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The first Engagement!Northern volunteers Repulsed at Baltimore.Massachusetts soldiers killed!passage of several cars.murder of Marylanders!calling out of city military.the Railroads Decline to pass any more Northern troops.scenes and Incidents, &c.
On Friday morning, the excitement which had been gradually rising in Baltimore for some days, with reference to the passage of Northern volunteer troops southward, reached its climax upon the arrival of the Massachusetts and other volunteers, some from Philadeiphia, at President street depot, in that city, at 10 ½ o'clock. A large crowd had assembled, evidently to give them an unwelcome reception.
The arrangements contemplated the passage of thirty-one cars occupled by the volunteers, from President street depot to the Camden station of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, over the intervening space oceupied by the Pratt street track.
The Sun says:
The cars were dispatched one after the other by horses, and upon the arrival of the
The Boston Banks. Boston, April 18
--A meeting of the Bank officers, representing all the Boston Banks, was held here this morning, when a resolution was adopted to loan the State of Massachusetts 10 per cent. on their entire capital for the defence of the Government.
The capital of the Boston Banks amount to $38,500,000.
The Daily Dispatch: April 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Journey under difficulties. (search)
Massachusetts and Maryland.
It is memorable that the first blood shed in this contest has been by those men whose ancestors were first fired upon in the Revolution, and that the victims have been citizens of a State more devoted than any other in the South to the American Union.
When the sons of Massachusetts were assailMassachusetts were assailed by England, the South rushed to their rescue, and when they had exhausted their arms and means in her defence, she refused to send a single soldier for the relief of the South.
The wonder is, that after this exhibition of New England patriotism, the South ever consented to a union with such a people.
The Baltimore Sun give another specimen of their conduct in the late war. In 1812, in reply to the requisition of the President for forces to repel foreign invasion, Gov. Strong, of Massachusetts, flatly refused.
It "was not (continues the Sun) until Sept, 7th, 1814, that his Excellency Caleb Strong was pleased to write to the Secretary of War that, 'a