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overthrow of public freedom, for an instant, within her borders,
without recording, likewise, the indignant expression of her re-
sentment 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 unqualified protest
against the oppresive and tyrannical assertion and exercise of
military jurisdiction, within the limits of Maryland, over the per-
sons and property of her citizens, by the Government of the United
States, and do solemnly declare the same to be subversive of the
most sacred guarantees of the Constitution, and in flagrant viola-
tion of the fundamental and most cherished principles of Ameri-
can free government.

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 re-
corded among its proceedings, in vindication of the right and in
perpetual memory of the solemn remonstrance of this State
against the manifold usurpations and oppressions of the Federal
Government.

Were taken up, read the third time, and adopted.

Said resolutions were then returned to the House of Delegates.

Mr. Blackistone moved to print one thousand copies of the
Resolutions, for the use of the Senate;

Which was adopted.

The Resolution in relation to requesting the Senators of Mary-
land, in the United States Senate, to vote for the recognition of
the Southern Confederacy,

Was taken up, read the third time, and passed by yeas and
nays as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. Brooke, President; McKaig,

Blackistone, Townsend,
Dashiell, Whatkins,
Franklin, Whitaker—9.
Gardiner,

NEGATIVE.
Messrs. Duvall, Lynch—3.

Heckart,
Said Resolution was then returned to the House of Delegates,

The Senate adjourned.