Mobile Advertiser & Register
June 7, 1861
Baltimore
Correspondence
Baltimore, May 27, 1861
To the Editors of the Advertiser
& Register:
Dear
Sirs- Well knowing the deep interest you take in the welfare of our little
State, and this “devoted” city, for the instant destruction of which our
Northern “brethren” are so clamorous, and feeling sincerely desirous that our
true position should be understood by our friends at the South, I take the
liberty of addressing a few lines to you.
My
belief is, that a large majority of the people of Maryland are not only opposed
to the wicked war policy of the Administration at Washington, but earnestly
desire to cast their lot with the South, and hope, ‘ere this contest is over,
to be useful citizens of the Confederate States.
Our
misfortune has been, in having a Governor elevated to his present position by
fraud, who not only would not listen to the petitions of our best citizens,
(who foreseeing to some extent the trouble now upon us, besought him to convene
the Legislature in extra session, and thereby give us an opportunity of putting
ourselves in a state of defense), but in the face of the most earnest
protestations of his soundness upon the issues of the day, has been in criminal
collusion with Mr. Lincoln and his Cabinet since the 4th of March,
and has purposely placed the State at the mercy of her despotic rulers. We are at present effectually controlled by
military power- a bitter humiliation to a people professedly free- but do not
suppose for a moment that the friends of the South are fewer in number, or to
be the long relied upon ???? of
this. The ??? say to the doubting and
the skeptical, that Maryland never will CONSENT to wear the yoke of the Union
from which you have escaped, unless she continues, through all time, to be invested with Lincoln’s troops and guarded
from every hillside by his Columbiads!
E.g.- whatever she can, lion-like, shake these dewdrops from her name, either singlehanded or aided by her
sympathising friends of the South. She
will THEN assert her emancipation from this Union with fanatics and
agrarians!
BALTIMORE
[Transcribed by: Sharon Strout]
