Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1861-09-20

= FRIDAY MORNING, sept. 90, 1861.
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Marylaad- TX The bonds TiSH'-
enin..
II is said that even the worm, when trooaeh
upon, will turn III resistance. Lincoln seems
determined to test the question whether y y
the people Of Maryland possess THIS 'nsti''' W.
even the lowest ufthe animal creat'o"' Ahe CT
erraph to-day tells US that mon CHOSEN ny. Tue
n,,,la - renresont them in the Legislature
80 :, Concress, have been sent to the Bastile
vi,bout ! crime except OF opinion! VINO snail
6is,b.r,e their representative iunctions2 The
government Of Maryland is BY this act abased
il the dust even in its forms.
We are informed, too, that families are n.y.
inr from their homes to escape the pursuit OF
.ho rufian soldiers. Bat even the poor prlvl-
lice of exile is denied them, and providing hire
lioes watch the river, that the fugitives may
not purchase liberty by abandoning their
bones and property and beginning life anew
among strangers!
Paol down-trodden Maryland-what a fate
What G despotism here insults the 18Th cen
tary and the shores Of Amsrica!
Henceforth let no man insult the "retched'
ness Of her terrible condition by calling Mary
lind q Stats--'ia free, sovereign and indepen-
an; State" such as Carroll, OF Carrollton,
fondls imagined she was to be A State? She
is not treated with the decency Of 4 conquered
province Hicks, VINO calls himself Governor,
sinners indeed and fawps about those who
bsre allowed him to retain his title but what
avails the title to this miserable man, when
there is but a step between him and the Bastlle,
and only the ned of Dix is required to send
hin there
Poor Maryland! What she is suffering is
the utmost extremity of degradation, and re-
ouires the utmos extremity Of even servile
endurance. If she fails now TO rise in frantic
resistance, then indeed, is the life crushed out
finer! All manliness is forever gone from
her people, and is replaced by such ahject sub
mission, as would move to shame the subjects
even OF the Sultan. Oh, it is o terrible thing
when a once brave people thus have the soul
roddeu out of theml When they lie, trem'
bling and degraded, under the foot Of vile des.
po.isn which not even the most servIle sub.
mission can propiiiate From il fate so inglori-
Gus, may Heaven in mercy to the living and
In honor 10 lhose brave spirits that made
famous the brave old Maryland of 1176-yet
rescue our late sister beyond tho Potomac.
Let hcr sons arouse! By all the deeds Of
beroism which history records FOR the einula-
tion Of nen--by the patriotic devotion which
has cuhohied CHER nalrrs and other days-let
her ~ciiiZu:s caiei, the generous flame, and show
the wtrld that The men of Maryland prefer a
thousand deaths TO degradation, and will not
~servilely boE Inc neck to vulgar tyrants, and
neckly kiss the rod that impudcntly slnitcs
them! Let :hcm show the world, that though
brute numbers may overpower them, there IS
no human power which can break their spirit
AID bind their souls, aud reconcile them to a
Ifs Ct isuom!ny!
Neu and brethren Of the S3uthern Conleder-
acy, the agony end tie terrible calamity, Of our
6EStCE Ca iOt iS't'. " hHC uSlCi'NiiiS OuieSi'Sot
let us SO 4.ier or movements rs to extend q
h3ir:yg hand aud Il covering shield to Mary
Mii: Help lie: 10 r,se; and even If the life be
trodden almost out Of her, for the sake Of what
she has been, appeal to her people by your
syupathies, your cxhortations, aud your aid,
to rise nov OF she will be forever fallen.
And Kentucky? In Maryland, she sees what
Is coming upon her! hentacky--oh how her
inslor:ous course has sickened tn. souls Of
those who had foudly thought her a gallant
and y generous State Beginning with a cold
aud selfish .'aeatrality," when her sister
States of kindred interest were Gghting her
battles in theirs, she has now gone under
the hoof Of our foes aud hers, and abjectly
abide5 their biadings She has proved false
to blood and to interest, and by the coward
souls and rreacherous ~counsels of the false and
craven men whom she has trusted, she has
been betrayed under the yoke Of a dcspotism Of
which Maryland is the illustration. Soon Ken
lucky, 100, will begin to people the Bastile.-
Breckenridge and Burnett, and all her choice
spirits will be there, while Lincoln and such
as he, shall lord it over the State. Better that
she earth should swallow her. Rettor that 'the
dark and bloody ground" Of other days should
again DO baptised in blood, rather than suffer
this fate, infinitely more terrible than death
to men and women with souls in their bosoms
Our army Mt Camp Doexyood.