North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-10-31
The Radicals Anxious for RsbflIIon

ney, who sports Colonel to his name, ac- :
qnired at militia muster.or dubbed Aid
by some one of our Governors with the
additional title thrown in, has been on the
"war path" and has been threatening terri
bic things in case of certain contingencies.
The cause of all tins rhetorical thhnder
comes from the action of Governor Swami,
of Maryland. who in his official capacity,
has cited certain Police Commissioners of
the city of baltimore to appear before him.
to meet certain charges preferred against
them by ten thousand citizens Of that COM
munity, who accuse them Of malpractice in
office. These petitioners allegr that there
are thirty-five Thousand voters in Baltimore;
that the Commissioners ruled that those
whose names were on the former registry
conld Vote at the late municipal elrction.-
The result as,that ont of tkirty-fve thou
sand votes little over seven thousand pre-
sented themselves at the polls. Out of this
number the Radicals received five thousand
or about one seventh Of the voting popula-
| tion. As matter of course, they carried
everything their own way.
! Now that Governor Swami is about TO
cali the Commissioners to account for their
deeds, Forney fills the columns OF his two
journals, the Washington Chronicle and
Philadelphia Press, with the most mfam-
matnrg appeals for his party to resist the
Governor. The following is a par, Of u
letter of Forney's written in Baltimore to
the Press
"The Mayor will never auccom, but feht il out
to the bitter end All th CniGn men in Balt-
more wear that they will trench the sire its in
| blood out they will protect heir rights and the
! law The brave General Dennissn snd the gal
| liant General Wooley have both offered their SER
vices TO the Mayor, aud the returned veterans of
the Union army r,a.iy to hight. Ii is said
johnson promised some / federal soldiers to help
| him put down the Uuon IF Maryland. II he
| mall attempt this. there will be civil war The
men see here fight They do not mean "a
sa1mit an will MT sub Mt. All Ihsy ask is this
the mighty North shall stanI by them in their
! strugg es for liberty and Cnion. Ny solemn be-
| lief is that Andrew Johnson will send the regular
troops into Baltimore 10 sustain Swami, if he at.
tempt Of the latter to remove the Police Comrs-
nrs is resisted by the peOI le, resisted it will be-
IN that event let the North b9 prepared. Let Penn
! syIvanid he ed y
1t Will be S, en- that this is nothing less
than an invitation to civil war. 1t is "a
mnch so as-Has the appeal to the pe,'plr
of CarolIEa in 1861. 1t is just as rcbrliou,
and shows thai the country is 10 have no
peace while these R~dicals are allowed /"
70 unchecked. Like their south Carolina
prototypes they are Illuminating their
thousand, aud drilling their d,;pes with the
open and avowe,i purpose of resisting the
laws and precipitaiing revolution and
bloDnlshed throughout the land 1t is but
another move in the programme, mapped
out by the Torch-and- iurpcntine tramps,
Brownlow, Hunnicutt, Butler IL Co. Tney
want another war So that they may once
more thrive aud fatten Oh their couutry's
misery. -.
But it seems there are some ofthe Rad
icaI leaders who hesitate to follow the
"Iying whelp of sin' in his new crusade.
The Chicago Republican, referring to
Forhey and his appeal to resist the consli-
tu,ed authorities Of an independent State
says :
Again We say, let no Republican fire on the
Federal flag. Let no heret.G,re Union man shed
the blood of 'deraI soldier Thus far the
skirts of our party uns:ancd by this great
crime. Let maintain in spite OF every provo
cation. Our ALI gauce 10 toe H'cn ana our pos
,e,sion nf the 4 = and A,nHuRce at political noun
tehanks and c!sratans the would-he Republican
agitato:s who would throw iuio the fIsc posi
ton Of rebels against the national auth ,rity."
The Republicans don't want tn be held
responsible for the insane rawlings OF a be-
sotted wretch like Forney in his scheme
of riot. revolution and bloodshed. That
paper knows full we'll that rebellion once
initiated in Baltimore will speed 10 every
CITY. town and village throughout the
North. They know that however pleas
ant it NAV be to fantiral Radical to see
a Democratic neighbours house sacked and
burned there is no guarantee that be, iu
turn NAV not have to view his own ele
rant establishment razed to the ground,
and his wife and children left to the mercy
nf an infuriated mob, or exposed 10 the
rude insults of an exccited soldirry. Nol
wonder then that the Republican d'noun-
ces the ravin!s of F"rney as the viilalnous
appeal of political mountebank and
charIaIan."