The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-09-15
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Tho Boys In Blue"
A number Of Maryland soldiers, nearly all Of
them the recipients Of Government or State pa.
tronage, have issued a call for a mass meeting
TO be held In Baltimore, for the purpose Of elect
Ing delegates 10 represent the State in the so-ca-
cd Soldiers Convention to be assembled at Cleve-
land, Ohio. Knowing well that the signers TO
this call did not represent the political sentiment
OF the soldiers and sailors OF Maryland, another
call and address has been Issued, numerously
signed by the real soldiers and sailors Of Mary
land, protesting against being considered rs sup
porters OF My Policy" and warmly endorsing
the policy Of Congress In reference to the recon.
strucIed States. mass meeting, of all who IA.
vor this call will be held In Baltimore city on
wednesday next, the 10th inst, when delegates
will be elected to represent the State ia the Sol
diers' and Sailors National Convention which
will meet In Pittsburg, Pa, on the oath instant.
Below we publish the protest now being signed
Tho Boys In Blue " who endorse II are invited
aud urged TO attend the mass meeting ut Balti-
more on the l9th instant. Attempts are being
made to hand US over to the party agains, whom
for four long years we batllcd, enduring all the
hArdships Of the camp, the march aud the field
against whom We faced death In the time OF bat.
tie. We fought against rebellion aud treason
let us vote MS we shot Let US show to our Eel.
low-citizens that We condemn treason now as
We did In the dark days OF the war let US show
them that we despise traitor shI-whelhtr II
be jefferson Davis, the bogus head OF the South
ern Confederacy, or Andrew johnson, the be.
iraycr OF the party that made him the head Of
the nation let us show them that We can not
iriH not act politically with the men who during
the war denounced US as thieves, murdercrs
and assassins," who s,igmaiized US as being
Lincolns hirelings," and " the mcrcenaries OF a
corrupt government, wholaughed at and rcjoiced
over our defeats aud mourncd when the strong
and willing hearts OF our soldiers had conquered
traitors In arms, and reestabIished the supremacy
OF our nation flag all over the land Fellow
soldiers, let Us be true 10 ourselves aud 10 the
principles We have advocated We may not rem
resent Cuslom-houscs and posi-oiliccs aud the Of
fetal places Of our country, but VIZ can speak
from our homes, our farms, our workshops, our
places Of business, protesting against any attempt
TO commit US 10 n policy favorable TO treason or
10 tue luterestt OF tue TRAITORS Wu1 nave laid our
comrades In unnumbered graves all over the
| South. They died that the Government might
live; they gave their lives a willing sacrifice that
the principles OF free government might he fcrcv-
| or perpetuaied-lct us not prove false 10 their
memory let US not allow them TO have died in
vain, BY surrcndSring all We have gained to the
dasiardly crew who cssaycd TO stab the nation
even unto death.
The following Is the call referred 10. We can
not publish all the names that appears To the pa
per as Il appears in the Baltimore iigericsn. but
we give those from Baltimore county, as far as
We have been able 10 collect or recognize them ::
TO TIE CITIZENS or MARYLAND
AND THE UNITED STATES
Tho soldiers aud sailors Of Maryland, who are
now true TO their Country as in the bloody days.
months and years which have passed by. who are
/ as ready and willing TO resist a revolutionary
overthrow Of the Republican Government OF the
United States By the arts OF Northern Conserva-
tives or coppcrheads. led on by irai,orous and
recreant, accidental Executive, MS by the arms Of
| Southern traitors on the battlefield who repre-
sent, by their names and record. that the prlnci-
| Piles for which they fought cannot DC bought or
| sold out for policy and whose names vii. call
| up no recolleeiions Of the Custom House, Pos,
Office, or any other department, Of the Public
| Crib. from which the recruits are drawn who
compose the great Bread and Butter Brigade !:
| who remember that the grass is not yet grown
or the graves OF our dead comrades, aud that
even now burial parties are busy collecting their
| unburied bones from a hundred batile-feids
where they fought and fell by our side for prin-
ciple, respectfully present this, our Protest,
against being considered as in any way POLITICAL
| ly identified with men who are representing
themselves TO the people Of Maryland and the
Union as the Soldiers and Sailors OF Maryland,
and who are thereby casting upon Us the odium
Of barieriug our principles for a miserable 80 Ny
Policy"
WE, THE BOYS ~ BLUE, endorse cordially,
heartily and entirely the Congress OF the United
States, and hereby notify the loyal men Of the
country, that the Soldiers and Sailors Of Mary
land will be found on the day OF trial in the front
line Of battle eon,ending as fold, foo, to foot
aud hand TO hand with traitors aud their allies /:
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