Message Of The Governor Of Maryland To The General Assembly January Session 1864 Classic Reprint

Author : Thomas Swann
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ISBN 13 : 9781331165965
Total Pages : 30 pages
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Download or read book Message of Governor Swann, to the General Assembly of Maryland, at Its Regular Session, January, 1868 (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Swann and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Message of Governor Swann, to the General Assembly of Maryland, at Its Regular Session, January, 1868 Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Delegates: You have reason to he thankful for the flattering auspices under which you enter upon this the first session of the General Assembly since the adoption of your present Constitution. Power - "always stealing from the many to the few" - has again resumed its sway, in the hands of the people, and our beloved Commonwealth stands to-day, all the more honored, in the firm and manly spirit with which she has steadily persevered in maintaining constitutional liberty, and her co-equal rank, as one of the original thirteen States, by whom this Union was founded. The events of the past twelve months admonish us how indispensable it is, in times of high party excitement, to recur to the true theory upon which this Government was based. Republican Institutions can only exist by the free will of the people. In utter contempt of this long established and recognized principle, we have seen the most sacred guarantees of the Constitution trampeled upon and ignored; a claim set up by one of the co-ordinate Departments to consolidate all essential powers in its own hands; Provisional Governments, subordinating the civil to the military authority, and virtually placing the Negro over the white man - inaugurated in ten States; and Maryland with her cherished record of patriotism and loyalty, dating from the earliest period of our struggles for independence and freedom, threatened with degradation and the subversion of her Constitution, because of her refusal to recognize the right of Congress to force Negro suffrage and Negro equality upon an unwilling people, and to assume absolute and unlimited supremacy in her domestic concerns. Standing almost solitary and alone in hold and fearless denunciation of these acts of palpable usurpation, repugnant to every instinct of free Government, she hails with pride the endorsement of her orthodoxy in the reaction which has so recently swept like a whirlwind over the land, giving assurance that the spirit of our fathers still guides us in our efforts to preserve unimpaired the sacred inheritance which they have committed to our charge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.