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Maryland State Archives Jeffersonian, Towson, Maryland mdsa_sc3410_1_81-0004 Enlarge and print image (5M) |
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The Baltimore County Ameri-can of July 12th, 1861, tells of the bapture of Capt. Richard: Thomas, who seized and Carried off the si earner St. Nicholas while on her trip down the bay, and took her to Richmond. Thomas was confined in Fort McHenry.
Harry Grilmor was arrested at his father's residence on the night ol' duly 4th by a detachment of 1'. S. soldiers from Cockeysville, Avhere he was taken the following morning, but was released the same evening.
An indictment was found
against John Merryman, of Hay-fields, by the grand jury of the United States. It charged him first, with being concerned in a plot to overthrow the Government, and assembly with other armed men for purposes contrary to the peace of the Government; second—with the destruction of the bridges on the Northern Central Railway, and third—with; breaking , down the telegraph wires along the said road.
A negro woman, Ann Powell Cockey Dye, aged 30 years, was advertised by Sheriff F. 1. Wheeler to be sold as a slave for one year, agreeable to an order passed by John PI. Longnecker, one of the Justices of the Peace.
The issue of the American' of July 19th is full of war news. It tells of the Battle of Rich mountain; the surrender of General Pegram to General McClellan, the battle of Roaring Run, and the rout of General Garnett, and of the numerous skirmishes in various sections of Virginia.
Mr. A. Shertzer of "Eppig Farm," advertises a yoke of oxen four years old and weighing
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3000 pounds. Another advertisement says: "Sokers will find it to their advantage to buy tobacco and segars from Lewis Vogle, Towsontown.''
August 2nd—There is an account of the Battle of Manassas; the casualties on the Union side were large and seemed to be quite a surprise to them.
August 16th—There is a very interesting communication by the late John I. Yellott on "Secession." It is a long and strong argument on the right of the States to secede. We can 'only give the preamble:
"A contemplation of the state of affairs in our county at the present moment would argue that it is now7 too late to inquire into the right or wrong of secession.
"it is argued by all of my Southern friends that secession is a thing of the past and requires at our hands today no investigation as to whether there is any warrant for it, or justice in it. We, sir, are not of this opinion. We look upon secession as the great primary curse of the war and ruin now raging in our midst. And we regard it as the duty of every good citizen to satisfy himself that it is right, constitutionally and legally, before he joins hands with it and encourages it, by sympathy or otherwise.
"If it cannot be resorted to as a constitutional remedy for wrongs, do not be guilty of the gross crime of furthering it, but rather let us raise our voices and our hands-to crush out the pernicious evil which will undermine and overturn our whole system of government."
Major Yellott then in his usual vigorous style undertook' to make good his position by a constitutional argument, concluding as
follows :
"The Constitution nowhere says "No State shall secede, but it expressly says "No State shall enter into any compact or alliance with any other State, &c. It expressly forbids many things which a State cannot secede without doing. After this it would have been absurd plainly to say 'No State shall secede.' I think this plain language from the Constitution utterly refutes the doctrine of constitutional secession, and we need not quote a single authority to prove the position we have taken, viz: That a State cannot secede without revolutionizing the Government. What is
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a revolution but the overthrow of the established government? When a State secedes and forms a government of its own it clearly throws off the old."
The New York Herald claims that the number of rebel troops in Virginia number 271,000 men.
In an editorial the American says: "Notwithstanding the unanimous declaration of Congress that it was not the intention of the government to interpose between master and slave, or to interfere in any way with the institution of slavery, the secessionists here cry out that the object of the Government is to abolish slavery.''
Another editorial says:
"Friend of the Union in Baltimore county, organize! Notwithstanding the professions of peace and all that kind of thing, the battle must . be fought upon Union and secession ground."
SepNt. 6, 1861—There has been a persintent report that Jefferson Davis is dead, but on Monday last he issued a proclamation calling the Confederate Congress together, so the report of his death as Mark Twain said, "was greatly exaggerated."
There is an account of the capture of Forts Clark and Hatteras by the Union Navy and of 730 prisoners. The claim was made that 15 Confederates were killed and 30 wounded and that no one was injured of the Union forces.
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