Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-10-25
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
The Baltimore Police Commissioners and
Governor Swann-President johnson and
the Radicals


Governor Swami President johnson an,
the Radicals
Correspondence of the Richmond Examiner.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.
Baltimore is now the centre of Radica
aspirations The Radicals are determined
to take the initiative in the conflict will
the President They have prepared for al
instruction against the constituted Stat,
authorities Of Maryland at the coming elec
ton of members of Congress in that State
Every Radical State will furnish aid for The
proposed revolt in Baltimore against the
orders of Governor Swami, if he should
attempt to remove the police commits
sioners.
This seems to be point upon which the
Radicals may find it most convenient tt
adopt as an initial.
The case is this Baltimore, if the police
commissioners enforce the registry law, a.
they did at the municipal election, will cleo
two Radicals as representatives to Congress
The entire Radical party will fight for the
is quite necessary for them to keep.
Governor Swami now takes Conserya
tive course. He supports the President
policy. He may, as is said, aim at the
United States Senatorship. He has cited
the Police Commissioners to appear, and to
meet the charges against them of having
enforced such an application of the Regis
try law as illegally deprived many citizens
of their rights as voters.
| In Maryland two-thirds. or at least one
| half, OF the citizens entitled to suffrage are
excluded. In Baltimore the proportion of
those excluded is greater. The Baltimore
people are competent to manage their own
affairs. External interference from the
| Orfh nv
the Radicals, will be resented. The peo-
pie, whatever may be their politics, will
hardly allow of that.
| Governor Swami can turn the election in
| favor Of the Conservatives in Baltimore and
in the State by removing the Police Com
missioners. This act will be resisted by
force. An instruction will thus occur,
which the President, if called upon by the
| Governor of the State for aid, cannot re-
! fuse to put down. The United States mil
| itary force will TINS be brought into con-
| flict with the Radical mob. Who knows,
who can tell the issues. It will, perhaps, be
the opening scene of the great drama which
| is soon to be enacted.
| The President was told the other day, by
one of the most eminent of the Conserva-
tive Republican Senators, that he would be
! impeached and removed. That nothing,
at his command could now prevent it
The President could not see it. He talks
politics freely with all corners, who are
chiefly oflice-beggars and sycophants, and
are interested in deceiving him His 'reli-
ance upon the people is still his leading
characteristic, and the people are against
| him, except those whose support can do
! him no good.
Radical Threats In Event OF the Removal
of the Police Commissioners.
a letter to the Philadelphia Press says
''Swann wants to be United States Sen
ator. Baltimore city sends twenty-one
members to the Legislature. To get these
| twenty-one votes he will drench the streets
| with blood. II he attempts to remove the
Commissioners they will resist. Their po-
icemen arc directed to arrest as disturbers
of the peace anybody pretending to inter
fere with them. The Mayor will never
succumb, but fight it out to the bitter end.
All the Union men in Baltimore swear that
they will drench the streets with blood but
they will protect their rights and the law.
The brave Gen. Denison and the gallant
Gen. Woolly have both offered their servi-
ces to the Mayor, and the returned veter-
ans of the Union army are ready to fight.
Swami will have a terrible responsibility if
he should do this thing to defeat Stewart,
Thomas and Creswell.
my solemn belief is that andrew John
son will send the regular troops into Balti-
more to sustain Swami, if the attempt of
the latter to remove the Police Commission
ers be resisted by the people, as resisted it
will be. In that event let the North be
prepared. Let Pennsylvania be ready"
In reply to Forney's menace against the
Governor of Maryland, the Washington
Constitutional Union says: "Let Forney's
army of traitors come on; they will be met
as they deserve. The announcement of the
President was not an idle one, that treason
having been put down in the South, he was
ready for it in the North"
SERVICES OF THE ''BoYs IN BLUE" OFFERED
BALTIMORE, Oct 19.-The organization
known as the Boys in Blue " held a meet
ing tonight, and passed resolutions to stand
by the Police Commissioners, and offered
their services to aid the Commissioners
should they need assistance. It is not
known what response the Commissioners
will make to the summons of the Governor.
A Political Revolution Mt Hand-A TIera Id
Prediction.
The New York Herald disposes of the
present political crisis in the following off