The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-03-03

ject, there may yet, we hope, be found a common
ground on which all may stand.
The following words uttered by President
Johnson in the Senate of the United States, when
the Southern Senators were retiring from their
seats to take up arms against the Republic, were
applauded throughout the country, and undoubt-
eddy secured for him the nomination for the Vice
Presidency
g ShoaV aOho has been engaged in these consul
racies, scho has fired upon our aag scho has given
instructions to take our forts, and custons-1ouses,
and Grsenals and dock-ydrds, and qoiW sho,c you
traitor. WERE PRESIDENT Of the United States,
scould do as Thomas Jefferson did in 1906 acith
Aaron Burr. ,could haze them arrested, and if
conuicted Oithin the meaning and scope Of the Con-
stitution, BY THE ETERNAL COP, WOULD EXECUTE
THEM.n
He acted up to the declaration here made
whilst Military Governor of Tennessee, during
the period preceding his nomination on the tick
ct with Mr. Lincoln, and on the 9th of June
1864, when he received intelligence of his nomi-
| nation at Nashville, in response to the compl-
mentary greetings of his fellow-ctizens, he made
| the following remarkable declarations
But, in calling convention to restore the
State who shall restore and re-establsh it Shall
the man who gave bis influence and means to
destroy the Government Is he to participate in
| the great work of reorganization Shall he who
Drought tDlB MISERY upon tue loldte DC permitted
to control its destinies If this be so, then all iS
precious blood Of brave soldiers and officers so
freely poured out a0,U haze been aOantonly spilled
Al the glorious Victores by our noble armies acI
90 for aasght, and dlithe battle fields achich haze
been so,cn With dead heroes during this rebellion
| sciU hare been made memorable in Uain Wiz all
this carnage and devastation II acas that treason
| might be put doWn and traitors punished There
fore, say that traitors should take back seat in
the s0ork Of restoration. fthere be but fire Mous-
| and men in Tennessee loyal to the Constitution,
loyal to Freedom, loyal to Justice, these true and
faithful men should control the scork of reorgdnizd-
ton and reformation, ABSOLUTELY. say that
the traitor has ceased TO be citizen and, in
joining the rebellion, has become public enc
my. Before these Repeating Rebels
can be trusted, LET THEM BRING@FORTH THE
FRUITS OF REPENTANCE"
And he added
And these leaders must feel the power of the
Government. Treason must be made odious and
traitors must be impoverished Their great plqnta-
tons mast be seized and divided into small farms
| and sold to honest, Industrious men," ~,
Following his record up to. the assassination.
| of Mr.. Lincoln, we find no change of views on
this important question, and on the Goth OF
April, 1866, be said: ..a.I,n
Al Is time the American people should Be taught
TO u1derstdSd that treason is a crime--not in re-
Uenge--ssot in anger-baa that treason is a crime,
and should be esteemed as such and punished as
sischJ'liiHN taH
And on the following day, 10 committee of
loyal Southerners, he emphatically exclaimed
g Treason must be made odious Traitors mast
be, made odious and impoverished They must not
only be punished but their social poscers must be
destroyed. And after making treason odious,
every Union man and the Government should be
reimbursed out of the pockets OF those who have
inflicted this great suffering upon the country ,,
On this record, if the President still adheres to
it, all loyal men are still willing to stand with
him. No one will quarrel with him as to any
minor differences of opinion relative TO the mode
and manner of carrying those declarations into
operation. If as Governor Cox understands the
President, +" he seould admit only such Raprescn-
t" tatiues as are, in fact, loyal men," there is no
vital difference between him and the great party
of the Union. But if be now regards all men as
loyal who say they sciu be loyal n future, the diff
ference of sentiment is vital and beyond the pow
er of Cancellation.
In his recent speech from the steps Of the exec
utive Mansion he emphatically exclaimed to the
South
: When you have complied with the require
ments of the Constitution, when you have
yielded to the law, when you have acknowl-
edged your allegiance to the Constitution, I
will, 80 far as / can, open the door of the
Union to those who have erred and strayed
" from the fold of their fathers for time"
Now TO our comprehension, this seems to be
wholly at variance with its previous record, as
above given. There is no indication of deter
mination to make treason odious," unless we
can understand it as merely general declaration
to the masses of the people, with mental reser-
walton of his declaration at Nashville, @ THAT
" TRAITORS SHOULD TAKE BACK SEAT IN THE WORK
+" OF REORGANIZATION But when we look to
the fact that President johnson, " IN THIS WORK
OF REoRGANIzATIoN, has placed the Provisional
Governorship of most of the States in the hands
of active and leading participants in the rebel
lion, we fear that he has recanted his views as
expressed at Nashville, and that whatever may
be the policy of restoration to which be now adj
heres, it is not the same policy that he had pre-
viously given utterance to and which had secu-
red to him the nomination Of the Baltimore Con-
vention. Still in this same speech, delivered
last week, be asks, with marked emphasis:
Whom have / betrayed? What principle
have ] violated? What sentiment have
swerved from? Can those who assail me put
their finger upon any one? No, no. In all
the speeches that have been made no one has
dared to put his finger upon single principle
i" ever asserted from which l had deviated'
If the position of President Johnson is misun-
derstood, and he has " deviated from no princi-
"ple" previously uttered, haste should be made
| fer thorough understanding on the subject
If he still stands by his utterances previous to
reaching the Presidency, we are ready to stand
by him but, if we are not mistaken in the posi-
ton he has assumed, he will find that no honest
and earnest man of true loyalty will sustain him.
True the political hsrlequins, seeking position,
and office holders and expectants whose princi-
Piles are merchantable commodity, will get up
public meetings and magnify an assemblage of
four or Eve thousand to sixteen or twenty thou
sand, but the masses of the loyal people love and
revere the Andy johnson of Tennessee, as he ap-
peared in his Nashville speech and will follow
no mans bidding as to their sentiments and con-
victions, even should that man be subsequently,
President Of the United States.
It is scarcely necessary for us to say to the
loyal citizens of Maryland that we sincerely re-
greet the apparent position of antagonism which
President johnson has taken, not only to the
Union men of Congress, but to his own previous
ly uttered sentiments and convictions, and will
most gladly give him our support if it should be
| found that he has been Misunderstood and that
be can prove to the country that he has " neUer
deviated from single principle he ever asserted"
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