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The Daily Dispatch: December 20, 1861., [Electronic resource], Letter from Ex-Governor Lowe, of Maryland. (search)
Union immediately, had North Carolina and Virginia gone out when the cotton States seceded. Her Executive had not the manhood to oppose a revolution which he feared and hated, until he was surrounded by Northern bayonets. Cowering under the storm of popular indignation, he went into Monument square on the afternoon of the memorable 19th of April last, whilst the blood of the heroic youths of Baltimore, who had scornfully driven out of their city twelve hundred armed abolitionists from Massachusetts, was still fresh upon the pavements, and there called God to witness his loyalty to the South, and prayed that his arm might rot from the socket if he ever raised it against his Southern brethren. Such a man, as we well knew, would not have dared to lift his finger against secession in the month of February last. It was, however, geographically and politically impossible for Maryland to join the cotton States whilst other great States, lying between her and the new Confederacy, rem