Shreveport daily news., 1861-06-01
Maryland.

preston. She has been threatened,
insulted, ridiculed, subjugated. The
feeble voice she lifted in protest
and defence has been silenced. Van
dal hordes have marched through
her chief city, and taken possession
Of her Capital. Her soil is desecra-
ted by the soldiers of a tyrant and
usurper. A sad fate! A terrible
woe
Has it come to this2 Has the
man who fills the seat Of power, where
Washington once sat, and after which
Calhoun aspired the hardihood and
wickedness, thus to demolish the
sovereignty Of commonwealth, thus
to trample upon the Constitution he
solemnly swore to administer?
The North looks Oh and commends
the infamous course Of the despot.-
But the North is in a frenzy of wrath.
The North is alarmed at the success
and prospects Of the movement she
dirided. The North is mad at the
immense loss she has sustained by
the destruction of her gainful trade.
The North is all absorbed in the end
to be attained by The subjugation of
Mary land, and she will approve any
means that will secure that desirable
object. But will the storm of fury
last for everl VIII there not come
a time when the North will calmly
consider! They have called into
existence a power which disclaims
responsibility, and scouts at the wise
restrictions of law. The obstacles
they found in the path that leads,
as they foolishly imagine, to the ac-
colnplishment Of their base purposes,
have been pushed ont of their
way by main force. Under the in
huence Of mortified pride, demonisc
anger, envy, hatred, and every evil
passion, they have overleaped the
bon Is set by patriotism and wisdom,
closed their ears to reason, and to the
warnings Of history, and rushed
wildly on. What if the demon poe-
cr turn against those who have given
it life and sent it forth to do their
horrid work
Their President has openly infrac-
ted the Constitution by a series of
acts which he does not pretend to
Justify or defend. He has declared
war. he has raised an army, he has
blockaded ports, he has rlthlessly
destroyed property worth millions of
dollars. And yet SO intent is the
ho~linS horde upon revenge and
plunder, that they are ,jubilant over
these high handed acts, and shout on
the perjured despot.
1t is folly to demonstrate with
nadmcn. The time for argument
and appeal is passed. We meet force
with force. Soldiers, not staestmcn.
must decide the question now be-
fore the two sections. The slaves
Of the tyrant have Drawn shrir
swords and and contcn5 are We to
cross blades with them on the 4 lapiv
field. But they will not rnjnice al
ways in the silencing and 81 iuga-
ton Of a State. This act bodies
evil to them.
They have made terrible sacri
tice. TLev have wantoniy in. the
blindness oftheir fury SUIT ldered the
dearest right Of treemen. Ihev have
consented to and applauded fragrant
usurpa~ions. What are their States
more than provinces.' Ii hey
should provoke the wrath OF the cor
rupt man whose rude they a." proud
to acknowledge, viii Ge not punish
them! And suppose their conduct
should call for such an exhibition of
his power as Maryland has been
forced to submit to, must they not
receive the rod without complaint
and murmura In their madness and
folly instigated by malice and lust,
they have Got contemplated the ma
t;ire OF She cause to which they have
given their gold and their lives.