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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC06107.39 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: Calais, Maine Type: Broadside Date: 19 April 1861 Pagination: 1 p. ; 46.7 x 8.5 cm. Order a Copy
Reports on various events related to the 19 April 1861 Baltimore Riot, during which secessionists attacked Union soldiers passing through the city. Headlines announce "Governor Hicks Yielding" and "Massachusetts Regiment Reach Washington!" Referring to Maryland Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks, states "Hicks was sent for and said he was opposed to secession but the right of revolution could not be disputed. It was folly to attempt to subjugate the South." Cites another dispatch from Baltimore stating " 'We hope the north will stand by us and in their forced passage through our city to the Capital remember that there are many true men here.' Our police and many of our Military Companies openly defy the Government." Also mentions the activities of Baltimore Mayor George William Brown.
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