Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-02-24
Maryland.

SATURDAY MouHiN6, hnNo0N --
Maryland.
uo,d;sr of tho s9:h Lcuisians" writes %
ns +, very reasonable COMPLAINT OF tho con-
80, and oocteunt'u,>n5 abuse iii WHICH
u.nv Cor.,,deratea t"i"S .':'r"' 90 'he"Aso
,..ius1 our oppressed sists- Stat o. "%ts.1n.
". .,s., think that thore is bad taste ana Dad
.,,;rv IN this. While some no almoet court
T. ia .rncuient Northwest, that has her
h,roret 1t our ,hroats, tits strange that others
ss.m incliaso, in ,sone quarters, to drop MA:
-r,,,d A. a dompin lost, and we'll LOST; lost ~
b,r OWN bassreas ind cow.-dioe, and not
uorth a thought fer the tuture. The HONEST
Lou;sisns mar has apparently bsen himself
. prisoner IN Baltimore, aud has seon some
thing Of tho true spirit and feeling Of tie best
psopls Of that widowed city. If the 1net-
chants and lawyers feared Gn front of the
fixed bsyonets Of Yankee army TO H'an'-
fest sny sympathy with cur wounded snd
vayworn CoDfsdeSstss, 20 knows thkt Inc
women of Baltimore, all of tho highest, best
and fairest in the once proud town, hung
around their path, besissed their prisons
with demonstrations Ct regard and admins
ton, obegsias hair Of them for memory"
or SO raueh al q Confederate button from
thsi. poor jackets. Women could do thla;
because the Yankees have not as get got the
length Of q regular Cossack charge 10 ths
Warsaw fashion, riding down and ssbreing
women aud children. Tbs worst they DO
At present is to Arrsst and brig before q
Provost Marshal such seditious young ladies'
as wesr . riband Of "Icd, white enc red,' or
occasionally IN infant III tho nurses arms
hx, ing q rosetts Of those colors on its dress
don't forget" says cur correspondent
$50 cell upon ssme of tho soldiers who have
been prisorers in Baltimore: ask them what
tAsy think of tie sentiments Of the people Of
tbs. unfortunate city. Tell us what you
think of the Eastern Shore Of Maryland"
We know son.stkiDg Of that region, having
visited three or four Of the Southern counties
last Ortooer. The people Of that region arc
as thoroughly Southern in feeling, origin, in
tereas and hea.t ss ia any county IF Eastern
Virginia. Abandoned as they ate--.nd ne
csssarily abandoned COR the present-by tie
Confederate Government; isolated between
great arms of the sea Mi h!ack with Yankee
war-steamers; infested at every point, pa
trolled over al tbe;r Eords-by Yz;kee korso
and feos-tha painters and people OF thcse
counties, the true original scat Of tho old Ms
rylm,d colony, are piring for the Aorr when
they may throw of that foul yoke. The
flower Ct their youth have been sent to our
armies. Their negaoes are every day, not
stoler, blu: openly run of from end invited
to Washington and idleness and tho tender
Inercies Of abolition. They are all dismmed;
all liable to visits and searches 10 their homes
bya rude soliisry which il. ever brave and
ferocicus sgains. old men end women in soil
tary country houses, ever formidable 70 chi
dren and young girls-feariDg nothing in
the world exosps armed men il grey uni
forms
The system, indeed, pursued By those mo-
dern Vandals Of abolition, iB cunning and
fsr-resohing enc. It is simply to drive the
best men In that Ststs-the genuine cd Ma
rylanders-over the Potomac into "rehel-
lion"-then to confscsts their plantations
and people them with Yankeos-in the mean
time TO rob them of their slsvea, so rs to
mako the institution not worth preserving
This is the last crop Of tobacco that will
ever be raised IN Maryland by negro labor"
SAID several planters to us, with despond-
ing countsnancs As they looked sadly over
tho f,slds that tkei- fathers had titled
for SIX generations, and islt that those
green shades and fertile pleasant plncss were
soon to know them and their race no more
forever. We cannot turn our sympath!es
away from these people and hold out our
.,lns to motley and norg'sl brood Of
Hoosiers with their knives at on. breasts.
Ls: Us not condemn the unfortunate S1a-y-
LADDERS. The true Southerners Of the great
body of too St:~.e could not DO otherwiEe
than rs they have done. With Al Abolitionist
Governor, Legislature, and garrison, disarm-
cd and under military surveillance, they can
neither lift hand nor voica. They could not
join our army Sher it went into North
western Maryland, unless they could have
arss taken Washington and rou:sd McCleilan's
forces with their naked hands. The whole
mass of abolition military power was between
them and rs. II 10 could not so through to
them, could they conc through to us
And let MS by no meanS give up Maryland
ss State lost. There can be no peace In
this lapd that will not establish the great
principle CT saoession-that Is to cay, Of State
sovereignty. That oncs established, IS it
shall he-and Maryland, ike Missouri, can by
no means be kept from casting in her lot
with the ConfsGeracy. Men who thoroughly
know Baltimore, have assured us that in
any vote Of tho citizens foe 70 one of those
citizens wonld give their voice for secession.
And if this be 80 in Baltimore city, still larger
is tho proportion of true Southerners in the
counties bord.ring the Potomac and Chesa-
peske. We do not $50 how there csn sver
be a peace which does not ensure to those
citixens the free exercise Of that suffrage.
Teri
HONEST FRrEEDaHR
Tho Royal authority At Washington, in its
paternsl zeal for the welI-beieg, IS we'll mo-
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