New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-05-04
A WORD WITH MARYLAND.

length of bayOnet is evident enough from the
tone of her Legislature. She has passed no act If
secession bur ,,,r that we muy give credit TO her
sagacIty; she has, however. appointed Commit
tee Of Safety ard adopted the outrageous Ian
cuage Of the Report of the Committee Oh Fede-
raj relations words aud deeds to DO credited only
to her disafection and malignancy. There is but
one rational Interpretation to ePut upon the re-
port, aud that is that she only desires time 70
prepare for some new act Of treachery; and the
appointment of Committee Of Safety can only
be to provide for that preparation.
Three new names are added to the roll o.
fame IN Massachusetts to be remembered as long
as Massa chusetts has history. We hardly need
name them. They are Addison o. Whitney,
Luther C. Ladd, aud Sumner Ii. Needham. The
dust of the streets of Baltimore has drunk their
blood All Boston has gathered about the biers
on which rested their sacred relics, and with the
tears of women have mingled the deep curses of
men at the cowardly and traitor city that basely
murdered these young heroes who had left their
peaceful trades, the budding hopes OF youth,
their happy homes, to hasten to the defense OF the
capital of their country. Ard the Maryland
Legislature dares now to talk g of tho fauatcal
and excited multltudes Of Northern cities,
and of their d" luminosity" toward Bati-
more! Animosity! The North must pass two
Baltnores-must march over the stones
which the blood of these young Massa-
chusetts men has stained; but 1t is Tor Baltimore
TO say whether that shall be o funeral march
with arms reversed, or whether she shall pass
through in hot aud fierce anger, destroying as che
goes. Notwithstanding that deep provocation,
red with blood, even yet the North wall go peace
fully through Baltimore. though it may be with
cad and Bonded head, should Maryland return to
reason. But she is laying up wrath against
day Of fearful wrath, by adding insult to wrong,
If. iu the attempt to make her words good, shc
shall compel the North 10 resume her path to
the capital whether 1t be through Baltimore, or
over the spot where Baltimore, but o little
while before, was standing.
Can it be possible that Maryland does not
understand this 7 Does she believe, because the
Government has been moderate and cautions in
all its steps, has done nothing that Is not just
fed by tho strctest letter Of the law, and has
seenrd, therefore, slow ~ short-sighted persons,
aud persons more impatient than judlcous-does
she believe that Therefore the Government, which
in 40 short time has put into the field al army
four times as large rs all the capable OF
barring arms IN Mar,lsn could make, ID to sub
NIT to be turned aside from great highway be-
cause few official "Plug-U gies' and unofficial
" Blood-Tubs' oppose its progress She
knows, besotted aud stupid as her Legislature
shows her to be- that tue Federal Government,
resting on the North, has the power to float
every living thing in Maryland down tho Cbesa-
peake To the sea, and leave the State desert.
Unless she il bent, with a faulty OF madness
that knows no parallel, upon her own desiruc-
ton, she ought by this tune to understand that
il would DO her part " the commonest pru-
Z" derc, TO reopen the avenues to her very DOORS
onl niaks haste to do it, for Mr.. Lincoln's
twenty days Of grace ~ rebels expire to-day.
Aud to do otherwise will DO such act Of un-
common imprudcnce ss the world has seldom seen.
There are said TO be loyal people in Mary
land, and we do not doubt it. But who are
they Where are they Who can tell them of
Treachery and cowardice have been shown To be
the distinguishing characteristics Of late Of the
South, added to that other which We have ~
long studied 10 them-cruclty. There seems to
be- no crime, from petty theft to public murder,
not ju.tiable in tho e,es of a Southerner to aid
tho greater crime Of Secession. 1t il impossible
TO tell, therefore, who are loyal in State whose
Legislature adopts such report as that We refer
to--we published 1t yesteriay-and which not ooly
justlfcs the airociy of Baltimore, but charges it
upon thu North. II the Union of Maryland
know that this Legislature fairly represents the
State, and that they can make 40 head against
it, tbeo they had better ny; # they know that
the Legislature does not fairly represent Mary
land then LET them crush the treason by which
they are surrounded and which they thus iopli,h.
y permit to show it, head. If they would do
this and cannot, or can and will not Why then,
let them g Stand from under! :"