Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-11-22
THE SENTINEL
Correspondence q the New York Tribune ]
The Programme Aof the New Regime
in MARYLAND.

in Maryland.
BALTIMORE. Nov, Ii .-Theresult of our late
election goes TO show very clearly that the
heroic treatment of the disease of secession by
the Federal Government in our State was am
pie enough to produce a most signal conva-
lescence. Gov. Seward timely harvesting Of
the tallest poppies that reared their poison
Gus heads above the rest OF the crop of Con-
federates, saved US from deal of trouble
nay, saved the State from an actual paper Sc
cession and the work that remained to be
done was plain sailing for the brow beaten
and prosecuted Unionists They took courage
from that hour and though still more
rigorous depletion of the Confederate ranks
would have driven them from the field entire
ly, and increased the Union vote to so 900
majority, or rather made the whole vote of
the State unanimous for the cause of the
Union, enough has been done to ensure tho
rough cure of the secession cancer, by q fl-
ture judicious application OF State legislation
The Secessionists, Of course, whine and com
plain. They say there has been no fair ex-
preston of the public will that the ballot
boxes were stuffed, that they were hindered
from voting by the fear OF arrest for opinion S
% sake and by the presence Of the odious
soldiery; and they insist upon it that they
are in an overwhelming majority in this city
and State. This is all very natural, but the
bLOW duOlucI Gtie. w ucH INT OlHClul
returns all get in ! will send you comparative
tables, which will show that secession is in a
very small majority in Maryland. No one
denies that the presence Of The Federal poaoer ana
its exhibition IN force for The last .felo months
haze effected tie great change manf tested in Tie late
election, but at does not miiate against its value
We are in a reJeHious condition of societg, ana
force has been as necessary in MaryLaRdto correc
This evil as eLse1ohere. Our good fortune it has
been that the correc ton has been obtained
without the necessity of further bloodletting
after the 10th Of April. The real grief of the
secessonists is that they were not permitted to
corrupt the ballot-boxes by stuffed rebel
vote and by force of arms.
The new Legislature has a IIerculean task
before it in cleaning out the secession stables,
but the character Of the members Just chosen
gives hope that they will do il without fear or
favor. The first thing to be done will be to
remit Baltimore to her own self-government,
so far as the State is concerned. She was
stripped of her long enjoyed franchises by the
late secession Legislature, and justice demands
that the infamous law depriyng her of her
rights and privileges shall be at once repealed,
and the old charter re-enacted, after being
improved in several points which experience
has pointed out. This will be the work of a
very few days, and then we shall have an
election for an entire new municipal govern
ment, which Will be purged of every secession
element. The next thing to be done, and it
has already been put on the anvil is to re-el-
act the State law of l777, published yesler-
day in the Clipper, furnishing by death any
person who shall be found taking up arms in
the State of Maryland against the United
States, and lnilcting other penalties upon Sc
cessionism in its various forms of resistance to
the Federal Government.
Tho uasso ora ofo an oct dovotsn e IN ~,
of dollars in aid of the Federal Government
for putting down the rebellion, and the ten
der OF Maryland's quota Of volunteers for the
war, would be graceful ana Just response of
the new Legislature to the recently expressed
voice OF the people to put the State in the po-
these thaag here IS Hg5 mds 81 gtttjy9g T.
al legislation that has to be undone. The
public interests require the repeal of the law
forbidding emancipation of slaves by last will
and testament the modification of the acts
respecting our oyster-bedS the abolition of
the laws confscating the property of loyal
men, and their application to the property of
the rebels and insurgents, who have fled to
SecesSia, or who took up arms in the 18th of
April rebellion; such alteration in the acts
concerning the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
and its Washington branch as will forever ex-
clude seccssio nists from any share in their
management hereafter, &c.
But the browning acts of the Legislature
should be the election of Reyerdy johnson TO
the U. s. Senate and of a loyal man in J.
Alfred Pearce's place, who should be forced
TO resign; and when this is DONE it should
provide for the administration of the recent
Congressional oath Of allegiance to every man
and roman in the State at the earliest moment
possible, as an imperative measure of future
public safety, and Punishment on refusal.
These and other kindred measures, am glad
to learn, are predetermined on. And so, too,
are changes in the Constitution looking to
the establishment of representation upon the.
basis OF population, to the early abolition of
slavery in the State, and an abandonment of
an elective Judiciary The war will inevita-
bly, lead to many other radical and desirable
changes in our form of government, and the
temper of the new Legislature is just such as
to insure them.