The prison — the most powerful Agent of the tyrant.
--The world has no doubt ceased to be appalled at the ruthless tyranny of the vulgar man who rules the
Northern people.
The telegraph news in the
Dispatch of this morning announces numerous arrests of some of the very best men of
Maryland; but they will occasion no surprise.
They are no doubt to be followed by many others.
The object of the
Washington President is two fold — viz: to prevent the Maryland Legislature, which meets to-morrow, from doing anything adverse to his interests, and to deprive the leading men of that State of power to injure him by consigning them to prison.
He imagines that by robbing the people of their leaders they will be deterred from all resistance and become passive subjects of his tyranny.
When
Gen. Banks was approached by a prominent citizen relative to the arrest of
Marshal Kane, he replied that if there were no accusations against that gentlemen, his imprisonment was proper, because his great influence and his military talents made him a dangerous man to the
Government.
These arrests, this system of enslaving the noble
State of Maryland, by placing the leaders of the people powerless and helpless in prison, must excite deeply the public mind of the whole Southern Confederacy.
They make all pray for the speedy crossing of the main Southern army to
Maryland, to rescue her people from the execrable thraldom they now groan under.
Not a moment of unnecessary delay should postpone that event.
Justice, Humanity, the interests of the
Southern cause all demand that at the earliest day, the people of
Maryland should be relieved, and the wicked and oppressive measures of
Lincoln terminated.
