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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 9 (search)
other interests. They, of course, approve the war spirit of the Western barbarians, and look now upon Maryland with a suspicious eye, because of the recent Union election in the State, which is considered an effort to cover their secret preparations to strike colors with us in the conflict. She is ready to embrace our side as soon as the faintest whisper reaches her people that we will meet mid way on the glorious march to wrest our country from the despot at Washington, whose Administration, thus far, will leave a darker and more odious stain upon our history than the Legislative Assembly of France, during the eighteenth century, made upon hers. The names of the present Cabinet officers will excite more contempt from future generations than such as Danton, Murat, and Robespierre, of French Revolution notoriety. The recent action of the Convention, in passing a coastwise guard bill, is highly approved by our people, who appreciate any thing looking to protection. Frederick.
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ore unrestrained by political opposition. Never was a party more confounded by its own work; never in mere imminent danger of destruction by its own madness and infatuation. There are those who cherish the vain delusion that the ruling spirits at Washington will be disposed towards peace. Never was there a greater hallucination or a wilder dream. It is an axiom of history that revolutions never go backwards. Those who raise the whirlwind may direct, but they cannot stay, the storm. Danton and Robespierre and Petion went on, and on, and on, until they themselves experienced the fate to which they had consigned so many victims. The Blairs, the Sewards and the Greeleys cannot stop in the full career of revolution, if they would; and they would not if they could. To pause, to parley and to make peace, may be the part of prudence for the North, as it indisputably is the part of patriotism; but it is not in the hearts of these men to espouse a policy of that pacific nature, even