Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-04-07
A Forgery.

A Forgery.
The Baltimore Daily Gazette of Friday,
25th instant, contains circular, of which
the following is a copy:
Negro Equality.
The following document has been cir
culated in Allegany county:
CIRCULAR. ~4l.
As President Lincoln, by his proclama-
ton of January LIST, 1862, abolished
slavery in the rebel States; immediate
steps should be taken to abolish, it in the
Border Slave States---cspccially should
this be the case in Maryland. -.
To work. then, friends Of the good
cause; let US go into the fight with such
an earnestness of purpose, that on the
9th day Of April. next, Fteeelon, will be
proclaimed, from the seashore to the Ale
gany mountain tops, to poor enslsved ne
groes, without compensation to their own
crs. Let this be the watchword of the
Republican party at the coming election.
All men are born free and equal.
Slavery should not be the penalty for
difference of color. AS long as there are
slaves in our midst the white man will
not labor with them. Slavery being de-
grading, be is obliged to share part of
the degradation but free the slaves and
equality follows; honest toll will then be
respected. Monopoly in certain kinds Of
labor cannot be successful Moreover,
when strikes for higher wages, in our
mining and manufacturing districts, take
place on the part of the whites, they can
be turned adrift and their places filed
with free blacks.
But simply to cmancipate the slaves
does not extend to them all the privileges
they should have. Why should they not
vote--hold Office, when competent-sit on
juries--testify in courts of justice. against
whites as well as blacks? 4
These questions can be answered in the
black mans favor, if we refer to the pro-
cecdngs in the present Congress, and in
our late Legislature, where their rights
have been ably and favorably advocated
by our Republican friends, with good
prospect Of success at an early day, and
especially 80 if Maryland is true to her.
self in clccting to the Convention, in
April next, friends to emancipation.
Above all things, these privileges
should not be denied him. since it has
been proven, time and again. during the
present war, that in point Of bravery and
endurance and proper department, he is
at least the equal of the white soldier.
Therefore let this suffice for the present;
and in conclusion, let it be said, vote for
those. and those only, who are for imn,e-
diate Emancipation. and are the real
friends of the colored people, viz: A. G.
Greene. Jacob Wickard, George A.
Tlruston, Hopewell Hebb and Jasper
Robinett.
This is an ingenious canard, gotten up
perhaps, by certain Copperheads in this
market for general and local use. No
such circular had been seen by any Un-
conditional Union man in this county
until it was noticed in the Gazette, nor
has any such document been circulated,
unless by Copperhcads and Seccssionists.
We whose names are adroitly appcn-
led to said circular are the Unconditional
Union candidates for the Convention, and
rcpudate all knowledge of its existence,
md repudatc the sentiments therein vet
forth.
We are in favor of Immediate Uncon-
ditional Emancipation without State Com
pcnsation, and arc opposed to negro
equality at the ballot-box, in the jury
box, on the witness-stand, or elsewhere.
A. G. GREENE,
HopEwELL Hem,
JAcop WicKARp,
JASPER RoBISErr,
GEORGE A. THRusroN.