Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1864-11-17
1as.M Maryiaad Outrage.

II
Enaaasikg the adopiioa af the neg Con
asssasiaa Of Maryland, by aaiorisy ul
sissse hAsndred and seventy fse vsses, tts
assssrHor Of that State has published
shat hs calls an ssapihien,p ? ia defenss
OF bis course. itis i saglmiaoas does.
aDsns, secapying moro than two cIosels
/ pfiatsd enlutnus oF The B sitimore Amer.
isma of October 2gth. What il am ou,,ts
@, oar readers may judge for themselves,
from ths opening statement OF Governor
Bradford, that in bearing the obisctions
a caansei to theyotes by xnieh the Con-
asitu1iun gas claimed 90 bare been aiopt.
ed, he gould inquire Euto 40 facts, of any
SORT "except such as wers saggesteS! on
the 9acb OF the retnrus." la other woraa
hs announced bis purpose 10 be governed
altogether By tBa certificates Of the OH.
GERS making the returns, and absolutely
refused 10 hear evidence 10 show that
they we're fraudulent and false. The
goaveation haviag cos6ded TO toe Gov
ernor, exclusively, tbs duty of <aascer-
saantn@ the aggregate vese throughous
the State,D p and be having ihus deterniin-
ed to forge all a leans Of sasoertaining''
1t, except BY the statements of partfas
whose lnisrstate@ ents we're the chief mat
Ter 10 4ispase, tha coaelasian was a. in
esisabge as it was obviously and shame
iessly foEegone. One thing, heweyeg,
Govera0r Bradfoxi's opinion has denon-
strased, and is proclaimed as the etseice
of 'fthp people, Of that unhappy State,
l. the york Of The retufn,jaigas and the
Governor, between whom and upon whom
lies the responsibility aad disgrace of
poiRiea fraud and outrage, for which
It Is possible that infa1ny may not be the
oaiy ret&ibution.
BY the new fundamental law, thus fore
ed by the Government and its parasites
upou ghe people Of one OF the old thirteen
Statess iEs whole social aud political
system is, as our readers are awara, e0m.
pletelY overturned. Slavery il abolished
instauEaneoasly, without com pensatiou to
the oSners Of siaYes or provision for the
freeanen, and test oatbs are prescribed
By wbich the opponents Of the party 10
power are forever excluded, not only from
Office, but from the exercise Of abe right
of suffrage. Every eantriyauce by which
political disgrace and eisfEaachisernent
eaa ba made the penalty OF indrper lent
political opniCn, is woven with inseniUas
malighity, into the pex eonstigutTonai
fabric. The aggregate vote, nj home and
10 easap, by which these cnormitfes are
preten led By Governor Bradford to have
been perpstrated, is 50, lT4, against 90,
I99-a a anajority at best, as se Rave said
Of only 315. The whole vote ofthe State
OF Maryland, thus counted, including the
fraudulent vo; = the tinvernor refused 10
canvass, is 6O.5T3. The pepalar vote of |
tau State, at the presidential election ia |
1880, as given BY the A,aeritatn Almsnae, /
was 2,502, Of which Mr.. Llneola receiy- |
ed bot 2, ,394, The Constitution now pro.
with nu the fraudulent votes |
eounked D. good, il therefore foisted upon
the people Of Maryland by less than one
third Of the iiing population a the |
State. Mors than one third Of the voters I
wers shus oul from the ballot box by in |
initiation and arbitrary and uncoasti-
s9''2nsi ne tst oas9s p9a poi q
given against Eae. Constitution, in spite /
Of aeeuu alated difficulties and restrictions |
was more than cancelled by the maaiupu- |
latibn uf the soldiers vote aud the reEa |
sal of the Governor uf the State to in
quire into the gross and glArtug frauds |
bg which IL WAS attended.
This Is the transaction which the ad |
through its organ, the Bal |
timpre American, is u0s ashamed IL hail |
wits the exclamation: Maryland is
free!'s Alas for tue predestined wick |
caufs~ and folly which can now sog ths |
seeds Of wrong, forketfdi Of the harvest |
they are sure 10 bring What aan Of
sertse cau ionk without shujdering, into |
the futare, which has So many of snch
to Settle Neg York Neps |