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CHAPTER XXIX.

GENERAL BANKS-Colonel Kenly-Bank's proclamation - New Police force-Arrest of Police Board-Resolutions of Legislature - General Dix-Correspondence with Gov. Andrews-New Legislature-Southern army in Maryland—Battle of Antietam—Retreat of Lee.

1. On June 8th, General Cadwallader was superseded by General N. P. Banks.

2. Colonel Kenly received orders from General Banks, to assume the duties of Provost Marshal of Baltimore, and was further instructed to arrest Marshal Geo. P. Kane, the Chief of the Police, and imprison him in Fort McHenry.

3. General Banks issued a proclamation announcing that it was not his design to interfere with the legitimate government of the people of Baltimore, or Maryland, but that the government regarded the Chief of the Police as at the head of a force hostile to its authority and acting in concert with its enemies. For this reason he arrested him and detained him in custody.

4 When Colonel Kenly took charge of the police department, the police force, of about four hundred men, was disbanded. Before the next

Questions.-1. By whom was Cadwallader superseded? 2. Who was made Provost Marshal? Who was arrested? 3. What proclamation did Banks issue? 4. What did General Kenly do?

day, however, he had gathered a new body of men, whom he knew to be bold and determined.

5. With this force, and without bloodshed, he allayed the intense excitement caused by the arrest of Kane. The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus rendered it impossible for any competent tribunal to decide whether the government was correct in its opinion, either in this instance, or in many others that occurred, as the civil courts were powerless to act.

6. Colonel Kenly, having been relieved at his own request, from the duties of Provost Marshal, went to the front with his regiment, crossing the Potomac at Williamsport, after performing efficient services in Western Maryland.

7. On the 1st of July, at 3 o'clock in the morning, all the members of the police board, excepting the Mayor, were arrested and taken to Fort McHenry. They were transferred to Fort Lafayette, in New York harbor, and on the 6th of August, Judge Garrison, of Brooklyn, issued a writ directing Colonel Burke to produce the persons in court. Colonel Burke declined on the authority of an order from Lieut. General Scott. As in the instance of General Cadwallader, Burke was cited to answer for contempt of court. did not appear, and on the 22d of August, Judge

He

Questions.-5. What further is said? 6. What was General Kenly's next movement? 7. What is said of the arrest of the Police Board?

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Garrison, "submitting to inevitable necessity, dismissed the proceedings. The prisoners were subsequently removed to Fort Warren.

8. When the morning of July 2d, dawned, the principal places of the city of Baltimore were found occupied by masses of artillery and infantry. The Court House, the Exchange, and many public places belonging to the city, were appropriated to the use of the troops, who thronged the streets and squares by night and by day.

9. Meanwhile, Mr. Brown, the Mayor of the city, expressed his readiness to General Banks to undertake the management of the police. General Banks declined, but appointed Mr. G. R. Dodge Provost Marshal, in place of Colonel Kenly. .

10. On the appointment of Dodge, the military were removed from the heart of the city. On the 21st of July, Congress, in spite of the protests and solemn remonstrances of the Senators and Representatives from Maryland, passed a bill appropriating one hundred thousand dollars for the payment of the police organization of Baltimore employed. by the United States.

11. The Legislature passed a series of resolutions pronouncing these acts a gross and unconstitutional abuse of power, and a revolutionary

Questions.-8. What of the City of Baltimore? 9. What did the Mayor propose? 10. What is said in this section? 11. What resolutions were passed by the legislature?

subversion of the Federal compact. They appealed, in the most earnest manner, to the whole country to come to the rescue of the free institutions of the republic, and ordered copies of their resolutions to be forwarded to the Senators and Representatives in Congress, and also to the Governors of the several States, and to the Legislatures. These resolutions were passed August 6th. On the next day, the Legislature adjourned to meet on the 17th day of September.

CHAPTER XXX.

ARREST OF THE LEGISLATURE-Elections-General Dix -Candidates-Success of the Union Candidate-Oppression-Case of Judge Carmichael—Invasion of Southern Army-South Mountain and Antietam-General Wool.

1. This Legislature never met again. On the 11th of September, the Secretary of War issued orders to General Banks to arrest all, or a part of the members. On the morning of the 13th, the Provost Marshal, George R. Dodge, arrested the Mayor of Baltimore, and the members of the Legislature of Baltimore city and Baltimore county.

Question.-1. What happened on September 11th?

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2. No charge was ever made against these men. The orders of the Secretary of War to General Banks were, that "the passage of any act of secession must be prevented. If necessary all or any part of the members must be arrested." There is no evidence that any such act was contemplated.

3 On November 6th, the regular election for Governor and Legislature took place. On the 28th of October, the Secretary of War had issued an order to General McClellan, that, in order to have a full vote in Maryland, he should grant a furlough to the soldiers of the first, second and third regiments of the Maryland volunteers. These soldiers were sent home at the expense of the government.

4. General Dix, who had succeeded General Banks in command of the department, issued an order to the Provost Marshal of Baltimore, "to have the polls unobstructed," saying, "we have shewn that we can control Maryland by force; we now wish to shew we can control it by the power of opinion." As the result of the election, Augustus W. Bradford, the Union candidate, was chosen Governor by a very large majority.

Questions.-2. What were the orders of the secretary of war? 3. What election took place? What order had the secretary of war issued? 4. What was General Dix's order?