The southern aegis. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1857-1862, 1861-04-13
VOL. VINO. Is.
From The Cumberland Bulletin.
The Proposed Union Party"

Our numerous readers have doubtless
ere this become fully cognizant of the fact
that the formation of great party in Ma
ryland, under the talismanic name of
Uniom," is now no longer matter Of
reasonable doubt. The movement was
first inaugurated and put into practical ope-
ration in Frederick, by certain dissatisfied
politicians, whose services and abilities
seem heretofore strangely to have been I'M
appreciated by "the eternal people"
We propose in this article, briefly as
possible, to consider the object of its for
nation, the complexion and character of
its constituent elements, and the inevitable
results that will be found attendant uEon
its elevation to power.
The fundamental and active principle of
its being will be hostility to the Demo-
cratic party; the object intended to be &C
complshed, the successful overthrow of
that political organization, which carried
the State in the last Presidential campaign,
and the necessary sequence of unqualified
and unconditional Submission to the ia
natical and sectional policy Of the Lincoln
Administration. The truthfulness of this
assertion is conclusively demonstrated, by
the fact that it is proposed in its formation
to embrace all except the Democratic party
the Lincoln men and the Republicanized
Bell and Everett adherents, constituting its
sum and substance, the nucleus around
which is to be assembled their mighty COS
horts.
After the disruption of the old Wing
party, the opponents Of the Democratic
party assumed the name OF & Know Moth
ing" That party, however with its dark
lanterns and religious intolerance, soon
began to stink in the nostrls of the peo-
pie. The name was therefore changed to
American" with chorus that "Ameri-
cans should rule America" and by the aid
of the most outrageous frauds that have
ever been perpetrated on the elective fran
chise, this organization was carried into
power, with the present Governor at its
head. In November last, however, the
gallant Democracy Of Maryland routed
them horse and foot, and behold again
the scene changes, and we have--a Union
party, and the sole object of this latter nom
de plume being to secure the cooperation
of those who conScieatiously believe that
their connection with such party would
materially result in preservation of the
Union.
That its nomenclature does not truth
fully indicate the real purpose of its forma-
ton, is no less clearly evident, since there
is no one proposition that the hurried and
changing events of the present revolution
have certainly demonstrated than that the
submisSionist Of the Border States, is and
has been The real disunionist. The seeded
States never intended, or never will REIN
vest the Federal Government with the dele
gated powers which they have resumed,
unless they are furnished with full and con-
vincing proofs that additional guarantees
will be offered them for their future protec-
ton in the Union. Therefore, for the Bor-
der Slave States to herald to the North, as
this Union party would have them do, eve
are satisfied with the Union as it is; we
will remain we want no concessions"
only serves to repel the South and confirm
the North, in its policy of fanatical and ag-
gressive hostility to our institutions, rem
ders the dissolution of the Union hopeless
ly permanent, and the successful establish
ment of the Southern Confederacy fixed
fact.
Without at this time, more than advert
) ing to the non-admitted fact, that if the
course advised by the Democratic party OF
this State and county had been pursued.
: viz: il the Legislature had been convened
in December last, and Maryland, with Vir-
ginia, had called upon the other Border
States, and they all upon the Cotton States.
Southern Convention would have as
sembled, and agreed upon series Of
ultimatums, in the form of constitutional
amendments, which the North would have
unhesitatingly granted to the South, de-
, manding them as harmonious unit, and
, secession and disruption of the Union
} would have been successfully met, while
, yet in the embryo, we will proceed to notice
"the constituent elements" of this party,