Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-05-14
Summary Of News.
BALTIMORE, May {

pic. Mr.. johnson said: In the original
causes which have produced the present
emergency, Maryland has had no share.
Her people ever were, and now are, zeal.
Gus in the support Of the Constitution and
a government which they were foremost III
forming and adopting.
No threat of treason has ever been whis-
pered within her limit, while the blessings
and advantages of the Union have ever
been fully estimated and appreciated.
The loss of these advantages, it is felt,
would bcutter ruin.
In this ruin all the States would more
or less share, but our geographical position
would make it to us immediate, and total
separation is impossible, but for the rcsis-
lance to its just aud legal authority the
Government had given no causes, and had
the friends Of Constitutional rights re-
manned at their posts in Congress, the pow
or of the Government to transgrcss its au-
thority could have been effectually thwar-
ted.
The leaders of the rebellion were actua-
ted by an unholy thirst for official power.
The fact is evinced in the elevation to
place, Of all who have desecrated official
position and plotted treason. They may
as we'll strike at the heavens with their
arms as against the American Union.
Defeat was certain to rebellion. The free
States, according to the last census, have
3,77S000 males between the ages of Is
and 45 years. The Slave States have l.
G65, 900; the seeded States, exclusive of
Virginia, had only $4,000, and the differ
cnce in wealth is proportionatc to that of
men. With such a vast disparity the end
of the struggle is beyond doubt. 1t was
the aim of the South to coniine the war to
the border States. Mr.. Cobb was even
now congratulating them on the removal
of it from their midst.
But Maryland should Illustrate this
cowardly policy lsot those who have pro.
yoked the war bear its entire brunt. Mary
lands proper position is to remain firm in
her loyalty to the Government. The re-
bcllion leaders had done all they could for
Mr., Lincoln's election, as the means Of
precipitating revolution in the South.
They relied for the success of their plans
on the Intervention of the border States
and divisions in the North, but they we're
short sighted men.
The first Gun fired OF a noble and star
wing garrison, was a blow at the nations
heart, and a united North had sprung to
arms in vindication of the flag and for the
maintenance OF the Government. Heaven
forbid the duty of that vindication should
be forgotten by Maryland.
Several arrests were made tf parties
charged with participating in the attack
on the Massachusetts, troops, yesterday and
to-day.
There has been a stampedcde among the
suspected. Seventy of the rioters have
disappeared.
The legislature did nothing to-day.
PHILADELPHIA, May s..
Fifty West Point Cadets were detained
here last night by the police, on the sup
position that they were about to join the
Secessionists.
Information had been received that they
had purchased rms in New York. The
mistake was soon rcctifed and they pro-
ceeded to Washington where they will be
commissioned as I'd Lieutenants.
INV York May 0.
The fire in Washington this morning
was set in four places by secessionists.
Traitors at Magnolia, Del, had seized
a lot of u. S. arms stored there by Union
men. The leader will doubtless be dealt
with according to law.
New York May o..
The New York Herald's New Orleans
despatch says that three thousand applica-
tions have been received for letters of
marquc, many from foreign States.
Virginia talks .penly of repudiating her
bonds and all Northern debts. My infor-
mant has with him some of the new shin
plas.ers, which now take the place of 9TH
er c~urrency,-It is not pretended they have
any real valuc-being got up with special
reference to present exigencies.
Arrangements on a scale hitherto I'M
p~recedented are being made. The rebels
will soon quail before the advancing col
umn Of the grand army of frcemen, march
ing to battle and to victory. News of a
most exciting character may now be looked
for daily.
Rebel forces in large numbers are being
concentrated at Alexandria with heavy
ordnance, it would seem with the intention
Of fortifying themselves. It is part Of a
systematic approach to this city.
The Times correspondence says: Nine
teen regiments in addition to those preyi-
Ously ordered have been called for, to come
here Immediately, and are on their way to