New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-28
MARYLAND RRCOxLIyG.

The gldu IuIDHb VI tCbuiHibb AN"''' "AN ~
alty in Maryland is the theme of every lip, the
ioy of every heart. 1t may be exaggeratedi it
cannot be unfounded. We welcome it as more
precious than the bulletin of o decisive victory.
And the lesson is even more valuable than the
naked fact.
We believe Maryland was never at heart dis
loyal The miseraby meager vote pollcd by
the traitors at their recent special election in
Baltimore assures this. With the whole field to
themselves, no one to challenge or object TO any
kind of voter, so that he carried the Secession
ballot, terrible excitement prevailing, and
universal knowledge that to vote for Z" South
ern Rights" was directly conducive to immediate
| personal safety, the dominant mob poled but
| EIGHT to Nine Thousand YOtes-less than q
! third of the legal vote of the city-less by
| thousands than the Breckenridge vote of last
Fall. And it is very plain that the great Min
| ing and the Border Counties are far more de-
cidedly Union than Baltimore. And yet Mary
land, five days ago, seemed wholly given over to
the Secession derium. Why SO great and sud-
den changei
| In revolution, victory generally enures to the
boldest party rather than that numerically strong
| est. To the side of the confident and daring,
ninety-nine hundredths Of the cowardy Fly In
stinctiyely for security. Zach of them fears less
ten thousand men quietly at work on their farms,
in their shops, than one armed ruffian who holds
a cooked revolver at his head. Hence reyolu.
tions are often the work of minOritics-sOme-
times, of inconsiderable but daring Elinorities.
Prussia" said the French Minister of W.,
when Prussia in 1913 turned against NapOle2',
| :" in 1912 sided with France against Russia,
| "because the French armies were nearer her
capital than the Russian. In 1913, she aides
with Russia, for the Russian armies are nearer
"her capital than thh French" The simple
truth was the most cutting irony.
Maryland could not avert her eyes from the
glaring fact that in DO possible /" reconstruction
could her position be so favorable, so enyiabe,
as il for seventy years has been in the good old
Union. With the Capital Of the Nation located
| on what was once her soil and within a very
few hours ride of each foot of her area; with
the North, the East, the West, oil obliged to
| traverse her whole length to reach that Capital
over her several Railroads; with the Free West
pouring q constant and boundless wealth Of
| Agricultural Products over her most important
public work into her commercial emporium, she
must indeed have eaten Of the insane root ere
| she could resolve to throw all these advantages
away and become the extreme border State of
| JEFF. Daviss Cotton Empire.
| But the basis of the Cotton Rebellion is ayow
edly Slavery, and Maryland is still unhappily a
| Slave State. Though nine.tenths Of her people
live by Free White Labor, her Traditional
aristocracy are still Shareholders, and her policy
ia guided more by confused recollection of what
has been than any clear conception Of what is.
| Though the owners Of her soil could richly
afford to pay fair price for every Slave in the
State and send him to Liberia or Uayti, receiy-
| ing a bOunteOus recompense in the increased
value of their farms, it is deplorably true that
the planters and larger farmers of Mary land are
still blindly welded to the perpetuaton Of
Slavery. So when the Southern Rebellion
seemed to make up an issue between Slavery
and Ant. Slavery, nearly every one hastened to
stick Secession cockade in his hat, from fear Of
being pointed out and perhaps mobbed as an
Abolitionist.
The cure for this mOmentary madaess, though
perhaps as yet but partial, was found in the
unanimous uprising, the determined attitude of
the Free States. ave uW not be swinded nor
buled out of our Federal Capital--we will not
:" be deprived of our right Of unobst":cted PAS
" sage to and from that Capital-we will not see
our country torn to pieces under the assump-
4" ton that any State may dissolve the Union at
"pleasure such was the instructive and mani
nous response Of the Free States to the treason
able pranks of Baltimore, beginning with most
nefarious murder in her streets, proceeding at
once to the destruction Of the Railroads and Tel
egraphs that connected the Free States with the
Capital, and eliminating in the immeasurablo in
science Of the communications to President Lin
coln Of Gov. Hicks, Mayor Il own, and the Young
Christians of Baltimore. Twenty Millions OF
People have resolved that through Baltimore or
over Baltimore their right to communicate freely
with the chosen rulers OF the country shall be |
indicated and upheld. Let no one doubt-for |
Maryland does not-that their ability will justify |
their resolution.
The reco of Maryland shows in lines Of living |
light the weakness, the criminaity, Of the i'm
punity hitherto accorded to Rebellion Had Mr. ,
Buchanan dealt promptly with South Carolina in
the outset of her defiance Of the Union and its
laws as the Free States are ready to deal with |
Maryland, we should have long since heard
tie last Of Secession. Now, hundreds Of thou