Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-05-10
LE MARYLAND. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1851.
From the N. Y. Express ofMonday Evening I
From Several New York Ladies Born
in the Border states.
New York, April Doth, 1861.


New York, April Goth, 1861.
To the Union Defence ComnsiHec.
GENTLEMEN The women of New York
are urgently requested to take their part
in the preparations now making for war.
Numbers of them, lovers of Union, and
loyal to the government, who are pre-.
pared to give their means and labor in
its support, desire to say y word as to
the object ofthese extensive military pre-
partitions word to show their earnest
wishes for peace, while holding them
selves ready to aid in all things neccssa-
ry and right the dreaded and dreadful re-
sort to arms.
They wish, first, to protest against the
deliberate and systematic Indictment and
fostering, by many of our New York
daily newspapers, of a cruel, savage. and
robber-like spirit of war a spirit of
bloodthirsty malignity, and humanity ha-
tired, prompting to deeds of murder aud
rapine spirit belonging to wild men
and wild beasts, but which ought to be
rebuked among the citizens of humane
and free government 1t shows itself
most in the recommendations to make
war on helpless women and children.
The editors of the Tribune, Times, Cou-
rier and Sun, not one of them, it is be-
lieved, native of this State, whose dig
nifty they thus degrade, do not hesitate
to urge measures that involve inevitably
the destruction Of entire families the
laying waste of cities, by ray Of precau-
ton, the planning of raids into neighbor-
ing States to drive out the proprietors of
the soil and take possession of it as a re-
ward for military services. Their bes-
Italics have already provoked indignant
comments from the Canadian press.
which, with the fresh memories Of In
dian and Chinese massacres by England
pronounces the United States Govern
ment in advance of all despotisms in the
extent Of these proposals.
1t is respectfully suggested that there
should be stop put to this. Surely the
action of the government may set bounds
to the zeal of the most enthusiastic
urge transgression of those Limits is to
be guilty of treason. Are Northern edi-
tors less liable to arrest as traitors than
men whose offence is too great sympa-
thy for their Southern brethren-mis-
guided it may be-but not deserving
that they should be " wiped out" or
have their wives and little ones driven
| from their homes or butchered within
them 2? These very excuses on the part
of the Republican newspapers, are GER
tain to produce a reaction among decent
men which, as in the French Revolution,
will destroy the power which allows
them. When the Tribune urges in de-
tail the storming and sack Of Baltimore
over roofs, through breaches in the
walls, by doors or windows, as may seem
best, by sappers and miners with crow
bars, with sledge hammers, with picks.
with gunpowper in small bags, armed
with hand-grenades, revolvers and cut
lasses, or such other weapons as shall be
best adapted to storming party, and a
hand-to-hand fight when the Times
recommends that private expeditions be
fitted out from Northern ports for the
purpose of landing adventurous John
Browns on the Southern coasts, and arm
ing the negroes, or furnishing them with
facilities for escape. and stragetical
move to make the Republicans masters
of the continent" seems to be time to
institute measures for legally protecting
the community against such utterances,
as destructive to the public peace and
WE'LL being.
Gentlemen Of the Union Defence Com
mittee-The people of New York city
have chosen you to speak in their names,
and to initiate measures for the public de-
fence and the preservation ofpubic order
One of the duties undertaken by the com
mittee of correspondence, is "to direct
such publications in the newspapers and
otherwise, as they shall deem expedient. !"
VIII you not in the interest Of true lovers
Of the Union issue a proclamation, dis
claiming in the name of our citizens, the
right of these few blood thirsty editors to
speak for them? Let lovers oftho Union
know everywhere, that all the men Of
New York are not changed to ruiians.
Further--the newspapers here now ge-
nerally refuse to recognize the loyalty Of
the border States, because they declare
their readiness to preserve an armed
neutrality, and so prevent bloodshed.
"Those that arc not for us are against
us" is their cry. But as your committee
promise to secure the cooperation of
popular action in all loyal parts Of the
country" Christian women cannot but
hope that you will forthwith make a
league Of friendship with them for the
common defence. With their help, all
the stars and stripes may float over this
entire people, whom God has so greatly
blessed Our citizens would gladly con-
vcne another meeting, and grant your
committee enlarged powers, or liberal
construction Of doubtful ones, IL such
authority is needed.
ADJoURMrST OF THE CoSyEYTroS.-
The Virginia Convention adjourned on
Thursday night Of last week, until the
18th of june next, by which time the
returns of the vote ratifying the ordinance
of secession will have been received. The
Governor is authorized to call the Con-
yention a. any time during the recess, IL
he deems it necessary to do SO.
PRESIDENT DAVIS TO TAKTTnE FIELD.
The Charleston Courier learns from the
most reliable source that President Davis
will take command, in person, as Gen
r. r Al