Get Their Graves Ready!
In April, 1861, a deputation of sympathizers with secession had the boldness to call on President Lincoln and demand a cessation of hostilities until convening of Congress, threatening that seventy-five thousand Marylanders would contest the passage of troops over their soil.
“I presume,” quietly replied Mr. Lincoln, “that there is room enough in her soil for seventy-five thousand graves?”—(Peterson’s “Life of Lincoln.”)