Constitutional Union (nationalist) Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks, of Maryland, refuses to call a secessionist convention: “I see nothing in the bare election of Abraham Lincoln that would justify the South in taking any steps tending toward a separation of these States.”
[added 3/26/2022]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
“Law of the Jungle”
ccc-2point0.com/preface
References:
Maryland and Secession
blueandgraytrail.com/event/Maryland_and_Secession
Current U.s. National Debt:
