The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-12-08

Red River Expedition, or such distinguished
Union men as Henry Wilson, who about the
time of the annexation of Texas introduced into
the Senate of Massachusetts petition TO dissolve
the Union. We quote from an old paper:
"IKodcst Extraordinarily in the Massachu-
sets Legislature, Mr.. Wilson presented petit
ton, signed by Francis jackson, William Lloyd
Garrison and upwards of thirty others, setting
forth that in consequence of the admission of
Texas, the Massachusetts members of Congress
ought TO return home Immediately, and that the
people of Massachusetts ought to retire from the
Union and form an independent government for
themselves, or in connection with such States
MS may join them" The authors of this petition
were unqucstionaby with the organizers of the
present dominant patty in this country. There
can be no question that Wilson and his party
are the true authors of all our national troubles
and are more than any others responsible for the
destruction of property and devastated districts
of country laid waste by the late civil war
Their continued war upon the institutions of the
Slave States produced discussions and discord in
the national legislature, and ultimately brought
about the rebellion just ended. Now is tstrange
that Democrats, who had from the foundation
of this government been its most strenuous and
earnest supporters, refused to affiliate with
party whose principles and teachings were the
opposite of this? Was it criminal in South Caro-
lima TO withdraw from the Union ?-then how
comes it that Mr.. Wilson and Massachusetts, are
equally guilty with Wade Hampton and
South Carolina? Massachusetts and Mr.. Wilson
were the leaders and teachers of this treason, if
it be treason yet we are invited to follow him
and his associates, not only in freeing the negro,
or in raising him up to our level, but in putting
ourselves down to his. 1t is well settled that
where the superior and inferior are required to
associate on terms of intimacy and equality, that
the inferior never rises 10 the standard of the SUI
perior, but that the superior always sinks to the
level of the inferior. This is the case among all
conditions of people. Who ever knew an in
stance of man of standing marrying greatly be-
low himself that did not soon sink to the level
Of the woman whom lie married? Or who can
find lady, we care nothing for her refinement
or education who married greatly beneath her,
that she did not 60 down just as rapidly to the
level of her husband2 IT. then, the doctrine of
equality of races, as taught by the Abolitonists,
is to prevail then the white race must, of ncces-
sity, sink to the level Of the negro. That there
doctrine, we all know but do they teach it
with sincerity, or for selfaggrandizement, and
for The sake Of political power? But would they
be willing to practice this theory2 If they
would not, and only desire to impress it upon
others, for sinister motives, then they not only
do aot deserve the respect of the good but richly
merit the scorn and contempt of all honest and
honorable men. And yet among this very class
were found, during all the period of which We
speak, the loudest proclaimers for Union, and the
most earnest nd, coates for the arrest and con[inc
ment Of every ono, without regard to sex, who
dared to differ with them in opinion. To he an
anti-Abolitionist, was 10 bc disloyal and this
information given to some Of the military otfi-
GERS, was abundantly sufficient to insure your
arrest and Imprisonment.
! Now what must be the feelings or what kind
| oI Heart must II man have, who could without
any other cause than a mere difference of opn-
ion, cause the arrest and Imprisonment of his
neighbor, merely for the sake OF getting rid of his
vote? And yet we have reason to believe that
numbercss cases of this very kind have occurred
Can such men expect hereafter to command the
respect and esteem of those whom they have as
sisted to opprcss2 Reason would teach them,
We think, TO expect no such unreasonable a
thing. No sooner did signs of peace appear, and
the signs of the times indicate the near approach
of the end Of military arrests, than an Abo-
lition legislature of this State proceeded to dis
franchise all who had the tcmerity to refuse to
obey their bchests, by the passage of that inEa-
nous act known as the Registry law. Men
were distranchised by the provisions of this out
rageous enactment, in this county, of the high.
est standing in society, who never lifted finger
against the government, but who supported
it in putting down the rebellion, by con-
tributing willingly the yearly tax levied upon
them for its support
More than this, we have it from a source which
renders it certain that the difrauchsed citizens of
this county paid much the greatest portion of
National, State, and County taxes, which have
been levied on the citizens of the county since the
commencement ofour national troubles; but this
was nothing in the eyes of Aboitionism they
were not the followers of the leader of Massa-
chusetts secession
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