Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-26

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The Question of Negro Suffras


=, The radicals deny negro suffrage! TIL st
MaIyland deny that they have the inten,
lng n negro suffrage on this and the other
lnened with large negro populations
Eadlcal reconstruction means the annih,
the Constitution by Iepeated attacks By Co
the reserved rights of States and the functio
coordinate branches of government.
Perfect fairness will permit us to attribute
motives to those radical orators who are now a,
canvassinR Maryland under Mr.. Francis m
John L. Thomas, Mr. Creswell and the rest
1t is question of interest to ask what are the
tiyes Of Those aids to the disorganizers?
In the United States Congress and at their
homes, the object of their action and declared
tive is the establishment of negro suffrage over ev
other consideration, by the agency Of the Freedme
Bureau. the Civil Rights Bill and the Reconstruct
System of the Committee of Fifteen.
When the report of that committee was endorse
by the radical and diSOrganiZing majority in tb
House of Representatives, their friends throughou
the country raised the ubiant song that negro suf
rage at last began to present signs Of ultimate tri
umph. 1t Is the burden Of the radical song it per-
Vades every thing and every principle which radi-
cal, But when they address the people of Maryland
On these vital topics no voice is heard for negro
suuFagHs.-no enthusiastic pean prOclaims the moral
and political equality of the sops of Ham They are
dumb on the subject What is the polite design of
thls retlcenee? 1t is plain. They assume that the
men they address are willing to know only what the
radicals tell them and that they neither think ON nor
investigate these things for themselves and they have
succeeded IN deludlng many weak UuiOn men, But
the Maryland radicals 20 further still They de-
clare most positively that they have not the inteu-
ton OF forcing negro suffrage the State, and Mr.
John l.: Thomas, in his speech at Towsontown be-
rdculousiy energetic in his denial; calls negro
suffrage bugaboo," but the walking skeleton of
ghost. &f, To the radical party in this State it is
the horrd skeleton in the political closet. Like the
usurper, they cry to negro suffrage, Avaunt and
quit my sight-thou searest mine eye-balls'
It is q vain labor. These Maryland apostates
affiliate exclusively with the most extreme of negro
suffrage extremists in Congress, and it is impossible
for them to come before the people here with the
declaration OF their opposition to that principle
which is the dearest object Of the politicians who
are helping them to fight the battle for negro suf-
trage against its enemies in Marylnnd,-the me
chaniHs and workingmen generally, who know from
practical experience that in Baltimore, with any
other undeserved and unfair advantage the black
population will under-bid them and drive the spec
tres Of destitutiOn and famine into their households
The Baltimore american cannot delude the bulk of
the MON sentiment in this State. Men who have
once been deceived will not again become victims
very readily They may deny. and do deny. the
negro suffrage scheme but it shall not avail Negro
suffrage shall be shouted in their ears. SAYS Hot
spur
He said, he would not ransom Mortimer;
Eorbad my tongue to speak of Mortimer;
But will find him when he lies asleep,
And in his ear I'll hOlla MOrtimer
Nay,
I'll have startling shall be taught to sneak
Nothing but Mortimer, and give it him
10 Keep his anger still III motion" B.