Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-08
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their office, were thrown INTO prison. WIN
regard to this high-handed outrage-this
contumacious defiance Of the Governor
Col. FoRNEY, the instigator-in-chief of the
! Radicals at all hazards to hold and control
Baltimore city and Maryland-wroteunder
date Washington, Nova:
Yesterdays experience justifles the hope
and sanctions the prediction that Maryland
man hencef0rtk be cldsSed and held as one OF
me sternest Republican States OF America.
Even If Andrew johnson should commit
the crime of giving the orders to the mill
tary to interfere in contest already prac-
tically settled by the sublime courage OF
the Unionists of Baltimore, nothing can
stay the progress or prevent the fulhllment
of the Radical triumph. In such case ne
would only hasten and seal his inevitable
doom. The loyal millions of other States
may now gratefully testify TO the numbers
and the intrepidity Of their Baltimore
brothers. The work Of Saturday was
done by these patriots alone, with
no aid from without except the prayers
and good wishes of their friends, and against
organized internal treason and the demor-
alizing rumors of the advance OF the regu-
lar troops. Latrobe, one of the counsel for
the prosecution against the Police Com
missioners, stated in his speech before
Swami that he and his colleagues repre-.
sented fourteen thousand dlstranchlseu
people of Baltimore" And furthermore:
HTime pressed, and IL the commissioners
were removed, as he hoped and believed
they would be, there toas mach to De done.
Many changes tOere 10 be made before nert
TuesdG. tte day of eIsction.. These -four
teen thousand disfranchised people" were
fourteen thousand rebels and rebel sympa-
thizers; men cut off from suffrage and office
for their treason by the fundamental law OF
the State; and yet under the color OF a
technicality, they were, by the forcible re-
mOval of the Police Commissioners, TO De
SO reinstated as to enter upon the double
mission of disfranchising the Union men
and of completely ruling the city This was
"the work to be done" before Tuesday
Who will wonder that, when this outrage
was contemplated, the tire-tried Radicals OF
Baltimore prepared to array themselves
against it, and who will complain that when
they did SO their friends in other States in
yoked blessings upon their heads and prayed
for their success? l wish it were in my
power to do full Justice to the high mental
ard physical qualities which have thus far
rescued Baltimore from the disloyal grasp.
Saturday proved that the people were
on the side of the Mayor and the Police
Commissioners; and when we study the
causes that awakened their enthusiasm, aud
call over the names of those who stand IN
the forefront of the movement, we need
not be surprised that the loyal masses
placed themselves in battle array upon their
constitutional guarantees. First among the
moral heroes let us place Judge Bond, OF
the Criminal Court, 10 whose tirmness and
moderation the country is indebted for
complete legal triumph over gross usur-
patton. Maryland, more than
any other Commonwealth, must be made
free and certainly an unobstructed State. Inn
agine the fate of our great interests, II Ken
lucky laid across their pathway to the Ma
tional Capital. Kentucky is to-day the
guilty symbol of guilty neutrality; Had
Kentucky not been permitted to stand silent
or half-hearted between the opposing arm
les during the rebellion, she would not now
be citadel of treason more formidable than
South Carolina or Georgia. So powerfully
disloyal are the majority of her population,
that If all the colored people in the State
were permitted to vote, their sutfrages, ad-
ded to those of the white loyalists, would
still leave the rebels In tremendous ma
jority. And when the rebel organization
of every Southern State has been disman- |
tied or superseded by truly Republican |
Government, Kentucky will stand the sim
gle monument of the blunder OF allowing |
her people to stand neutral in the great
contest which decided the fate of the Re
public. Hence the profound debt which
the country owes to the patriotic Radio Ills
of Baltimore city. Their example has
saved Maryland from the fate OF Kentucky,
and however the President may decide,
whether he sends in the troops or not, the
vantage ground of Saturday will be held
hxyf hooa nd
The citizens of Baltimore and Maryland
did on Tuesday register sweeping major
ity against Radicalism. They did thus
declare that "Maryland "must be made
free and certainly an unobstructed State"
within the intent and meaning of the Con-
stitution of the United States. This State, |
which is not 1.-THE guilty symbol Of
guilty neutrality; but which was one of
the truest of the adhering States through
out the war, has declared, with volumin-
GUS emphasis, that the Southern States have
already accepted sufficient conditions, and
given satisfactory evidence OF loyalty, to
entltle them to the resumption of their
Constitutional right OF representation. IN
doubtedly, the outrages that Col. FoRNEY
glorified as calculated to cause the loyal
millions of other States" to "gratefully
testify to the numbers and the intrepidity
Of their Baltimore brothers," contributed
largely to the defeat Of the Radicals. The
friends of the Constitution and the Union
owe the patriots of Baltimore and Mary
land lasting gratitude for the conclusive
victory they won on Tuesday.