The national Republican., 1861-10-28
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Mr.. Russell, writing from Baltimore under
date Of Sept. 10, says:
at is impossible, think, to deny that the
great majority of the landholders and the re-
spectacle classes of Maryland arc in favor oil
secession principles, and that they hate the
New England States as cordially as the South
erners detest the Yankees 1t is not thnt
they arc Shareholders so much as that they
maintain slavcholdipg is guaranteed by the
Coz stittiOn. ard that those who attack 1t are
not gentlemen. Your Marylander is very
high afstocrat. II his ancestors did not come
over with Lord Baltimore to escape religious
persecution. they were acuated by similar mo-
tiyes He is generally Catholic and arti Puri.
tan, as his foreiathcr was two centuries ago.
In no part of the Union has slave labor been
70 profitless nowhere will so many men be
found ready TO condemn slavery on principe.
though IL may be legally right. They say,
We keep our slaves because we cannot get
rid of them at once. Leave us alone, and the
thing will die out of ITSELF And then they are
f,nd of enlargDg on the vnlgarity Of Black
Republicans and Abolitionists, and on the
curses Of universal suffrage. To the CONNER
cial classes the prosperity Of New York, at
ained, as they aver, by unfair uses oil political
power, II ulsO HIltNuhCc. luV
arise out of an arstocratic sentiment founded
On pride of birth ard extent oi possessions, fos'
tered by slavery, and aggravated by the oppo-
8 ton of neighboling states ON the one hand,
and on an ignorant impatience of result OF
Republican institutions, which. however uncX
p 'cted, Is perfectly Legitimate. man who
hold; his lands by virtue of n charter signed
by Lord Baltimore himself, is as great an aris
t0crat in feeling, and resents as keeDly the rule
If the many as though he were owner Of es.
tates recorded in Domestldy, aud descended
from Dives.
THE great merchants are uife cted by the at
mosphere in which they live, and Baltimore has
somewhat the prrtcn.io Of an old cathedral
town in Englahd struggling against manuiac-
lures and Chartsm. Some considerable towns
lave sprung up III tho State recently which
are the ralying points for the Union men, and
wh ch are thorns in the side OF the country
gentlemen, but, generally speaking, the ma
jori'y of the people in most Of the counties are
opposed to the Government, and there are few
landed proprietorswho are not Southern Right
men. Many families have representatives in
the army Of the Confederate States, and all the
efforts of The Federalists have not sufficed TO
prevent intelligence ard aid being sent across
tho Potomac into Virginia, and could not iIu5-
trato the attempts OF bodies ol armed gentle
l'eH plHtIs ou uolsc tuu tI lblb " llli
hBir friends. 1t was ouly the other day
was speaking to o gentleman who mentioned
that he bad large number Of relatives in the
Southern army, as If it were a mater Of con-
mon uotoriety. Aud how did they get there ?
Why they belonged to body Of cavalry
which we have had ior many years, composed
Of the young gentlemen OF the county, TO kegp
down negro resurrection. They heard one night
that the negroes were going to risr, and 0pb'aI-
ances justified The rumor. So they assembled
ard sent il word 10 the general at Baltimore
that they had met, ard that they would proba-
bly, require some aid. He ordered them al
once to dish md, or to wait till he sent cut an
officer TO make each OF theu take the oath O.
allegiance.
deeply offended by this conduct nearly all
of them rode IF, crossed the river that night
and Joined the enemy. The women bavo EN-.
braced Beauregardism with the greatest devo
ton, and their beauty aud grace render them
powerful ptoselytizers. II may be tue that
the State has been nearly disarmed by frequent
and rigid searches; but if there are not bow,
a@d hlgs. and rosettcs of the orthodox colors
forthcoming in profusion Whenever the ConteG-
crates make their appearance. am mush de
ceived In the ingenuity ard zeal Of ths fair
Marylanders On my first visit to Baltimorr.
there was report that the South CeroliIi n:
which displayed itself was certainly not one al
regret. On my second visit on my way from
Fortress Monroe. Baltimore had the air Of Wur-
saw: pckets at the street corners, patrols in
the thoroughiares camps on the hills, soldiers
cooking In the public places the people snll ~,
and angry. Tho report Lad been presented 10
the Legislature respecting the suppression ot
the police, and the Inhabitants were satisfied
they had been very badly used. Blu, from the
first there were strong hopes that the tyranny
would be overpast when the Coniederltes in
vaded Maryland and ifmust have been bitter
disappointment, particularly after the battle Of
Mauassas, to find there were no traces Of their
delverers' footsteps, and that their voices were
| as distant as ever"
Commenting upon this letter Of Mr.. Russell,
the Baltimore Pairio! says:
"For the information Of those outside of b Il
timOre, we take occasion to say that Dr. Rus
sells information was gathered, not from bis
| own knowledge, observation, or conversation
among the people here, but was picked up al
the country house he describes, and from par
ties whose sympathies are well known here to
be on the Southern side.
"In TACT, it is 'Suuth-side view of the
question-nOt at all in accordance with the
facts as declared 10y the Congressional election
| he,d three monLhS be ore, and utterly at VI
rance with the notorious fact that Howard
c'unty, in which the said country house is
gave an overwhelming majority the oth,rw way
In truth, Howard county, which contains Ger
tainly as large a number of country gentlemen
Of good estate in proportion US any otheI
county in the State, is one of the stronghods
Of Unionism in Maryland
The last election held throughout the State
three months before the date Of that letter, re
vealed the fact that but three or four counties
out Of the t,centy-one were for Peace candi
dates, and but three for an avowed Disuuouist
No disunionist was elected, and but one Union
man Of the secession species, who. to-mor.
row, could not get the same vote by double
the majority which elected him.
"Sixteen. if not eighteen, counties OF the
State are overwhelmingly loyal. Three or four
at the outside may be put down for Peace
men. while two may be considered close OF
doubtful. And 1t is utterly untrue that in the
counties the majority of the better classes Of
the men Of property of gentlemen = are
on the secession or Peace side. That is true OF
some. II is not true of the upper tier Of coun