The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-10-06
The New Party and it's Candidates.

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supplement of fourteen columns
The New Party andit Candidates.
The q Conservative !" party of our County,
= held Convention in our town on Thursday of
last week, and nominated candidates for the
Legislature, and adopted platform of prnci-
ples Among the delegates to the Convention
were many who, all through the war, opposed the
administration in its efforts to put down the re-
bellion and who sympathized with the people of
the seeded States in their treason Among the
" q number was Leonard G. Quinlin Esq, who, as
80 member of the rebel Legislature of 1861, voted
for the I" immediate recognition of the Southern
Confederacy." These are the men who now
y pirate Of their "loyalty," and denounce those
ase, who require that treason should be punished.
w The first resolution of their platform g cordi-
&c. " ally endorses ~ the President, and pledges
their party to /" ignore all antecedent party
8 & Il predections and organizations, that they may
unite upon the platform proposed by the Ran
dall-Doolitte Convention. glance at the ''an-
Il tecedents 4" of the delegates to the Convention
and of the gentlemen nominated as candidates,
-.S shows how admirably the new party has succeed
ed in carrying out this first plank in their plat
~ form. Truly, all " antecedent predictions and
" organizations - are ignored" and the COM
binanation is complete in all its details
The second resolution gives the party To-
81 sss cal habitation and namen Its bapsmal cog
nomen is the National Union party of Balti-
more county, OF course, this name will be
adopted all over the nation, for have not the
- conservatives of Baltimore county said it 1t is,
to be sure, high-sounding titlefor local party,
s but that does mt matter. The " Union {" part OF
80 the probably refers to the Heterogeneous
'lA mass united with it.
The third resolution contains so much Of truth
that we republish it entire, as follows
q a4 ResolUed That the issue between the President
and the Radical majority OF Congress involve the
dearest and most cherished constitutional rights
of the people, and in deliberate judgment
the stability of the Government and the integr-
ty ofthe Union is now on trial in that ISSUE and
the dangers which threaten far greater than
any through which the country has passed.
In the issue between the President and the
a majority Is involved the most cherished " Con-
Yaa stitutional rights of the people" and g the
dangers which threaten are far greater than
"any through which the country has passed.
We all agree to this but there is yet difference
" between the conservative and Union parties. The
conservatives profess TO greater danger for
the country than the one through which it has
passed. We always thought that war was the
greatest evil that could befall a country We
thought the sad realities of the last few years could
not besurpassed; we thought no greater evil could
befal our government than its own disruption,
the breaking up of this glorious Union, but the
g conservatives y see greater-what it is we
know not, unless it is the continuance in power
of the great party that preserved the nation.
The fourth " plank praises Mr.. johnson for
his veto of the freedman Burea Bill calls it a
manly and heroic defence of " the peoples
rights" commencing itself to our cordial APP
prevail" Aa
The fifth resolution stgmatises the Civil Rights
er Bill :" gross assumption of power" and calls
upon the Supreme Court to vnGicate the rights
of the States in the premises" OF course, the
Supreme Court will attend to this matter at
once.
sr9 The next resolution denounces the Constitu-
tional amendment proposed by Congress and in
struct their candidates to reject it, in of their
election. Take care, gentlemen you might,
just there, come in contact with " My Policy
4 for the signs of the times indicate that President
Johnson, yielding to the advice of many of bis
supporters, including Congressman Raymond OF
the New York Times, is about to make this
amendment part of his reconstruction policy,
the safest easiest and best way for the South
ern States to regain their representation in Con-
gress. But, our convention says it was I'M
constitutionally proposed, eleven States with
co-equal Constitutional rights, having been de-
MED the rights Of representation. How de-
MED These eleven States, of their own free will
and accord, Withdrew their representatives
from Congress they set up a government for
themselves and waged against the Uuion,
won and now the work done by the remaining States
is declared unconstitutional Then, of course,
the soldiers Of the Union placed in the field by
Congress without these eleven States being rep
resented J were but outlaws, acting without au-
thority Of law the debt contracted by the gov
eminent in putting down the rebellion is null
lily, because it was contracted by unconstitu-
tional Congress Andrew johnson is a usurper Of
the Presidential office, because these eleven States
had no uoice in his election A grave question is
here raised but all these things beso because
our conservatives have so declared, and certainly
they know. But the object of the amendment is
to g force negro suffrage upon the county,
How Will the authors of this resolution be
gNg kind enough to explain how headoption OF this
amendment would force negro suffrage upon the
3 S country? There is not one word about s negro
suffrage y in it there is no proper view of it in
which It can be construed to favor negroes vo-
ting, and those who adopted these resolutions
know it.
The seventh resolution calls for the " essential
- s modification y of all legislation which dis
~ eliminates between citizens of common coun-
try in their civil and political rights" This
s simply means that all laws regulating suffrage
shall be repealed, and that the rebel soldier he
who strove to break up the Union, he who COM
mitted overt treason to his goysrnment be who