The Baltimore
American, edited by a coarse, vulgar, low-bred Yankee, speaks of the female passengers who were so brutally searched in the steamboat off
Fort McHenry as ‘"the women,"’ &c. This expression he uses at least five or six times.
These ‘"women"’ were, every one of them, ladies of the highest respectability.
They all came from the lower counties of
Maryland, on the
Patuxent, a region celebrated, ever since the days of
Leonard Calvert, as among the most refined on the Continent.
The scoundrels who conducted the search endeavored to induce a little girl four years old to betray her father, showing her a Union badge and asking her whether he had one like it. The child artlessly replied that he had not — that none but people that ‘"went to the bad place"’ had them — that old
Abe Lincoln's bad soldiers wore them.
These men call themselves officers, and wish to be thought gentlemen.
