Baltimore and the Nineteenth of April, 1861: A Study of the War

Both from feeling and on principle I had always been opposed to slavery--the result in part of the teaching and example of my parents, and confirmed by my own reading and observ...

APRIL 20th, INCREASING EXCITEMENT. -- APPROPRIATION OF $500,000 FOR DEFENSE OF THE CITY. -- CORRESPONDENCE WITH PRESIDENT AND GOVERNOR. -- MEN ENROLLED. -- APPREHENDED ATTACK ON...

THE SIXTH MASSACHUSETTS REGIMENT IN BALTIMORE. -- THE FIGHT. -- THE DEPARTURE FOR WASHINGTON. -- CORRESPONDENCE IN REGARD TO THE KILLED AND WOUNDED. -- PUBLIC MEETING. -- TELEGR...

GENERAL BANKS IN COMMAND. -- MARSHAL KANE ARRESTED. -- POLICE COMMISSIONERS SUPERSEDED. -- RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. -- POLICE COMMISSIONERS ARRESTED. -- MEMOR...

I now come to consider the condition of affairs in Maryland. As yet the Republican party had obtained a very slight foothold. Only 2,294 votes had in the whole State been cast f...

I have often been solicited by persons of widely opposite political opinions to write an account of the events which occurred in Baltimore on the 19th of April, 1861, about whic...

The suspension of the writ of _habeas corpus_, by order of the President, without the sanction of an Act of Congress, which had not then been given, was one of the memorable eve...

For a period the broad provisions of the Constitution of the United States, as expounded by the wise and broad decisions of the Supreme Court, had proved to be equal to every em...

SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. -- REPORT OF THE BOARD OF POLICE. -- SUPPRESSION OF THE FLAGS. -- ON THE 5th OF MAY, GENERAL BUTLER TAKES POSITION SEVEN MILES FROM BALTIMORE. -...

District. -- Town Government. -- Town-Meeting. -- Consolidation. -- City Government. -- City Judiciary. -- City Executive. -- City Legislature. -- Legislative Control over the C...

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MESSAGE OF THE 12th OF JULY, 1861, TO THE FIRST AND SECOND BRANCHES OF THE CITY COUNCIL, REFERRING TO THE EVENTS OF THE 19th OF APRIL AND THOSE WHICH FOLLOWED.--THE FIRST PARAGR...

Town-Born _vs._ Interloper. -- First Phases of City Politics. -- First Charter. -- Description of the City. -- Municipal Improvements. -- Fire Department. -- Adornment of the Gr...

Causes leading to its passage. -- Features of New Charter. -- Supplements. -- Extent of territory covered by consolidation. -- Character of outlying districts. -- New Constituti...

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Quarrel with East Haven. -- Yale College. -- The Walpolean Lethargy. -- Sale of the Town's Poor. -- First Post-Office. -- First Oyster Laws. -- Sketch of the Town's Commerce. --...

Charter. -- Causes leading to its passage. -- A modern municipal corporation. -- Supplements. -- Departments. -- Concentration of authority. -- Councils. -- Bicameral system ado...

Charter of 1701. -- Attributes of the Proprietary Charter; its medieval character. -- Integral parts of the corporation. -- Arbitrary nature and limited powers. -- Acts of Legis...

in Constitution. -- Hopkins Grammar School. -- Minister's Tax. -- Tithingmen. -- Justice of the Peace. -- Divisions of Land. -- Indian Reservations. -- The Village Controversy....

-- Drunkenness. -- Sabbath-breaking. -- Spiritual Discouragements. -- Quakers and Witches. -- Lewdness. -- Methods of Civil Procedure. -- Legislation concerning Trade and Prices...