Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... PRANK KEY HOWARD, ESQ. IT would be impossible, without extending this work far beyond the limits designed, to give a separate history of each one of the many cases of gentlemen of Baltimore, and from different parts of the State of Maryland, who was arrested and imprisoned. It will be remembered that the Mayor of the city of Baltimore, the Police Commissioners, the Marshal of Police, members of the State Legislature, and private citizens, uot only from that city, but from all parts of the State, were arrested and thrown into prison, by the edict of Abraham Lincoln, and kept there for months, without any warrant of law whatever. The prerogative exercised by Mr. Lincoln in Maryland, as elsewhere, exhibits an assumption of power unparalleled in the history of any country, at any time. For, be it remembered, Maryland was not in a state of revolution or rebellion. Mob law may have existed at times in the city of Baltimore, but did it not exist, at times, in the city of Philadelphia f Nor was there any well-founded reason to apprehend that the Legislature of Maryland would pass an ordinance of secession. Hon. S. Teackle Wallis, a prominent member of that body -- and one of the victims of arbitrary power -- in a letter addressed by him to John Sherman, Senator of Ohio, says: "The special session of the Legislature of Maryland, called by Governor Hicks, in 1861, was opened in Frederick, on the 2tith of April, in that year. On the next day, April 27, a select committee of the Senate reported to that body an address to the people of Maryland, which, on the same day, was unanimously adopted, and was shortly afterward pul tun liahcd, with the individual signatures of the Senators, in all the newspapers of the State. "The principal feature of...
