Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-06-20

during tne Trying events oi Tile uay, you nau
consistently and manfully insisted upon: the
right of the Government to pass troops
through Maryland to the Capital. This sem
timent you reiterated on the next day, on
board the steamer Pioneer. as | accompanied
you TO Annapolis
You can use this statement as you think
best. | could make it more full if you wish
it. could alludc to the liability of every
one in Baltimore, on the 9th, confused by
the excitement, to be mistaken. Indeed,
| remember an instance of this. General
Egerton was ordered BY yon 10 drire back the
mob who were pressing upon the Pennsylva-
ria troops. lie drooe back the troops. |
heard you give tho order to Egerton, and
beard him report to you. You disapproved
OF his act, and he pleaded Misrepresentation
of your order.
Iremain, sir, respectfully, yours, &C.,
Il. S. MERCER,
Col. Third Regiment, NJ. c.
bad not retired to my bed wien the scut-
Ting of the ferry boat was proposed to me.
1t was not proposed by men in whom l had
no confidence. Highly respectable gentlemen
urged it rs the easiest and most lawful means
Of effectng the desired object. Yet | unhes-
itatingy refused my consent to the step
But the people Of Maryland are asked to be-
lieve that, after this, in the still watches of
the night, when requested by Enoch l.. Lowe
and George 7. Kane to consent to the de-
struction of the bridges, gave an "unequiv-
ocal, and decided, and distinct reply in the
affirmative" | leave my vindicaton from
such an absurd charge to the good sense Of
A., ,,oa,-lo :, .h, full cop n1nnrn IN at i,cfico
will be done me.
1t will readily occur to the reader that the
time when the bridges were destroyed is
material point of this subject. The Mayor
and his witnesses concur in their statement
of the hour when they went to my bed-cham-
Der to solicit my consent to the destruction Of
the bridges. They say it was IL o'clock at
night The bridges destroyed on the North
crn Central Railroad were at Ashland and
Monkton, 1G and 10 miles from Baltimore
The parties who destroyed them left Bati-
more in omnibusses. The bridges were fired
a little after one o'clock 1t being impossi-
bic for the men to have left Baltimore after
it was alledgcd my consent was given, they
must have started before my consent was
asked. Thus showing that the destruction Of
the bridges was determined upon, and would
have been consummated, no matter what
might have been my opinion in premises
As evidence Of this, offer the following let
ter from a highly respectable citizen, who has
been kind enough to ascertain the particulars
for me:
TowSoNTowN, May 90, 1861.
His Ercc1lcncy, Governor Hicks:
Mn Dear Sir Yours of this date was
handed me by our mutual friend, Mr.. Bry-
son, and | at once started to Cockeysvillc in
company with Mr. Bryson and our friend
Edward Rider, Jr., and after getting such
facts connected with the burning OF the
hringcs as we could obtain, hasten to ans
wcr your inquiries.
On the night of the 10Th ull., | left Balti-
more at precisely ten minutes past 10 o'clock
and in about ten minutes more reached point
about one hundred yards nearer the cemetery
entrance. at which place | saw an omnibus
with four horses, heads turned northward or
up the road and about one hundred yards
nearer the city had passed previously two
groups of men, about fifteen each and when
we passed the omnibus remarked to a friend
who was with me, There is some devilment
connected with that omnibus" Well, after
| was home in bed, at about quarter past / |
O'Clock. the same omnibus, full Of men, passed
here, and lady informed me that she saw
il mass her house at precisely twelve o'clock
Oh miles from the city. The Waterman at
the brilce, whom saw to-day. states posi-
lively that when they arrived at the bridge
and pcnned him in his shanty, it was about
t,n minutes past one O'Clock and that after
emitting the telegraph wires, which took but
= few minutes, they fired the bridges at about
t,reuty of twenty live minutes after one o.
r,nck
As to who the party were, | cannot saw
bu. gentleman at Cockeysyille said thai n
man named Philip Fendal, II think of the
firm nf Dnvoll Eeiohler Il Go ! was one nj
thr marty lint am not prepared TO saw So
positively. lie is cousin to the wife Of Jno.
Merryman now under arrest.
ANYTHING further that | can do for Won. I
will DC with Great pleasure. Please excuse
Ills hurried ,ccunpt of the affair os AIR Brv-
snn is waitirq Your obed;ept servant
.IouS H. LoyorEcKEn
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III. Llccycucy. Thomas H. Hicks. Gorernor
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