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388 HISTORY OF MARYLAND.
Lowe, Isaac Coslin, John Stirling, of Annapolis; Wm. Atkinson, Isaac
Atkinson, of Somerset County; John White, Cannon Riggin and Wm. Town-
send, of Worcester County; James Harris, John Malone, Wm. Kennedy, Mrs.
Caldwell, Obadiah Reed, Hugh Dean, Spiers, French & Co., Jno. Henry
Carey, John Bartlett, Charles Hall, John Harris, John Jackson, Purnell
Johnson, Joshua Dickinson, Wm. Smith, Solomon Dorman, Nathaniel
Smullin, James Russell, Wm. Russell, Richard Button, James Christie, Jr.,
James Christie, Robert Christie, John Glassford & Co., Gale, Fearon & Co.,
Nottingham Company, Jas. Russell, Principio Company, Henry Harford,
John Buchanan, Colin, Dunlop & Co., Daniel Stevenson, Cunningham, Fin-
ley & Co., Alexander Lawson & Co., James Chalmers and Samuel Hyde.
The outrages committed by the tories, the deranged condition of the
currency, and the overwhelming debt which had been incurred in the prosecution of the war, caused the more ardent patriots to discuss the propriety
of confiscating the property of those who had adhered to the royal cause, or
deserted that of their country. Many men of wealth and influence had abandoned the State in its hour of peril, and were giving aid or comfort to the
enemy; and it was deemed just and proper to seize their estates as spoils of
war. A bill for that purpose was accordingly framed and passed by the
House of Delegates at the November session of 1779, and sent to the Senate.
The latter body, doubting the justice and expediency of the matter, refused
to concur in the passage of the bill, and returned it to the Senate with a message explaining their reasons for rejecting it. An effort was made to get the
Senate to recede from their action, which they refused to do, whereupon the
House of Delegates, on the 3d of December,
"Resolved, That it is the opinion of this House, that the honorable Senate, by rejecting
the bill for seizing and confiscating British property, hath prevented this House from
complying with the requisition of congress, and raising money to enable that body to
support the credit of our currency, and to defray the current expenses of the wTar; and,
therefore, that any consequences which may arise therefrom to the public, are properly
and justly to be imputed to those members of the Senate who gave their negative to the
bill.
"Resolved, That the voters of the State be earnestly requested to express their sentiments on the present difference between the two branches of the legislature, respecting
the seizing and confiscating British property within the State." l
A warm controversy ensued, but the Senate would not recede, and suggested, as a more appropriate source of revenue, that congress should make
foreign loans, and pledge for their payment the western lands, which were
unjustly claimed by certain large States. Unable to reconcile their differences, both houses adjourned over to the 28th of March, 1780. In the
meanwhile, the people and the Maryland Gazette, of Annapolis, and the
Maryland Journal, of Baltimore, the only newspapers in the State, took
1 Among those who strongly opposed the bill man, William Hindman, and Joseph Sim. The
in the senate were Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, warmest advocates were Brice T. B. Worthing-
Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Matthew Tilgh- ton, Richard Barnes, and Upton Sheredine.
| Title | History of Maryland - 2 |
| Creator | Scharf, J. Thomas (John Thomas) |
| Publisher | J. B. Piet |
| Place of Publication | Baltimore |
| Date | 1879 |
| Language | eng |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Title | 00000425 |
| Type | Books/Pamphlets |
| Transcript | 388 HISTORY OF MARYLAND. Lowe, Isaac Coslin, John Stirling, of Annapolis; Wm. Atkinson, Isaac Atkinson, of Somerset County; John White, Cannon Riggin and Wm. Town- send, of Worcester County; James Harris, John Malone, Wm. Kennedy, Mrs. Caldwell, Obadiah Reed, Hugh Dean, Spiers, French & Co., Jno. Henry Carey, John Bartlett, Charles Hall, John Harris, John Jackson, Purnell Johnson, Joshua Dickinson, Wm. Smith, Solomon Dorman, Nathaniel Smullin, James Russell, Wm. Russell, Richard Button, James Christie, Jr., James Christie, Robert Christie, John Glassford & Co., Gale, Fearon & Co., Nottingham Company, Jas. Russell, Principio Company, Henry Harford, John Buchanan, Colin, Dunlop & Co., Daniel Stevenson, Cunningham, Fin- ley & Co., Alexander Lawson & Co., James Chalmers and Samuel Hyde. The outrages committed by the tories, the deranged condition of the currency, and the overwhelming debt which had been incurred in the prosecution of the war, caused the more ardent patriots to discuss the propriety of confiscating the property of those who had adhered to the royal cause, or deserted that of their country. Many men of wealth and influence had abandoned the State in its hour of peril, and were giving aid or comfort to the enemy; and it was deemed just and proper to seize their estates as spoils of war. A bill for that purpose was accordingly framed and passed by the House of Delegates at the November session of 1779, and sent to the Senate. The latter body, doubting the justice and expediency of the matter, refused to concur in the passage of the bill, and returned it to the Senate with a message explaining their reasons for rejecting it. An effort was made to get the Senate to recede from their action, which they refused to do, whereupon the House of Delegates, on the 3d of December, "Resolved, That it is the opinion of this House, that the honorable Senate, by rejecting the bill for seizing and confiscating British property, hath prevented this House from complying with the requisition of congress, and raising money to enable that body to support the credit of our currency, and to defray the current expenses of the wTar; and, therefore, that any consequences which may arise therefrom to the public, are properly and justly to be imputed to those members of the Senate who gave their negative to the bill. "Resolved, That the voters of the State be earnestly requested to express their sentiments on the present difference between the two branches of the legislature, respecting the seizing and confiscating British property within the State." l A warm controversy ensued, but the Senate would not recede, and suggested, as a more appropriate source of revenue, that congress should make foreign loans, and pledge for their payment the western lands, which were unjustly claimed by certain large States. Unable to reconcile their differences, both houses adjourned over to the 28th of March, 1780. In the meanwhile, the people and the Maryland Gazette, of Annapolis, and the Maryland Journal, of Baltimore, the only newspapers in the State, took 1 Among those who strongly opposed the bill man, William Hindman, and Joseph Sim. The in the senate were Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, warmest advocates were Brice T. B. Worthing- Charles Carroll, of Carrollton, Matthew Tilgh- ton, Richard Barnes, and Upton Sheredine. |
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