<h3>GET THEIR GRAVES READY!</h3>
<p>In April, 1861, a deputation of sympathizers with secession had the
boldness to call on President Lincoln and demand a cessation of
hostilities until convening of Congress, threatening that seventy-five
thousand Marylanders would contest the passage of troops over their
soil.</p>
<p>"I presume," quietly replied Mr. Lincoln, "that there is room enough
in her soil for seventy-five thousand graves?"--(Peterson's "Life of
Lincoln.")
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