The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-08-18
THE WAR is not Over.

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A little more than one year ago, grateful
people knelt at their affairs and thanked God that
the war for National existence and universal
freedom had ended in the triumphant vindica-
ton of the former and the permanent establish
rnent of the latter. Little did we then imagine
that the magnanimity displayed towards our fall
len foes would be construed by them into sur
render of principles for which we sacrificed three
hundred thousand lives and untold millions of
our hard earnings. But, encouraged by the
wholesale system of pardoning which President
johnson soon inaugurated, and also by the sick
ly sentimentalism on the subject of ''concilia-
tion'' that certain prominent Northern men, like
Seward and Beecher, proclaimed, the rebels have
been emboldened to demand, with as much arro-
gance as ever, that they shall be at once, uncon-
ditionally, admitted into the councils of the ma
ton, and that their treason shall be regarded as
honorable, whatever may be thought of what
we call loyalty. And now, since the people have
poured out an offering of blood such as liberty
never before had upon her altar, to the end that
the people might be free and safe throughout the
length and breadth of our country, the heart of
the nation is again already sinking and sicken-
ing at the appearance of that same reign of vio-
lence and terror which SO cursed the Southern
States before. The sad, unwelcome fact is again
forced upon the attention of the nation that its
own truly loyal people cannot safely dwell or go
into all parts of their own country. 1t is be-
coming more manifest every day that the higher
the evidence of the citizens loyalty, the greater
the sacrifice made for that country the less secure
these citizens are now in attempting to abide or
even 90 into vast portions of thatcountry which
their own efforts have just delivered. The hrst
flowers which God planted upon the graves of
our fallen heroes have scarcely withered ere the
barbarism which slavery fostered, and which yet
fingers and rankles in traitorous hearts, shoots
down their comrades in arms as they go thither
TO strew them with new emblems of affection and
remembrance. A convention of peaceable citi-
gems of Louisiana, favorable to adopting State
Constitution in conformity 10 the altered condi-
ton of affairs since the abolition Of slavery is
beset by mob, the building in which they as
semble for elaboration surrounded, and every
conventionist who makes his appearance at the
windows is shot down like dog. So rampant
and defiant has the spirit Of rebellion become in
New Orleans and various other portions of the
South, that martial law has been declared and
the bayonet again resorted 10 for the protection
of Union men and the enforcement of the laws.
National songs are discarded for sectional dog
gerels intended to perpetuate hememories ofsuch
traitors as Davis, Lee and Jackson. The flag,
that ever sacred emblem of our nationality, has
been repeatedly torn down and trailed in the
dust Ministers of the gospel to the freedmen,
and teachers laboring in the scarcely less sacred
calling of teaching them to read, are daily insult
ed and often outrageously maltreated by infuri-
ated mobs. A large rebel meeting was held in
Memphis the other day, to send delegates to the
Philadelphia Convention. 1t was addressed by
the rebel General Chalmers, who declared that
JEFF Davis was the greatest and best man of the
age This declaration was cheered immensely
by the crowd. He further said that the South
ought not to assist in paying the National car debt.
Judge Dunlap another rebel speaker, sOishedrad-
cal merchants pointed out saying that the country
people could stdrve them Away. Another Judge
in the South, recently, with his own hands, kill
ed a negro who had just been released from arrest
for some trihing ofense. Not a day passes but
some reasonable demonstration or horrible out
rage on the persons of loyal men takes place.
The civil Offices are in the hands of pardoned
rebels, who afford no redress to loyal men,
Were it not for the presence of United States SOL
diers an awful reign Of terror would be inau-
guratsd and no Union man-white or black
could live in any of the rebel States.
Another link in the chain Of evidence tending
to convict Copperheads of the charge that they
are not willing to accept the situation" may
be found in the dastardly attempt made by the
Democracy, of York. Penna., few days ago, to
assassinate Gov. Curtin and Gen. Geary, the
Union candidate for Governor of that State
These distinguished gentlemen had addressed q
large meeting of the citizens Of York, and were
in the cars, just starting for Harrisburg, when
assault was made upon the cars with pistols,
stones, sticks, &c. Several persons were severely
injured, one, being killed, by pistol shot fred
by one of the special policemen detailed by the
Democratic authorities of York.
Such are some of the pernicious results Of John
sons administration, which has proven as imbe-
Gle as that Of Buchanan. The Present is omin-
ious of Future dark and bloody as the Past.