The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-01-27
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MESsRs. EDITORS -
In eighteen hundred and sixty one, Messrs.
Editors, was an inhabitant of your vicinity.
In eighteen hundred and sixty six. (Jan. 22d,)
/ was visitor in your town, and permit me 10
say, (more in sorrow than in angerO that the
scenes of the early part of 1851 were brought
wildly to my mind on the occasion Of my ac-
cidental visit on Monday last. Then meetings
were being held organizing military compa-
nv, which was called the Baltimore County
Horse Guards. On Monday last a meeting was
in progress for the election OF delegates to
State convention, which had for its object the
repeal of n certain obnoxious law passed at Jan
nary session, 1855 known as the Registry law.
period Of five years in the ordinary course
of things brings many changes, and tits true
that the last FIVE have been as pregnant with
events, and as many of those events have seen
the light of day, as at any similar period since
our Government in l7T6 declared itself free
and Independent nation. To be brief however,
is my intention, and ! will proceed to the OBJ
iect Of nv writing. In 1861 / found occasion
ally in your village, meetings of the Baltimore
County Horse Guards, whilst occasionally the
same men, with others of the same Xix would
meet in county meetings, the object always be-
ing the same viz to set at defiance the acts
of the national administration, then about en-
tering into power. With the persons composing
those meetings was then upon the most init
mate terms, and had hoped that during my
absence from here, many of those persons had
seen the error of their ways, and had become
good and loyal citizens. Mark the error.
At the meeting on Monday last, in the Odd
Fellows Hall, judge Of my establishment when
! found in the same, many, and in fact nearly
all of those who in I'll were most active in
works of treason towards the Government Of
the United States, claiming forthe right of cleo
tive franchise, of which, Gas they say) they
have been basely deprived. They, the same
who picketed all the roads in this vicinity to
prevent the Northern horde from passing
through Maryland to protect the Capitol OF the
United States, now complaining that their rights
are intruded upon. confess | cannot see their
injury.
NV establishment, Messrs. Editors great as
it may be above described, has not yet been
one half expressed. In that same meeting on
Monday last, found three men at least, who
have held office under the Black Republican
Government, las those then assembled delight
ed to call it, or by the suffrage of the loyal
people of Baltimore county. participating in
the deliberations of said Mondays meeting,
and it may not be out of place here, to bring
to the mind of one of those persons, the fact
that in 1851, your correspondent took an active
and decided interest in his welfare, assisting
to the extent of his ability, by day and by night
that his property might not faH and perish at
the hand of the incendiary. And when con-
template the fact that the same individual was
in open concert on Monday last with the same
party assisted in watching in 1851, to prevent
them from destroying his homestead, and ev-
efything therein contained, my very heart sick
ems within me, and leave the subject for the
present, thinking what jewel consistency re-
ally is. sfEf 5s8I wr
may, Messrs. Editors, as events transpire
with regard to the efforts Of those who have
talked treason, read treason, wrote treason,
acted treason and fought for treason, to be re-
stored to full citizenshipagain, indulge in furth-
er remarks upon the subject.
CONsfsTENCY