The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-11-03
For Which Party Will You Vote

Voters of Baltimore County, on Tuesday next
you will be called upon to decide upon the great
QUESTION AS TO whether your rulers shall be Union
mau or rebels II becomes you to consider well
the objects of these two parties 10 deciding a
mltter of such grave Importance. For which
will you vote The party of the Union intend
to preserve the country the party Of the rebel
lion are determined that it shall be destroyed
The party that saved the Government from over
throw insists that il shall be controlled by the
men who fought to save it the party that at
tempted its overthrow contend that the men who
than they had before they became traitors
The party that pledged the faith of the nation to
the payment Of the war debt Of the Government
asks that this debt shall be forever secured the
party that opposed the war says this shall be an
open question for the future The party of the
Union demands that the rebel debt shall be re-
pudiated the party of the Southern Confedera-
cy resists that demand. The party that fought
treason wishes to make il odious and criminal ;
the party that supported aud encouraged rebel
lion desires to reward treason and punish loyalty
Here is every issue that was presented during
the war ; here are the identical parties in the
new conflict that engaged each other in the old ;
here are the same motives apparent in both, and
and in the present canvass we see in each an
earnestness and determination almost as great as
that displayed by the contending parties in the
war
Can any one who desires the welfare OF bis
coantr, doubt as to his political course? Will
the nation be safe in the control Of those who
attempted to destroy it? Will the Union for
which we have all sacrificed so much be preserved
If We place its destnies in the hands OF men who
are avowed disunionists 2 Will our National Sc
curities be safe II we eutrust their keeping Il
men who repudiate their own obligations--is il
likely they will burden themselves TO pay ours {
Will a rebel soldier vote to pay pension to =
wounded soldier Of the Republic whom be has
faced in deadly conflict on the battlefield Arr
the men who rushed into rebellion and who, in
their effort to destroy the country, devastated
and impoverished the section over which they
had control, wiser statesmen, purer patriots OF
from destruction and made that section which
they controlled more prosperous than it ever wa
before Are the interests OF the people safer IL
the hands ofDayis, Orr, Cobb, Semmes, Monroe,
Vallandigham and Stevenson Archer than they
would be if allowed to remain under the control
of John l.. Thomas and his party friends These
are the questions, and the only questions, present
ed in the canvass. Every voter should ponder
them carefully. 1t is much easier to prevent
wrong than to remedy its consequences. We
can better prevent the harm that traitors might
do BY keeping them out of power, than We eau
remedy the certain evil they will accomplish il
allowed to rule.
Citizens OF Baltimore County you must choost
between loyalty and treason. If you are pre-
pared 10 cast to the winds the victories that Oul
are willing to bring JEFF. Davis from captivity
IN Fortress Monroe to a seat in the Senate of the
Union ~ you wish to reward with honOrs the mei
VIII were the guilty murderers Of your friends
and neighbors on Southern battle-6eds and il
Southern prison-pens if you desire the repudi
Of the pittance that the Government allows tt
the MANNED and wounded soldiers and the wild
ows of those who fell in battle if you desire t.
see the Union men of the South LETT to the mere,
of rebels, and if you are willing to SEE our great
nation again distracted with civil war, vote 70
the candidates and The platform of the Johnsor
party. Its success will produce all the evils WI
haveenumerated as certainly as the treason Of
its predecessors the Democratic party, produced
the Southern rebellion. But If you desire the
stability of our Government F.; if you hope for
long continuance Of the peace our soldiers wor
for us if yon believe that loyal men and no
traitors should rule, then continue in power the
party that has thus far saved the country, and
which alone has the power and purpose to
make its future more glorious than it's past.