The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-12-20

Nation; arsenals destroyed, navy yards cap
tured. Notwithstanding all this appalling de-
lection of loyalty and destruction of property,
there was but one resolve, one thought one
heartbeat ~ to maintain the authority of
Abraham Lincoln and restore the Union.
NEW YORK SEVENTH REGIMENT.
1t was 4 O'Clock in the afternoon, April 10,
when the New Yori 9TH regiment marched down
Broadway. Eyerywhege-fro window, door
way, staff steeple-wayed the stars and stri pes;
flags of the costiiest silk flags Of the homliest
bunting; flags of painted cotton cloth. Street,
sidewalk, doors, windows, were crowded with
people-a sea of human faces. Never before
were such cheers as sweiled up from the lips Of
five hundred thousand people. From the
aFmory to the ferry that bore them to the
Jersey shore it was one prolonged hurrah.
Men worth millions of dollars were in the
ranks. No more the making Of money. No
more plans for mercantile transactions. Fare
well to ease and comfort. Welcome this weary
march, the biyouae, the battle. The Nation
shall live; perish everything else. Women be-
come like men, strong of heart, and wave their
farewells TO those most dear without a tear
upen their Cheeks strong men become ike
women and weep great tears through excess
of joy.
Not only in New York, but in Philadelphia,
Chicago, Cincinnati-in every city, town, ham
let of the North--the new tide of life rolls in.
REACHING WASHINGTON.
General Benjamin f. Butler, with the Mas
sachusetts 8th regiment, reached the Susque-
hanna River at Havre de Grace. The
bridges are burned; you cannot reach Wash
ington, was the word that came to him. The
great ferry-boat, the steamer Maryland, was in
the stream. Seize it," was the order. In a
very short time the regiment was on board, and
the Maryland steamiDg down Chesapeake Bay
for Annapolis
The New York 18th regiment was steaming
down Delaware Bay on the Steamer Boston,
and up the Chesapeake to the same point.
Great the CONSERVATION of the seees-
sionists at Annapolis when the Maryland
steamed into the harbor The Constitution
"Old Ironsides,D the ship that won SO many
victories in 1912, was there without % crew.
The secessionists were planning to take pos
session, but General Butler was too quick for
them. The flag of the Confederacy never was
TO float above her deck.
The secessionists had torn up the railroad !;
but the men of the eth knew how TO build rail-
reads, and began to spike down the rails They
had taken the locomotive to pieces "Ah, ha!
there is the machine that / helped make;
there is my mark said a soldier, who laid
aside his muslet and went to work with q
wrench and hammer to put it in order. Are
there any soldiers here who can run the
engine" asked the colonel. Nineteen
5LSpptu IIOEl4 the TALKS III TSSpOlSSs 1HS
shareholders had left ont of their calcu-
lations the greatest factor of all-labor
How little did they comprehend, when
they began the war that the laborers-the men
who worked for their daily bread, the men
who wore blue blouses and handled Wrenches
and hammers, who fled iron who pushed the
plane, who followed the plow, were the men
who would reconstruct what slavery destroyed
There they were at the outset, TeconstFucting
would reconstruct the Nation. Together, the
Massachusetts Sta and the New York eth relaid
the rails and made their way to Washington
to receive the benedietion Of Abraham Lincoln.
MARYLAND LOYAL.
In Baltimore, the secessionists had triumphed
for moment, but up in Western Maryland, at
Frederick and Hagerstown, the Union men
were running up the stars and stripes. They
would stand by the Union. The Union men
in Baltimore took courage, and one evening,
greatly to the establishment of the secessionists,
General Butler, at the head of his troops,
marched into the city, planted the stars and
stripes, arrested the police commissioners who
were plotting treason, seized all the muskcts
and pistols they had collected, and set men to
work repairing the bridges which had been
| burned. The Union men rejoiced; tho seces-
sionists CRASHED their teeth. The Shareholders
were confident that the State would secede.
James z. Randall wrote the song Ny Mary
land, which was sung everywhere throughout
the South
The despots heel is on thy Store
HIS torch is at thy temple door,
Avenge the patriotic gore
! That fiecks the streets Of Baltimore.
/ And be the battle queen of yore,
Maryland. my Maryland.
/! hear the distant thunder hum,
The old-tin1e bugle, fife and drum;
| She is not dead nor deaf nor DUMP.
| Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum,
She breathes, she burns, she Il eome-she'Il come
| Maryland! my Maryland
| Vain the song! Intellectual al the Inachi-
nations of conspirators at Richmond and in
Baltimore to range the State on the side of the
Confederacy. TIE hearts of the people were
! beating loyally and true for the Union.