Year: 1861

In letter dated Baltimore, September 18th,
after expressing the belief that the great majority
of the andholders and of the respectable classes
of Maryland are in favor of secession principles,
the correspondent of the London Times remarks
as follows:


Gen. SCOTS foresight, in fact, was never better
exhibited than in the measures he took to secure
Maryland at time of an enormous difficulty.
Notwithstanding all her writings and convul-
sions the State is so firmly manacled that moth
ing short of victorious army's strength can lib
crate her. 1t would not have been possible to
let Maryland go, nor can any one, / presume,
suppose that in any contingency the United States
could ever resign the seat of their Government.
the Potomac, and the waters of the Chesapeake,
to an independent power. To do that the North
must be subjugated as thoroughly as she intends
to subjugate the South. But has the North ever
considered that in Maryland, where there are
many Union men, she is obliged to use the means
which probably will be needed to a greater extent
in the South, and then calmly considered what
those means are? There are 10000 men in and
around Baltimore; the General. Dix, in reply to
certain representations has stated that if the city
falls into the hands of the enemy, he will be
forced to lay it in ashes from his batteries. There
are probably not less than 25 900 troops in other
parts of Maryland. The social and political con-
dition of the State is best estimated by these
facts, notorious to the English public.


Ii the North could but make an equation, and
see whether she has the force to act the same
part in the Southern States, it is not reasonable
to suppose she could any longer deny that her
mission is one of conquest and subjugation. in
which success is not certain, and in which it is
impossible to persist permanently. Conquest may
be achieved. By some extraordinary effort OF
military spirit even an armed occupancy OF the
seeded States may be effected for time. But
what becomes of the Constitution, of Republican
institutions of the Federal compact, of the rights
of the people, and of the undoubted States
rights of internal government? There is, know,
pretensc that there is Union sentiment in So
luton in the South which will tumble down into
thick precipitats on the head of the Confederates
the moment it is stirred by Federal bayonet
but there is trace of foundation for the hypoth-
ess


Look at North Cardinal Even the ultra
Union papers ridcule the "bogus" or sham mem.
Der, Mr.. Foster, and his claims for stationery,
and the authorization which has been issued tor
the creation of one regiment of North Carolini-
ans Is regarded as a matt of form not likely tU
be OF any great use. If the expectations be un-
founded, what course will the Government pur-
sue? Acknowledge their error, and agree to a
compromise? They dare not in the present ten
per of the people. Accept the situation and make
a Maryland of every Statei Even the wealth
and the energy and population of the North
might well shrink from the task, But will South
Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ten
nessee. be more at the mercy of the United
States in the full development of their pro
gramme. than Maryland is now? The future is
full of difficulties. which even faith, the evidence
OF things not seen, can not pretend to solve.