The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-11-10
For the 4Kyts 4 Mtelligencer
Be True to Ourselves.

Mr.. EDITOR The leading article in the las,
issue of the -EgiS, on the "One-third Rule" now
governing this State, is well and ably written.
and is one that will meet the appreciation, in
most of its particulars Of the readers Of your de-
cidedly popular journal.
If we are only true 10 ourselves, as is so prop
eriy observed, so surely will we again enjoy the
privileges Of the ballot-box and in our efforts to
accomplish this, as well as TO remove from our
State every vestige of the filthy and infamous
legislation which befouls its statute book, iuclu-
ding the new Constitution, Registry law, and all
outrages upon our political rights, we will gladly
receive ant. welcome TO our ranks those members
Of the so-called Union party, who, awakening to
a sense of the position in which they have been
placed by their leaders, will unite with us in
cleansing the Augean stable into which the once
proud old commonwealth Of Maryland has been
converted by the political tricksters who for the
pust four years have lorded it over us. Of these
latter, we ask neither assistance, nor do VIC de-
sire association, so long as the present condition
of things continues Let them fatten and riot in
the fostering mass Of corruption into which they
have changed our body polite, but as the sores
are cleansed, the corroding matter removed, and
its former healthy condition is resumed it will
no longer afford them safe abiding place, but,
like other "termites, - they will find in its regene-
ration their own inevitable destruction.
"Be true to ourselves These four words
comprise, in their full sense, our entire duty
We have waited and suffered, and, if necessary,
let us wait and suffer still. Never for any tenn
porary expediency, or through any time-serving
policy, should we forget the great obligation of
being true to those principles which circumsan-
ces may for time obscure, but which must live
if truth, justice and political equality are not
condemned 10 perish. The doctrines that we
promulgated four years ago are as true now as
they were them we staked our political salvation
upon them, and although so far the result has
been against us, still time will show that truth
was with us, and the period of their triumphant
yndicaton is not MS far distant as some would
wish to hope.
Our policy was one Of cancellation VIC did
not wish to see the Union destroyed we would
have aided in every measure, of which the ulti-
mate tendency would have been to bind US to-
pether as one great American nation. united
under government which, strictly adhering to
all the guarantees guarding the rights of the
people, and pursuing straightforward and
honest policy, would have commanded the affec-
ton of its own citizens, and the respect of every
people Of the civilized world We did not wish
10 see "the cities of the South laid in ashes, her
fields blackened and destroyed, her sons given
~ The sword, her women and children homeless,
house,ess and friendess." We did not wish to
i;nd our people burdened with intolerable taxa
,;nn skeleton standing beside each of their
doors 1--we did not wish to be Oppressed under
the weight Of military despotiSm.' We did not