the fact that they abound to an alarming ex
tent in most of the Northern States; nor of
the other fact that they were opposed to this
Convention for reasons precisely similar to
those urged by the opposition in this State
and that since the Convention assembled they
are opposed to abolishing slavery in Mary-
land. Two of them, one from New York
and one from Pennsylvania, talked with me
once on my way here and urged the above
views. The meanest slaveholder on earth is
your free State slavery pimp.
Witness the following from the Standard
(London) over the signature of "Manhat-
tan." This model democrat of the copper-
head persuasions has, in the Standard of the
30th ult., two columns of fabrications where-
of the following are samples:
" NEW YORK, May 17.
''The disgraceful wholesale lying about
the war and victories still continues. Noth-
ing like it has ever been heard before since
the world began. Many believe we have re-
ally achieved a great victory. There is one
man who does not believe it, and that one is
Lieut.-Gen. Grant. For the first six days of
battle, his army was being exterminated so
rapidly that. had it continued two days long-
er he would have fled the battle-field. He is
daily supplied with reinforcements. Troops
go from here. Troops go from the West
The fortifications about Washington have
been drained of troops to go to the aid of
Grant. At least 100,000 have been sent on
since Grant commenced fighting, and the new
men have been engaged in some of the se-
verest battles. It is estimated that Grant
has lost 85,000 to 100.000 men—wounded
and killed. The Confederates do not seem to
have had a fancy for taking prisoners, as
they would he an embarrassment. In spite
of all the lies of Lee being wounded, in re-
treat, and so forth, he has not fallen back one
mile. He is still at Spottsylvania. Court
House. Grant to-day cannot move a mile
without more men are sent to him.
" All the States have been requested to
send on as many men as possible, within fif
teen days, to serve one hundred days. * *
" We expect this afternoon a despatch or
dering on all the State troops to the defence of
Washington Governor Seymour is in town
and ready to act as a patriot should act
when the news comes of disaster to Grant
He hopes for the best, but he is prepared for
the worst. When the news reached here
yesterday that Beauregard had passed Gen.
Butler, and had joined Lee, there was almost
a panic. No man can feel easy until he gets
the positive news of the effect of that union.
That it will be tearfully disastrous upon the
exhausted divisions of Grant, cannot be
doubted. We have some hopes that when
the bloody news of the past fortnight (to-day)
is fairly before the English people, that they
will rise up in a solid mass, and declare that |
such useless bloodshed shall be stopped. It
is awful to think of.
"It is a very difficult matter to get a sur-
geon in this city, or in any other. All the
leading surgeons have gone to the battle-
fields to attend to the wants of the fifty or
sixty thousand that are wounded there. The
government is still sending on for more sur-
geons from the States. Seventy or eighty
will leave the St. Nicholas to-night.
"Every republican of standing holds down
his head with shame to-day when he is satis-
fied that the reports of victories are all false
and wicked.
" Gloomy as are the accounts from the Po-
tomac, we must prepare for the worst. Two
of our hospitals in the Wilderness have been
captured by the Confederates. We lose a
few thousand of our wounded prisoners.
Every moment we may expect to hear of the
capture of Fredericksburg, and 30,000 or 40,-
000 wounded.
" When the report came that Gen. Lee was
wounded, I heard one of our leading mer-
chants observe, "I would purchase a cart-
load of gold and give it away, if it would re-
store him."
"It is stated that our man, Gen. Steele,
and 9,000, has surrendered to Price at Cam-
den, Arkansas. I should doubt this Con-
federate report had not Stanton stated that
he knows it to be untrue. This satisfies me
that it is reliable, and that we have lost that
number.
" From the Mississippi our news is too bad
to he spoken of. Our next news will be that
Banks is captured."
Let me ask the gentleman from St. Mary's,
who recalled the talismanic import of those
old words, " Roman citizen," let me ask
him, I say, to join with me in the anathema
which shall consign to endless infamy this
lease abortion of an American citizen, who
can thus hiss into the ear of a foreigner an
intimation of his country's shame.
Mr. CLARKE. I hold in my hand a copy of
the "New Nation," of June 18th, the organ
of Fremont, and this slates that the losses of
Gen. Grant, up to date, amount to one hun-
dred and twenty-five thousand men—killed,
wounded, prisoners, and stragglers. What
does the gentleman call this authority ?
Mr. PUGH. He is a copperhead whoever
uttered it. The gentleman must bear in mind
the date of this letter.
Mr. CLARKE. It is not a copperhead who
make's this statement, but one who is recog-
nized as a republican.
Mr. PUGH. How does the gentleman know
whom I call copperheads?
Mr. CLARKE. I understood the gentleman
to refer to democrats.
Mr. PUGH. No, sir; I did not say demo-
crats; I said copperheads—the whole genus.
I call all copperheads who forget this hour
of their nation's disaster and distress, and |
