...ple. Public displays of sympathy with the revolutionists were quickly resented. When, in the exuberance of their joy on the secession of Virginia, these sympathizers ventured to take a cannon to Federal Hill , raise a secession flag, and fire a salute, the workmen in the iron foundries near there turned out, captured the great gun and cast it into the waters of the Patapsco, tore the banner into shreds, ...