More of Hunter's tyranny.
Mr. J. W. Baughman, editor of the Frederick (Maryland) Citizen, has arrived in Richmond. He was ordered out of Maryland, and into the Southern Confederacy, by General Hunter because his paper stated that the Yankee loss at the battle of Monocracy was two thousand; or rather, that was the immediate pretext for gratifying the general sentiment of hatred entertained by the Washington tyranny and its myrmidons towards the Citizen for its bold and able defence of the rights and sovereignty of the States against the Washington usurpation, and also for its sympathy with the cause of the Confederacy. Hunter, Lincoln's brutal executioner, seized-upon the announcement of the loss at Monocracy and ordered Mr. Daughman away in the following official note:
"You are hereby ordered to go south of the military lines of the United States forces, and will not return during the war, under penalty of being arrested and treated as a spy and enemy to the United States Government.
"Commanding Department. "John T. Yellot,
"Major Commanding Fost and Provost-Marshal."
Mr. Baughman was granted but a little time to arrange his affairs and depart. When he reached Harper's Ferry, and before he was sent to the guardhouse, the Provost-Marshal there, with an air of land consideration, told him that if he had any money or valuables about him he would likely be Tobbed of them by the guard, and volunteered to keep any such for him. Thereupon Mr. Baughman, handed over to him five hundred and five dollars and his watch, for which he received the following paper:
‘ "Received of J. W. Baughman one silver watch and five hundred and five dollars.
’
When Mr. Banghman was about to start from Harper's Ferry he applied for his property, and was coolly informed by Pratt that General Hunter had forbidden the return of it, and had, moreover, instructed him to inform Mr. Baughman that he must deport at once, and if caught in the Federal lines, his head should be shaved and he should be flogged. Of course nobody can be surprised that Hunter should steal after turning traitor to his native State. But while he is certainly not too good to do so, and has stolen a great deal from our people, it is not improbable that this Yankee Provost Prait pocketed the money himself without Hunter's order. He belongs to the Thirty-fourth Massachusetts regiment. We hope he will be duly published in Boston, that he may derive whatever of credit or infinity that may attach to his coridyet in the "Aliens of America."
To add to the embarrassment and distress of Mr. Baughman, he was further informed that Hunter had taken possession of his home and property and ordered away from Frederick his wife and children. These he afterwards met, and through the hospitality of a citizen of a northern county in Virginia, procured for them temporary shelter.
This gentleman, thus despoiled of everything he had on earth but his family, and driven a fugitive from his home and State, comes amongst as in every way commended to the most kind and respectful consideration of our people and Government. He affects not to have suffered for defending our cause more than his and Maryland's. But it is proper and just that; as far as possible, he should here find sympathy and the right hand of fellowship.
Mr. Baughman represents the state of feeling in Maryland as stronger than ever for State Rights and the South. The measures of oppression from Washington, which bear so heavily on Marylanders, making them the most oppressed of all under Lincoln's sway, but increases the spirit of hatred for the Northern Government and the determination ultimately to throw off the yoke.
