The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-27

airy act, by which they can obtain seats IN
Congress. This appears to be their onlv
hope in this respect We are glad to find
from Mr.. Browning's letter, who speaks for
the President, that they are destined to be
disappointed.
The Baltimore Trouble.
Gov. Swami issued the following procla-
nation on the 22d:
STATE OF MARYLAND, EXECUTIVE DEPART
MENT.
| WHEREAS, 1t has come to the knoWledoo
of the Executive that military and otTer
combinations are now organizing in the civ
of Baltimore for the purpose of obstructin9
and resisting the execution of the laws of
this State; and whereas there is reason ~
believe that similar combinations are attemn
ted to be organized in other States, with the
intention of invading the soil of the State Of
Maryland, to deprive her citizens of their inst
rights under the laws, and to control the
people OF the State by violence and intimi
dation: Now, therefore, I, Thomas Swami
Governor of the State of Maryland, do by
this my proclamation solemnly warn the
leaders OF all such revolutionary combina
tons against the dignity and peace of the
State that in the event of a riot and blodshed
growing out of these revolutionary procee.
dlngs they will be held to the strictest &C
countability. and the power of the State will
be exhausted to bring them to prompt and
merited punishment
Given under my hand and the great seal of
the State of Maryland, at the CITY of
Annapolis, this the 22d day of October. A
D. 1866 THOMAS SWAMI
By the Governor:
JOHN M. CARTER,
Secretary of the State
The Governors proclamation caused much
discussion, but no great excitement A des-
patch dated 23d says:
"To-night meeting are being held by the
Boys in Blue,' " Lincoln Invinc1bIes.n and
like Radical organizations. Similar meet
lngs for organization are being held by Con-
servatives and Democrats, the calls for which
were made before the appearance of the pro-
clamation.
The Police Commissioners will not appear
before the Governor on Friday, as they re-
fuse to admit his power of trying the case"
The controversy between Gov. Swami and
the loyal government of Baltimore seems to
be purely legal one, and should be settled
by the Courts. There ought to be no blood
she'd.
THE MARYLAND TROUBLES OFFICIAL
The National Republican of yesterday says:
I'VE learn that the Maryland case was
finally discussed in Cabinet meeting yester-
day, all the facts having been laid before the
Government"
In another article the Presidents organ
remarks:
The case is one completely within the
jurisdiction of the State authorities of Mary
land-civil, legal case-and there is no more
l>f IL ,41.r Al
when Governor Fenton investigated charges
against the police commissioners of New
York CITY,
1t is nothing less than foul incendiarism
to say to one of the excited parties in Mary
land, Resist your Governor; resist the Fed
eral bayonets if the President should order
them there to enforce the laws, and We will
help your armed resistance without stint.'n
And the organ also publishes without
comment Hon. Reverdy Johnson's letter
against the police commissioners of Balti-
more.
A Washington correspondent of the Balti-
more San says:
"Governor Swami has been here TODAY.
and had an interview with the President in
reference to the political complications in .
Maryland. The subject was also considered
in Cabinet meeting. Under the decision of
the Supreme Court in the Dorr case, it is the
duty of the President, when called upon by
the Executive of any State for aid in suppress
sing tumult or instruction within his State
which cannot be suppressed by the force
under his control, to furnish such assistance.
This will be done in the present instance
should the necessity arise, but it is hoped
that it may be avoided. The President has
no right to go behind the call of the Gov
ernor, and will have nothing to do with the
matter unless thus called upon"
Another correspondent of the same paper
says:
g The proclamation of Governor Swami is
fully approved by the President, and should
it be necessary for him to call for aid in
peace and order and enforcing
his legal authority, it will be promptly fur
nished. In the case of the threatened resis-
lance in Louisiana by the Boys in Gray
to the authority of the Governor of that
State i'll the removal of the sherifs, the same
course will be pursued; but it is hoped that
in both cases the necessity may not ahse.''