The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-07-21
State Convention of 25th Of July.
ADDRESS TO THE REGISTERED
AND NON-REGISTERED
VOTE Rs!

III
u<9 Virginia, South Carolina and other "way-
ward sisters" of the Southern Confederacy hav-.
ing been subdued by the abolition assassins OF
Massachusetts, and Tennessee, and the infidel
horde who followed in their wake-in which
was included large number of "Lincolns
hrelings' from Maryland-much to our sur
prise and regret, and contrary to our fondest
anticipations, it is proper we should address
you at this time, as an election for Comptrol-
Ter of the State, members of Congress, members
of the General Assembly, and other officers,
will take place during the coming fall. Our
State Convention meets on the 18th of July,
and we propose to give you a brief resume of
our views during the past together with our
platform at this time.
We are in favor of forgetting and ignoring
the past, Gas far as it may be your and our in
terest to do so,) and with this object in view
we have formed combination with few poll
titions who lately acted with the so-called
Union party-for the purpose of forming ANEW
party" in Maryland. But whilst we have done
this, we do not give up our title of "Conserva-.
tives" and democrats" under which we have
rallied during the years of the rebellion, SO
called.
Whilst we have said we are in favor of for
getting the past, we cannot refrain from stating
that we remember with pride our condemna
ton of the late war, and still think it was an
infamous waste of the nations blood and treas
ure. When we use the word "blood" it ia with
particular reference to the gentlemen of the
late Confederate armies, the survivors of which
have our heartiest sympathy, as our exertions
in their behalf in the recent Southern Fair"
and other institutions of the kind, certainly
prove. Still we are willing to forgive our mis-
guided fellow citizens who differ with us in,
| this respect, and in this spirit we propose
! formation by the NEW PARTY, - tF5s
We have selected, as we have before stated
few individuals, well known as ree-holders
| who, with such of ther subordinates as they
can control, will form the nucleus for this great
| party. Their action is deserving of our warm
est praise and shows careful consideration for
| the feelings of our friends, the patriots w no
served in the ARMY OF NORTHERN VIR-
| GINA, under Lee; who led Sherman into the
! trap" from Atlanta through Georgia and the
/ Carolinas to Savannah, by the sea, and under
Joe johnson; the liberal christians who help
| ed to exterminate the hirelings of Lincoln at
| Andersonville, Libby, Florence, and other in
stitutions, among whom particularly were our
own gallant fellow citizens, Bradley I. John
son and Capt Winder; the sailors who served
with distinction on the vessels of the COnfeder-
| acy-the Chickamsuga, the Alabama, the Shen-
andoah and others of this class, and some of
whose crews can to-day boast of having "cap-
| tured'--not stolen steamboats, and other un-
| armed vessels.in your very port of Baltimore.
We say the action of the persons with whom
we have associated, when we consider what
| they but brief period since professed TO think
! of ourselves and you--is entitled to considers
ton, and we ready to forgive them for their
| political sins of the past-if they ever were
| guilty of any. Our friends no doubt desire to
/ know what action we allude to when We com.
mend these gentlemen. We will explain.
You are all aware Of the existence of a most
| Infamous and outrageous statute in this State,
! known as the Registry Law, which is based
| upon the requirements of the unconstitutional
| Constitution, which said Constitution is the
work Of the abolition fanatics of Maryland
! You all know that this detestable and abomin-
! able Registry Law contains an outrageous pro-
vision, requiring you to make oath before you
/ can vote, ''that you have not borne arms in the
I late Confederate armies, and have not aided or
| sympathized with the enemies of the Yankee
| Government, ard that you have not afforded
any aid or comfort to the "deliverers of Mary
land" during their visits here, or whilst they
were on the other side of the Potomac" Well,
the individuals we have alluded to as formerly
active with the Union party-from which, it is
almost needless to add, they obtained Office
at a recent meeting of the Executive Commit
tee and the State Central Committee of the par
ty towhich they belong, carefully GbStGined from,
expressing any approval Of this odions Registry
| Lar, and several Of them nobLy, and a0ih an eye
/ to political pron.Gti0n IN the futarc--shOuld We
| together successful-uotedi an favor of themod-
/ ifcatio7s entire repeal of His dGannable lac,
1che1s proposition faU0ring ats continuance a0GS
! submitted as a test question. ,.d-.s5
| ! At the public meetings which are now being
holden throughout the State under the auspices
| of ourselves and these gentlemen, you will no.
tice that at all of them their speakers express
themselves unqualifedly in favor of "a liberal
| construction" of this Registry Law so odious to
our friends. We ourselves have carefully alb
stained--with two or three exceptions-from
taking the stump on this question from reasons
of policy, but arrangements are now on foot to
| 10 Il OF III,
which arrangements will be consummated at
| the approaching Convention on the 18th of Ju-
/ w. You cannot fail, however, to notice that
we have had several of our representatives
from other States at these gatherings who
are, to use slang, but expressive quotation
| dyed in -the-wool Democrats who have con-
! sstently opposed the war, and who at present
| as energetically favor theimmediate admission
| into Congress Of Mr.. Alexander II. Stephens,
| the distinguished Vice President of the late
! Contederaey, and other gentlemen of his views
| who held high positions i'll the Government of
! Mr.. Jefferson Davis, now so barbarously treat
ed by the so-ealled Government of the U. S.
Should the action of these friends sbove al.
/ luded TO with our own exertions, be successful,
a grand future opens before you. The offices,
! of which YOU have been for years deprived,
| will be at your disposal. ALL that is necessa-
| ry to insure your success is the ''reconstruc'
ton" of this abominable Registry Law-by
! which so-called traitors are disfranchised, and
| such Reconstruction" can be obtained through
! its modification, repeal, or 'liberal construc-
tion," or, in other words, by the Governors APP
| pointing conservative and liberal minded
| Registers, uchick our friends hare mentioned
in the opening of this address hare dSsuredus they
| ,0W recommend shall be done While we desire
| the total abolition of the law, its liberal con-
struction in the mode proposed will DO sufi-
! cient at this time, q. =
| We will merely state here that should our ef-
forts be successful, among the first acts of our
| ''new party" will be the converting of Con-
stitutional Convention, through the medium of
which we shall legislate out of office all those
persons styling themselves Union men, who
! have been our opponents In the past Our
| friends must be rewarded-with Offices
Another benefit that will result you will be
| compensated for your emancipated slaves
| You know that in Baltimore city and the west
ern counties of the State the number of slaves
at the time of emancipation was few, and the
number of those in favor of this odious act cor
respondngly large; while in the Peninsula
counties, bordering on the Potomac, and in
| some Of the counties on the Eartern Shore, the
slaves were more numerous than the whites,
the latter, however, being our special friends,
and consequently supporters Of Democratic
Conservative principles. We propose, then,
that the State Of Maryland shall pay, herself,
for every slave emancpated by the Convention
of 1854, and as Baltimore city and the Western
counties-where the Union vote is greatest
paw nearly all the taxes received by the State
the burthen will be slight on yourselves and
our other immediate friends, but very burden
some on those portions named.
The odious Public School system Of Mary
land must be repealed or abolished at all haz-
ards. Should it continue, the next generation
will leave the principles of their ancestors, and
Democracy, like Slavery, will become thing
of the past in our good old Commonwealth
Some Of our friends in Kent and Queen Anne's
counties have forcibly persuaded a number Of
the free school teachers who settled amongst
them to withdraw, and have in many instances
made bonfires of their schools and churches in
testimony Of their qualification at such an