New-York daily tribune., 1861-06-08
A REPLY PROM BALTIMORE.

SIN: Your attention is respectfully invited 10 the
subioned article from THL TRIBUNE Of tie Sd instant:
without meaning 70 be inperineht We wosld se to
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In need Of than bou,and before
Dsyare day hear peou' wAngs that they
,d unnamed and every untitled TO their
face bu, why they Iusin unosAn.d unarmsd impo
IsI.,i, number. . th,r brethren St Louis, why /, that
wh- the ste Lmo, unadsd With State 'nd city oc
the hands Of their deadly stuck blows which
eeched the Whole country and saved their State from Secs
ov.nept to protect ,hsd them though they We're ali
wom.n Why do they no. organic and arm without further
dey What sofl Of election DO they eITe 70 have they
aha, only under the protection Of Federal
there be bot enough sTonS them to form regiment
| let that regiment be Organized at once
| We arc unwilling 10 suppose that gentlemen editing
SO important paper would designedIy misrepresent
the condition of this city, would unjust imputa
tons on the Union men Of Baltimore resolutely bent
on maintaining the Government Of the United States
Without meaning to be impetnent the article is i'm
pertinent; and what is more unfortunate il is based
| upon a Misunderstanding of the affairs of which it
treats to be explained only by the circumstance that
you choose TO con,inue Baltimore correspondent who
ignorant but malicious, and who really your
paper us the vehicle Of his private griefs.
Journalists 70 well.nformed as yourselves ought to
know that there is now, and when the article was
written, a full Maryland regiment, recruited n this
city, OF DnNtu
States stationed, with the Massachusetts regiments,
at the Washington junction at the Relay House. Had
your correspondent chosen to statefts he would have
informed you that another regiment Is now being
ganized in this city, and that seventy-four CONF anes
in this State have offered to under Gen. Cooper
appointed TO command the forces raised in Maryland.
Had the Government avaed itself of the legal right
TO send orders Immediately to the officers of the militia,
as adyised, and who had promised TO respond to the
CALL the full contingent of Maryland would have been
filled at once notwithstanding delay, hesitation, or
conditions required the part of the State authorities
Nobody here needs, or asks assistance from the
Government TO arrest and put down every effort ut
Secession, except very few, who, like your CORE
spondent, do nothing, since their return, either for
others or themselves.
All that Union men here have ever asked or wanted,
Of the Government, 10 arms; Of which more than
enough are now idle in the arsenas and forts within
this State.
But, without arms-without any assistance from the
Government, in the face Of thousands Of men armed
by the authorities here known to be hostile TO the
Government; in the face Of mob "organzed to pre-.
serve ORDER" and with nearly every officer civil and
military in this city opposed the Government par
alyzedby fearthe Union in Maryland by tie unity
and power arrested the Secession Legis-
ature in their revolutionary plans, prevented them
from calling q Convention, compelled them to drop
their tyrannca bill for the inauguration Of military
despotsm, and, at the first special election, gave
earnest of their strength by driving the Secession can
didae to Decline and casting fouhs of the vote for
the Union man.
They bave organized in this city, elsewhere in the
State on the basis Of unconditional maintenance of
this Union, and, by votes nearly unanimous refused
to proceed TO nomination until the candidates
named had pledged Themselves to such support, and
promised to vote men and money to uphold it.
All this done not under the protection Of Federal
bayonets, but while Union were without single
weapon and Secessions,s armed, and before the
Government could spare soldier from Washington;
and when it had barely enough to keep open the
municaon which conspirators here forced it to open
for time, through Annapolis. And when Gen. But
Ter moved into Baltimore he had nothing to do but TO
take away from men who were already beaten at
home.