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Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
Cheer up, Comrades!

1From every quarter of our county
comes cheering and encouraging news
The forces of Radicalism are gradually
melting away before the true friends of the
Constitution and the Union. This is but
what mightshaye' been expected. The
policy Of our Samboite foes is too fanatical,
too black, too extreme for this latitude
and then extremists never enjoy pro-
tracted existence, as all time has demon
strated. They soon become exhausted by
their own violence. The more fierce the
fire the sooner it burns out. The Novem-
Der elections will squelch them entirely.
Mark the prediction.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
HRebel SuGrage.o

ES""The issue is "Rebel Suffrage"
quoth Pete of the Herald, The issueAis
"Rebcl Suffrage" echo the self styled
Loyal Leaguers of Washington County.
Who are Rebels? Judged by Pete's
standard. and judged by the Loyal
leagues. every body is aRebel who diff
fers with Radical. ...
President johnson and Governor Swami
are Rebels, because they differ with Ste
vens, Sumner and Frank Thomas who are
Radicals. The returned soldier is a
Rebel who differs with Pete and the little
nest of little Office holders in Hagerstown.
They differ not about whether the Union
shall be destroyed or not but how the
Union shall be preserved. Frank Thomas,
Pete and & Co., think il can only be done
through negro suffrage and cohfscation,
while johnson, Swami and there friends
contend it can be done without either.
Pete denounces Col. II. Il. Cook as
Rebel and villifes him as "scamp"
and "vagabond," because Col. Cook sus-
tains Andy johnson and does not follow
the lead of Pete. If Col. Cook had follow
ed Pete's lead in times past he would
have been "skedadling" all over the
United States instead of standing at the
:cannon's mouth at Antietam, Gettysburg
and the Wilderness.
The Col. does not think the issue is
"Rebel Suffrage" He has more fear of
Negro Suffrage" 1t is only those who
feared Rebel bullets that now fear Rebel
Suffrage. The Col. feared neither-Pete
both.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
Ns-p,. fa, &C ,ha n.d;o.l n,.,. Lo-

ES-But few of the Radical party here
abouts are brazen enough to ackno#l edge
their true sentiments. While they are
all at heart in favor Of Negro Suffrage they
have not the courage old Frank Thomas
to, like him. toe the mark fairly and
squarely. But they will soon do better.
Old Frank has them in process of training
and he will soon have them veterans in the
cause. When he cannot make it conve-
nient to cotne himself and direct operations
he sends such as Ward ofNew York. The
old "Wat Horse will soon have them
''straightiouts" on the suffrage and equal
ity question.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
.Gone too Far.s

Party malignity and hatred has
done some strange things in times past.
just as it is doing now. ,
Now it is resolving itself into system
ofpersonal hatred and abuse. and turning
its back upon everything that is honorable
in the past or respectable in the present.
Pete the Heralfs editor, for instance
abused and attempted to vilify William
Price, Esq for no other reason than that
William Price cannot see public questions
in the same light that Pete views them.
MIR. Price wishes to keep this. as it has
been in the past, white mans Govern
ment. Pete wants to change it, and mix
up the Black man in it. Hence Mr..
Price is slandered and held up to public
scorn by Peter Negley.
Such was the hatred of Pete that he
could not find sufficient ventilation for il
in the columns of the Herald. lie went to
Baltimore. and, at the Radical Conven-
ton, made speech in which he abused
every man who did not agree with him,
and among others abused William Price
His abuse was SO low, vulgar and coarse
as even to shock the sense of decency o.
Radical Convention and he was called t.
order. So disreputablo was the speech
so abounding in vile slander and filthy q.
buse, that the Baltimore American. The
organ ofthe Radical party not only refused
to publish one ~ordof 1t. but even forbore
and refused to allow it to be stated thai
Pete had spoken at all.
William Price was for many years Q
citizen of Hagcrstown-honored and be.
loved by the people of Washington
County. lie left this county many years
ago and now resides in Baltimore where
he is one Of the most reliable, respectable
and influential members of the bar. He
ranks among the first men Of the State, a.
a lawyer, and his character is without ,
stain or blcmish.
The attempt Of Pete to assail such 8
character can be attributed to nothing les.
than a settled insanity. growing out of his
self conceit, his vanity and egotism. Tha
Pete is malicious and vengefal enough tt
assail the purest character, no one doubts
but that he should assail character 81
long and so we'll known to the people o
this county, and to his audience in Balti
more, is it to be wondered at, if you give
to Pete the credit Of. the sense other peo
pie are born with. 1t is not to be wonder
ed at then that the Baltimore America,
refused to publish his abuse, or that hi.
friends here, cautioned him that he hac
gone too flr.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
Significant, Very!

E9-The loyal leaguers of this county
profess to be opposed to negro suffrage,
and yet somehow or other they always
succeed in procuring as ''orators" for their
great occasions the most rabid specimens
of its advocates. The Mr.. Ward. NJ. c.,
from New York City, who done the spout.
ing for them on the occasion of their 4tl
of July celebration. at Hagerstown. be-
longs to this class, having with Frank
Thomas, voted in Congress for Negro Suf
frage in the District of Columbia. This
party. if they be opposed to Negro Suf
frage, have somehow peculiar penchan,
for listening 70 speeches from its most ar
dent advocates, We think it is significant
very.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
eEThe Hetald saws A x sveste,

EEThe Herald says A. X. Syester.
Esq, one of the delegates from the Ha-
gerstown district, to the johnson County
Convention, voted for Mr. Lincoln. Dir.
Syester's. friends are very well satisfied
with the way he voted and are glad to
know that the Herald is. If be should
again be candidate for Congress against
old Frank, which is possible, we guess the
Herald cannot doubt his loyalty, as voting
for Lincoln appears to be their test. We
shall see. I'm
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12

FoR CoSGREss.-Mr. Aaron Davis, tthe frst
Lincoln man in Frederick county, has an.
nounced himself for Congress. lie makes no Of.
fort TO conceal the fact that he is in favor Of
negro suffrage. He says he is in favor Of mod
flying the registry law-rcpealing the test oath
paying loyal owners for their emancipated
slaves, and wants the Constitutional Amendment,
recently adopted by Congress, ratified by the
States. Upon this platform he stands and wants
ell 10 vote for him who endorse it. He says Fra nix
Thomas amt hone st-that his acts provo him to
be In favor of negro suffrage and yet he hasns 9
the manliness to avew It where he thinks Ii it
unpopular. Go it Davis-Go it Thomas. -
Frederick Union.
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COnnseatfng Pete.

EFPete of the Herald RECALLED himself
lately with an original dissertation on
finance, Misunderstood at the First Nation
al. we presume) currency and bankruptcy.
and running his theories and speculations
out to their FINAL result, Pete came upon
ruin, bankruptcy and q general stagnation
Of everything, but lacked the honesty to
tell his readers that nothing less could
have been expected after Eve years of Radi-
cal rule. Pete thereupon flies into violent
rage, and recommends Thad. Stevens,
Sumner and other Of his negro suffrage
friends to confscate all the lands and prop
erty in tie .Southern States. and apply the
proceeds to the payment Of the National
debt!l
Pete, is this the way you have been
paying your debts Is this The process
by which you have been buying farms.
keeping horses and carriages, and building
"splemdid residences" -
Do you think it just, because you may
have the power. to take the property oi
your neighbor with whom you have had
strife, and against whom you keep alive
the vengeful passions of your depraved
hearth Is it in accordance with your
ideas of honor and honesty to take the prop.
erty of your neighbor, with whom you are
at variance, make sale of it and apply the
proceeds to the payment of your debts p
Have you been carrying out in private
life the sentiments you want to tarnish the
reputation of your county with? If SO. nc
wonder you have splendid residences
fine farms and the wherewith to sport fin.
carriages and fast horses, and that respecta
BILE hotels just by your door dwindle int
"obscure taverns."
Go it, Pete. Your financial schemes
public and private, will make you dis
tinguished man yet. One step further
Pete. Suppose you con6scatc all the prop
erty of every body whom you now cal
Rebels and appropriate it to the benefit o
such loyalists as yourself who were ever
fleeing over the land before rebel raids. -
Suppose you commence on the stock helt
by Rebels in your First National Bank
Every man b Rebel who is not on you
Abolition platform, and Rebels have nj
rights. Butler confscated at New Orleans
why not you at Hagerstown-and But
Ter is not thief-only Beast. Ant
then how nice it would be to add few
broad acres to "our farm" sport new
''turn OUT or get on the ground floor o
ofsome splendid residence" And thcl
how slow the process at six, eight hundred
or one thousand dollars year as Cashie
of the First National. Happy idea =
Con6scation is shorter road-ripe Beas
Butler.
A broader platform for your leader, "
brave, generous, wise and patriotic Loya
Leagers! Send him to Congress. III
ought to 60 there by all means. Put hin
on the track-he has the reputation o
running well. Long live Fleet Pete.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
The History OF RadicaIism

ES-Thc history of Radicalism is the
same at all times, and among all people.
With Radicals nothing that is, or was, is
right. Constitutions, laws. forms of jus.
tice, thoughts, conscience, liberty ofspeech
aad the Press-everything must give way
before Radicalism. New thoughts, new
laws, new sentiments, new constitutions,
new principles. must be projected, and
everything that people reverenced, obeyed
and held dear must go down and give way
to the new.
Men in the hands of Radicals, fare no
better than principles, or laws. or constitu-
tions. No matter how pure may be their
character-no matter how spotlcss their
fame-h0 matter how emmincnt their
services or devoted their patriotism, tbey
who oppose Radicalism now, as in times
past, must be showed out of the way. de-
noune,d, vilifed and abused as an enemy
to public peace and public liberty. The
Radicals Of to.day, are doing what Radi-
Gals every where, in times past, have
done.
Lafayette became the victim to Radi-
calism. After aiding in the achievement
of our independence, he returned to France
lind was one of the most illustrious and in
Huentiai personages In the early and pure
days of the French Republic. His patri-
otism and devotion to Liberty never has.
and never was questioned by any candid
mind. Yet Lafayette was not good
enough for the Radicals of France.
Ne was denounced by them as "trai-
tor." an "encmy Of public liberty" He
was driven from power by Radicals
driven from France by Radicals, and
Radical Rcpublicanism rejoiccd in the
long and cruel Imprisonment of this pure
patriot and distinguished champion of
Liberty. They called him traitor because
he desplsed their cant and sling and re-
fused his assent to their leveling schemes
And, reader, Radicalism Is the same,
the wide world over-the same in the
United States as it was in France. II will
brook no festraint-ehdure no difference
Of sentiment. thought or expression. If it
proclaims negro suffrage or negro equality,
you must not denounce or oppose it under
penalty ofbeing denounced, like Lafayette,
ms 'traitor" and "foe of public liberty"
DO We not Bee around us every day in
stances of the kind. But, thank Provi-
dence, Radicalism is better understood
now than it was in the time of Lafayette
nhd is no longer backed up by bastiles and
bayonets.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
Es Who is the leader Of the Neer

EE Who is the leader Of the Negro
Suffrage party in Western Maryland
Frank Thomas. Who supports Frank
Thomas? Peter Negley, editor of the
Hagerstown Herald. Of what party is
Mr.. Negley and the Herald the Represen-
tative and organ? The Radical party.
Then how can the Radical party be other
than the Negro Suffrage party2 Answer,
at the Ballot box in November.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
Resumed Operations.

EEThe Hancock Coal Oil Company
have resumed operations. They have aban-
doned their old we'll but are now engaged
in sinking another in what is supposed to
be more favorable location. Their en-
ergy and perseverance deserves and we
trust will be rewarded with success.
Will some Of our friends in that locality,
from time to time, report progress.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12

On Monday last, telegram from HagGs-
town, Nd. brought Us the sad tidings that Af.
J. Calvin Brewer, was no more. Mr.. b. he'd O.
bout ten days previous to his death In company
with his family, gone 10 visithis friends IN nHy-
land, and while ct his- -hsher-in-law's, Mr. Fiery,
he took sick and died. In the death OF H.
Brewer, the bereayed widow loses hind saa 81.
iectionate husband, the orphaned children kind
father, and the eonmunitTA . geod and upright
citizen. He was in tho 4lst year ofhs age, eno
was Inferred In Funkstoxn,, Nd, on honday
evening last. Peace 70 he ashes. ~ AtrsssesTy
journal. .iiE .9IeD+l. fioW vaJ oa-
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
raining Of a Bridre-r.tal Accident.

Failing Of Bridge-Fatal Accident.
EE On Saturday last whilst Lad
named Frank Newcomer was driving b lot
Of cattle over the bridge spanning the ca
nal, At this place. the bridge gave way and
precipitated him, with the cattle and the
horse on which he Was mounted into the
canal, 9 distance of some twenty or twenty
five feet. Strange to say young Newcomer
escaped entirely uninjured. whilst his
horse and the cattle be was driving escap-
cd with but slight bruises.
At she time of the breaking down Of the
bridge, however, number Of boys were
under il. batlring in the canal, among
them Alexander Wolf. aged about twelve
years. son of Mr.. Joseph Wolf, of this
place. He was unfortunately struck by
the timbers of the falling bridge and SC
seriously injured that he died in a few
hours from the effects of his injuries. His
remains were followed to the grave ON Sun.
day evening by large ooncourse Of friends
and citizens.
The bridge was erected we believe in 1861
by . Government contractor. Af.er the
burning of the old one by the Penn.
sylvania militia, since that time large
bodies Of troops. and the artillery, and
trains belonging TO both armies. droves o.
cattle. and the ordinary trade and trave
across the River have passed over thil
bridge without any signs of weakness.
being manifest. Indeed during the day or
which the accident occurred one or more
droves of cattle had passed over, and but
an hour before. the four horse stage run.
ming between HageStown and Martinsbure
very heavy laden. passed over in safety
and without creating surpicion of weakness
in the structure. Had it then given way
the loss of life would. possibly, have beey
greatlo increased. As it was. the escape
from death or manning of other of the par
ties under or on the bridge may be regar
ded as truly wonderful.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
Harvest Over.

r The harvest is finished, and We
can add great quantity of the wheat al
ready secured in Barns or in Stacks. -
The crop will prove very much better
one both in quality and in quantity than
was anticipated earlier in the season. A
heavy crop Of Oats is promised. and with
favorable season for the next month a
good crop Of corn may be expected.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
More Protection

ES7Congress is now engaged iu revi-
sing the Tariff and at every point comes
the cry from Manufactures and mammoth
Moaopoiis for More protection! Verify
the greed of gain Of these men is diff
cult to satisfy. Even now these New
England Manufacturing Companies are
paying their stockholders half yearly divi-
'dends of twenty. forty and fifty per cent,
;aad yet they are seeking to make still lar
ger by the procuring of more projection in
the shape of higher tariff.
And pray, who is it that pays the enor-
mous profits they are thus making? The
Farmer, the Mechanic, the Laborer. With
profits like these, wrung by protective
tariffs, fJr the benefit of these mono poles,
from the sweat and toll of every man who
wears a cotton shirt, is it any longer won
der that New England has grown fat and
'saucy. But who protects the sturdy son Of
toll "who wields the plough and spade?',
Has he not as much right to protection
as him who plies the shuttle? And yaA
relying on his own abilities, he asks and
receives none, meanwhile he eis'daily being
taxed in the exorbitant prices he is paying
for his goods, to support New England
manufactures in their extravagance and
;extortion, aud it is oil done under the fas-
'cinating name of protection. Such pr tee
fion the lamb gets from the wolf.
Did these Massachusetts, manufacturers
live in the frugal, simple style of our
Farmers and Mechanics, instead of the
princely style in which they do, neither
would they require protection. With all
their boasted energy and thrift they are,
and ever have been, but paupers by virtue
of special legislltion, drawing their very
existence from the laboring, mechanical
and agricultural classes. How long will
it be submitted to and not be seen by them!
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12

The TAX on IScoMEs.-Although the revenue
OF he government amounted to six hundred and
twenty millions of dollars last year, thus largely
exceeding the official estimates Congress has not
relieved the the people of any portion of their in
come tax. Those who make more than six hun
dred dollars . year must still pay Eve per cent,
tax upon the excesss Even in tax-ridden England
the income tax is reduced when the revenue Is
larger than the cstimatcs.-N Y, Her.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
Corueredt Again.


ET The Radicals plainly Indicated, q
their late State Convention. their purpose
Of having the Judges Of Election reject at
the Polls such voters as they may think
the Registers should not have passed
This policy was adopted through fear that
Gov. Swami might appoint Registers who
would not carry out the law in bitter
partizan spirit a., I,ay,ir. III /.
Such an intolerable outrage would new
er Lave beer submitted to peaceably BY the
people. One little word from Gov. Swann
has dashed Ill the Radicals hopes on this
point and relieved the people from the ne
cessity Of resort to violence to secure
their rights. &; .IA!ai b i.'h f-t.t 90
The Gov. declares he ''will set aside and
utterly disregard the returns Of such Elec.
tion Judges who win undertake to set al
nought and treat as q nullity the action o
the Registers by him appointed. II
Try again. gentleman, and cook VI
some other plan, for the Governor ha,
check-mated you on the first move. d.
something, and that very soon, or you ar'
"gobbled up" this fall. sure. ~
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
Keep it Before the People.

HKeep it before the people that the
policy of President johnson is opposed to
Negro Suffrage no,c or hereafter, here or
elsepherc.
Keep it before the people that Frank
Thomas humanity and philanthropy
party are in favor of negro Suffrage mo.O-
in the Southern States and the District of
Columbia, and in Maryland at their earli-
est convenience. ~
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
cmrrss MoDs. o. NIrIsa cnAsos.

.CmNssE MopE on NAxlxa CnAxas., A novsi
way ofmaking change recently occuree VI Hong
Kong, in China. AEAmerican having complain.
ed 20 native jsdge Of . tsilor who had ei.eaieq
him, the official sentencedthe culprit to my bleM
Of the ihastinado---a sentence which was ct enc
cost The Judge not being able 70 ehangsths
dollar given him ty the American, the Latter na-
morously told him % take IL ont in the sar1a man
ner. Accordingly the tailor was again tied down
and received ffty more blows, thus snakins W
In bis own person tks required chaages is a.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
Private and Public Perl5rmasSes.

& Prisate and Public Pcrf6rmances.
;as-The incrsase u ssTreason,'' ssTrsitoss'
and 'sFoul Msathed DisunionistsH in De State Of
Maryland is eertafniy source q, nneashess to
the Philossphieal editor Of the Hsraid and finan-
cial head Of the First National Bank 7-otherwiss
known as Peter the Fleet or Fleet Pete.
Notwithstanding Pete's rawlings and rantings,
his denouncing and abusing, his malignant as
sauIs or character and psbiic libeis and sla.<srs
or better men than he Or his ancestors ever were
ever can, or ever viii be, Treason "Traitorst
and Foal Moathsd disanienistss increase and
multiply. q 4iif gso& sgrs r. I
In the Union, with President Johnsea ct their
head, in the State with Governor Swami at their
heads everywhere, ''Traitors' and "Foul Mouth
ed disunionists' spring up. eerrsad te1G
| Now, Pete, you have failed to denounce, ,sbuss,
libel, siander and yillify men from leaving yor,
| tryyonr other weapon on them. Philosophise on
them Philosophise, friend Pete, and your liver
and bile will be all the more wholesome for it. A
busing people whom you praised, as long as they
agreed with you, Is an awkward business. Whilst
abuse, slander, libels and Interpretations are
certainly agreeable to your tastes, Petegou have
had no great experience in dining these things
publicly. You have clearly been in the habit oi
secret and confidential abuse. You have the SCI
phrases and common slang of an habitual Sian
derer. But yeu have done these things indoors.
Your new position renders your old habits un-
gainly--thcy hung about you awkwsrdly.
| 1t takes q man long time, Pete, TO get into
Brownlow 8 STYLE. Amer you shall have been
turned out of three or four churches for SANDER
ing your fellow churchmen, and shot at several
times for libeing those not church members, and
after you shall have spent some ten or more years
at the editorial desk slandering in public way,
then you may be able to produce something Dor.
dering on the Brownlow principle. But your hab.
its of private, secret closcted SANDER and abuse
Pete, are playing sad havoc with your public per-
formances. Better stop one or the other We
wonld say both, but that would be asking eatire-
ly too much of one with your fixed habits. "
Philosophise about the 'traitors''a little while,
Pete, and in the meantime try and get back TO Q
starting place. Your people and party are tired
of it and you knose il, Pete. Do something, how.
| leyer-Philosophise. Gi'." ..l
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
The skies Bright and Brightning

SOn Saturday last johnson Club
was organized in the Hancock District,
with Mr.. Samule Davis as President,
Col. Jno, j. Bowles as Vice President,
Mr.. Il. L. Tancy as Secretary and Mr..
Joseph Murry as Treasurer. The club al
ready numbers considerably over one hun
dred names.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
EE-The Radicals press did not hesito

ESThe Radicals press did not hesitate
TO condemn in strong language the course
of Gov. Swami wien that gcnt,eman's
course did not meet their views or answer
theS purposes. But have any of them
condemned the course of Frank Thomas
Er voting as their Representative in Con-
Cress for Negro Suffrage? Mary time"
and why? because It fully met their views
and was approved by them. And yet
,aey deny being inflvor of Negro Suffrage
DA! JeAosapAat. False as fox-frc.
Maryland free press., 1866-07-12
Committed Suicide.

EEMr. Samuel Craly, farmer living
near Funkstown, committed suicide by
hanging himself in his barr, on Monday last.
lie has been a long time much disturbed in
mind in regard to some business transac-
tions.