St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1861-10-31


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mate. A man who holds the lands By
virtue Of charter signed By Lord Balti-
more himself. il as great IN aristecrat IN
feeling, and reseAfe - kecnly the rule q
the masy. - thgsgh he we're owner a
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nititniFe tss some What the pretcnsions
of an old cathedral town in England
! struggling against manufactures and
Chartism. Some considerable towns have
sprung up in the State recently. which
a.s the rallying p"iuts for the Uniou
men, and which are thorns in the side Of
country gentlemen; but. generally speak
ing. the majority Of the people in most of
the counties are opposed to the Govern
ment, and there are few landed proprietors
who arc not Southern Rights men. Many
families have representatives iu the army
Of the Confederate States, and all the
Efforts Of the Federalists have not sufhced
| to prevent Intelligence and aid being sent
across the Potomac into Virginia. and
could not Illustrate the attempts Of bodies
Of armed gentlemen and others, on horse
! and on foot, to join their friends
1t was only the other day was speak
I - rh0 a.
he had n large number Of relatives in the
Southern army. as if it were a matter Of
comm"n nvtori"ty. ''And how did they
get there" Why, they belonged to a
; body of cavalry which We have had for
many years composed of the young gen.
tlcncn Of the county to keep down negro
insurrcction. They heard one night that
the negroes were going to rise. aud ap-
pearances justified the runner. So they
! assembled and sent in word to the Gener-
al at Baltimore that they had met, and
that they would probably require some
aid. lie ordered them at once to jisba nd
or TO wait till be sent out all officer to
make each of them take the oath of ale
giunce. Deeply offended BY this cou-,
ducs, nearly all Of them rode off, crosse,
the river that night aud joined the enc
my. The women have embraced Beal
rcgardism with th. greatest devotion, d
.hcir beauty and grace render them n
,rfnl proxell Tiers. -
1, may ~ trac that the Stare has
nearly disarmed by frequent and riI
searches, but if there are not bows, al
flags. aud rose,;es of the orthodox colof
forthcoming in profusion Whenever thd
Confeicraivs make their appearance. l anf'
much deceived ut tn. ingenuity and zeal
Of the fair Marylanders. On my first visit
to Baltimore there was report that the
South Carolinians had opened fire ,pon
Sumter. and the feeling which displa, ed
tsclf was certainly u, t one Of rcgr,t On
my second visit, Oh my way from Forrres.
Monroe. Baltimore had the air Of Warsaw.
Pickets at the street corners. patrols in
the thoroughfares, camps ON the hills. sol
iiers cooking iu the public places, the pe"-
| pie eulleh and angry. The report had
been presented to the Legislature respect
ing the suppression Of the police. and the
inhabitants were satisfied they had been
very badly used. But from ,hc first there
were strong hol es that the Tyranny would
be ovsrpasi" when the Confederates invs-
ded Maryland and it must have been a
; bitter erdisappoinsment--particularly after
the battle uf Manassas--to find there were
no traces "f thrr deliverers' footsteps, aud
that their voices were As distant as ever.
General Scott's foresight. in fact. was
never better exhibited than in the meas
ures he took to secure Maryland ut a
time Of enormous difficulty. Notwish-
standing al her writings and convul-
sions the State is so firmly manaeled
that nothing short Of = victorious ar
my's strength eau liberate her. 1t would
not have been possible to let Marylan
60. ror can any Que, presume. sup
pose that in any contingency the Uni
ted States could ever resign the srat Of
, their Government, the Potomac. and the
waters Of the Chesapeake, to an indcpen-
;; dent Power. To do that the North
must be suhjugated as thoroughly as she
iuteuds to subjugate the South. But
has the North ever considered that in
Maryland, where there are many Union
men. she is obliged to use the means
which probably will be needed to y
greater extent in the South. and then
calmly consider what those means are +?
There are 10000 men in aud around
Baltimore the General. Dix, in reply
to certain representations, has stated
that. II the city falls in,o The h-nds Of
the enemy. he will be forced to lsy it in
ashes from his batteries. There are
probably not less than 25. 800 troops iu
other parts Of Maryland. The social
aud political condition Of the State is
best estimated by these .facta. notorious
to the English public. Ii the North
could but make an equation. and zee
whether she has the force to act the
same part in the Southern States. i: is
not reasonable to suppose she could any
longar deny that her misssiou is one II
conquest AMI subjugatinn. in which sas-
cess is not ccrtsin. and which it is iu,-
possibls To p'rsist permanently. Con-
quest sssv be achieved. By some ex-
traordiuary effort Of military spirit even