The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-09-14
The Baltimore American.

1.-THE Bel Air Intelligencer, the organ of the
johnson Swami party in Hartford county, Nd,
makes the following candid admission in its issue
Of last week "lh. johnson and Mr.. iStuann
hdue proysd fdithisss TO their obligations to party
it is none of our fault or concern. Neither Of
Them hold The positions they noW occupy By any aid
Of ours" The INTEL ,gencer supported Mcclellan
and the Democratic State ticket in the last cam
paign- "-Baltimors A1aeriuun, Sept. eth.
Whether'the AHneriean in making the above
extract from an article of ours on the Registry
Law, Willingly or unwittngly msquoted.. us, we
are unable to say, that it is misquotation is
true, and it may be one of the many unjustifable
means adopted by that journal to sustain its
charges Of Inconsistency against President John
SON and Governor Swami. 1t is true that
'ueither of them bold the positions which they
now occupy by any aid of ours" and it is also
true, that "tho Intelligencer supported Mcclellan
md the Democratic State ticket in the last cam
paign," and it is equally true that we do not re-
greet, in any particular, the course which we then
pursued-our opinions as to the true policy fthe
State and nation having undergone no change
But we did not use the language attributed to us
by the Americna, in the sense in which that
journal gives it to the Iublic. We neither
charged Mr.. johnson and Mr.. Swami with hav-
ing "proved faithless to their obligations to
party" nor defended them against the charges
made by others nor did We make any admis-
sion that they had 'proved faithless to their
obligations to party" What we did say was
this eff Mr.. johnson and Mr.. Swami have
proved fathless to their obligations to party, it is
none of our fault or concern.' We mentioned
the charge against them as one of the modes
adopted to effect the registry of voters in the
State, and in this connection used the sentence
quoted above. But 10 make our meaning clear
ly understood, we give the whole paragraph in
which the language copied by the american oc-
ours, so far as it has any application to Mr..
johnson and Mr.. Swami"
The same men tell us that the war was waped
for the preservation of the Union, and to prevent
the seeded States from withdrawing therefrom {;
and now that the war is over they refuse to al
low them representation in the National Legisla-
ture, except on terms to suit themselves, and
charge that President johnson and Gov. Swami
have deserted them, and are using the registry
law in this State for the purpose of thwarting, in
measure, the views of Congress. If Mr.. John
son and Mr.. Swami have proved faithless to their
obligations TO party, it is none of our fault or
concern. Neither ofthem hold the positions they
now occupy by any aid of ours but at the same
time, ifeither of them do good or righteous act,
we have too much independence to condemn them
for it. But the names of these men are only
dragged in as part of the means of effecting the
registry of voters, and have nothing whatever to
do with the applicants right to register.
1t will besee that by dropping the conjunc-
ton eff" the Americanmakc us say ''Mr. John
son and Mr.. Swami have proved faithless," &C.,
but we said no such thing; for if the Re-
publican party was sincere in the passage of the
Crittenden Resolutions of 1861, then the Radi-
calls of to-day are not the Republicans of 1861
and consequently it would be folly to charge
Mr.. johnson and Mr.. Swami, or any other friends
of the Crttenden Resolutions, with faithlessness
to party obligations, because they do not now
folo w the lead of Thaddeus Stevens. But the
american is driven to the necessity fgarbling ex-
tracts to sustain its charges against its oppo-
nents, it had BETTER in future, be more particu-
lar to make only such as do not require resort
to such means.