The Baltimore Riot happened on April 19, 1861 while the troops from Massachusetts passed through. Baltimoreans, probably Southern sympathizers thought the Union transport to be an invasion. “There would be no bloodshed or violence unless it be forced the national authority.” Well, the Baltimore mob attacked the Union soldiers. Thus, as Lincoln said in his Inaugural Address that he would use his powers to defend the Union. When the Massachusetts companies fired into the mob, it was in the name of protecting the Union according to Lincoln, the national authority. Lincoln said, “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.” After the riot, he acquiesced to Governor Hicks’ letter that he would reroute Union soldiers around the city of Baltimore, but that did not mean he was going to stop occupying Maryland as a Union transit. He argued with the Baltimore
The Baltimore Riot happened on April 19, 1861 while the troops from Massachusetts passed through. Baltimoreans, probably Southern sympathizers thought the Union transport to be an invasion. “There would be no bloodshed or violence unless it be forced the national authority.” Well, the Baltimore mob attacked the Union soldiers. Thus, as Lincoln said in his Inaugural Address that he would use his powers to defend the Union. When the Massachusetts companies fired into the mob, it was in the name of protecting the Union according to Lincoln, the national authority. Lincoln said, “In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.” After the riot, he acquiesced to Governor Hicks’ letter that he would reroute Union soldiers around the city of Baltimore, but that did not mean he was going to stop occupying Maryland as a Union transit. He argued with the Baltimore