The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-07-04
Maryland and Massachusetts,.


Our Republican morning contemporary
terms the bountiful donation of Maryland
to the families OF the soldiers killed by n
mob in the streets of Baltimore. 1.-THE
poorest, meanest kind Of justice" and
proceeds to extol Massachusetts philan-
thropy as quality infinitely superior to
that Of Maryland. Unfortunately, our
Republican fricndShave forgotten that the
modern history furnishes test of the dis
position of that State to do justice to the
victims Of mobs. Not many years ago n
mob-a purely Massachusetts mob, in
spired solely by fanatical religious preju-
dces- assaulted the Catholic convent and
church in Charlestown, in that State, near
Boston, and applied the torch to the
whoe property, leaving it, together with
many dwellings, of quiet citizens, a heap
of smoking ruins, and turning the help
less inmates humeless into the street. -
There never was more nnprOvOke ed and
merciless outrage committed upon more
worthy and defenceless women.
What did this noble, chivalrous, benev-
Oltnt and philanthropic State of Massa-
chuSetts do about it? Appeal after appeal
went up to her ostentatiously benevolent
Legislature for redress vain! To this
day no reparatiop has been made for the
loss Of property on that occasion, much
less for the suffering and indignity visited
upon large number of her innocent and
benevolent women. That is the differ
ence between Maryland and Massachu
sets. The one opens her treasury libe-
rally to Massachusetts, wives whose huS-
baDds suffered while tlourishing their
foreign bayonetS in the faces of the people
of Baltimore. The other refuses redress
to her own women when their sacred re-
treats are torn down over their heads de-
libcrately and without 4 semblance of u
prOvocation.
Northern people have about long enough
toadied to Massachusetts, and crawled on
their knees at her back. She was the
first State which threatened disuhion, and
she has threatened it repeatedly since.
She was the first to organize diSunion So
cieties and sectional parties and conven-
tions. Her capital was the first city in
modern times where it was necessary to
call upon armed men to execute the Fed
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which burned witches in Salem and hung
Quakers on Boston Common which ap.
propriated millions to inaugurate local
strife in Kansas which excludes foreign
born voters from the polls for seven years,
and denies the right of suffrage to its own
poor whites, whose labor the State owns
and sells at its pleasure.
She might with profit to herself go tc
Maryland to learn the true principles ot
religious freedom, of political liberty and
Of unostentatious charity. For in all these
respects, Maryland is model State, and
infinitely the superior of Massachusetts
WARS IN A NAME 2-The orderly ser.
geant was calling the roll.
"Jehosaphat Jenkins"
Here" promptly responded Jehosa
phat.
"George Washington Squibb."
Here" in firm voice replied the he
roic Squibb.
Ebenezer Mead"
No answer.
"Ebenezer Mead, what do you mean by
standing there, staring me in the face, ,anc
not answering when your name is called?'
said the sergeant, impatiently.
"You didn't call my name, gruttiy an
swered the private.
"Tsn't youf name Ebenezer Mead ?"
mary time"
"What is it. then ?"
"Eben Mead"
whats the difference ?"
"a heap"
al can't sea any,"
"Now, sergeant, your name is Petel
Wright, isn't it ~
"Yes."
"Well, would you answer to the namt
of Peternezer Wright?"
"Of course not"
A laugh from the company, and, afteI
rol.call, a mutual smile between EbeI
and Peter-at the latter's expense-set
tied the matter in manner satisfactory
to all concerned.
A VOLUNTEER who procured some whis
ky of an army sutler, in which to pre-
serve some geological specimens, says
"A week in the whisky bottle has de
prived three of my best Lizards of thei
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