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Emanicipation and Maryland Politics

Ex-Governor Hicks, familiarly called the 'Old War Horse,' is a candidate for congress in the first district of Maryland, and his election is regarded as certain. He goes in unequivocally for emancipation....

Montgomery County Sentinel (Rockville), December 26, 1862, p. 3.

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Posted on 12/28/2012 in Montgomery County, Local Elections, Abolition of Slavery

Police Marshall Kane Held Without Habeas Corpus

After an incarceration of seventeen months in four of the Forts of the United States, now converted by the Government into prisons which have no similitude but in the Bastile of France....

Southern Aegis and Harford County Intelligencer, December 13, 1862, p. 2.

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Posted on 12/21/2012 in Baltimore, Arrests of Maryland Citizens, Harford County, Suspension of Habeas Corpus

Teachers Forced to Swear Allegiance

Any man or woman who assumes to be an alien, being thus devilished by the virus of secession, should be dismissed from all public....

The Cecil Whig (Elkton), December 6, 1862, Front Page.

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Posted on 12/13/2012 in Baltimore County, Cecil County, Forced Allegiance

Thanksgiving Political Prisoner Release

We have the extreme satisfaction of announcing to our readers, as one fact pertinent to a Thanksgiving day, the unconditional release of all the Maryland political prisoners....

The Baltimore County Advocate (Towsontown), November 29, 1862, p. 2.

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Posted on 12/5/2012 in Arrests of Maryland Citizens, Baltimore County, Daily Life