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Rejected Resolutions

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Woodsboro dist. Meeting to appoint delegates to secession county convention. This resolution was rejected, but editor believes if a convention of southern-minded citizens were called, a majority of citizens would vote for it. (blurry image)

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REJECTED RESOLUTIONS
Pursuant to the calls published in the Citizen and Herald for a district meeting at Woodsborogh to appoint delegates to the Secession County Convention, to be held in this city to-day, there was an unexpectedly large attendance of the freemen of the district, and the disappointment and chagrin of those who undertook to engineer the meeting and manufacture a false public opinion, were correspondingly ____. The strong and decided Union Resolutions adopted by the meeting, by a vote of 86[?] yeas to 20[?] nays, may be found in the published proceedings, but there was another set of Resolutions, which the meeting rejected, and which our informant says were endorsed only[?] by ______ sent a gentleman in Woodsborough by ______. A copy of the __ latter is to ______. We have ___ for them; we must attend[?] ourselves with giving their purpose. They consider the Union an ___ _____ ____ positively arrayed until _____ a General Convention of the Southern States for its recognition, with such Constitutional guarantees as said General Convention may demote. They believe this Southern _____ will be adapted by decisive majorities of the Northern people, and effect ___________. They must call for an immediate extra Session of the Legislature, for this purpose of carrying a State Convention, which shall take an _ action as will secure a Southern General Convention. – They denounce “Black Republicanism” as the cause of our present troubles, endorse the course of President Buchanan, and endeavoring to avoid ____ and further endorse the propositions of the Border states and slave states ____________ “not entirely satisfactory,” may be accepted as a reasonable ______. We have no comment to make on these effected[?] resolutions, except that their prominent object is to get together the Legislature of Maryland in immediate extra Session; which issue if fairly put, would be voted down by the overwhelming voice of the freemen of Frederick County. We do not believe there will be a Breckinridge U. S. Senator chosen in an Extra Session of our Legislature. Perhaps, there is no district in the County upon whose partisan obsequiousness the Tories counted with as much confidence as upon the Breckinridge majority of Woodsborough who have stuck to their party heretofore through good and evil report, but whose “patriotism,” when the question of Union or Secession was presented, rises superior to all mere party affiliations, and ____ rebukes the demagogues who would mislead and commit them in Treason to the Republic.