The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-11-24

g@~ The Journal of last week, in an article
upon the election and the new Legislature, has
the following:
"We desire that the laws which were made
to dsfranchise large majority ofour citizens for
opinions sake mag be amended that a. may pro-
scribe no one on that account IN the future TINS
Is sagisaq more for them than key deserve, yet char
ag to all is a great attribute which no man, how
ever much he may have been wronged, should
fail to practice to his neighbor."
Magnauamous editor Generous party OF which
you are the representative how extremely CRATE
full ought we to be for your unparalleled kind
ness and condescension Just to think of it, we
are not to be prescribed for opinions sake u
Is that good. time coming, when 9 NO ONE " is to-
be excluded from the elective franchise, we, even
many hope to claim its benefits. Oh loyal cit
izen, you who during four years of war; sup
ported and maintained your government and
contributed freely to its support can you not re-
ioice that under the new dispensaton you are
not to be declared of your rights of citizenship
And you, soldier of the Union, you who barred
your breast to the storm of battle-you who left
the comforts Of home and endured the hardships
of the field and braved danger and death that
the Republic might live, take courage and rejoice,
for you shall not be prescribed for opinions
sake" even at the hands of a rebel legislature
To be sure this is " more than you deserve" as our
friend of the Journal plainly tells you, but then
our masters will be charitable, and although you
" deserve" to be " disfranchised," yet that
" great attribute - will be kindly exercised for
your good. What delightful prospect is opened
before the loyal people of our good old State
Even g radicals . will be tolerated and treated
more kindly g than they deserve - In view of
the gracious promise here held forth, can we not
clap our hands and be joyful p and give
praises for the charity extended towards US aa
The Journal has probably in this little article,
hard though it is to understand, foreshadowed
the future policy of the party now in power
First, all restrictions upon the elective franchise
all safeguards for its protection, are to be re-
moved and all the blatant rebels who stayed at
home and all the men who left our State, as
sumed the " gray" and fought to break down
the government, are to be at once brought into
the country from the hands oftraitors--nay more,
are to be elevated to the positions of our rulers,
for it is very plain that radicals are only toll
Grated from charitable notifies. 1t seems rather
hard though, that at this late day, Unionists
should be called upon to consider themselves un-
der obligations to the rebel element ofour State
that they should be reminded that it is only by
the exercise of that great attribute y Charity,
by their opponents, that they are continued in
the exercise of their political rights. The man
who now occupies the Presidential chair once
said that " rebels should take back seat in the
" work of reconstruction, u but this is changed
now. Since his apostacy to the Union cause be
advocates and labors for the elevation of Copper
heads to office and all his official influence is ex-
erted to that end, so that wherever the rebel ell
ement predominates, as is the case in our State,
Union men must occupy that " back seat
More plainly day by day the indications of the
radical changes to be made in the policy of our
State exhibit themselves. Nearly all the copper
head newspapers are clamoring for a change in
the Constitution, and the extension of the cleo
tive franchise to aU regardless of political ante
cedents. while ago, before the election, the
advocates of this impartial suffrage were very
few. All admitted, or pretended 10 admit, that
the man who had borne arms against the gov
eminent should be excluded from the privilege
of the ballot But now, talk to the Democrats
you meet, and nine out of every ten will tell you
candidly that they favor the REIMBURSEMENT Of
aU Although this is bitter dose for Unionists
to swallow, yet we must gulp it down, because
the party in power have so decreed it, and we
must not forget either to render unto this power
our grateful thanks that under their amended
system of state government we, even poor radi-
voting, and that charity will do more for us
g than we deserve Again, oh magnani-
nous editor, and immaculate party, receive our
grateful thanks In return for your great con-
descension we will endeayor to be good citizens,
enduring meekly what we cannot cure, and
when your legislature DEGREES that of our hard
earnings one-twslfth shall be given to pay the
ex-slaveholders for his loved :" niggers," we will
recognize its mandate as law, pay our portion
of the burden, and return thanks that your ru-
lers have not decreed that this thirty-fve millions
of dollars shall not be collected from those alone
who were so mistaken in their opinions as to sup
port the Union in its battle with treason.
Conservatives
The New York Nesos, the leading Democratic
journal of that city, thus discourses of the John
son Union men, alas Conservatives
@ The alliance between Democracy and Con-
servatisnsis, we trust, at an end. In the Presi
Dental campaign, woe to the party and to the
candidates that take a middle ground If Presi-
dent Johnson aspires to be standard bearer in
the political arena, he must either go back to the
Radicals or come fairly and squarely into the
| Democratic camp. The battle is between the
| Democracy and the Radicals the Conservatives
are no party at all. They are no more than
stragglers from the line of the real combatan,s
without any banner, without organization, and
liable at any moment to wander into either camp
and sell their services for promise of the spoils.
If they choose to fight in the ranks of the Demo-
cratic party, let them do so but not by virtue of
any concession to be mace to them. Democracy
is strong only in the strength of its t1ne-tried
| principles. An alliance that involves the sur
render Of any of these, destroys the first element
of success, and Democracy, like another Sampson
wakes from the arms of its Deliah unnerved and
| powerless
| We wonder what Gov Swami and his few de-
! luded Union followers will say to this The