This historical marker explains what Yankees did to civilians. Today's "No Kings" protestors have no idea what a real "King" or "Fascist" really is. Somehow they don't see the irony of complaining a... View MoreThis historical marker explains what Yankees did to civilians. Today's "No Kings" protestors have no idea what a real "King" or "Fascist" really is. Somehow they don't see the irony of complaining about Trump while also praising Lincoln who was 100x worse.
This is Bel Air, the seat of Harford County, Maryland—a border-state county that never seceded and where a majority of voters had opposed Lincoln in 1860. In this town (like many others), federal troops and Unionist militia moved house to house confiscating shotguns, rifles, pistols, and even ceremonial swords from private homes, while arresting dozens of prominent citizens (judges, attorneys, newspaper editors, and former legislators) on suspicion of disloyalty; these men were marched off to Fort McHenry or shipped to Fort Lafayette in New York harbor and held for months without charges or trial, exactly as happened to Maryland legislator Frank Key Howard (grandson of Francis Scott Key) and the members of the Maryland General Assembly who were imprisoned to prevent a secession vote.
The parallel to today is stark and chilling: the same political leftists who now push sweeping gun-confiscation schemes (red-flag laws without due process, “assault weapon” bans enforced by warrantless searches in some proposals, and mass registration leading inevitably to seizure) are replicating the 1861 playbook—first disarm the population you distrust, then silence or jail the ones who still speak out, leaving citizens as defenseless against state power as the disarmed subjects of modern European regimes where people are arrested, fined, or imprisoned for harmless social-media posts deemed “hate speech” or “misinformation.”
This is another reason why the Confederacy is as relevant today as ever. Nothing fundamental has changed: when a government fears an armed and outspoken citizenry, its first two moves are always to take the guns and lock up the loudest dissenters—just as the Union/Yankees did in Bel Air in 1861, and just as some demand again today.
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