Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-03
RUSSELL,S OPINION DE THE
rzARKLANREEES. 80
MARYIANp AND rHE WAR.


ted. 1t isdated September 10Th. The wri-
ter commences with review of the Rs.lti-
more riot, the arrest of the Police Commits
sioners and the troubles with the Legisla
ture. He thinks that the difficulties in
these eases arose, in part, from the opinion
of the Marylanders, who believed the riot of
April 18th should have been treated as an
ordinary riot, that the mass of the people
of Maryland should have been regarded as
loyal, and that the forms of law should have
been more closely complied with by the Gov
eminent officials. The latter, however, be-
ieved they had to deal with traitors, and
acted accordingly. The witer sums up his
own opinion in the following words:
If, in the days of the Irish Parliament, at
the time of the Declaration of DuHgaunon,
the English Government had, by sudden
coup, seized upon Dublin, arrested Lord
Charlemont and his friends, and seized up
on all who were supposed to be in favor of
the Volunteers and their principles, inclu-
ding the officers of the two Houses of Par
lament, they would have furnished some
type of the treatment of Marylahd, always
surprising there ever have been such things
as State rights. England, however, never
could have taken such steps, and in those
evil days when hd6eas corpus has been sus-
pended, the arrests of State prisoners have
always been made upon proper warrants,
duly exhibited to the accused. 81 49,.
ARIsTooRAoY AND SECESSION. i,
The letter thus continues: t.,a
1t is impossible, think, to deny that the
L, To-, 4 II, IL er,l off
respectable classes of Msryland are in fa-
vor of Secession principles, and that they
hate the New England States as cordially
as the Southerners detest the s.Yankees. -
| 1t is not that they are Shareholders so much
as that they maintain slaveholding is guar
anteed by the Constitution, and that those
who attack it are not gentlemen. Your Ma
| rylander is q very high aristocrat. If his
ancestors did not come over with Lord Bal :.
timore to escape religious persecution, they
were actuattd by similar motives. He is
generally Catholic and Anti Puritan, as his
father was two centuries ago. In no part
of the Union, has slave labor been so prof
| itless-nowhere will so many men he found
ready to condemn Slavery on principle,
though it may be legally right. They say,
| '.We keep our slaves because we cannot
get rid OF; them at once. - Leave us
alone, and the thing will die out of ITSELF"
And then they are fond of enlarging on the
vulgarity of Black Republicans and Adolf
ists and on the curses of universal suffrage.
To the commercial classes the prosperity of
/ New York, attained, as they aver, by un-
| fair uses of political power, Is also grew
ance. The anomalies arise out of an aris-
tocratic sentiment founded on pride of birth
and extent of possessions, fost cred by Slave
ny and aggravated by the opposition of
~ tha7r hon and
! an ignorant impotence of a result of repub-
lican institutions. which however unex-
| pected, was perfectly legitimate. A man
| who holds his lands by virtue of charter
signed by Lord Baltimore himself, is as
great an aristocrat in feeling, and resents
as keeuly the rule of the many, as though
| he were owner of tates recorded in Domes
day, and descended from Dives,
The great merchants are affected by the
atmosphere in which they live, and Balti-
| more has somewhat the pretensions of an
| old cathedral town in England struggling
against manufactures and Chartism. Some
| considerable towns have sprung up in the
State recently, which are the rallying points
for the Union men, and which are thorns in
the side of the country gentlemen, but, gem
orally speaking, the majority of the people
in most of the counties are opposed 10 the
Government, and there are few landed pro-
prietors who are not Southern Rights men.
Many families have representatives in the
Confederate States, and sll the efforts of the
Federals have not suficed to prevent intelli-
gence and aid being sent across the Poto
mac into Virginia. and could not Illustrate
the attempts of large bodies of armed gen.
tlemen and others, on horse and on foot. to
join their friends. 1t was only the other
day l was speaking to gentleman who
mentioned that he had large number of
relatives in the Southern army, as if it were
matter of common notoriety. Sand how
did they get there?" Why. they belonged
to a body of cavalry which we have had for
many years, composed of the young gentle
men of the county, to keep down negro in
surrection. They heard one night that the
negroes were going to rise. and appearances
justified the rumor. So they assembled and
sent in word to the General at Baltimore
that they had met, and that they would
probably require some aid. He ordered
them at once to dlsband or to wait till he
sent out an officer to make each of them take
the oath of allegiance. Deeply offended by
this conduct, nearly all of them rode off,
crossed the river that night, and joined the
enemy. - .-a
'tt FEMALE sECEssIONIsTs. 80
/ The women have embraced Beaurepard-
ism with the greatest devotion, and their
beauty and grace render them powerful
proselytizers. 1t may be true that the
State has been nearly disarmed by frequent
and rigid searches, but if there are not
bows, and flags, and rosettes of the orthodox
colors forthcoming in profusion, whenever
the Confederates make their appearance, I
am much deceived in the ingenuity and zeal
of jhe fair Marylsnders. On my first visit
to Baltimore there was report that the
South Carolinians had opened fire upon
Sumter, and the feeling which displayed it,
self was certainly not one of regret. On
my second visit, on my way from Fortress
Monroe, Baltimore had the air of Warsaw.
Pickets at the street corners, patrols in the
thoroughfares, camps on the hills, soldiers
cooking in the public places, the people
sullen and angry. The report had been
presented to the Legislature respecting the
suppression of the police, and the inhabi-
tants were satisfied they had been very bad
ly used But from the first there were
strong hopes that tthe tyranny would be
overpast" when the Confederates invaded
Maryland; and it must have been bitter
disappointment, particularly after the battle
of Manassas, to find there were no traces of
their deliverers' footsteps, and their voices
were as distant as ever. 8, z..,If
Maryland SECURELY GUARDED. -
Gen. SCOTS foresight, in fact, was never
hetter ex hibited than in the measures he