The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-07-07


Ill e4ora JESSE GARRETT, -t
q r5. w DAVID X. LUSBY, ,9
EDWARD WHITTEMORE,
FRANK. G. F. WALTEMEYER.
The Resolutions of the Union Exec
utive Committee.
We last week published the resolutions adopt
ed at the late meeting of the Union Executive
Committee of Baltimore county, and stated that
only twelve gentlemen attended the meeting,
four of whom voted against the platform of prin-
ciples adopted We propose now to notice,
briefly, the resolutions.
The preamble declares that g the meeting held
at TowsontoWn on the 23d day of May, 1866,
had no sanction from this Committee or any
other authorized organization ofthe Union party,
and is believed that it was called exclusively at
the instance of few individuals. The gentle
men who passed these resolutios seem to have a
particular spite at that meeting they are indig-
nant at the bare idea of g the people y calling q
meeting without first consulting them. 1t is
verv true that their consent was not asked
Hundreds of good Union men saw how the party
was being deserted by prominent leaders, and
therefore called meeting to express their opln-
ions upon the questions of the day, and for doing
this they are denounced by these eight gentlemen
of the Committee, in their second resolution, as
" unauthorized and designating, and entitled
to no consideration" So, then, that large and
respectable meeting held here on the 23d ofMay,
was composed of" disorganizers the MAJOR
ITY of their own body, who are opposed to the
resolutions passed are disorgdnizers the greet
body Of the Union party Of Baltimore county are
disorgdnizers! To say the least Of it, the action
of these eight gentlemen smacks of the sheerest
impudence. NJ r i
Another resolution " adheres to their endorse
ment of Gov Swami in reference to the mainte-
nance of the Registry, law. y This means, prob
ably, that they adopt the same ambiguous course
in reference to that law as does the Governor
This may very well suit the views of these gen
tIemen Of the Committee, but we are very sure
it does not reflect the sentiments of the true
Union party of the county, which is unit in
the demand that the Registry law shall be pre-
served as it stands. = e.
The fourth resolution "repudiates all affilia-
zion with the disorganizing movements inaugu-
rated by the boilers from the regular Uncondi-
tional Union State Central Committee, and those
who identify themselves with the 9Th of June
Convention A sweeping +" resolution, truly
Our late State Convention, composed of repre-
seutatives from nearly all the counties, and al
who affiliate with them, is read completely ou
of the party, and denominated boilers And
merely because they chose to differ in sentiment
with the President of the United States, and tc
believe, with Congress, that the lately rebellioui
States need a little more g reconstructing ~ be
fore they should be admitted into full fellowship
with. loyal !. States. These gentlemen seen
soforget that Colonel William b. Purnell, the
Chairman of the Union State Central Committee
was frequently importuned to call the Commit
tee together but as often refused, fearing, doubt
less. that the true Union delegates from thecoun
ties could not be brought to endorse the pc
schemes concocted by himself and few othel
Federal ofice-holders in the city of Baltimore. =
But he called the EkecutiOe Committee together
a majority of which was in his interest, anc
there made apIatform of the party few
members of the Committee thought its action ar
outrage upon the Union party and called upon
the counties to send delegates to a State Conyen'
lion. This call was needed by almost every
county in The State, and the Convention was
held composed of gentlemen of ability and un
doubted loyalty, but yet they are boilers y
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and /" disorganizers ~
Another resolution recommends the formation
of johnson and Swami Clubs in the several dis
triets of the county, and suggest Saturday, th'
I4th instant, as proper day to perfect such or
carnations. Here is another instance of s'Fepu.
diation.'' Johnson Clubs have already been
formed, in all the districts, we believe, and VIZ
have the assurance OF the Journal that the cal
for the meetings to form these clubs was made
by Union men, or those who voted always with
the Union party, and for Mr.. Swami for Cover
nor. Is all this work to be gone over or are VIC
10 have two sets of g Johnson Clubs p Perhaps
the first of these suppositions is correct and that
an attempt will be made to ''hdrmoaize' the ex'
isting differences in the material composing the
Clubs That strange diversity of opinion ex-
lists among the various "Clubs" is witnessed by
a comparison of the meetings in the 4th and 9Th
districts. In the Fourth District, nearly all the
officers Of the johnson meeting were unregistered
rebels, while in the Sixth none were admitted
who were not registered. But yet the resolutions
adopted by the two meetings are nearly identical ;
both praise President Johnson and Gov. Swami,
both dehounce the Registry law. Perhaps the
gentlemen of the Committee intend to disregard
the action already had in forming johnson clubs
as &C unauthorized and disorganizing," and in
tend to form new ones under their especial pa
tronage. o4 tI SOFA aaiDn4
These resolutions claim to be the sentiment oil
majority of the Union Executive Committee Of
Baltimore county. This we emphatically deny.
The Committeeis composed of two gentlemen
from each district, tsOenty-six in all, and but
tsusJUs Of them attended the meeting, and four Of
these we're opposed to their action and voted
against the resolutions. we shall doubtless soon
hear from the actual majority of the Committee,
and we think their action will be very far from
endorsing the resolutions already adopted.
P.S.--Since the above was in type, q call for
.primary meetings has been received from the
q;oritv Of The Committee, and will be found in
lther column. esl mas sat bH8 13a
rThe Leavenworthi Bulletin places at the
4 its editorial columns the following tick
For President in l96s-Ul Ulysses s. Grant.