The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-04
No Quarrel with Maryland.

III the DLitiinOie bouN OF tne ZZu lISt.-Oniy
Monday last, while all MARYLAND was swasmhg
like camp ot armed men, AID Baltimore Itself
was given over to secession mob---we fnd the
following paragraph:
"MniN land has no quarrel with the North,
and desires none; and It is hei misfortune and
not her ta,M, il she is to be thrust into an un-
natural conflict which she has no disposition TO
seek, and certainly will not provoke"
No quartet We beg leave 10 tell her. then,
the North has one with her! Massachusetts
does not forget her dead Eighty six years ago,
the grass at Lexington was stained with the
blood of some of hers who laid down their lives
in defense of the liberties Of their country, and
OF the anniversary OF that event, last week, men
and women were gathered together in the old
Bay State in solemn commemoration of those
who died that day. They did not know that II.
that very moment other SONS of Massachusetts,
were baptizing in blood new revolution, and
tht their unbured bodies were then stretched
upon the soil of Maryland. ~ pray you send
them home tcDdsrly," says the Massachusetts,
Governor to the Mayor OF Baltimore. Will the
State that reyerenty cherishes the memories of
near century forget the Sudden grief of week
ago? Forget what living mothers pointing to
dead sons will remind her of? No quarrel =
Massachusetts and the North are one. Let
Maryland look to it.
No quarrel No provocation! Near the grave
o! Washington, southwark Of Baltimore, stands
the fair city called by his name anu consecrated
by his choice. 1t is threatened by horde, half
savage and half rufian, under the leadership OF "A
man who upholds robbery i'll peace and piracy in
war, composed OF such men as that army OF lO,-
600 at Charleston which beleagnered half
starved garrison, threw shell at men handing
wnter to cx,inguish fires in burning buildings
and cannunaded flag OF truce. Must the Capl-
tai be abandoned to such an Inroad! Must the
chivcs of the Federal Union be left to BE
trampled under the hoofs of these half beasts Of
the south? Must President and Cabinet De
partments and people, be compelled to fly, as
Mary landers fed from that same spot near fifty
years agos Shall not the Government protect
| its own? Does Maryland, the little State of
| Maryland, whose principal inhabitants are negro
| slaves and "plug uglics"-andit will be well Tor
| the world when the existence OF one class and
| the condition OF the other are Internationally
| aboshed-does it pelieve that Northern troops
are to b. stopped when on their Way for such
protection OF tie Capital? :" A conflict that il
will not provoke !" The tracks of torn up rail.
ways; the encunlbered high roads to be travelled
only ut the risk OF life; the burnt bridges; above
all the stark corpses OF Northern nen-those
answer!
Let Maryland take heed The North goes
through her, as straight as the Ice flies from
! flo er to hiye,- whenever she pleas,s, in ap
! preaching her Capital. The North will &C
| through her it II be only to the smoking ruins o
| where her Capital once stood II this unlocked
| for delay in getting troops to Washington shal
| nave any unhappy result, aud Davis and IN:
| " Dirt Eaters should succeed III entering thai
city, whether he waits for the onslaught, Oh
| whether he RACES it tr the ground aud flies Ma
| ryiand may nt least be sue OF one thing, til,
| North will go through her and over her. III eve
| ry direction, thiougi every acre, in defense o
| her own, or in vengeance of Its deseeration
though Maryland, six months heuce, be only
name, and civilization shall take possession o
! her once more, with land-survey0r and theO
dote We make this postscript To Mr.. Seward
irster--thnt as the Government declines to sub
! nit +" dom, site conlenti, n bless the hris,
to foreign arbisramcnt, the people are not dis
posed, whatever the Government may think 0
it, to submit TO the plug usliest State south o
Mason and Dixou's Line, the question of how
they shall approach the Capital OF their country
Lrt the BaliAore Saa, und all other Batinor
luui,arie-, both great and small, whether light
OF the day or lights OF the night, remember tha
the North has ;, quarrel with her which is to b
settled, and can b settled, IN one way only :
Maryland must submit, and return to the mos
contrite good behaviour and submission, or tn
North conquers her even If she annihilutss he
in doing it-IN Y Tribune.
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TIE PoKrRY OF THE WAR.-Wc are deluge
with poelica cffusioiis in which the flag an
patriolism are torn 10 tatters. Here is u dign