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[MARYLAND]

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[MARYLAND]

<b>191. [MARYLAND]</b>
<hr align=left size=5 width=33% color=#778899><h3 align=center>maryland gov. hicks argues against secession</h3>Important broadside arguing against secession. Imprint, 9"x19", Annapolis, Jan 3, 1861. From the Executive Chamber, Governor <b>Thomas H. Hicks</b> (1798-1865) offers an “Address to the People of Maryland” in three columns. This Unionist governor’s adroit management was important in preserving Maryland to the Union. Four months before the shedding of first blood in the streets of Baltimore, Hicks attempts to calm rising tensions regarding the “<i>events now transpiring in our country.</i>..” In very small part, “...<i>As a Border Slaveholding State she would especially suffer in the utter destruction of a cherished domestic institution with which all our sympathies are firmly united. A brave people, forced into a necessary war, would partially estimate even these great evils, and Maryland never has been, and never will be found backward in such a contest. But no man, who has a real stake in the community would consent to embark in such a future if it could be avoided with honor. I firmly believe that the division of this Government would inevitably produce civil war. The secession leaders in South Carolina and fanatical demagogues of the North, have alike proclaimed that such would be the result, and no man of sense, in my opinion, can question it.</i>..” He reasons that the Legislature should not be called. South Carolina having already seceded and pressuring Maryland and other border to states to join them, he calls for the enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law and asks, “<i>Are you to be alarmed with the argument that unless you join in this secession at once you may be discarded by your Southern sisters? They would always be glad enough to have our noble State, with its commercial, agricultural and mineral wealth, with its hardy, brave people. The language of menace and threats is no argument to prevail with these...We claim the protection of our institutions as guaranteed by the Constitution.</i>..” He concludes, “<i>In the course of nature, I cannot have long to live, and I fervently trust to be allowed to end my days a citizen of the glorious Union.</i>..” General toning; border tears with paper loss at top and bottom edges of negligible affect to text; o/w VG.

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