[TexConfederate1861]

You prove me wrong..!

[Non-Sequitur]

Well, it's hard to prove something that didn't happen, didn't happen. But the timelines are there for anyone to see. Maryland held a secession convention and delegates voted secession down 53 to 13. Maryland followed this with a vote in the legislature against secession and proposing neutrality on April 29, 1861. None of the members of the Maryland legislature were thrown in prison for this. During the summer of 1861, some members of the legislature who still advocated secession and support for the cause of rebellion were jailed at Fort McHenry. The total number of legislators was 31, far less than the entrie Maryland legislature that you claim.

[WhiskeyPapa]

You prove me wrong..!

The whole legislature was not arrested. Thirtyone of about seventy legislators were arrested. That was only those with secessionist feelings. It should be noted that the police Chief of Baltimore was arrested and then released. He was later an officer in the army of the so-called CSA.

Walt

[friday jones]

http://www.sutler.com/2ndMD/History/Session_in_Maryland/session_in_maryland.html

"In a span of four days from the 13th to the 17th of September Lincoln had all of the members of the state legislature, who had or were suspected of having ties to the Confederacy, arrested."

"Arrests of this sort continued and became more numerous. Prime examples of this include an incident where Baltimore police chief Marshal George P. Kane was arrested for no particular reason. The underlying reason for the arrest was that as soon as Kane was arrested, the military was able to take over the Baltimore police department. Kane's arrest brought out extreme anti-North sentiments through out the state. These sentiments were quelled in Baltimore by the presence of infantry and artillery companies from Boston who were in control of the city at this time."