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

| ittee for Baltimore County. a-.-l1
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| Gov. Swann's Speech.
| The Union press of Maryland are severely crit
/ icisng Gov. Swami address at the Baltimore
Mass Meeting Nota paper in the counties thai
| supported him in his Gubernatorial contest en-
fedorses- his present position sFhey all remain
firm to the principles then advocated, notwith
standing the detection from the Union party O.
some of the men they assisted in placing in pow
err and position, and have given their cordial
support TO the 9th Of June Convention. They
are opposed to the formation of g new party, y
and oppose the men who are engaged in its for
nation!
+ We append some extracts from the Union pa
pers of the State, as pretty surely indicating tht
sentiments ofthe people upon the political ques
tions now at issue: ~''@ 80 -
From the Cumberland CiOilidn
On the whole, the Governors speech is rather
BeTemarkablc document to proceed frOfnsone who
owes his official position to the operation of the
principles of the Unconditional Union party =
| He has placed himself in an unenviabe position.
Heshas totally rephdiated' the party which elected
| him to Office and which is the strongest in the
/ State his past course has rendered him peculiar
! .ly obnoxious to the Democratic party, and he
! now has to rely entirely upon his new party for
| support, and it is unable to furnish even cor
| poraps guard
Our readers will remember that the Governor
I not many years since declared that be /" had
| mounted the emancipation pony, and intended
I to ride him with whip and spur" He rode that
/ pony until he reached the executive mansion, but
within its walls he has found new, friends of the
sc Conservative " order, and while they make
/ merry over future imaginary successes, the pony
has been neglected as of no further use. The
1 Governors speech is neither original able nor
creditable. All that he said on that occasion
! has been said before an hundred times by
/ Montg emery Blair and others of that genus.
| You are very short sighted, Governor you
! should have stuck to your " emancipation pony. y
Your new party will fail to carry out your wishes.
| The Baltimore Gazette has said that Governor
! Swann's only hope lay in the rigid enforcement
| of the Registry law" He is now in miserable
repute with the true Uuion men and the De-
mocracy Rebels and all, repudiate him as q de-
serter from his party and principles, and are I'M
| willing to trust him. al arsA
| From the Hagerstoaon Herald and Torch. J
| In view of the fact that the @ Radicals made
| the Constitution of Maryland which explicitly
| ignores both negro suffrage and the representa-
| ton of the negro rebels and in view of the adj
| ditional fact that these same 81 radical " Uncon-
ditional Union men have in all their State Con-
ventions declared their oppostions to negro suf-
frage, it might be presumed that their record was
complete on this subject, and past all possibility
| of doubt CT uncertainty. Especially so, when
we remember the truth of the aphorism, that &C
| tons speak louder than words. will his Elk
cellency the Governor allow us to say to him that
| these historical truths, known and felt by all
men ofany intelligence and character, confront
and triumphantly overthrow his Wild insane
| and wrecked effort to fasten upon the Uncondi-
| tional Union men the charge of advocating negro
| suffrage and negro equality - st44-s-.s IA
l. The Herald is of opinion that GovernorSwa S
ambition to succeed Mr.. Creswell has something
to do with his " present political status-n 1T
| says 9a- sues s+e ~ .'-e. = = ~
1T cannot be said that much learning hath
made him mad, - but it may be said that the am
bitiou to become United States Senator has sap
ped the foundations of his political honor, and
made him traitor to the party-by whose votes
alone, he holds his present position.
The Rebels and sympathzers are jubilant over
his DETECTION from the Union cause publishing
in full, and landing his Speech, but when they
get the power does Thomas Swami, Of Plug Ugly
his infatuaton run to this extent If it does, he
will outlive it, and sink so far below the surface
of both political parties that the hand of resurec-
ton will never find him, nor will take place of
his encouragement send up even single bubble to
indicate the spot where he went under.
The Salisbury Nsw Era, in referring TO the re-
cent meeting and Gov. Swami sspeech, says This
savageNand foreign growl amounted to but little.
He dwelt at length upon minor TOPICS as foreign
to the real issues, as he himselfs to statesman;
freely uttering his contempt for the only true I'm
ion party 1t repudiates the statement that the
Unconditional Union party favors negro suffrage,
and says EJIEf sfks
/ 1t appears that Mr. Swami envies the oft COM
puted ignorance ofthe negro, judging from his
thrusts at that accursed race. Heis frightful that
the negro will claim the right Of suffrage and
unwittingly charges the party to which he owes
his present position, with favoring 1t and tries,
despite the sentiment of the 9Th of June Conven-
ton, to make negro suffrage an issue. lie k'aoecs
full s0eI that such talk acU not stand IN The face Of
facts and fhe has a particle Of sepsibiIity, I is
marvellous that he can be guilty Of such base 0stSTeP-
reSentati0ns. He has asserted himself, equivocal-
ly, in favor of qualified negro suffrage therefore
II would be polite for him to think twice before
speaking once ,7cn a pre-
& Inc Belalr IVuJtOUut dHeF LulllhS tudI lrOu
Mr.. Swann,S speech the Unien-party of-the State
" cannot count on the cooperation of Mr..
Swami and declares that the sentiments of
his speech are borrowed from his confreres, Hen
ry May and Benjamin Harris. y On the subjecto
the United States Senate, the Amsricdn says:
Z If Mr.. Swami is DESTROYS, in his made effort,
to force himself into the United States Senate,
and willingly becomes the tool of his associates
by whom he is at present surrounded, we are at
u loss to conceive why Judas Iscariot and Bene-
dict Arnold should not become bis examplars.r
The Aa.srican advises the Governor to drop
the name Of the Unconditional Union party, asst
''may madden his friends 1t Is also of the
opinion that were the late Henry Winter Davis
alive, Mr.. Swami would not. have made the
speech he did. ftsays; ---.c.
II, in noticing bis Excellency speech our opin-
ion must be declared, truthfully and fully, wei
think we cannot be wrong in stating that a.
greater conglomeration of falsity and wild imags
ination never emanated from the ibeWildered aadj
disordered brain of self inundated martyr of
political cppidity then the instance now referred
to. Mr.. Swami was son a raid-and believing
his master Henry Water Davis, or, as he styled
him the /" great Radical leader" to be dead
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