Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-21
Hon W H Seward
GOy'R SWAMI AND HIS AssATLANys.
Special Correspondence of tho National Intelli-
gencer.l
BALTIMORE Mnu II 1eeH

BALTIMORE. May II, 1866
, The Baltimore American bitterly assails Governor
swami tor his recent letter announcing his opposi-
gress and his appreciation of the reconstruction pol-
icy OF President johnson. In these denunciations
your city. It is striving, by its excessive radieelism
nolo to distract remembrance of its aid and sympa-
thy its direct encouragement to treason and rebel
Ilon heretofore The american, like the Chronicle
forgetful OF, or anxious to have forgotten its trea-
sonable antecedents when treason threatened to be
triumphant lmpudently puts itself forward as an
a1t9orzed expOnent of the principles and purposes
| OF the Union party.
1t has even the audacity to assail. denouuce and
menace men who dared to stand firmly maintaining
the Union and fighting against the secession Jtrore
N ID palumore during the memorable days of April
d?oL' ' w9en secession was rampant in this riotous
clIy; ana the American itself covered and truck ed
10 ne passing storm of treason and lent its aid and
added ITS editorial voice to the reasonable rcsou-
lion thaI no Federal soldier should be allowed to
pass over the soil of Maryland to defend the city
washington from rebel occupation; and invoked the
iPp pgioPie OF baltimore and Maryland to arm them
serves, and meet upon their border and repel the
volunteers from the loyal States hurrylng to protect
the national capital from rebel seizure.
AT the very moment when Governor Swami, then
prlvate citlzen, on the memorable 10Th Of April
1SoI was standing unappaed by the side of the la
deaf ear to the persuasOns and menaces of the Sc
cesSlGn committees and, under all circumstances to
stand firmly by the Union, even unto death, the
Amercdn yielding to the riotous rebel demonstra-
ons OF the hour not only hauled down the stars and
STRIPES and ran up in their place the State flag of
lduI out become the plant tool of tho rebel
leaders and the advocate of the rebel cause
On the afternoon of the memorable 18th of April,
Wnen the MASSACHUSETTS, 9th regiment, fastening to
the defence Of Washington. had been attacked BY a
secession mob in passing through the streets cf Bal
moreth this same SUPERFICIAL aud now excessively radical
AnerlcdR, conducted and edited then by the yery
same conductors and editors at present hasten ed
TO array itself upon the side of the secession mob
and to urge on the movement to obstruct by force
ana arms the defence Of the national capital In its
AFTERNOON edition OF that day it said
III, .o,,J., r Al III U? ISLE
me re3HHs OF hlg morning must determine the po8i
non V GH men. We must agree one man, first to
SECURE the re-establishment of harmony among our
selves and all then Join in whatever measures may
be determined on. Whatever differences may have
or do yet exist the blood of our citizens shed in our
streets IS an irresistible appeal to all 10 unite as
MG,yiander8 to meet firmly and together the respon-
/ sl6Intes clustering thickly about us.
1here can be 40 dGtcubg nol1 IN the Governor, the
Mayor and police authorities from together coacsrfiao
those measures 'chtch are necsSsary to TIE pubic
stVetV Let US hrst seek unity among ourselves ard
then act. In such crisis this all other considera-
ttos must give way to duty towards one another
and to the State and Ctty.
On the morning of April the GOTH in the course of
an editorial article, the american exclaimed: "All
must unite IN indignant reproof of that policy which
mas exposed US to such sangunary results and with
the assurance that the military Of our olcn city ,ch
the GOUernor and constituted authorities at their head
W do and are doing their 'ohole duty to the
peace OF the city, and to preUeHt any troops from
me North from passing bOrders it is hoped that
breathing time may be allowed whereby to protect
among ourselves"
Upon, the following day, when secession was ram
pant when Union men were being imprisoned for
caring to raise the American flag, when the fate of
washington city was in doubt and the whole North
was hled with geom at the impending crisis of civil
war, when Thomas Swami and only a few others of
the prominent men of Baltimore still dared to avow
their adherence to the Union and were for their OBJ
StlIate Unlonism, marked victims Of the secession
mop. this now excessively Union loving American
published the following editorial:
PREPARATION AND ORGANIZATION.
IT no longer time to discuss but to act to
QreCt them. We luDe thTOuUL NTH
ittes declared that the Northern troops shall not be
passed through our city and that declaration must noio
imiH. There must be preparation, organization and
good counsel TO preUet the passage of these troops
theyshoud be met Jeyond the its Of the city By such
an 9rgGnzed force lgiD nake the prohibition efec
tuat. We must keep the war away from our homes
II possible. The facts stated elsewhere show what
measures have already been taken to secure these
ends. The bridges on the PhiLndelphia and North
ea Central railroads hare been destroyed 6y order of
the Mayor This loiU preUent the attempt to suddenly
9rectpttae any large bodies ofOops upon u.s. and give
tan . for preparation.
Such is the splendid Union record of the journal
which now asSais Thomas Swami, the Union Cover
nor of Maryland and menaces him with the hostility
OF the Union party because he declines to endorse
the revolutionary projects of the Radical faction in
Congress and obey the dctation of the extremely
Radical American.
What has Governor Swami done to incur the atra-
bilious ire of this ewfedged patriot and advocate of
Unionism-ths supple shfter from savage secession
ism to Republican radicalism? He has simply an
nounced his appreciation of the reconstruction policy
Of President Johnson and his unwillngness TO unite
with miserable faction of malcontents in their eff
forts to divide and destroy the Union party in Mary
land: he has only expressed his opinion that two
thirds of the Executive Committee including the
chairman Of the Unconditional Union State Central
Committee. should be recognized as the proper au-
thorlty to TX the time and place for the State Con-
VentlOn OF the party they chosen to represent
and he has declined to allow himself to be msrepre-
sented participant in a mass meeting called by
factious third of this Executive Committee for
the purpose OF disorganizng the Union party of the
State and endorsing the EXTREMIST measures of the
revolutionary radicals in CONGRESS
II is true that Governor Swami says in this letter.
which has so greatly excited the wrath of the amer,
gcdn:
I am for keeping the control of this Government in
the hands Of tdyat men exclusively. and at all
times.
l am for the reconstruction of the Union by admit
ting the revolted States to representation in Con-
greSs. proUded they elect men Of undoubted oyQly
prepared to take the oath required by that body.
The masses of the Southern people l am prepared
to trust because ] believe they have been deceived
by ambitious aad designing leaders. With Congress
will rest the power to protect itself and the country
against disloya candidates seeking admission into
our National Councils.
tlonal Union party, which sustai ed the Government
In its efforts to put down this re eon, and am for
lines am utterly opposed to universal negro suf-
frage and the extreme radicaism of certain men in
Congress and in our own State who have been striv-
ing to shape the platform of the Union party in the
interests OF negro suffrage.
In these positions the Governor is sustained by
eight out of twelve of the State Central Committee
of the Unconditional Union party of Maryland by
which he was elected by all the Union ofce-holders
OF the State-Federal, State, and municipal-except
two Congressman and one Senator, and one custom
house olcer-who is one of the editors of the Amer-
can-and by the masses of the Unconditional Union
party yet because the Governor refused to counte-
nance and encourage the efforts of petty faction to
dsorganize or destroy the Union party in the State
he is assailed by the American and classed by it
this organ of the dsorgapizers that he will not by
followed by corporal's guard of those who placed
him IN his present position in the he has TAKEN
and his future atiatlOn must be with the disloyal
whilst his antagonists will be the true and loyal
of Maryland"
Governor Swami may safely point to the record he
has made IN this letter and to the american and
its coworkers IF this be treason, make the most of
it." Upon this letter alone without reference to his
Union antecedents. he may triumphantly appeal to
the masses of the Union party of Maryland, and he
will be enthusiastically sustained. The dsorganzers
pqued because he refused to join them. For that
reason alone they are barking at his heels did the
secession mob, urged on by this same American, in
the streets of baltimore on that bloody Friday, in
any of the opinions expressed in his letter. but they
howl after him because he would not participate in
the meeting of the disorganizers at Hagerstown He
has stated frankly and unequivocally to his constt
uents that he is standing upon the same platform
upon which stand PRESIDENT johnson, majority of
the Union men of Maryland, and vast majority of
the true Union men the nation.
lie is standing now precisely where he stood when
elected Governor by the unconditional Union voters
of Maryland; where he stood when the american
openly and ardently advocated the cause of seces-
sion invoked the people of Maryland to rally to the
border and organize and unite, with arms IN their
hands, to prevent any troops from the North
from passing the border" and encouraged the Mary.
land rebels to be sternly wrought up to the point of
organized resistance" by the "rum0red advance, of
President Davis with one hundred thousand men" to
sustain their efforts. The records of Governor Swami
and his present assalants before the people of
Maryland.
While he has been consistent and unswerving in
his devotion to the Union through all the darkest
and most perious times of the rebellion, they have
followed only the mad passions of the hour; have
smiled encouragement upon every revolutionary mob
that presented itself; have vauted from the lowest
depths of secesonism to the widest excesses of rad
calism, and now impudently aspire to teach Union
ism to the loyal men of Maryland, to whom, a little
while ago. they preached organization and armed
resistance against the Federal soldiers Fastening to
give their own blood and lives to protect and pre-
serve the life of the nation.
1t UNION.
A CURIOUS FAoT.-There is rather an amusing ar
tiee in the Scientific Opinion the Proportion of
the Sexes" 1t says that the changes which have
taken place in various countries in the proportion Of
the male to the female portion of the population,
present curious problem. In England and France
the of females is rapidly ncreasing-while in
Austria the contrary is the, case. In Austria the
dminution of female births has been continual and
increasing since 1885, at present it amounts TO three