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Year: 1863

Strong and True Words for Maryland.


At q great Union meeting at Baltimore
last week there was no conditional IN
ionism preached. The speakers were for
putting the war through, and if the abOli-
tion Of slavery in Maryland would cOnduce
10 that end they were in favor of it. Sec
retary Montgomery Blair, who has been
reckoned one Of the conservative" mem
bsrs of the Cabinet, and has been able to
draw an occasional compliment from our
Democratic FRIENDS, spoke to the same pur-
port, as follows:


Experience has now taught what the


founders Of the Government ineulcated; (;
I6Ee Win its SzIsteRee. We see that it is that
institution which has enabled ambitious
and evil men to bring on US the horrors
we now witness, and for the purpose of de-
Gliding what it is the duty Of a patriotic
man now TO do, it is immaterial which set
Of fanatics he may regard as most to
blame. BE now sees that it was the pas
sions connected with slavery and depend
ent on its existence which each Of these
classes Of men have worked on to produce
the warm other words, that il is slavery
that is destroying our people. It is 10 no
purpose to say that if the fanatics had let
slavery alone we should have had no war
Would man keep a dog that devoured his
children because the dog might have been
harmless if the children had let him alone ?
Slavery is devoUring our children. Il is
draining blood from thousands of our
young hearts. How then can any o-I
with touch Of humanity in his. Son-
still think Of tOlerating slavew whom l
Tess that it amazes me tharsome, lndeed, .
know to be for the UsRn blood for it
who are sheddinp1fy- We must reason
still cling tp4ds, and even endeavor to
with sueb those whose hearts have been
brinGd from the Government by the sub
a1poison Of this dreadful institution. But
whatever they may do, the men who have
he nerve to do their duty will not longer
blink the question.
" Independent, however, of the relation
# slavery to the war, should be for rid
ling Maryland of it. Maryland is IN
ioubtedly the white mans country. Il is
slavery alone which brought the African
race to the State, and that alone keeps it !
hsre-exeluding the white race from its !
natural home, with no benefit to the black
man, whose natural home is elsewhere.-
The census shows that for every negro
within our borders we have lost five white j
men, comparing our progress with that Of
New York or Pennsylvania"
Year: 1863

ONE CENT SPEcULAToRs.-Perhaps the
penny foolish spectators who are boarding
up tons Of nickel cents, with a view to i'm
mense profits at some future day, may be in
terested in learning that the cost to the gov
ernment of these coveted tokens is only
about 35 cents per hundred. There are now
three times as many in existence as the pub
lie demand, and still the mint is coming to
meet the demand of the hoarders. The gov
srnment is making good thing out of the
one cent specuIators.
Year: 1863

FIRE AL4RM BELLA resolution passed
the Council last evening to ascertain the cost
of building tower on the New City Building
for the purposes Of Fire Alarm Bell, with
lines of telegraphvunning from the tower TO
the various Steam Fro Engine Houses. An
Alarm Tower is something that has been
long needed in this city, and it should be
built with the least possible delay.
Year: 1863

at has not yet come to be a question Of
bread or peace with US, but we are fast
coming to it. If our Government can com
pei a man with a family Of children to fight
for it for 81 per month, it can compel, and
must, those who stay at home and enjoy
their ease now, and will enjoy our freedom
when achieved, to feed the poor children
Of poor fathers-the widows, whose only
sons are fighting the battles and enduring
the terrible hardships Of the march and
camp, fOOdless, clothless and shoeless.
Forbearance viii soon cease to be a virtue.


"Our wives, sisters, and little ones are
crying for bread Beware lest they cry
for blood, also II! We have had enough Of
extortion and speculation; it is time the
strong arm of the law was extended.


"The people will rise, sooner or later
There are lamp-posts and rope enough
to cure this worse than treasVl. ond the
remedy viii De applied by an outraged
people. BhUTUS H."
Year: 1863




Attack on Charleston TO be Renewed.


Port Royal correspondence Of the goth
states that the same transports which had
before sailed with troops were again loaded
with soldiers, who were anxious for an op-
portunity to try their strength with the
enemy. The Monitor feet was also ready,
and before the end of last week all the
irOn-clads in that department would be
again inside the Charleston bar. The cor
respondent says that if that city is not in
our hands within the next si2 weeks, it
will not be within six months. Hot
weather is coming on, and care must now
be taken against typhoid and typhus
fevers.
Year: 1863

At general Court martial at Cipsin-
natl, Thomas NJ. Campbell, of the sO-oalled
Confederate Army, arrested ana -:ad On
the charge Of being a spy, was found guilty
and sentenced to be hung by the neck
until he be dead. General Burnside has
ordered that he be placed in irons, and de-
livered into the custody Of the Commander
of the post of Johnson's Island, near San
dusky, and that the Commander of that
post will see that the sentence s duly ex-
ecuted at y o'clock noon Of the first day
of May next Friday next.


The death penalty Is en- awful one, but
its salutary influence is needed, especially
in times of war II is wholly a mistaken
kindness which deals gently with those of
the rebels who have thus exposed them
selves to the death penalty. This one ex-
ample will do much to deter the spies who
have had such free sway through our lines.
Year: 1863

If the 12O, 900 men called for are kept 10 the
Geld for one month il will cost the treasury
twelve millions Of dollars. The equipments,
arms, pay, and supportof each man will be yath.
or over than under one hundred dollars each
for tle thirty days they are kept in the service.
This is exclusive Of the loss to the industry of
the country Of these mems labor and the dam.
age the rebela may infict upon tue people of
the invaded States. IL would have been easy
TO have saved all this waste Of money by o
timely calling out Of twenty thousand militia, OF
proper Generalship on she part Of HooKER.


-N.w York World.
Year: 1863

Once a radical and extremist upon
the subject of Abolitionism, Gerrit


Smith, of New York, has changed his


course sufficiently to give utterance to


words like these, in speech at Albany


on Tuesday;


81 have said, we must insist on the


unconditional submission of the rebels.


Our opposition to the rebels must also


be unconditional. We must make no
conditions on behalf of the Republican
Democratic or Abolition parties. We
must make no conditions. If the re-
bellion triumphs, let all else die-for
all. family, wealth, party-all would be
worthless without country. The
The rebellion must be put down at
whatever cost, or at whatever sacrifice.
The Republican or Democrat who is
intent only on helping his party, is in
league with rebels. Are there Aboli-
tionists who will not 60 for crushing
treason unless Government shall pledge
itself to prosecute the war antil slavery
is abolished? I? Let me say to them. /
have no sympathy with you. l know
you only as enemies of my country.
The true doctrine is-let come what
may of temperance, Of abolitionism, of
republicanism, of democracy, the re-
bellion must and shall be put down. 1t
is not now down, only because we
have net been as earnest in putting il
down as the rebels have been in put
ting it up. We are in this war to be
brothers. We are to know no man by
bis party name, but only as antirebel-
lion men. In the course of my long
life, l have had to do something against
intemperance and slavery; but since the
bombardment of Sumter, / have been
ready to work with all against rebel
lion-to work, if you please, with the
greatest drunkard on my right, and the
greatest proslavery man on my left. If
abolitionists refuse to work with me
without some pledge for the abolition
OF slavery, it is little to their credit
that they allow the sin ofs}avery to
blind their eyes to the greater sin OF
rebellion. If, as some say, slavery
and rebellion are one, then put down
the rebellion, and slavery falls with it."
Year: 1863

. . o.
from you we shall say-and we trust self
respect, if not regard for the principle Of
selfgovernment, will constrain the residue
of the American people to say-Go"


Here is one laid by the Chicago 3i1bnne
in December, 1860: So, .--I


''Not few of the Republican Journals OF
the interior are working themselves up to
the belief, which they are endeavoring to
impress upon their readers, that the sece-
ded States, be they few or many, will be
whipped back into the Union. We caution
all such that in language of that sort they
are adding new fuel TO the flame which is
already blazing too fiercely, and that the
probabilities now are that the result will
prove them to be false prophets. No man
knows what public policy may demand of
the incoming Administration; but the drift
of opinion seems to be that, if peaceable Sc.
cession is possible, the retiring States will
be assisted to 60, that this needless and bit
ter controversy may be brought to an end.
If the Union is to be dissolved, bloodless
is by all means to be coveted.
Do not let us make this impossible"


These are simply specimen eggs. Thou
sands more like them were laid in the same
nest and by the same sort of people. 1t
was these eggs which Charleston hatched.
When she did so, she did gigantic crime,
but it was Lilliputian by the side of the
crime of the men and the party who laid
the eggs.-Chtcago Times.
Year: 1863

ONE hundred men are hard at work 90
the fort which is erecting on Dutch Island
for the defence Of Newport, and which is
to be strong and permanent forti6catios.
Seven es-pounders and seven 90 poundss
are already on the ground, and will Be
mounted soon.
Year: 1863

OF this letter. or to anayze IFS legal logical deductions


may be permitted however to say that have felt great
regret that any occupying such position and espe
caly one for whom have entertained the respect aud
regard that have for the writer should have yentured
advise the indicated that letter and my surprise
has scarcely been less than my regret that o sound
judgment and ordinary discretion could advise fagrant


violation of the laws Of the State and the general sent
ment OF its izens how any loyal man. at such time
as this, could suggest proceeding well calculated to
impair public confidence in the Administration when such
confidence is so important to its


Knowing we'll as / do the staunch and infexbie
character Of the loyalty Of State, unwilling to
believe it would yield to The influence Of such
sure; but it would nevertheless be subectng it to
ordeal such other similarly situated has been
required to endure"
Year: 1863

but war of beration-in order to the Republic
from petty ogarchy of masters and to four
millions Of human beings from cruel oppression Not to
subugae but TO berate is the object Of holy
And yet British statesmen forgetting for the moment all
moral MISUNDERSTANDING God, who will not be forgot
ten-gravely announce that our cause must fail"


That it is to the people rather than to the
rulers that he makes his primary appeal may be
gathered from the prediction he makes in another
part of his oration, when he says


can aroused public opinion, the worlds collected
will, and returning wisdom in England aud France will
to it that civilization s saved from this shock and the
nations themselves from the ttrribe retrbuton which
sooner or later must surely attend it, No power
afford to lt itself before mankind and openly vote
and untrammeled charter to injustice and cruelty"


1t is in this "aroused public opinion" reacting
on the Governments of England and France, that
he finds the grounds of his confidence, and to this
he has addressed his argument in the way that has
seemed to him SO just and convincing that he can
not doubt its effect on the minds of others. And
all who know the candor and earnestness of the
speaker will do jusLice to the inspirations under
which he has spoken. Those who most dissent
from the grounds on which he rests his argument
will know how to do justice to his eloquence and
his learning.
Year: 1863

On Wednesday in the United States District Court at
Phadephis, Judge CADwALADER announced the decision
of the Court the point raised the recent habeas cor
pus cases Of drafted to the nay Of the decision
Of Boards of Enrolment claims for exemption under the
l4th section Of the conscrpton ac:


The particular before the court was that Of draft
ed man whose claim for exemption the ground of being
the sole support of widowed mother had been refused
by the Board The argument in this and Others th
were presented at the time, all being argued to
gether took very wide range and instead Of being con-


fined to the immediate question raised by them
a review Of the whole act


The opinion of Judge Cadwaader il stated to be very
learned and elaborate one Justice Grer Of the Supreme
Court of the United States although not present at the
argument, sat with Judge Cadwaader and assened to
the decision of the principles Of law embraced in the
opinion. The following given brief but substantial
statement Of its points,


II is decided that the right Of Congress pass the con-
scrpton act is legally and coustutionay derived from
that clause Of the Constitution giving Congress the power
TO raise armies &C. which is Distinct control over the
militia.


In regard to the administration Of the powers conferred
upon the Boards Of Enrolment the Judge decides in sub
stance that statute which in relation to summary pro-
ceedings before military commission enacs that s de-
csou shall be final does not necessarily make the decision
concusipe as to the right which was in question"


Further it is decided that the provisions of the l4th
section Of the Of Congress Of "a March 1863 ch IS
requiring toe presentation by drafted persons of all claims
OF exemption to the Board Of Enrolment and mnkngtbe
Boards decision final, do not the case Of M EXEMPT
whose claim OF exemption has been duly to the
Board and dsallowed preclu the
ton under writ Of habeas corpus, of the question Of the
right of exemption"
Year: 1863

The following requisition from the Hon CYRUS GRIF-
FIN Member Of the Continental Congress from Virginia
to the Comnssay General furnishes amusing contrast
to the circumstances and habits of the present day The
note is copied from the original in the library Of our an-
tquarian felowcitize Gen FORCE The letter is dated
in 1779


&C GRIFFIN'S compliments to Col Blaine Would be
exceedingly Obliged to him to order barrel of beef and
Of pork to be made up 10 the best manner for the
table c. G. He did not intend to have troubled
the public officers in this way and finding il impossible TO
maintain his house at the market prices without absolute
destruction solicited to return home but the State
ing his request he is obliged TO have to few
articles from the Continent c. Griffin has also received
from time to time few barrels of -four but so unlucby
as never to get but that good and which was in
tended for another member of Congress Therefore, f
Col Blaine will also order barrel of the best -four and
few bushels Of rye meal he would take it particular
favor


"Mondsy-C Grifn's direction is Third street, near
Lombard street


&C G is obi ged to pay all market expenses out of his
own pocket but whatever the Continent furnish the State
Of Virginia will reimburse, which makes very or, at
difference in so rulnous place as Philadelphia. How
ever c. does not to eIcroach at all upon the pro-
visions allotted to the real subsistence of the army but
would sooner spend every shilling of bis own fortune


"Colo. BLAINE Com. Gen Purchases"


The above requisiton made, we presume under the
following regulation Of the Government:


TREASURY OFFICE, APRIL 8, 1779
"Ordered-That the Issuing Commssary stationed in
the place where Congress shall sit deliver from time
time such articles OF provision in his department to the
steward o the President Congress as sha be sutab.
in quality for his table that the said Commssary take
receipts for the provision delivered and that the stew
ard be directed quarter to render to this Board
Of such provisions certified by the Commissary
wEo 10 to specify as near as may be the cost thereof


/" Extract from the minutes


"JNo. NICHOLSON, Clerk"
Year: 1863

Under this heading the Baltimore American of yester-
day gives the following item of Whether it is
rect or not cannot say but is suggestive showing
the nwhich moneys received from the conscrp-
ton commutaton may be- disbursed


We learn that the Secretary of War has decided to
pay to all loyal owners OF slaves IN Maryland whose chat
tells may desire TO enlist in the military service of the Go
vernment the of three hundred dollars for each able
bodied man. commission, learn will be organized
in Washington n few days to hear and adjudicate all
claims that may be presented"


The following paragraph, from the Centrevie States
Rights, probably has some bearing this decision


1t is said that Thomas Chambers who is recruiting
negro troops in this county has been ordered to make
aud report to the commander Of the regiment list Of the
shareholders the county and to mark such he regards
disoya We hear that he has shown the order to
raj gentlemen. The bject is not stated"


The Cambridge (Md.) Intelligencer publishes letter
dated the 9th of August from Col VIM Birney the COM
mander of the negro regiment recruiting Maryland
in which he gives significant warning to some of the
people Of the Eastern Shore who have nerposed otsta-
ces to bis recruiting agents After stating that the
listment of negro troopss going on well he says:


1t is true that there active enemies and tb at
since the arrest of my agent, CTeager, they have
taken occasion to commit ouages In Queen Annes
county pretended writ was issued by Justice to arrest
recruit free man, his way the rendezvous, under
preext that he had hired himself and could not leave be-
fore the end of the time At Eastn named Bostick





away by threats free of color who about
to enlist and start for Baltimore. All these enemies Of the
Government aoH be dealt Nth summariiy Mr.. Crrager
has been will be within day released by
military authority Owing to his being out Of this depart
men delay has taken place This is to be regret
ted but unavoidable The the Eastern Shore
who have obstructed the enstmens ,H hare opp0,tn
uity Of finding out that the Government is IN earnest"


The nature of the summary punishment threatened in
the foregoing italicized passages, (Which copy
fnd them in the original pubcation and the agency by
which that punishment to be inflicted would be
Indicated in the immediately succeeding paragraph of Col
Brneys letter. which also insert 1t dscoses at least
the probable destination of his regiment of abducted ne
groes. He says:


Up to the present time have not been able to give
you any assurance OF early visit but the regiment
nearly full and you may say to the friends and relatives
OF the brate who have joined from the Eastern
Shore that they will probably have the pleasure of
seeing them in Uniform Early in the next month think
you will on the Eastern Shore the unusual sight Of
regiment Of native MarylaDders not foreigner among
them You will | am sure be proud of them"
Year: 1863

Abiding to Gen. McCLELfANs report of bis campaigns,
aud the accompanying documents, said to m two large
boxes and the assigned for not publishing them


viz. the inability Of the Secretary Of War or Generan-
Chief to read them in order to ascertain what portion il
any, is improper for publicationthe Cincinnati CONNER.
cal remarks that after the publication Of the evidence
taken before the Committee Of Investigation we doubt
whether any thing can be written Of McClelans cam
psgns the publication Of which would be harmful"
Year: 1863

Inc following is Earl Russells reply to the memorial
OF the Emancipation Society relative to The steam rams
the Mersey:


FOREIGN OFFICE AUGUST 13 1863


GENTLEMEN: have received your letter calling atten-
o 70 subject OF very grave aud mpressng Importance
namely, The httng out or equppng two powerful IRON
plated steam rams, which Informed are intended to
commit h0stites against the Government and people of
the United States. -


My attention has long been directed to these subjects
Both the Treasury and Home Departments have at nv
request made most anxious inquiries npon the subject OF
these steam rams.


You are aware that, by the foreign enlistment act a
ship Is liable to be detained and the are subject to
penalty when the ship armed equipped for purposes
OF war; and the intend use her against some
State or community in friendship with her Majesty 1t is
necessary to prove both the equipment and the intention
IL 10 necessary for conviction in public court of JUSTICE
to have the evidence of credtabe witness.


was 10 hopes, when 1 began to read your memorial
that you would propose to furnish with evidence that
the steam rams IN question intended carry
nlties against the Government and people of the United
States but you have made proposal Of the Sort and
only tell that you informed that and it ia
believed that so and-sO is the fact


fou must be aware however, that according to British
law prosecutions cannot be loot upon the ground
violation OF the foreign enlistment act without the a
avlts OF credtable witnesses other cases of msde
meanor and crimes Such likewise is the law in use


Yours, &c. RUSSELL.
Year: 1863

JAMES O. wELLING. ASSOCIATE EDITOR.


The subscription price of this paper for year ia Two
DOLLARS, payable in advance.


reduction Of 30 per cent onefth of the full charge>
VIII be made any who shall order and pay for at
time ten copies Of the Weekly paper and reduction OF
2, per cent Cor oneourth Of the full charge to any
who will order and pay for at time, twenty more
copies -
No accounts being kept for this paper it will not be sent
to any unless paid for advance any than
tie time for which it ia paid.
Year: 1863

Up to the 18th nst,n there have been eighty -four Banks
established under the act of Congress of 1863 about
one per day since the first organized in June last
The localities and capitals of these eighty four Banks
as iOllows
Year: 1863

The stream OF negro emigration from Mississippi has
commenced flowing into this State having been prohibited
in Georgia aud Alabama The heavy rains of the
have damaged the corps that the question Of sub
sence for another year may be- Of great Importance and
il becomes douby from this Influx of consumers Would
IL not be well for this State also to adopt pecauon
AIRY before it is late This suggestion only
thrown out to catch the attention of the proper authors
es the writer having every confidence that if any thing
ought to be done in the premises it will not be overlooked


VERY respectfully, CITIZEN"


The Augusta Constutonast replies that cit Is untrue
that either Georgia Alabama have refused refuge and
domcil to the unfortunate lugtves from Mississippi Our
people incapable of outrageous breach of hospitality
Can South Carolinian advocate or defend it