Proclamation of the Mayor of Baltimore.
Mayor's office, April 18, 1861.
I heartily concur in the determination of the Governor to preserve the peace and maintain inviolate the honor and integrity of Maryland, as set forth in the above proclamation, and will earnestly co-operate with his efforts to maintain peace and order in the city of Baltimore.
And I cannot withhold my expression of satisfaction at his resolution that no troops shall be sent from Maryland to the soil of any other State.
The great questions at issue must, in the last resort, be settled by the people of the city and State for themselves at the ballot box, and an opportunity for a free expression of their opinions will speedily be afforded at the approaching Congressional election.
If the counsels of the Governor shall be heeded we may rest secure in the confidence that the storm of civil war which now threatens the country will at least pass over our beloved State and leave it unharmed; but if they shall be disregarded, a fearful and fratricidal strife may at once burst forth in our midst.
Under such circumstances, can any good citizen doubt for a moment, the course which duty and honor alike require him to pursue? Geo. Wm. Brown, Mayor.
