The people here begin to murmur at the idea that they are
questioned about their loyalty, and often arrested, by Baltimore petty larceny
detectives, who, if they were patriotic themselves (as they are all able-bodied
men), would be in the army, fighting for the redemption of Maryland.
SOURCE: John Beauchamp Jones, A Rebel War Clerk's
Diary at the Confederate States Capital, Volume 1, p. 96
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