The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-06-02
Should Rebels Control the Govern
ment ?

Rebels and Copperheads are anxious to get
control of the Government again. No wonder.
They have been kept away from the "publc
crib y for long time. They have been fed upon
husks until that kind of pabulum has become
Observation-Disclosures. They are growing lean,
upon it, and as the time approaches for the peo-
pie to select men to manufacture and deal out
wholesome pap" they are becoming clamor-
Gus, and are rushing mp TO the rack, with as lit
tie decorum as would so many half-staryed pigs
to swill-tub. We pity them-in our hearts
we "pheel for them. But what can we do
Old Vor Pcpali-that veteran dispenser of pub
lie crumbs-somehow or other has grown parsi-
monious of late years towards the g Loyal Re-
constructed, and in dealing out ratious won't
so much as give them hard tack. And there is
no appeal from his fat. Heis CommisSary Cen
eral, and whatsoever he willeth he doeth, and
that's an end ofit.
IT'S really distressing to hear this pack of
starved "plunder seekers I" whining, grumb-
ling, cursing and raving at their i'll luck. Their
rawlings are fearful And yet their presumption
e6rontery they seek to establish right to rule
the country they so recently sought to ruin
They seek to hood-wink the loyal masses of the
hation, by telling them that the Union party
that defeated Lee and his hordes are the traitors
that are now trying to break up the Government.
They claim to be the only true patriots in the
land, and with their hands still dripping. with
the blood of our slain heroes, they claim to be
the saviours of the Union. They would have
us believe that their effort to secede and ruin the
country was only small joke-a kind of tourna-
nue,at, gotten up for the amusement of the chjval
~, and now that the play is over, they should
be generously forgiven for the harmless sport,
and again entrusted with the keeping of the hon.
or and integrity of our country.
When these men rebelIed against the Govern
ment they forfeited their Ines, and all their nat
ural and political rights under that Constitution
they so willfully violated and trampled upon
Can criminal, who by his own acts has forfeit
ed his life to the laws of his country, consistent
ly claim any rights Who of US would for mo-
ment think of investing Probst, the criminal,
who murdered whole family in Philadelphia,
with civil rights, place into bis hands that same
ak, covered with gore, with which he so inhu-
manly butchered his victims, and again turn
him loose upon society He has outraged law
and humanity, and must expiate his crimes on
the scaffold. In this case, Heaven knows, /" blood
enough has been shed = yet the law demands
another victim; and Probst must suffer the pen
atty of his crime. And yet he murdered only
eight human beings in cold blood THE rebels
caused the slaughter and death of foo hundred
and eighy-four thousand four hundred and taceaty
By the very letter of the Constitution they now
claim to reverse, and which they say they stand
npon, they are under sentence of death, and
will so remain until they are generously pardon
ed by the proper authority.
But can we trust them It is true some have
all wonId-take the. oath of allegiance. What
of that Swearing won make man loyal
Breckenridge took an oath to support the Consti-
tuition of the United States, when treason slum-
bered in bis heart. The President of the ex-
Confederacy took it Lee took it ARE they
loyal Some of them took an oath to support
willing to take as many more, and ready to
break them the next moment We have seen no
fruits of their loyalty yet, and until they are
thoroughly reconstructed, in mind and heart,
they are not fit to legisate for loyal people, nor
to control National or State affairs Those who
saved the Union can best be trusted with the
keeping of our National honor and our liberties.
Traitors ought to be content with the simple
privilege Of living in the land, without seeking
to rule it. Beelzebub when he rebelIed, was
hurled out of Heaven by the Hosts of the Al
mighty, and consigned to the regions of eternal
despair. We have heard ONO pardon being is
sued in bis case-none Of those black spirits were
ever again admitted to positions Of honor in the
Courts Of High Heaven. They were about as ct
to rule in Heaven as rebels are to rule our coun-
try. As Andrew johnson, whom they pretend to
endorse, once said, " rebels ought 70 sate back
seat"