The Daily Dispatch: September 26, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Letter from a Baltimore Boy.

--We have perused a letter written by a lad of thirteen years, in Baltimore, to a relative in this city, which, though not of so late a date as our last advices, is interesting as showing the spirit which animates the youth of the Monumental City. He says ‘"We are being cruelly ground under the iron heel of Yankee oppression.--We have no police, and as soon as the Legislature passes the Ordinance of Secession, the members have no other hope but to be sent to Bastile Lafayette, when the oath of allegiance to the Lincoln Government will be administered to the citizens of the State, unless they are speedily relieved, or rather rescued, by the Confederate troops."’ ‘"When Maryland is called on, she will be up to time, and I suppose we can fernish thirty or forty more regiments, when the army crosses the Potomac."’

There is much more in the letter, but it relates chiefly to incidents of Federal tyranny with which our readers are faraitiar. If all the men of Baltimore had the pluck of that boy. the guns of Fort McHenry would not long frown them into submission.