Year: 1862

The following from the Baltimore AmeTI-
can will suit the longitude of Kentucky
and Tennessee as well as of Maryland:


What is treason, red handed, murderous,
guilty treason, if il is not found in the per-
sons If some amongst US fresh from the
slaughter Of the best men ia the nation,
and glorying in it and how can it be ex-
pc cted that when such are permitted to be
received amongst us, unmolesied by the
sword of avenging justice, and more are
honored with high consideration as they
walk our streets TO be smiled upon by fe-
male sympatbZsrs, that the accursed cause
of which they SO proudly assume TO be the
representatives should appear otherwise
than as something honorable? Why, only
recently, two hundred as gallant men as
ever stood up TO die in defence of their
count,y's heg were sacrificed mercilessly,
cxultanlly, by the ON slaught of traitors in
the Merrimsc, a ship stolen from the nation,
aud yet no time hardly elapsed thereafter
according to the current news with refer
ebce to the case-before here comes one of
the petty officers of the murderous craft
one who had pointed its guns-tired, doubt
less, of the risk and hardShips encountered
in Dixie, TO take the "oath of allegiance"
and TO walk about among the fashionable
imbeciles who ostentatiously parade red
ard white roses in their bonnets as the en-
blems of their reasonable sympathiz-rs, no
one apparently considering or caring, that
the blood of the poor fellows at the bottom
OF Hampton Roads is on his skirts and
that in any other Government on earth the
public executioner would have marked out
TO him ere this the reward he had taken so
much pains to earn for himself


And so il goes on. Y, ung men 60 down
from here to Richmodd on jaunt of a few
months, almost as a matter of cougse, to
try their hands at shooting the best men of
the loyal States, and with no more COM
FUNCTION than they would go down the Bay
to shoot ducks. Perhaps they make the
trip speculative, and seek to pick up little
plunder; and wearyilg of the hardships Cf
the gIilty business return to their leisure
not to meet the fate of outlaws or spies,
but to brush themselves up and become, in
some preteptious circles, the ordcles thereof.
And so murders multiply horrors of every
kind multiply, and the State of Maryland,
which should be known to the world only
as loyal, is disgraced, humiliated, injured;
whilst the patriotic, the noblest men in it,
are murdered abroad, and compelled to :ol-
crate the grossest insults at home, without
the shadow of possible redress.


The remedy for all this is simple enough.
1t is to lay an iron hand on treason in 1hat-
erer shape IL n,a1s,fests itself If it comes in
the euise of kid gloves and white and red
roses, vaunting itself in cowardly and bru-
tai insults to true men, let it be visited as
promptly upon such offenders as it is when
met within the person of some half-drunken
wretch in lager beer haunt, and exhibited





tie Union. There is no difficulty in get
ting bold of these last mentioned cases.
No scruple is felt in demonstrating zaal in
the cause of loyalty by prompt arrests, even
at the risk Of pistol shot or a knife thrust.
And if little ceremony was used in the
case of treason, kid-gloved and perfumed-
if some of those patriotic fellows so often
insulted were promptly put on guard-as
at ST. Louis-before the infected mansions,
letting the loyal people know them, IN all
time to come, the haunts Of treason they
are if, in the more fragrant cases, the in
mates were treated to a sojourn in the fort,
or to "army rstions" at home until they
bad ceased to wax fat and kick" many
noble life would be saved to the country in
the abridgment of the contest.