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 Francis Key Howard, editor of the Baltimore (Maryland) Exchange, for writing an editorial critical of the suspension of Habeas Corpus, by Commander-in-Chief Abraham Lincoln, of the united States, and the subsequent incarceration without due process of—ostensibly compulsory Constitutional Union (nationalist) Representative Henry May, of Maryland; and pro-Confederate (constitutionalist) Mayor George William Brown, of Baltimore, along with the entire City Council and Police Commission of Baltimore.

       NOTES:

• Howard was initially imprisoned near the very spot where his grandfather, Francis Scott Key, wrote the “Star Spangled Banner”:  “O say does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”  Many in Howard’s day and in our day might answer, “No it does not.”
• In all, Lincoln shut down around three hundred opposition newspapers during the War of Federal Aggression.

       [added 3/25/2022]