Remembering Mary Surratt; Marylander and Southerner

Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy said:<br /> <br /> "I love the Union and the Constitution, but I would rather leave the Union with the Constitution than remain in the Union without it." <br /> <br /> America had not yet celebrated her 85th birthday when the South seceded from the Union in the year of our Lord 1861. Secession was recognized as a God given right that was also exercised by the 13 American Colonies in their separation from Great Britain in 1776 to form the United States of America. <br /> <br /> Some say America and the Constitution died a little with General Lee and the South at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia in April 1865. <br /> <br /> The courtesy and respect shown by General Ulysses S. Grant and his men to General Robert E. Lee and his weary men at the surrender and Lincoln's wish for a peaceful re-uniting of the North and South would be short lived. The President's death would be replaced with a bitter hatred by some in the North toward the men and women of the former Confederate States of America. <br /> It has been written that Maryland sided with the Union but the truth is