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The three greatest villains and traitors which the present war has produced, are, beyond all doubt, Hicks, Scott, and Harney.
We place them in the order of their infamy.
Hicks ranks his confederates by long odds.
Scott and Harney have some palliation in the fact of their being mercenaries, and in their carnal weakness.
But in Hicks' villainy there are no mitigating circumstances — no plea of human frailty.
His treachery was deliberate, cold-blooded, cowardly, and hypocritical.
Before the incensed populace of Baltimore, he quailed into submission, abjured his Unionism, and declared unqualifiedly his determination to resist the Lincoln invasion to the death.
The threats for vengeance against the Yankee murderers of Baltimore citizens has hardly died away, before he slunk off to Winter Davis' den, and set to work concocting a plan to betray Maryland into Lincoln's hands.
The men of the South, unfortunately, trusted his assurances, and now Baltimore and Maryland are suffering the penalty of their credulity and weakness.--New Orleans Delta, May 28.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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