Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:29:56 -0500
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Interesting Inventions
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Strong, Lee" wrote:

>         Negative on this one, Ron.  Maryland never seceded.  An unauthorized
> 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.

Be that as it may, Maryland is south of the Mason-Dixon line (which is its
northern border) and was resolutely segregationist well into the '60s.

--Ted White