The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-05-25
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The Baltimore american, in giving list of
the 'loyal press in this State outside of the
city of Baltimore, that support the Thomas poll
cy, says:
"As we have before stated, the Union papers
OF Maryland support the 9Th of June Conven-
ton. AS it is a matter of considerable interest,
we give the names of the several newspapers
which have complied with the request Of Mr..
Thomas and his associates that tall papers in
the State favorable to this call are requested to
publish and call the attention of their readers =
Cumberland Ciuilian and Telegraph, Anna
polls Gazette, Baltimore County Union, Denton
Union Westminster Sentinel, Cecil Wing, Cam
bridge Lntelligencer, Cambridge Herald, Freder-
iek Examiner, Valley Register, Llbertytown
banner, National american, Centreville Citizen
Salisbury Neoo Era, Easton Gazette, Hagerstown
Herald and Boonsboro' Odd FelIoW."
The american then adds:
"The list above gives the name of every Jour-
nal in the counties that has acted with the Union
party in the past, and it proves that they have
not changed their political opinions, but that
the majority of the Executive Committee has
done So"
The chief objection of Mr.. John L. Thomas
and his adherents to the course of the Purnell
wing of the Unconditional Union Central Com
mittee," is their opposition to the registry law
in its present shape. Mr.. Purnell and his wing
of the Committee think this INDUSTRIOUS fraud
upon the people should be SO altered as to allow
many good men who are now deprived of the
right OF suffrage, and who are compelled to con-
tribute literally to the support of government
i'll the management of which they have no part,
the privileges of the ballot-box. This appears
to be just, and we do not see how any fair man
can think otherwise but we do see why Mr..
Thomas and his wing of the party adhere to
this villainous enactment. But for its existence
MIR. Thomas and his 'loyar' followers would
not to-day be forcing negro equality upon an
unwilling people. He would not have the privi-
lege of voting for negro bureaus, civil rights
bills, and the enforcement of negro suffrage on
the people of the District of Columbia Who
can for one moment doubt that if the office
seekers in this State could be brought to believe
that the modification of this infamous law would
in any way tend to their political advancement,
that the quiet move of Purnell and his wing of
the Committee in that direction would be soon
overshadowed by the towering ability and ener-
gy Of Mr.. Thomas and his party, with very
''loyar journal as their mouth-piece?
The Baltimore american ought to be an excel
lent judge of loyalty, because having like many
of its supporters tried both sides of the
question, it has, we suppose, found out the
true meaning of 'loyalty," and therefore the
above journals should feel complimented by the
endorsement of the american. Now, on the goth
of April, 1861, he evidently thought that those
people whom he now denounces as "copperheads
and traitors" were 'intensely loyal" for in
his issue of that day, he urges the people of the
good city of Baltimore to go forth in organized
bodies, ''to prevent the passage of troops" and
declares that 'they should be met beyond the
limits of the city,. Hear him: ..
eve have, through our constituted autbori-
ties, declared that the Northern troops should
not be passed through our city, and that decla-
ration must now be supported with determine
ton, energy and unanimity. There must be
preparation, organization and good counsel To
prevent the passage of troops, they should be met
beyond the limits of the city by such an organ
lied force as will make the prohibition effectual"
But this sage has since found out that he and
those with whom he then acted were on the
wrong side, lat least for the chances of appoint
ment to office, and that to be secure in the line
of promotion required modification of sent-
ment, tina It the change should be "radlcap' and
complete. So, on the 2sth of October 1865, he
endorses Helper, in the following language
a. 'The principles of the Declaration of Indepen-
dence were embodied by the hand and brain of
Jefferson. Helper, the author Of the Impending
Crlsls, was North Carolinan, and like Mark
Antony over the dead body of Caesar, he stood
Telling You that which you yourselves do
know F" .' .'.U
The first position of the american seems also
to have been the position of "our constituted
authorities, and the last one that of the tail end
ofthe Unconditional Union State Central Com
mittee." But be this rs it may, we are sure that
there are many men in Maryland that are this
day deprived of the right of suffrage, who never
advised open resistance, or any other kind of re-
sistance other than the peaceable resistance of
the ballot, to sour constituted authorities"
either State or national; yet the editor of the
American is not only registered voter, but an
oAn0o-hoiuer unuer tne general government.
~4 We like justice and abhor unfairness, and
therefore approve all legitimate attempts to re-
move from our statute books so unjust, I'M
righteous and tyrannical an act az the registry
law of this State. ~. s-a
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FOUND DEAD-On Monday last the lifeless
body Of a negro named John Prizes, was found
in piece of woods near Swan Creek not far
6 below the PHILADELPHIA and Baltimore turnnike