There was only one course for the magistrates of Baltimore to take, and they took it.

They had the steam of a special train got up, packed the Texicans into it, whether they would or no, and sent them away from the town at a speed of thirty miles an hour.
But they were not carried off too quickly to hurl a last and threatening sarcasm at their adversaries.
Making allusion to the width of Florida, a simple peninsula between two seas, they pretended it would not resist the shock, and would be blown up the first time the cannon was fired.
"Very well! let it be blown up!" answered the Floridans with a laconism worthy of ancient times..