...landers were unloosed, and treason became weaker every hour; and their State was soon numbered among the stanchest of loyal Commonwealths, outstripping in practical patriotism Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri . On that eventful 14th of May, the veteran Major W. W. Morris, in command at Fort McHenry. near Baltimore (which had lately been well garrisoned), first gave practical force to the suspension of ...