The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-03-10

The Two Meetings.
During the last week, two :" mass meetings
have been held in our town, each protesting to
endorse the President. But while the men who
composed these meetings may be of one mind in
reference to some of the acts of President John
son, yet from the very nature of things, there
must be differences as to others. 1t is idle to
suppose that those who, mainly composed the
meeting on Tuesday, can endorse all the past ac-
lions of the President 1t is folly to imagine
that even they, can SO far stultify themselves as
to give even semblance Of support to the Union
principles and actions of the President, in the
past utierances and actions which made him
President Of the United States, in spite of the
opposition ofthose who are now so loud in his
praise.
The Union men Of Baltimore County, SO far as
we can learn, give the President an honest and
Hearty endorssment-an endorsement with no ex-
plantations or equivocations. They are pleased
at bis action in relation to the Freedmen Bu-
reau Bill, " it being just what they expected and
desired, and they think his reasoning unanswer-
able. But the endorsement by the Uuion men
does not stop here. They endorse the trial, con-
viction and hanging, by military commission of
the assassination conspirators and the Anderson
vile murderer, which was held by the great mass
of those who composed the meeting on Tuesday
to be unconstitutional u and q great outrage
They endorse his demand that the Southern
States shall recognize the doom of of slavery, by
81 n.
recognition universally refused by the Democra-
cy of even the loyal States, as appears by their
unanimous vote against the amendment in their
State Legislatures. They endorse the President s
avowal that the pet doctrine of Democracy
the sovereignty of the States-is political here
sy, to be buried in the same grave with their pet
institution, slavery. The Democracy, on the
other hand, through their representatives in the
State Convention, in 1864, spent ten days in try
ing to convince that body that the supreme allie
glance of the citizen is due to his State, and not
to the Constitution and laws of the United States
that question, their conversation and acts assure
us that like the man convinced against his will,
; they're of the same opinion STILL" The Union
men endorse Mr.. Johnson's oft expressed senti-
mentt that the South, to secure representation,
ought to send men to Congress who can take the
required oath, and that their failure to do SO is
evidence that they need little more recon-
structing," and they agree with him, and differ
with the radicals, in believing that when such
men as can honestly take the aforesaid oath are
sent, Congress ought to admit them. They en-
dorse his recent order, through General Grant,
that those traitorous sheets in the South that still
persist in spite OF the executive clemency vouch-
safed their disloyal editors, and regardless of
their own avowed +" acceptance of the situation"
in the indulgence ofthe innocent pastime of scam
dalizing every manifestation Of returning loyalty
and good feeling on the part of portion of the
citizens of the Southern States, as unchivalrous
utilization with Northern mudsills seeking, by
every means in their power, to perpetuate strife
and keep alive the hatred of the masses toward
the Government, shall be compelled TO desist or
be suppressed
In most of these respects, these noisy newly
converted Andy Johnsonites are amazingly re-
ticent They dare not endorse him, for in do
ing so they must ignore the darling cherished,
traitorous, dogmas of moderR Democracy. Their
pet phrase " Constitutional must necessarily
be put in for sugar coating purposes and then,
as prominent Democrat has remarked, they pro-
pose osettle the meaning of the word to suit
their own purposes and views.
If time and space would permit, we could cite
long catalogue of the decisions of the grand
Democratic council, by which to decide their
meaning Of that term. A few will suffice. Ii
was " Constitutional - for the rCbel States to
secede-it was unconstitutional {" to try to
prevent them. It was " unconstitutional y for
the President to call for men to defend the Capt.
toll. Sc 1t was unconstitutional for Congress
to vote men or money. 1t was unconstitution-
al y for Northern men to pass through Maryland
in their march to the seat of Government. Then
flight we must, it was /" unconstitutional T" to
fight South of the Potomac, and if we were COM
PEELED to whip the rebels in Maryland or Penn
sylvania, Mcclellan was the only General who
could dot " constitutionally, he being always
careful, not to inflict damage beyond what he
himself received, and never, under any consid-
GRAFTON, to follow up an advantage he had gained.
But we need proceed no further, our readers
will be able to determine, from the above citations
what our friends mean by /" Constitutional rule