He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

—-  unanimous Declaration (of Independence), Paragraph 5, Clause 5

       Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, orders Major General Winfield Scott, General in Chief of the Army of the united States, to arrest any Maryland sovereign Citizens harboring secessionist (constitutionalist) sentiments:

       You are engaged in repressing an insurrection against the laws of the United States. If at any point on or in the vicinity of the [any] military line, which is now used between the City Philadelphia and the City of Washington, via Perryville, Annapolis City, and Annapolis Junction, you find resistance which renders it necessary to suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus for the public safety, you, personally or through the officer in command at the point where the resistance occurs, are authorized to suspend that writ.

       NOTES:

• During the War Between the State over 2,000 Marylanders were imprisoned without benefit of due process including 29 legislators 17 and newspaper publishers.
• It is estimated that between 15,000 and 38,000 State sovereign Citizens were imprisoned without due process by Lincoln’s suspension of Habeas Corpus.
• This order also confiscated muskets, rifles and sidearms—in violation of Article II of Amendment—that were needed by sovereign State Citizens for the defense of their State.

       [restored 3/19/2022]