The Daily Dispatch: December 24, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Attitude of the Confederate Government in regard to Maryland.

The resolutions in relation to Maryland, to which we have heretofore alluded, have finally passed Congress, and received the approval of the President. They recite the wrongs of Maryland, and express a belief that a large majority of the people of that State desire to unite with the Confederate States--that the Government of the United States has suppressed with armed force the freedom of speech and of election, prevented the people and their representatives from adopting the political connexion which they prefer, and has, in revenge for their preference, inflicted upon them many outrages, and established over them a foreign despotism; and since the accession of Maryland to the Confederation will be mutually beneficial, and is essential to the integrity and security of the Confederate Union, the resolutions express a profound sympathy for the people of that oppressed State, announce the desire of this Government to facilitate, by appropriate measures and by their free consent, their accession to the Confederate States, and finally declare that no peace ought to be concluded with the United States which does not insure to Maryland the opportunity of forming a part of this Confederacy.