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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Maryland (Maryland, United States) or search for Maryland (Maryland, United States) in all documents.
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Cameron and Virginia.
--Eastern Virginia ought to be under great obligations to Cameron for annexing her in part to Delaware and in part to Maryland. Delaware is a respectable little State, about as large as a good sized breakfast plate, but, in the days of the American Revolution, she was as brave as a bantam, as sturdy a little rebel as one could wish to find.
Maryland, in which we have the honor of living, is a gallant old Commonwealth, and if one part of her is in chains, this part is free, and may soon be able to emancipate the rest.
Mr. Cameron is a great man undoubtedly, and, if he lives long enough, and the Grand Army can march a hundred yards Southward a day, may eventually, with the permission of Johnston and Beauregard, raise the flag of Maryland in Richmond, provided we do not raise it sooner on the Capitol in Washington.
At present, however, the probability is that Cameron will be more successful in partitioning the spoils of United States Government contracts
The Daily Dispatch: December 18, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Searching case at Fort McHenry . (search)
The Searching case at Fort McHenry.
The Baltimore American, edited by a coarse, vulgar, low-bred Yankee, speaks of the female passengers who were so brutally searched in the steamboat off Fort McHenry as "the women," &c. This expression he uses at least five or six times.
These "women" were, every one of them, ladies of the highest respectability.
They all came from the lower counties of Maryland, on the Patuxent, a region celebrated, ever since the days of Leonard Calvert, as among the most refined on the Continent.
The scoundrels who conducted the search endeavored to induce a little girl four years old to betray her father, showing her a Union badge and asking her whether he had one like it. The child artlessly replied that he had not — that none but people that "went to the bad place" had them — that old Abe Lincoln's bad soldiers wore them.
These men call themselves officers, and wish to be thought gentleme