The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-06-09
UNCONDITIONAL UNION co.
CONVENTION.
The Registry Law Sustained.
NEGRO SUFFRAGE OPPOSED.

The Delegates elected from the different dis
tricts to meet in County Convention for the pur-
pose of selecting Seven Delegates to the State
Convention, which met in Baltimore, on We'd
town on Monday last. The meeting was very
large and enthusiastic, all the Districts being
fully represented except the Sixth. The names
of the delegates are as follows:
First District.-Col. John G. Holland, Capt.
Robert w. Reynolds, John X. Smith, j. w. NJ.
Mercer, George A. Ford.
I'd do.-James Taylor, VIM. p. Jean, Henry
Frantz George Lynch, Jabez Hamilton.
, Sd do.-Thos. Sanderson, Jacob Corbitt Major
Robt. R. Neeley, Capt. Jas. I. Armacost, Lieut..
Eli Tucker.
4th do.-Wm. Gambrill, David S. Longnecker,
Geo. R. Stone, Nimrod Yingling, VIM. Allen.
5th do.-Ambrose S. Bull, Joseph Leaf, Dan'l
Shamberger, John Safer, Fl. Slicer Wheeler
It'll do-Henry NJ. Hofacker, John Burns,
Lieut. Alfred S. Cooper, VIM. Sykes, James
Mcbride.
8th do.-John O. Price, Capt R. S. Smith,
Powell Griscom Chas. L. Jessop, Evan NJ. Price.
9h do-Joseph Merryman, Col. Jas. H. Will
son, John T. Ensor, G. Ridgely Ware, Samuel
Coale.
10Th do.-Joshua H. Parker, j. A. Hamilton,
VIM. G. Vance, ]. f. Dent Henry Green.
llth do.-John Kennel, George L. Edwards,
George Fox, Rufus King, Henry Francis.
l2fh do.-George Councilman, f. A. Van Ruth,
Thomas James, Alexander Mccormick, William
Button.
The meeting was organized by calling William
c. Vance, Esq, to the Chair, and by electing ].
Augustus Hamilton, Esq, and Col. John G. Hol-
land, Secretaries. Committee, consisting OF
Messrs. John T. Ensor, Joshua H. Parker, VIM
Button, Rufas King, Powell Griscom, James
Taylor, and Thomas Sanderson, was appointed tc
draft resolutions, who through their Chairman,
reported the following which were unanimously
adopted:
! Resolved That the reconstruction policy Of
Congress, proposing an amendment to the Con.
stitution, by which the leaders of the rebellion
may be prevented from holding ''any office, civil
or military, under the United States or any
State is far preferable to the policy inaugurated
| by the President, under which some of the great
est traitors are now holding offices in the South
,ern States, and Union men obliged to flee from
the oppression of Rebel tyranny.
Resolved, That we are opposed to negro SUI
4 frage, and endorse the Congressional amendment
! to the Constitution, excluding non-voting ne
A groes from the basis of representation; that we
| are opposed to universal negro suffrage advocated
| by Wilson, Sumner and others, and qualified ne
| gro suffrage advocated by President Johnson,
| and we heartily approve and endorse the policy
/ of the majority of Congress in adopting a recon,
struction policy free from universal or qualified
NEGRO suffrage.
| ReSoIved, That we are in favor of sustaining
| the Registry law of Maryland, and are opposed
to Montgomery Blair & Co. shaping the platform
of the Union party in the interest of Rebel suf
X frage.
Resolved That, as the Chairman of the Estate
Central Committee refused to call the Commit
tee together, and with others of the Committee
has repeatedly voted against sustaining the Reg
| istry law, and is in sentiment with Montgomery
Blair, the acknowledge leader of the Rebels, and
as he attempted, without authority, to consti
| tute committee of his own sentiment, for tht
purpose, as we believe, of handing over the UnioI
/ party into the hands of the Rebels, we heartily
| approve of the call for State Convention on ths
| 9Th of June, and, believing it will fairly repre-
sent the Union sentiment of the State, we take
pleasure in sending to it delegates to represent
| our county.
Resol0ed, That we earnestly endorse Andrew
Johnson long as he carries out the doctrine tina
/ treason must be made odious and traitors pun
| ished, but we cannot endorse his policy of recon-
mending and appointing them to office.
| The following resolution was also unanimous
| ly adopted:
ResolUed That we approve the political course
| pursued by the Baltimore County Oni0n and
recommend it to the favorable consideration Of
the Loyal people of Baltimore county, AS being
| in every way worthy of their confidence, sup
| port and patronage.
The following gentlemen were then elected by
acclmation to represent this county in the State
Convention to be held in Baltimore, Wednesday,
9th of June: John T. Ensor, Col. John G. Hol-
| land Thomas Sanderson, William Gambrill,
Joshua H. Parker John O. Price, and William
Button; and the following gentlemen were elect
ed alternates by reclamation Joseph Parsons,
John H. Longnecker, Major Robert Nicely, Lieut.
A. S. Cooper, George A. Foard, Charles L. Jes-
sop, and John K Smith
John 7. Ensor, Esq, delivered speech, which
occupied the attention of the Convention for
about an hour, and during which he was loudly
applauded,