THE WAR NEWS: The National Capital Considered Safe; Reinforcements Thrown Into Fort McHenry; BALTIMORE MENACED BY ITS GUNS (4/23/1861)

New York Times archives – Times Machine ^ | 4/23/1861

[Homer_J_Simpson]

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, April 22.

A special messenger arrived here last night, bearer of dispatches from the President to Gen. PATTERSON. He says the Capital is safe from any attack that can be made. The assailants can be baffled until the city is reinforced by the troops now on the way.

The messenger communicated with Fort McHenry. He travelled on, at times on horseback, in a wagon, and on foot, and passed off as a Methodist Preacher to scouting secession parties, until he reached Havre de Grace, where he crossed the Susquehanna in a skiff, and came to this City by special train.

Baltimore was quiet early Sunday morning, and no cannonading had been heard. There was a perfect reign of terror, and the Union men were obliged to succumb to the mob.

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, April 22.

Hon. MORROW LOWRY, special messenger from Washington, gives the following, his first experience in the war of races:

I left Erie, Penn., midnight of Thursday, and came to Harrisburgh. After an interview with Gov. CURTIN, I proceeded to Baltimore. I did not witness the fight, but did the scenes which followed. History will record it that the Massachusetts troops, although more than a hundred of their men were leveled with bricks, and their arms wrested from them, did not fire until commanded by the Mayor of Baltimore. I telegraphed Gov. CURTIN the state of things in Baltimore, and that no troops must come through either railroads. I took the cars at 3 o'clock Saturday morning for Washington. I communicated personally with Secretary CAMERON, Gen. SCOTT and the President what had happened. They were not prepared for such intelligence. A Cabinet meeting was instantly called.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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The War News: The National Capital Considered Safe – 2
Important from Baltimore: Fort McHenry Menacing the City – 2-3
Startling News from Virginia: Reported Burning of the City of Norfolk and the Portsmouth Navy-Yard – 3-4
The Military Furore: The Sixty-Ninth Off to the War – 4-6
Editorial: The People Demand Action – 6-7
Editorial: Blockade! Blockade! – 7
Editorial: The Position of Maryland – 7
Editorial: Public Opinion in the City – 7-8
Editorial: England and America – 8
Letters-of-Marque and Reprisal – 8

[C19fan]

Some things I noticed:

1: Union evacuating Norfolk Naval Base and burning it. Keep an eye on the Merrimac.
2: Thomas Francis Meagher forming a unit of Irish Volunteers.
3: NY Times really ripping the British. The landed Tory elite were very much Pro-Confederacy as they never liked America and their sympathies were with their landed brethren in the South.
4: Why does the NY Times call the Confederacy the Negro Confederacy?

[BroJoeK]

"4: Why does the NY Times call the Confederacy the Negro Confederacy?"

And related questions:

1. Why was Thomas Jefferson called the Negro President?

2. Why does the Southern press refer to Black Republicans?

3. Why is the Union president called, among similar names, "the Big Ape"?

4. Does anybody imagine that colorful political hyperbole is something of only recent invention?