However, like others in Maryland, Hicks felt that the state had more in common with the other border states-Virginia, Delaware, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri-than with the states of the deep South or the North. Like many in Maryland, Hicks had no love of Lincoln, often derided as merely a "sectional" candidate, who represented only a small portion of the country. During the winter of 1860 and spring of 1861, Hicks worked to keep Maryland from seceding and to hold Maryland out of the impending conflict. Within weeks of Abraham Lincoln's election, several states in the deep South seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of America. Hicks, message to General Assembly, April 25, 1861ĭuring the 1860 presidential campaign, talk of secession circulated throughout the slave-holding South, including Maryland. MSA SC 295 "The only safety of Maryland lies in preserving a neutral position between our brethren of the North and of the South." View Enlarged "To the People of Maryland"
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