The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-05-31
MARYLAND

The almost unparalleled courage with
which orr noble First Maryland stood their
ground until the Regiment was nearly ami.
hilated, after every defeat taking new posi-,
tons, reforming their shattered ranks,
hopelessly throwing themselves before the
rebel hordes, fighting on and on to the very
death, thrills our hearts with pride. In
spite of foul traitors who would sully her
old renown, in spite of faint hearts who
counseled neutrality and weak hands that
would not lead the people, in spite of shiv-
ering mandy PANTY Unionism, almost as
detestable and disgraceful as avowed
treason, Maryland stands to-day covered
with patriotic glory, and heaps with
shame the men who would have kept
her back. But all in the midst of our
pride how the heart aches for our brave
KEyLY and his gallant band. Gone, all
gone! We read in the daily papers, not
as in other battles and of other regiments.
"loss, number Of killed and wounded"
but the heading, and the only proper one
too, which meets our eyes is, "the dcstruc-
ton of the First Maryland Regiment. -
That tells the tale, it was destroyed. Rest
in peace, brave sons of Maryland! Our
children and our childrens children shall
have their hearts and hands nerved for the
performance Of noble deeds by the story Of
your fall.
And will it be credited that while parents
mourn for children, wives for husbands,
and iSfors FIR brot hors tbue brptoll,, hnt,I-
cred, there were men in our midst, with
hearts of such hellish malgnity as to openly
manifest their JOY over these events and
that too, in the very faces often of weeping
relatives and friends And when these
things were done among us, aye under the
very nose of the Major General Command
ing the Department of Maryland, and clici.
ted from him only a fresh display of the
smirks and smiles with which traitors have
even been greeted since his advent, is it
any wonder that the honest Indignation of
the loyal masses breaks through all bounds,
that toil-worn fists come into most unplca
SAINT proximity with arlstocratic mustachios,
and these fiendsh wretchcs escaped blythe
very skin of their teeth, the mcritcd death of
hanging by the amp.post.
We counsel no violence. we sanction no
mobs. but we only repeat the universal SEN
timent of indignation heard everywhere
among the loyal people in this community.
when we say, that the threats of Gen. Dix
10 call out the military to shoot down the
men who in this ebullition of righteous
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their homes, is such an act Of rashncss on
his part, as ought to influence the President
at once to supersede him. and to place some
person in command of this Department who
will deal with treason in Maryland and
Delaware as the loyal men of those States
demand it shall be dealt with. Treason is
as blatant in all parts of these two States
now, and has been since Gen. Dix was sent
to Baltimore, as it was in April, 1861
Cheers for jeff Davis are shouted in the
ears, and confederate flags are Haunted in
the eyes of the Maj or General himself
Sccessionists extol openly his suayity and
magnanimity, and under his protection add
fresh insult, and heap fresh cpthcts upon
their Union ncighbors Over and over again
he has been warned, by the press and people,
that the temper of Union men would not
brook such treatment from the secessionsts,
but he has chosen to leave these warnings
unheeded and the result was seen in Bati.
more, on Sunday and Monday last. Had
Gen. Dix treated treason in Baltimore as
did llallcck in St. Louis, johnson in Nash
vile, Butler in New Orleans, and Wool in
Norfolk, that riot would never have occur
red. We have no disposition to impcach
either the loyalty or military ability of Gen.
Dix; we only say that his administration
of affairs in this Department has been most
unfortunate. and ought to end instanter
The recent arrest of Judge Carmichael is
another instance of the unwisc lenency, not
only of the military commanders, but of the
local civil authorities The pamphlet pub
lshed by this blatant traitor in the early
; part of last year, his openly expressed sym
, pathy with the riot Of the 10Th of April, his
| subsequent charge to the grand jury when
the houses of prominent sccessonists of his
county were searched for arms, were each
i sufficient to warrant his incarceration in
Fort Warren or what was more our own
business his removal from the judiciary OF
the State by the address of the last Lcgisla-
ture. Why steps were not taken by the
Legislature to remove him, is still mystery
When will men understand that this is no
mere dramatic performance, but terrible
reality? That traitors, not only in South
Carolina, or Virginia, but here in our midst,
are striving, this very day and hour, to
crush us beneath despotism such as Russia
never dreamed of That power once in their
hands, it would be used, as the villain Enoch
Louis Lowe boosted in Virginia, for the
determination of every loyal man,
They are not our friends, or neighbors, or
any thing else, but our bitter, unrelenting
enemies, whose vengeance seeks our lives,
and whose cupdity seeks our houses and
land We, on the contrary, seek nothing
, for vengeance but we demand that justice
shall be meted out to them, and that, too,
without any stint. They are entitled to no
consideration, and sympathy for them will
be repaid by the adder's sting, whenever
opportunity offers.
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