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Col-r hisandicre-heirtakedjtdt-jaiontiov.woreemye re-lt of ving ■her, nt of hile.lonvi tes-tlie thew of •t he7:;o.iiicilIkesher,■itiitrmce-•ourt.late.*u) slish-rvftlr.egis-pro-t. soGov. Hicks on the Union.Gov. Ilieks of Maryland, (old whig,) has issued ail address to the people stating the reasons why he will not convene the legislature, it is because he see** no cause at present for a dissolution of the I n ion, and because the members of the legislature, elected eighteen mouths ago and before any of these questions had arisen, are not the proper representatives of the people upon a matter of so grave character. We are told by the leading spirits of South Carolina that their grievances are not the election of Mr. Lincoln or the non-execution of the fugitive slave law ; but that it has been tlie growth of a purpose staled thirty years ago to secede from the Union. No one can misunderstand the position of Maryland. This state then, with other states, declared that South Carolina had no cause and 110 right to secede, and supported Preside lit Jackson in that crisis. It cannot be expected that Maryland will now yield to scces-•*ion based on the same reasons. Maryland sympathizes with the South in asking the North to rrptai her obnoxious laws, and she appeals tor time tb.it tlie North may purge their statute books. If tin* appeal to the North prove to be in vain, Maryland will make common cause with her sister -la\e states in resistance to tyranny. This expression may be made more etfectually by meetings of the |H*ople than by the assembling ot the legislature. Tin* people of Maryland, it left to themselves, would decide with scarcely a dissenting voice that there is nothing in the present complaint to justifv secession, tin* more as secession must of necessity lead to civil war. He conclude* bv stating that In* has not long to live, and he ln»pc t« ilit* a ciii/rn of this glorious I liioiiGov. Blair's Message.Gov. Blair of Michigan says in his inaugural message, that while he would be glad to have South Carolina secede and stay out, it cannot be done without establishing the right of other states to separate themselves from the L'awa. This would of course destroy the character of the government, besides endangering the northwest in shutting them out from the seaboard, possibly, at some future day. So force will have to be applied to South Uarolina and her confederate states in this treason, and he proposes that Michigan show what she w ill do in men and money to put a tina? quietus upon tlieir schemes.
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Connecticut Press
Hartford, Connecticut, US
Sat, Jan 12, 1861
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