Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1864-03-31

bred to fight in the rebel ranks against
their State and country, in consequence
of which, notwithstanding the generous
and loyal devotion with which our country
has poured out her citizens to swell the
ranks Of the armies of the Union-a draft
is now impending over us, to make good
their dcfcit-will vote solid Against a
Convention" But the loyal people OF
Allegany county are not to be deceived.
They know full: we'll, that the news OF
the defeat of an Emancipation Convention
in Maryland will be received with sullen
joy in Richmond, and with sorrow and
sadness in every loyal State in the Union.
They will not yield that triumph to the
baffled and beaten traitors of the Southern
Confederacy, nor inhict that pang upon the
confident and exulting hosts that are now
gathering in their might to finish the great
work of suppressing the most causeless,
wicked and monstrous rebellion the world
ever saw. They have ticket whose 10y
atty and devotion to the Union no man
prcsumes to doubt. They believe and
know that Convention to pronounce the
eternal adjustment of the institution
which caused, maintains. and protracts
the war, will strike a deadlier blow at
rebellion and at rebels in Maryland, than
has ever yet been dealt in the bloody field
Looking to this glorious contamination, and
acting in full sympathy with every loyal
county in the State. and with the gener-
Gus and noble and devoted city of Balti-
more, they will vote FOR Convention
and for the men they have named to carry
out their will in it. For the change i'll
sentiment of the people of Maryland on
the subject of Emancipation is a revolu-
ton and revolutions never 60 backward.
They may transcend the limits, men may
attempt to set to their progress, but they
never stop short of them History but
repeats itself in the experience of men
and nations, and human nature is the
same in all ages. The men who now
seek to stem the swelling tide which is
sweeping us on to the removal from our
Constitution and Laws, of every trace of
that institution which connects us, even
in sympathy with the States and people
in rebellion, and obstructs our perfect
loyalty to our government in its struggle
to suppress it; nay, more, those who
do not cordially and heartily join in the
movement to remove those obstacles, and
to perfect and complete our assimilation
with the loyal States and the Government
will find a parallel to to their political
failure, in the shame and ignominy which
befel the Tories of the Revolution, and
the Hartford Conventionists Of 1872.
Let not Allegany, then, turn back or
pause in the career which she has so nobly
begun. With Washington, and Fred
erick, and Carroll, and Hartford, and &C.
Gil, and Baltimore. and our glorious Mon
umental city-with all the free and pros
porous counties of the State, let her 60 on
until the incubus which Expresses the rest
is forever destroyed. Until St. Mary's.
Charles and Calvert, Prince Georges,
Somerset and Worcester, utterly rid o.
the burden which now weighs them down,
shall share in our prosperity, and rival
our progress. Then shall Maryland, the
Heart of the Union, free and unfettered--
no slave breathing her air or cursing her
soil, enter upon career of prosperity and
advancement such as has been the lot of
but few of the sisterhood of States, and
such as will assuredly realize the widest
dreams of the philanthrophist and the
patriot.