From: "Strong, Lee" <StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 12:00:27 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

	The projected secession convention would have been illegal,
unconstitutional and null & void even if it had succeeded in seceeding.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 11:28 AM
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions

>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
>Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
>To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
>Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 10:50:28 -0500
>
>The events in Baltimore are one of the reasons for decades the city was =
=
>known as Mob Town.
>
>mjw
>
> >>> StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL 04/03/02 10:46AM >>>
>	Negative on this one, Ron.  Maryland never seceded.  An
>unauthorize=
>d
>group of legislators left Annapolis attempting to convene an illegal
>secession convention but they were arrested by Major General Benjamin
>Franklin Butler to prevent the proposed unconstitutional act.  He was in =
a
>bad mood because secessionists had rioted in Baltimore and fired on =
>Federal
>troops while they were passing peacefully thru the United States state of
>Maryland on legitimate business.
>
>Which is why they didn't secede.

Or, why they didn't succeed to secede.

mjw