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Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.

vThere is bill before Congress, and h
seiA pass, for calling out $50, 900 negroes, arm
ing and equipping them, and paying them to
march into the South, to do what! Humanity
shudders at the reply. They are to be march
ed into the South to kill and murder whites,
to desolate the homes and habitations of
men and women, to turn white children away
from the homes of their fathers, and send
them out as wanderers and beggars.
These $50, 900 armed negroes, after they
have done all these things, are to set free mil
lions of their own color to swarm over the
land and fill jails, aims houses and penitenti-
aries to overAowing, to undermine white labor
and reduce the poor whites by competition to
their own level.
But then after these 250, 900 armed negroes
armed, fed, clothed, and paid by an already
overtaxed people, shall have destroyed the
lives of white men, ruined their homes, stolen
their property, driven out their wives and
daughters, and sent thousands of white chill
dren homeless and houseless upon the world
after all this we are to have the "Union as il
was. 1t may be so but we can't see it in that
light. The Lord help us, We are ''disloyar
enough to doubt
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
"we're coming, Father Abraham, >,

nN.T The bill to arm and equip two hun
dred regiments of negroes to serve in the Army
for term offive years, has passed one branch
of Congress and we expect soon to see it pass
the other, and receive the signature of the
President.
The genuine Abolitionists and their numer-
Gus sympathisers in this place may soon have
their sight gladdened by the now regiments
marching through our streets. Then with
truth may they sing. "We're coming, Faith
er Abraham, two hundred thousand strong"
We notice that on this pet measure of the
Hon, Francis Thomas, was "disloyal" to de-
gree sufficient to cause him to vote against it.
His course may cause him to loose caste with
the leaders here, but with right thinking peo.
pie he will have his reward.
We are not advised whether the new recruits
are intended to fill up old regiments, and thus
60 in "permiskus," or be organized separately
Gen. Cameron, has we believe already bespoke
Brigade which he intends to lead into the
heart of the enemys country. As Simon is
always "wide awake" where an honest penny
is to be turned, we presume he will go into the
new business of trading-"a niger for O
sheep"
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
For the sake Of the Union.

RS- When the Aboltionists first broke the
public faith of the nation and defed its funda-
mental law-the Constitution-by their per-
sonal liberty bills, these gross and confessed
outrages were paliated and excused, for the
sake of the Union. For the sake Of the Union
the nation tolerated acts which were conceded
to be unjust, illegal, and outrages upon the
fundamental and most sacred law of the land.
This trifing with crime has ended in civil
war. Had the people then resisted the wick
edness of Abolitionists, had the nation then
shown that we chad Government" we would
not now be paying in tears and blood for Alb
clifton misrule-nor would it have cost us
millions of money and the lives and blood of
Armies to have found out whether we have a
Government.
And yet we are told we ought never write a
line or word against such party-a party
now in power and daily repeating the story of
violations of the onstitution--violations of
provisions so plain-so easily understood, that
two minds have never yet differed about them
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
Abolition Idea of Crime.

ReSr The greatest crime that can now be
committed, is to doubt the wisdom and SINGER
# % tAs Rart P ts WhSeSsE aS
policy of the Administration, ought to be ar
rested and imprisoned from his family
and business, and ruined. This is the great
crime of the day.
Whoever has too much, or too little sense,
to agree that all that is done by Lincoln and
his party, is right, wise, and proper, has COM
mitted crime for which imprisonment,
chains, forts and Bastiles are the proper pun
ishment.
1t is small offence that you have publicly
instigated mobs to tear down and sack houses
of no consequence, that you have led rioters
to the peaceful firesides of un-offending fami-
lies, and there in one terrible hour demolished
the savings and earnings of years. All these
things are rght-you are not punished, but
recommended to a commission in the Army, or
upheld as reliable Union man--d good citi-
izen fit to be made Mayor of the town OF
commissioner of the county.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
HAa ERsrowH,
Feb. @.
The Government-The Government.

n0Our contemporaries grow alarmed
They know that the Administration is daily
growing unpopular, and they know that the
people cherished their Government Hence
to keep up the fading and crumbling fortunes
of the Administration they cry out ''the Gov
ernment~ "The Governmentr' They try 10
confound the Administration with the Consti-
tuition and laws of the country-they seek to
hide the Administrations acts from the peo-
pie by the old trick of attempting to make the
people believe that Government and the Ad-
ministration, are one and the same thing.
They denounce as "traitors" and "rebels'
all who do not sustain and uphold the acts Of
tho party in power, and think it great
wrong--a mistaken leniency-that the party
does not arrest all people who have the sense
and boldness, and the patriotism to differ witt
the Administration.
:: There are not forts and prisons enough il
the whole world to hold all such as our con
temporaries want arrested and imprisoned, fo
the heinous crime of not supporting and up
holding all that the President does.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
Fitz John Porter.

E6r Many of our contemporaries are trying
to make great man out of Fitz John Porter.
The thing is impossible. We doubt not, but
that he was disgrace to his government, and
a dishonor to his usiform, and that the Admin
istration has acted for the honor of the Ma
tional service in stripping him of his command,
and decreeing him un worthy for ever hereaf-
ter to hold any Office, civil or military, in this
country.
His just fate will be no subject of regret to
the people of this county, whose homes he has
caused to be invaded-whose midnight slum-
bers he has broken up, and whose liberties he
has trampled under foot, by his august, arbi-
trary and unlawful arrests,
He disgraced the power he enjoyed by acts
of petty, yet insupportable tyranny, which
makes his present despised, dishonored, and
scorned situation, a fit and just retribution for
his intolerance and injustice. Even handed
justice has reached him; a just retribution has
meted out to him punishment and disgrace
far deeper even than anything his malignity
and arrogance sought to infict upon many Of
our people.
He goes into retirement dlshonorod and dis.
graced as he should be, but he cannot carry
with him there the consciousness of having
discharged his duty in any particular If h,
reflects at all upon his inglorious and disgrace
full military career the ugiest picture that shall
add bitterness to his disgrace will be the intol
erable, arrogant and scornful manner in which
he oppressed and refused to listen to the pray
ers for mercy, Of those people, whom withou
law, and without justice, he caused to be ar
rested here and spirited away from friends anc
families. Let the public cauldron boil on.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
How Much More!

THow much more indulgence will It's
friends ask at the hands of the people for the
Abolition partyi
1t was excused when it stirred up enmity
between the north and the South. 1t was ex.
cused when it passed its personal liberty bills
in open contempt of the Constitution. II
was excused when it justified and encouraged
resistance to the enforcement Of the laws Of
the Union in Ohio and in Boston; and it now
asks to be excused for its wholesale defiance
and unblushing violations of Che Constitu.
tion, because the whole country is involved
in war brought about mainly by its own
wickedness.
The people have pampered and indulged
the followers of Wendell Philips and the rea-
ders of Greely's Tribune, until their bigotry
and fanaticism has plunged the nation in civil
war, and we are still asked to indulge, ex~
cuse, and say nothing aginst such a party,
because it has Treasury pap to feed hungry
and greedy office heldors.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
Congress and the President.

BA-We were told and are still told by GER
tain wise and learned Constitutional Lawyers,
here in our "loyal' town and County, that the
President, in time of war, had righ to arrest
whomsoever he pleased. and for whatsoever he
pleased.
What can these profound and enlightened
Constitutional Lawyers think of themselves.
now that the Senate and U: S. House Of rop.
resentative differ with them. The Senate
and House Of Representatives in Congress
assembledhave passed an Act indemnifying tKS
President against all Illegal arrests Kthe
Presidents was exercising his lasYfM powers
in ordering these arrests why did Congress
pass this pdrdomiag aete Will the constitu-
onal lawyers answer? Thus, day by day,
the ignorance and indefens;bls positions Of
our Loyal Constitutional expounders be-
comes manifest.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
'sThe Niger" and the White Man.

R1-The injustice and want of consistency
of the Abolition party and its sympathisers
surpasses all belief. That party is steadily
denying to the white man his Constitutional
rights, in depriving him of the rights of trial
at law, and in arresting and imprisoning for
months and months together without even in
forming him why he is so arrested and i'm
prisoned.
They calmly contemplate hundreds of their
fellow white citizens, pining in loathsomt
prisons, far from family and friends. But they
maintain "Personal LIBERTY bills in favor Of
the Negro, in plain defiance of the Constit,,-
ton. They professed great devotion to the
personal rights Of men then, and they put in
peril the Union itself rather than surrender
their sentiments respecting the personal lib
erty" of man. But now they trample under
foot the personal liberties of the ,chites, when
but few years ago they violated the Consii-
tuition itself in their pretended love for free
dom
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
Money for COntrabands-NOne for the
People.

HfS-A An amendment to the Army Appro-
priation Bill was adopted by Congress, few
days since, by which S5O,00O was appropria-
ted for the purchase of medicines for the Con-
trabands. The people of this County have
c..ef-"1 -n-oralu FROM tho tnno t,rasenca nf
the Army in their midst-hany losing large
ly and some few their ali. Appeal after ap-
peal has been made to the liberality and JUS
tice of the Government for some relies in the
shape of an appropriation. AS yet nothing
has been accomplished and as the session of
Congress is rapidly drawing to a close, the
chances are that nothing will be done to re-
lieve the sufferers. While no time can be
found and no money can be spared by Con-
gress for the relief of the white sufferer, the
whole time can be devoted by the Abolition
majority in that body, and abundance of mon
ey can be found for the relief of the negro
Is it not high time that white people should
begin to take care of themselves and not en-
trust their persons, their property and their
money to Abolitionists.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
[From the Richmond Dispatch, Jan. &c. I
"Won't be reconstructed"

Nothing falls more strangely on Southern
ears than the talk of reconstruction which we
hear SO much Of in the resolutions and speech
es of Northern conservatives. How to unde-
ceive men who indulge such illusions we know
not They must put themselves in our places,
undergo all that we have undergone, and feel
all that we feel, in order to understand that of
all impossible things in this world, the recon-
struction Of The old Union is the most impos-
sible.
Reconstruction Can they reconstruct the
family circles which they have broken?-can
they reconstruct the fortunes which they have
scattered?-can they reconstruct the bodies of
our dead kindred which by tens of thousands
they have destroyed? When they can do this
they can reconstruct the old Union. When
they can do this-when they can breathe the
breath of life into the paIlid faces of our sons
and brothers and restore them once more.
living and happy, to our desolate fresides-
they may dream Of bringing back that Union
whose only principle of cohesion was the mu-
tual love and confidence of its people.
If the reconstructionists want peace, they
can easily have it upon the terms on which
they have always had it-letting us alone
Weask neither more nor less We are making
no war on them We are not invading their
territory nor giving their homes to the flames.
their populations to prison and the sword, and
their women to fate worse than death. Let
us alone, and peace will return once more to
bless distracted land. But do not expect us
to degrade ourselves and. cast dishonor upon
the graves ofour kindred by ever returning to
the embrace of those whose hands are drip
ping with the tears and blood of our people.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
The Habeas Corpus and the Abo1i.
ti0nisfs.

H6F The Abolition party are in favor Of
abolishing the writ of Habeas corpus-they are
in favor of having white men arrested and
dragged from their homes and families, and
deny them hearing before the courts where
by the causes of the arrest can be enquired in
to. They thus strike down the personal
liberty" of the white man.
But what is their position respecting the
black man. Their personal liberty" bills
which furnished food for the rebellion, and
which were and are unconstitutional-Aaes
personal liberty bills are still unrepealed.-
They give the black man the benefit of the
writ of habeas corpus-thcy secure the per-
son of "the niger from arbitrary arrest, but
say not one word about the arbitrary arrest
ofwhite men.
On the contrary, after having given the
black man the benefit of the great writ Of
habsas corpus, they now takeit away from the
white man.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
Thanks to Abolitionists.

30 The "sixty days job" is not ended yet.
The Ninety days war is protracted to two
years. The little breakfast spell" has length
ened out to sickening dose, and new patent
medicines are daily being poured into the vitals
of the nation. The "Big Mob" is rioting still
and all the Proclamations against i. have
made the rioters worse.
The Starved South" lives well on starva-
tion. The "ragged rebels" fight almost as
well as the well dressed "Pet Lambs" The
"routed and demoralized" armies of the Con-
federates are yet in the field, and the tax gath
erers and Office holders, and army pets and
contractors are growing rich on the earnings
and sweat of the people here. For all. this
thanks to the Abolitionists and their suppor-
tsrs and upholders in our midst.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
Privatcer oreto Reported to h. sn.,-


Passengers by the steamer Columbia from
Havana at New York, with dates from tbA
former place 10 the 2sth ult, make the follow,
ing report:
While remaining at Havana, the passenger,
learned from the inhabitants that heavy 6r;na
had been heard at a supposed distance ofs;r:
ty miles from that place. 1t was positivej,
asserted by some who appeared to be we'll ia
formed in the matter that several of the Fed:
eral gunboats had attacked ths Ofeto, and
sunk her. The report was generally believed
in Havana, and was the all absorbing thems
of coversation. ...-...
The Columbia left Havana fof New Yori
at P NJ. on the 2sth. Just prior to hei
departure the Creole, from New York, arrived.
bringing the intelligence that she had been
hailed by the United States gunboat Cayuga
ON the day previous, and was informed by her
captain that a number ofthe national gunboata
and the Oreto had had sharp engagement,
during which the Oreto was struck by she'll
and sunk.
As but half an hour elapsed between the
arrival of tn, Creole and the sailing of thS
Columbia it was impossible for the passengers
of the latter vessel to gather the particulars
Taking into consideration, however, the con:
fedencs of the peopie at Havana in the truth
of tho report, and the subsequent confirmation
by the officers of the Cfeole, the passengers
are fully convinced that the Ofeto has beeh
destroyed.
Three days previous to the arrival of IL 4
Columbia at Havana the Oreto was chased
into that port by the United States gunboai
Cuyler. On the following day the Cuyli
disappeared, evidently for the purpose o.
drawing out the Oreto from her place of re.
fuge ...
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
Violation Of Laws and the Result.


nsA.A nation that does not respect law,
must sooner or later perish. The people who
will sanction violations of their laws, and
wink at their destruction, or be Indifferent
about their desecration, will sooner or later
have no law at all.
Therefore it il, that when the nation ac-
quiesced in the desecration of the Constitution
committed upon it by the Abolitionists. by
their personal liberty bills, it was only paving
the way for the miseries which now surround
it, and the ruin which now stares it in the
face.
A disregard for law in the North produced
equal, or greater, disregard in the South.
Had the people not forgotten the great princi-
pie, namely, to resist and beat back the first
appearance of wrong, these perilous times
would not now be upon US.
But true to their instincts and history. the
party which openly and flagrantly disregarded
the fundamental law of the country, still per-
sist in violating it further, and they call on the
people now, as then, to believe that the end
justifes the means. Then they wanted to free
negroes. 1t is great benevolent purpose,
they said, and you must excuse our violations
of the Constitution, deal lightly with our des-
ecrations of the public faith of the Union, be-
cause we are engaged in great and good
work. Well the people never needed their des-
ecrations of law and dearly are we now pay
ing for our indifference to the violations of law
and justice,
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06

The GREAT ADVANCE IN GOTTEN
article has reached a price in the New York
market which it never bore before since it has
been known as a staple. The Herald of Sat.
arday says:
Day before yesterday it suddenly jumped to
eighty-nine cents in the forenoon, and in the
afternoon sales were reported at the extraor-
dinary prics of ninety six cents per pound
A party who purchased in the forenoon, resold
in the afternoon at profit of $40 per bale.
At ninety-six cents per pound bale of cotton
Is worth $432. Before the war it sold at ten
to twelve cents per pound Or at S45 to S24
per bale. From present appearances it is
possible that it may toack 81 per pound. q,
S4So per bale. The present price Is higher
than it was before the invention of the cotton
gin, and when the negroes Of the South nick-
ed it with their fingers. Bryant Edwards.
in his history Of the West Indies, quoted cot.
ton grown in the Bahamas and other West
India Islands in 1854 at two shiflinps and
six pence sterling per pound--say about six.
ty-two and half cents-which WAS n;clsd
or cleaned with the fingers.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
Abolition is AmalgamatiOn.

The anti.slaveryites are often very fierce in
resenting the charge that their principles lead
to amalgamation of the races-to social as
we'll as political equality--when every in
telligent reader of history knows that such
has been its result in Mexico, Central Amer
lea, Jamaica and wherever else it has been
carried out. Philosophy corroborates what
facts have demonstrated. The fundamental
principles t,pen which any society rests, will
shape the feelings and acts of the masses, and
if that theory be the equality of the races no
human power can resist the Generalization
sure to follow. Hence it is, that Lewis Tap
pan, the other evening, said. in q public
speech, "We have not only now to give up
slavery, but to gipe up The prejudice against thu
kike to have . negro the Governor of New
York. He replied that he had no objection. ~
We must nor give up "our prejudice against
the colored man." as these lunatics call that
instinct of race which God has placed in all
His creatures to keep them from marrying OF
defacing the beauty and harmony of His crea.
ton. The brute animals instinctively act
out this feeling, and preserve their respective
species pure and intact. 1t is left only to
man, endowed with reason, to make himself
lower than the brute. The vile wretches
however, who advocate this Remembering
doctrine, seem to be utterly unconscious o.
their vileness, and even go SO far as to be
willing that an African negro should occupy
the seat of Horatio Seymour! The suggestion
however, is perfectly logical, for if negroe:
are the equals of white men, they are surely
entitled to all the rights which equality
hr;nn,
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06

INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2.-The arrest of dea
serters being resisted in Morgan county, Col.
Darlington, commander of the Federal forces
here, sent a squadron of cavalry there on
Saturday. They were met and fred on by
an armed mob, when the cavalry charged and
dispersed the mob, and captured the deserters
and six citizens. No one was hurt Consider
able excitement prevails in Morgan and the
adjoining counties.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06

The TAX ON WHIsKEY AND ToBAcco.-I II
is reported in Washington that the COMMITTEES
of ways and means have agreed to recommend
large increase in the tax upon whiskey and
tobacco; in the case of the former at least so
cents per gallon. 1t is also stated that Mr..
Chase will ask the committee to recommend
an increase upon each article sufficient to-
make the duty 81 per gallon and 81 per lbt
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06

70 The town commissioners Of Effkton. Md
'shinplasters. W ''Su
~ brs~ A daily paper has been started in San
francisco called ,,One O'clock" being publisb-
ed at the hour indicated by its name -,
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
Cox,s Definition Of The Blacks.

81 can not see any especial difference
between the Repubiicanism that sustans
emancipation proclamations, and the real
genuine Congo Abolitionism."
They are separated links of the same sau-
sage made out of the same dog.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06
Crow ded Out,

R9as"Sparkys" "Old Man." Also "An Ed
itors Dream" and other editorial matter, to give
space for the exciting war news to be found
in another column.
Maryland free press., 1863-02-06

L AM an unlucky man gentlemen, excaimo
poor FLOW. "1f were to seize time by th
forelook, I do believe il would come right out
and leave him as bare 40 q barber, block.