Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1866-10-25
The Rebel Plot to RepOlutlOnlze
Maryland.
The Baltimore American saws:


There is evidently an effort being made,
and made by the same parties who engineer
ed Baltimore city into the nineteenth Of
April riot. 10 inauQurate in our city another
civil commoton, with its accom- paDyin9 hor-
roIs and probably loss of life. They are
begging, beseeching and imploring Cover.
nor Swami to arrest the Police Commissions,
Just the same way as they hoodwinked May.
or Brown, and led the Police Commissioners
iHto their criminal follies in 1861. The
distinguished legal gentleman who has
pledged his life to the work" is now as he
was then, the principal manager Of this new
movement, and those who cc-operated with
him then, are co operating with him now.
The object Of removing the Police Com
missioners is to put in others who will APP
point judges of elections who will disregard
the Registry law, and permit rebels to vote
who are disfranchised by the Constitution
of the State The American says Of the
men who are engaged in this plot: 4 Fl
We warn Gov. Swami that he is in the
hands of dangerous men. They are not re-
pentant rebels nor whipped rebels. They
escaped punishment before by their cum
ming, and will keep out of all personal re
sponsibility now They are men who are by
nature rebels, and who seek to use him to
restore to power, the same men who, under
the cry of Reform" attempted, and sue
ceeded in preopitating the State into re.
bellion against the Government
These Commissioners can legally be re-
moved only upon specific chafges und trial
and conviction''of misconduct, but the rebel
elements urge Governor Swami to act u de-
fance of law, and remove them arbitrarily,
promising him their support: Such an act
on the eve Of the election will be proof that
it was done to remove the safeguards of the
law, and give the conspirators the control of
the polls Such revolutionary act for such
purposes must inevitably raise great civil
commotion in Maryland, and it would ex.
tend over all tho loyal States.
The American states that preliminary to
this Gov Swami has appointed the Regis
ters exclusively from those whoare opposed
to the registry law. In other words, he has
appointed the Registers of votes excusvely
from those whose sympathies are with the
rebels who are exc uded by the registry law,
and who are determined to violate il to Nd
nit the disiranchised rebel votes Thus
the people find the authorities subverting
the Constitution and laws, and engaged 10
a revolution What shall the sovereign
people Of State do when the authorities
engage in sedition? The Aluericas. says the
rem wal of the Police Commissioners at this
time, and for such purpose, must be ex-
pected to produce civil commotion, such
as has not been witnessed in Baltimore for
some years. and that the exitement created
by this open rebe attempt to elect Congress
men in violation Of law, would spread over
the whole of the loyal States, and that it re.
CARDS the subject as one fraught with danger
to the peace and order of the city.
And there is another element that adds
tothe danger of this revolutionary plot. 1t
is apprehended that the Acting President,
who has thrown all the power OF the Gov
ernment against the loyal people of Mary.
land. will make pretext for briYring in
the United States military to supp& Gov.
Swami, in annuling the laws and"F bvert-
ing the Constitution of the State. His
high handed course in Tennessee and louis
lana, shows that no limitations Of law would
prevent him, His exhibition of his charac-
ter in the stump harangues, has revealed
tionary violence. and the ex expectations of the
Maryland confederates justify the appre-
bension.
1.-THE Acting President shall order the
United States forces to interfere in State.
to aid in subvertng its Constitution and
laws for the purpose of putting down the
loyal inhabitants, and electing rebels to
Congress- will not the rebellion be restored
in its full dimensions. and in possession Of
the United States Government, using the
bayonets of the regular army to elect Con-
gress of Confederates? If Mr. johnson en-
cages in this conspiracy, he will tread on
ground dangerous to himself, and will place
the peace of the whole country in imminent
peril. Gin. Gaz.