The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource]

The steamer St. Nicholas.

‘ Messrs, Editors: The recent seizure of the steamer St. Nicholas, whilst plying between the District of Columbia and Baltimore, and engaged in freighting agricultural products, &c., for the farmers of Maryland, may be considered or contested as a belligerent right; but against the seizure, confiscation, or detention of the goods and groceries, farming utensils, and other property of the true and loyal citizens of St. Mary's and adjoining counties. I wish to protest. St. Mary's has been termed the South Carolina of Maryland, and at the late Congressional election gave only 73 Union votes against 1,043 majority for the Secession candidate. No county in the State has furnished more recruits for the Confederate army; and whilst they have left their families, homes, and property unprotected, and crossed the Potomac at great personal risk, as well as expense, to enlist in defence of the South, they have a right to demand at least an exemption at home from hostile acts and annoyances on the part of the South--Between the upper and nether millstones they may be ground to powder. An Exile.

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