the
manner in which he has met this solemn crisis in
our national history.