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not misrepresent the wishes of her people in voting for the
act known as the Missouri Compromise.

Resolved, That Maryland's Senators, James Alfred Pearce
and Thomas G. Pratt, and her Representatives in the National
Congress, at its session of 1849, did not misrepresent the
wishes of her people in voting for the measures known as the
Compromise of 1850.                 

Resolved, That the Democratic nominating Convention,
which assembled at Baltimore in 1852, announced a principle
in accordance with the wishes of a large majority of the voters
of Maryland and of the Union, when it declared, in the most
explicit terms, that the Democratic party deprecated and
would oppose any further agitation of the slavery question in
Congress or out of Congress, and the voters of Maryland
trusted that pledge would be kept in good faith, when they
voted in November 1852, by a majority of nearly live thou-
sand, in favor of the principles set forth, and the candidates
nominated by said Democratic National Convention.

Resolved, That when the Democratic Congress, in the year
1854, repealed the measure known as the Missouri Compro-
mise, and President Pearce approved said repeal, said Con-
gress and President voluntarily did what greatly tended to
revise the agitation of the slavery question in Congress and out
of Congress; and such repeal was a violation of both the letter
and spirit of the pledge given to the country by the Democratic
nominating Convention of 1852.

Resolved, That the repeal of the Missouri Compromise has
resulted in no substantial good, either to the South or the
North; but, on the contrary, the revival of the slavery agita-
tion, thereby promoted, has been a serious evil to every sec-
tion, by engendering bitter sectional feelings, both North and
South, by weakening the bonds of national Union and in the
judgment of many, endangering even the very existence of
that Union.                                                                     

Resolved, That those public men of any section or party,
who, for mere partizan purposes, are willing to violate solemn
pledges made to those who elected them, by volunteering to
agitate the slavery question in Congress, and thereby excite
animosity between the people of the various sections of the
Union, and weaken the bonds of that Union, are enemies to
the true interests of the American Republic, and not deserv-
ing of the confidence or support of any portion of the Ameri-
can people.

Which were read.