The Maryland House Committee on Federal Regulations approves a proclamation declaring the War of Federal Aggression “now waged by the government of the [u]nited States upon the people of the Confederate States is unconstitutional in its origin, purposes and conduct; subversive of the free principles on which the [f]ederal Union was founded. …”
[restored 10/17/2026]
Rear Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont, commanding the compulsory Union South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, occupies Port Royal, South Carolina.
[restored 2/8/2025]
Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Maryland Constitution of 1851, Declaration of Rights, Article X
msa.maryland.gov/msa/mdmanual/43const/html/00dec.html
“Law of the Jungle”
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 286.
Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda and an Unnecessary War, (Roseville, California: Prima Publishing, 2002), 144.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 167.