He has dissolved Representative Houses … for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
—- unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 3, Clause 6
Major General John Adams Dix, commanding the compulsory Union Departments of Maryland and Pennsylvania, arrests Speaker E. G. Kilbourn, of the Maryland House of Delegates for being a “dangerous secessionist.”
NOTE: During the War of Federal Aggression 2,094 Maryland sovereign Citizens—including 17 newspaper publishers and 29 members of the legislature—were jailed for political reasons.
[added 3/25/2022]
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References:
Abraham Lincoln and Maryland – Abraham Lincoln’s Classroom.mht
www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org/Library/newsletter.asp?ID=108&CRLI=156
Maryland and Secession
blueandgraytrail.com/event/Maryland_and_Secession