The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-04-05
MORE TEoUE1E roR GEN. JOHNSON.

MORE TROUBLE FOR GEN. JOHNSON.
Gen. Bradley T. Johnson's remarkable
figuring has got him into fresh trouble. He
recently wrote letter to the Maryland Leg
islature urging the endowment ofthe Pixies
vile Arsenal as a home for destitute ex-
rebels from Maryland. In the course of his
appeal, he said:
The Confederate societies here, with a member
ship of 600 members, representing and speaking
for 10000 exConfederates in this State have twice
unanimously Endorsed this application.
This stirs up the CayroUtonian, of West
minister, Md, to remark
Can Gen. johnson produce single line Of testi-
mony from the Confederate archives, or from any
other source than his own fertile fancy, to show
that 5000 men ever left Maryland to 80 South aud
return under therebe banner to fight against their
native State? The CarroHtonjan does not believe
that two regiments Of Marylanders with fighting
strength OF 500 men each, were ever enrolled in
the Confederate service during the whole or any
part of the II they were, what were the
names of their commanders? The CarroltoniaH
does know, and is in position to prove, that-excu-
sive OF colored troops-there were over $1,000 men
who went from Maryland on a three years basis to
fight for the Union. Taking Carroll County alone,
it can be easily established that than 500 men
left it to wear the blue uniform while the Carroll
tolian challenges Gen. johnson to prove that 30
men from Old Carroll went South and recrossed the
Potomac, bearing arms against their own homes
and their own people
If Gen. johnson viii carry his mind back to the
early part of September in the year 1862, and will
recall his experience rs Provost Marshal at Fred
eric1 when Lee issued his seductive address dated
from the Mountain City, he will be forced to own
that the response to the appeal did not balance the
losses of the rebel army by desertiou and that not
300 Marylanders honored the call to arms in the
Confederate cause at a time when the fates smiled
most propiiously on its fortunes.
It viii be remembered that Gen. Johnson
confidently counted upon Maryland as part
of the South which was grooming under
the terrible burden Of the pension taxation.
The CarroHtoniaa in another paragraph dis
poses of Maryland as Confederate State;
Inhis appeal for Legislative support to the Pixies
Vile Arsenal Gen Bradley Johnson seems to have
conveniently forgotten one fact, and as convent
eutly assumed another. He forgot that on the 18th
OF April, 1861, band of Maryland Confederates
tried to seize by force the very building in which,
through the generosity Of their native State poor
and deorepit Maryland Coufedcrates are presently
TO find a home. The fact which Gen. Johnson as
sumes and which is not a fact by any means, is
that Maryland was a Confederate State that her
" chiyairous and aristocratic' people were, and
still are, in sympathy with the Lost Cause. The
truth is, that, outside of a degraded minority OF
shareholders and usurer5i outside Of a number Of
Baltimore merchants courtiHg a Southern trade for
revenue only outside Of a few hot-headed youths
and romantic young women, the Confederate sol
der had few friends in Maryland. If there were
any illusions Of the kind in Gen. Leo's mind, they
were forever dispeed at South Mountain and An
tielam. In fact, the Southern leader never in
either Of his uvasons of tae state gathered 10 hs
standard enough MaryIanaers to balance his losses
by desertion alone