Year: 1861

From the Prince Georges Planters Adrocafe.1


The idea that an Administration is authorized to
rais9 armies to make war on the States to execute
the laws at the point of the bayonet-is one whic
is in itself absurd and, if attempted to be put in
practice, will be the establishment of despotsm
Against such an usurpation we hope to find our
people prepared to do battle to the last extremity
And II such be as indeed it seems to be- the pres
ent attitude of the Administration, then we hope
that the conflict now beginning NAV end in the
utter oblteraton of the Federal Government and
the destruction of the tories and traitors who have
turned 1t into an engine of fraud, and despotsm
and oppression against the very States of which it
is the creature.


From the Marlborough Ga<etteI


The plain duty of every good citizen is to act
calmly and solely for the welfare of his State and
country. What is best to be done, is beyond our
ken to say just now. But thing certain, large
majority OF the people of the section of country in
which we live, are heart and soul with the South
and scOrn the party that has elevated to the Pres-
dency man identified with so many acts of aggres-
sion against the constitutional rights of citizens
They will await with anxiety the action of the
sister State of Virginia, and then make selection
OF the banner under which they will fight


From the Cambridge Demscr


we KNOW not what response Governor Hicks will
give. His numerous letters, breathing devotion to
the south, would indicate negative response. But
be this as it may, the most appropriate response in
our humble opinion, would be to tell Mr. Lincoln
and his Black Republican cohorts that, when they
extend fair and honorable compromises to the





TRADE against slavery, and agree to let the ques-
ton and the South alone, that then MARYLAND
would offer her aid, but that until these compro-
misses are extended by the party, that Maryland
can engage in no such unholy warfare; nay more
that no mercenary troops from the North Shall be
allowed to cross her soil to murder and subiugate
the Southern citizens until they have done them
full justice.


From the Port Tobacco Times


Studiously avoiding everything sectional or that
savored of sectionalsm, Maryland has stood so far
firm by the government. How long can she thus
stand under the present state of affairs? When
she is told that no concessions irW ercr be made;
when she sees the acts of those in power according
with this declaration; when the respect to which
she is entitled State is no longer shown her by
the Lincoln administration, and the question is al
most forced upon her and she compelled to take
sides one way or the other, is there, can there be
any doubt as to the position of Maryland? The
policy indicated by Mr. Lincoln Of late may be re-
garded as an insult to the State of Maryland, and
unless this policy be modified and short corner
turned by the administration, the matter grows
worse daily. Driven by insult from the bosom of
the Union, heartrending as is the thought, she
must leave the parental mansion and seek home
where truth, justice and honor reign supreme;
but let her take with her the old chart and set up
the household gods of her fathers and worship at