Speech of S Teackle Wallis Esq As Delivered At the Maryland Institute On Fri
Speech of S Teackle Wallis Esq As Delivered At the Maryland Institute On Fri
S Teackle Severn Teackle Wallis
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Is about to take place in Washington, whether the remaining Slave States South and West of Maryland — the whole broad belt and border from the Atlantic to the Mississippi, and beyond — shall not go out likewise. And while this great problem of our destiny is being solved, and howsoever it may be solved, we are told that our interest and our duty — our obligations to the Kcpidjlic and our- selves — require us to be silent and quiet — to surrender ourselves to Gov. Hicks, and "cling to the Union ...!" Cling to the Union ? Cling to what ? What is the Union into which Maryland entered, and to which she belongs ? A great Republic, one and undivided, almost covering a continent. Where is she in that Union ? A central State— the tendrils of her prosi)erity fusteniug, upon every side, to the confederated communities around her. You break that con- federacy in the midst, leaving her a border province, with a foreign nation, and perhaps an enemy, beside her, and you tell her to cling to the Union still — to cling to what then exists no longer, in love or association, or peace 1 Oh !
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