The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-05-12
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From present Indications the coming cam
paign will be holly contested one. The disu-
Mon party, taking courage from the I" aid and
comfort extended to it by men in high places,
are making ready for the contest, announcing
their purposes and objects clearly and unmistake-
ably. They advocate the repeal Of the Registry
law, as means to place themselves again in
power, and it will require all the efforts that
Union men can put forth to maintain this law
against the amalgamation of returned rebels,
democrats and halfway Union men now ar
raging themselves against it.
The true Union men of the State must organ.
ize and get ready for the fight. We have been
successful in contests more holly contested than
the coming one is likely to be, and by efforts put
forth in the right direction, and by concerted
action, we can be successful again. Surely there
is no Union man that would willingly see the
State back into the hands of the party that, in
1861, well nigh carried it into the vortex of re-
bellion-that during the four years of war for
the preservation of the Union gave all their SYM
pathy and support to the enemies of the Govern
ment.
We mast organize if we would maintain the
supremacy of the Union party. Let our county
and district organizations be convened, and let
it be understood that "No Compromise with
Traitors is still the watchword of the Union
party. The rebellion may be among the things
that were, because conquered by the strong arm
of the Government, but its spirit still lives def
ant, arrogant as ever, and its progenitors and
abettors now propose to win by diplomacy and
the ballot what they failed to secure by the
sword. There is no sorrow, no remorSe, exhibit
ed by the disunion party for the sad events OF
the last five years; they care not for the blood
that has been shed-for the ruin and desolation
that has been brought upon the country. They
have failed in sundering the Union, and now
wish, as they cannot have a separate government
OF their own, to govern the Union they cannot
conquer. 1t is with the American people to de-
eide whether they will again be ruled by the Da-
vises, Slidclls and Benjamins, and others of that
stamp, of the South, or whether they will be
governed by loyal men. Itrests with the people
Of Maryland TO remain true TO the Government
true to the loyal record they made during the
war-true to their so often expressed determine
ton through the ballot-box-or else, forgetting
all this, to suffer the interests of their State to
pass into the keeping Of the men who have been
80 fully identified with our enemies.
There are some differences Of opinion between
Union men in reference 10 the political issues now
before the country, but we hope and believe they
will be healed Indications now lead us to be-
lieve that Congress will, as it should, recede from
some Of the radical positions it has taken, and
that the President and the representatives of the
people will again be in harmony. Wetrust that
1t may be SO. We hope that all minor questions
may be merged into the one great idea of saving
our country and State from the hands of those
who have already well nigh ruined us.