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Committee, 616 ; Union League Convention, 

 616; State Central Committee Convention, 

 616 ; refuse to unite, 616 ; resolutions of each, 

 616 ; division of the Union men, 616 ; address 

 of the State Central Committee, 616 ; do. of 

 the Unconditional Union State Committee, 

 617; resolutions in the Fifth District, 618; 

 letter of Thomas Swann to the President, 

 618 ; reply of President Lincoln, 618 ; letter of 

 Governor Bradford, 618 ; reply of the Presi- 

 dent, 618; order of General Schenck, 619; 

 proclamation of Governor Bradford, 619 ; dis- 

 patch of President Lincoln, 620 ; statement of 

 the editor of the American, 621 ; suppression 

 of the Governor's proclamation by General 

 Schenck, 621 ; reply of General Schenck to 

 the proclamation, 621; reply of Governor 

 Bradford to President Lincoln, 621 ; issue at 

 the election was emancipation, 623 ; votes, 

 623 ; message of the Governor relative to the 

 election, 623. 



IV. Meeting of the State Legislature, 496 ; 

 resolutions relative to negro soldiers, 496 ; 

 test-vote relative to emancipation, 496; two 

 reports of Committee on Constitutional Con- 

 vention, 496 ; majority report, 496 ; oath, 497; 

 minority report, 497; oath of voters struck 

 out, 497 ; other amendments, 497 ; section rel- 

 ative to military interference, 497; letter of 

 General Wallace to Governor Bradford, rel- 

 ative to the election of delegates, 498 ; reply 

 of the Governor, 498 ; interrogatories to a del- 

 egate ordered by General Wallace, 499 ; reply 

 of the delegate, 499 ; interrogatories to voters, 

 499 ; result of the election, 500 ; meeting of 

 the State Convention, 500 ; oath required of 

 the members, 500 ; majority and minority re- 

 port of amendments, 500 ; amendments pro- 

 posed, 500, 501 ; speech of Mr. Gushing on 

 paramount allegiance to the Federal Govern- 

 ment, 501 ; do. of Mr. Belt, 501 ; do. of Mr. 

 Miller, 601 ; do. of Mr. Ridgely, 501 ; vote, 

 502 ; speech of Mr. Valliant on compensation 

 to the owners of slaves, 502 ; objections to 

 emancipation, 502 ; objections to the consti- 

 tution, 503; section relative to the qualifica- 

 tion of voters, 503 ; soldiers' votes, 504 ; ob- 

 jections of the minority, 504; do. of those 

 opposed to the constitution, 504 ; letter from 

 President Lincoln, 504 ; letter of the Governor 

 to the public relative to the vote, 504 ; a case 

 made and taken to the Court of Appeals, 505 ; 

 opinion of the court, 505 ; the State election, 



506 ; finances, 506 ; order of General Wallace 

 to aid slaves in securing freedom, 506 ; de- 

 struction of property by the invasion of the 

 enemy, 506. 



V. Registration act, 526 ; classes excluded 

 from the right of suffrage, 526 ; questions to 

 persons applying for registration, 526 ; opposi- 

 tion to the registration act, 526, 527 ; opinions 

 of Montgomery Blair, 527 ; constitutionality of 

 the act, 527; remarks of Governor Swann, 

 527 ; other acts of the Legislature, 528 ; finances, 

 528 ; real and personal property in the State, 

 528 ; proposed reassessment, 528 ; State pen- 

 itentiary, 529 ; colored schools, 529 ; colored 

 convention, 529 ; Governor Swann on the 

 laws relating to negroes, 529 ; negro suffrage, 

 530 ; election in November, 530. 



VI. Change of labor system, 468 ; Legisla- 

 ture, 468 ; proceedings, 469 ; Sunday law, 469 ; 

 Southern Fair at Baltimore, 469 ; receipts and 

 distribution, 469 ; the Peabody donation, 469 ; 

 finances of the State, 469 ; contributions to the 

 war, 470 ; extra session of the Legislature, 470 ; 

 railroad and bank stock, 470 ; Democratic Con- 

 vention, 470 ; resolutions, 470 ; Unconditional 

 Union Convention, 471 ; resolutions, 471 ; elec- 

 tion, 471 ; difficulties with the police commis- 

 sioners, 471, 472 ; conflict of Federal and State 

 laws, 472 ; sale of a f reedman, 472 ; trial of a 

 white, 472 ; public education, 473 ; Chesapeake 

 & Ohio Canal and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 

 473. 



VII. Meeting of the Legislature, 474 ; elec- 

 tion of United States Senator, 474, 475 ; reso- 

 lutions addressed to Congress on the leading 

 questions of the day, 475 ; rejection of the con- 

 stitutional amendment, 475 ; sale of negroes 

 for crime prohibited, 475 ; claim on Federal 

 Government for loss of property by emancipa- 

 tion, 475 ; Sunday street-cars, 475 ; restoration 

 of franchise to those deprived of it by the con- 

 stitution of 1864, 475 ; movement to frame a 

 new constitution, 475 ; resolutions of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly, 476 ; vote for a convention, 476 ; 

 opposition of the Republicans, 476; meeting 

 and resolutions of the Republican Convention, 

 476 ; second meeting of the Republican Con- 

 vention, 477 ; resolutions, 477 ; meeting of the 

 Constitutional. Convention, 477; proceedings, 

 477, 478 ; adoption of the new constitution, 

 478; finances, 478; public schools, 479 ; peni- 

 tentiary, 479 ; militia, 479 ; decision of Chief- 

 Justice Chase under the civil-rights law, 479 ; 



