So does the city of Rockville:
But put all this on hold until they get rid of the swastika on the Baltimore county flag:
Posted on 08/03/2017 12:17:08 PM PDT by TigerClaws
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — During a social media campaign to derail HBO’s planned modern-day Southern slavery drama, one Twitter user’s posts about the history of the Maryland flag got a lot of attention.
“What a lot of people don’t know is that the Maryland flag is half confederate,” @benjancewicz wrote, using the hashtag #NoConfederate. ADVERTISING
And, he’s kind of right.
Yes, even though Maryland was a Union state, the flag — which is featured on the state’s license plate and is a popular adornment for clothing and accessories — does contain some Confederate symbolism.
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The flag’s older history is tied to George Calvert, an English politician and colonizer who more or less founded the Maryland colony, although he died just weeks before the charter for the state was approved in 1632. The settlement of the area was left to his firstborn son Cecil and his second son Leonard Calvert was the first colonial governor of the province.
“George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, adopted a coat of arms that included a shield with alternating quadrants featuring the yellow-and-black colors of his paternal family and the red-and-white colors of his maternal family, the Crosslands,” state archives say.
“When the General Assembly in 1904 adopted a banner of this design as the state flag, a link was forged between modern-day Maryland and the very earliest chapter of the proprietorship of the Calvert family.”
But the red and white part of the flag, known as the Crossland arms, was also the design flown by Marylanders who sympathized with the South in the Civil War, according to state records.
“During the war, Maryland-born Confederate soldiers used both the red-and-white colors and the cross bottony design from the Crossland quadrants of the Calvert coat of arms as a unique way of identifying their place of birth,” the records say. “Pins in the cross bottony shape were worn on uniforms, and the headquarters flag of the Maryland-born Confederate general Bradley T. Johnson was a red cross bottony on a white field.”
During the slow process of reconciliation after the Civil War ended in Union victory in 1865, a “flag incorporating alternating quadrants of the Calvert and Crossland colors began appearing at public events” in the state.
The origins of the flag including both designs is not known, but state records say it was being flown by October 1880.
In 1888, the flag was carried by Maryland National Guard troops escorting Governor Elihu E. Jackson at the dedication ceremonies for the Maryland monument at the Gettysburg Battlefield.
The next year, the Fifth Regiment, Maryland National Guard, adopted the flag as its regimental color, becoming the first organization to adopt it officially.
And, as previously mentioned, it was declared the official state flag by the General Assembly in 1904.
Read more about the history of the state flag HERE, and tell us what you think of it.
#FakeNews needs an element of truth. In this case the fact that it was used by secessionists is close enough for them. They need an issue because they are losing on the ones they have.
The state song certainly does.
Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, and Missouri were all slave states. The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free slaves in those states.
We have to outlaw clouds, they’re way to white.
These snowflakes are offended by everything.
Time to stock up on my tampon portfolio.
You racist, tampons are... white!
All slavers wore clothes. I propose that all females between 18 to 40 give up clothing in solidarity with AA.
I’m going down to South beach and will let you know what I see.
All slavers wore clothes. I propose that all females between 18 to 40 give up clothing in solidarity with AA.
I’m going down to South beach and will let you know what I see.
Let’s erase all our history!
We should rename all monumens and cities named after George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. After all, they owned slaves too!
This is ridiculous. The entire flag dates from pre-colonial times. A portion of the design was misused by a vanishingly small number of racist idiots during the Civil War, but there was no organized use, and there was no Confederate Maryland banner of any kind.
Saying this flag has Confederate ties is much less plausible than saying the US Flag has Confederate ties because it has white stars on a field of blue, and the Bonnie Blue Flag was a popular Confederate symbol. Complete nonsense. The fact that a symbol is abused without authorization for a brief time does not mean it is invalidated. We fought a little war reconciling such things, as you all may recall.
I was taught that the red crosses on the Maryland flag were a symbol of the Crosslands, and the red buttony cross was a symbol of the Crosslands because of the Catholic influence in that region, thus the buttony cross is a symbol of the Catholic heritage of Maryland, a unique bit of history well worth preserving.
I would even venture to say that this campaign smacks of anti-Catholic bigotry...
As of today I demand they be made of a clear material!!!
I’m thinking fiberglass would do it
The less said of that, the better...
Invisible? The Emperor’s New Flag. Very apropos for Maryland.
It is still illegal to run train through Baltimore without stopping for this very reason. Federal troops trains bound for Washington were stopped, unloaded, and the soldiers marched through Baltimore, before getting back on the train to continue their journey.
To my knowledge, Maryland was never a Union state.
In fact Pres. Lincoln ordered the Maryland State Assembly
shut down and many Delegates were arrested and held for the
duration of the war. And Maryland was a slave state.
Many slave plantations are preserved on the eastern shore
of Maryland and can be visited.
The State of Maryland was founded as a refuge for Catholics
who wished to flee from the persecution of
Protestants in England and in America. That's one of the
reasons Baltimore and its environs is so Catholic.
It’s origin is Spain
Any foods that confederate soldiers are known to have consumed must be totally banned from commerce and certainly should not be served in any public eating establishment.
You joke but that’s already a movement.
A statue of Thomas Jefferson had a ‘post it’ protest where students wrote “SLAVE OWNER” etc. and stuck them on the statue.
So does the city of Rockville:
But put all this on hold until they get rid of the swastika on the Baltimore county flag:
East Tennessee would have been a Union state had the wishes of its people been respected by the Confederate government and army.
Maryland My Maryland!
Written by James Ryder Randall
The despot's heel is on thy shore,
Maryland, My Maryland!
His torch is at thy temple door,
Maryland, My Maryland!
Avenge the patriotic gore
That flecked the streets of Baltimore,
And be the battle queen of yore,
Maryland! My Maryland!
Hark to an exiled son's appeal,
Maryland, My Maryland!
My Mother State! to thee I kneel,
Maryland, My Maryland!
For life and death, for woe and weal,
Thy peerless chivalry reveal,
And gird they beauteous limbs with steel,
Maryland! My Maryland!
Thou wilt not cower in the dust,
Maryland, My Maryland!
Thy beaming sword shall never rust,
Maryland, My Maryland!
Remember Carroll's sacred trust,
Remember Howard's warlike thrust,
- And all they slumberers with the just,
Maryland! My Maryland!
Come! 'tis the red dawn of the day,
Maryland, My Maryland!
Come with thy panoplied array,
Maryland, My Maryland!
With Ringgold's spirit for the fray,
With Watson's blood at Monterey,
With fearless Lowe and dashing May,
Maryland! My Maryland!
Come! for thy shield is bright and strong,
Maryland, My Maryland!
Come! for thy dalliance does thee wrong,
Maryland, My Maryland!
Come! to thine own heroic throng,
Stalking with Liberty along,
And give a new Key to thy song,
Maryland! My Maryland!
Dear Mother! burst the tyrant's chain,
Maryland, My Maryland!
Virginia should not call in vain!
Maryland, My Maryland!
She meets her sisters on the plain-
"Sic semper!" 'tis the proud refrain
That baffles minions back amain,
Maryland! My Maryland!
I see the blush upon thy cheek,
Maryland, My Maryland!
For thou wast ever bravely meek,
Maryland, My Maryland!
But lo! There surges forth a shriek
From hill to hill, from creek to creek-
Potomac calls to Chesapeake,
Maryland! My Maryland!
Thou wilt not yield the vandal toll,
Maryland, My Maryland!
Thou wilt not crook to his control,
Maryland, My Maryland!
Better the fire upon thee roll,
Better the blade, the shot, the bowl,
Than crucifixion of the soul,
Maryland! My Maryland!
I hear the distant thunder-hum,
Maryland, My Maryland!
The Old Line's bugle, fife, and drum,
Maryland, My Maryland!
She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb-
Huzza! she spurns the Northern scum!
She breathes! she burns! she'll come! she'll come!
Maryland! My Maryland!
The despot's heel -- was Lincoln.
The patriotic gore that flecked the streets of Baltimore -- there had been anti-Union riots in Baltimore (some things never change) that were put down by Federal troops.
"Huzza! She spurns the northern scum" -- because love trumps hate, amirite? And those last words in bold just make me grin and shake my head.
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