The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-11-18

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sented in this number Of the Union sss adi T.
From the style % our type, few County Papers
| contaiu more general reading than the Union,
| and we think il is, such, as will be found both
| interesting and valuable TO our PATRONS g. att
-, Treatment of Freedmen. ila
| The papers state that three colored imenlhave
been shot at Alexandria, VA, within the past
month with common fowling pieces in the hands
of returned Rebel soldiers. Last week q Judge
of one OF the Virginia courts ordered negro to
he publicly whipped for some trivial, crime, under
/ the old Slave Code of that State. n,g ~ HI
L Bills have beep introduced into the South Car
DINA Legislature empowering State officers to-
seize all firearms found lin the possession of the
freedmen, TO prevent them IRON, hereafter beeom
| ing possessed Of arms, and 10 punish With sever
| ity any white person proposing to sell the same
TO them. Measures are also proposed TO shut up
shops kept by the freedmen, and TO prohibit any
wlilepersoh employing negro servantiwiihout
the written consent of his or her former master
! having first been obtained. }Ast L'EtHt u
In this State, negro churches and school-houses
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are being burned to ,spch, an extent that Gov
Bradford has issued a Proclamation offering re-
ward of $500 forthe inecndiary who fired. sever
| al such holdings in Kent county. isom sr {
Now We submit to any reasoning mind, that
this is not theeway to secure the results OF the
| war and restore peace and good order through
out the land. -, .-.ft s,,,,a,i.t al.ta
In of ottffr 1aos
been brought up in the North it has beenemphat-
| icaIy voted down. There is hut small minor
| ityanywhere who talk Of seforcing2 il on the
people. But the withholding Of this privilege
does not annul our obligations to treat tue unfor-
| tunante blacks with common humanity II does
not authorize Us to burn the rade churches where
| they meet 10 worship our common Creator, nor
the little school-houses where their beeioudcd in
telIectsiare struggling into light Much less does
| it give us the privilege Of shooting them down
like wild game and giving their bodies as carrion
to birds of prey. sssol 30 ban .aoII.l !, s ID
At least, thesnegro is to-daya free man, and as
such has certain rights and privileges. To ignore
this fact in our dealings with him, TO enact dis
terminating laws against him, to ,spBrn him as
pest or wild beast, is a violation of implied
law, an act of injustice to him. a shame and an
injury 10 the community at large We all know
that ohis religious ideas are rude his intellect
weak, his practical knowledge limited, But the
lowest sentiment of human chiyalry should make
us scorn to throw obstacles in his way, when he.
is hnmhly and quietly striving to enlarge and
strengthen his limited powers. We detest the
man who lmaltreRts bis horse We like 10 sec
fairness even in 'dog-fsht Should We not deal
as generously with the unfortunate human beings,
whom God has placed in our midst. }4d9 ss3.
The Constitutional Amendment.
Both Houses of the South Carolina, Legislature
adopted the Constitutional amendment abolishing
Slavery on Monday last, with little opposition.
The followingis the wording of the amend
ment, which it is proposed to add 10 the Consi-
tuition Of the United States as r4rticlc Thirteen .
Section l., Neither. Slavery norinvolpntary ser,
-vitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof
the party shall have been duly convicted, shall
exist within the United States, or any place sub
ject 10 their jurisdiction. s9Ao saW S3Sh" .sife'
Section 2. Congress shall have powerto enforce
this artcle by legislation. 3bnD "a
This amendment has been ratified by the fol-
lowing States at the times indicated By the dates
-annayad gifs3 eaN .ri1iisi.isibm N.sia2 %
Illinois, Febs |, 1865, Virginia, Feb. O. (, go
Rhode Island, Feb. 2, Indiana, Feb. Is.
Maryland, Feb 8. Nevada, Feb. l6
Massachusetts, Feb 8. Louisiana, Feb. IL %
Pennsylvania, Feb g. Missouri, Feb "a. - ~ u
West Virginia, Feb. 3. Wisconsin, Feb %.
Michigan Feb. g. Vermont, March 8. idzi
Maine, Feb 7.ag .,i Tennessee, April 5. seni
Ohio, Feb. S,sms7osa Arkansas, April, Yi4
Kansas. Feb, 8. Connecticut, May A. 4
Minnesota, Feb. s. Iowa, June 80. .,,
New York; Fer. 3. N. Hampshire, June 30
, jos South Carolina Nov. l3 1865.
II has been rejected in the following States ::
Delaware, Feb. S'2n New Jersey, March /. Q
il49E nsb kentucky, Feb. 30. shO .9lola1
Twenty-seven States are necessary to the fati-
,fcation Of the great amendment. Tweuty-f
States have already done their part of the work
as above stated. New Jersey decided last Tues
day TO make the number twenty-six. The Leg
iisatnres of California, Iowa and Oregon will
meet in January, and as they are largely Union
in sentiment, their votes may be set down as GER
tain, making over the constitutional number
twenty-seven, Colorado will be admitted early
10 the winter but her Legislature will have said
yes to, the amendment even before the act of adj
mission-a North Carolina, Georgia. Alabama,
Mississippi Florida, 4 Texas, win all, from, pres
Sentiaacatiens, ratlfythe amendment, before the
Legislatures above named haze hetopportunity
TO do so9 YliJBa sgw lad slf bHH b919ilHl bal
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