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re that Maryland was with the South in sympathy and feeling; that she demands from the North the repeal of offensive, unconstitutional statutes, and appeals to it for new guarantees; that she will wait a reasonable time for the North to purge her statute-books, to do justice to her Southern brethren; and, if her appeals are vain, will make common cause with her sister border States in resistance to tyranny, if need be, it would only be saying what the whole country well knows, etc. On April 18, 1861, Governor Hicks issued a proclamation invoking them to preserve the peace, and said, I assure the people that no troops will be sent from Maryland, unless it may be for the defense of the national capital. On the same day Mayor Brown, of the city of Baltimore, issued a proclamation in which, referring to that of the governor above cited, he said, I can not withhold my expression of satisfaction at his resolution that no troops shall be sent from Maryland to the soil of any other State.