The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-10-25
Civil War Threatened: by the Mary
land Traitors.

nucr this heading. Fui'lltN had III his
CHlUnicic the following leader double
loaded:
Thomas Swami. the Governor of Mary
land, neither intimida ted nor instructed
by the fata! failure OF Andrew Johnson'a
attempts to provoke 4 civil war in th..
North, is believed to hc preparing TO pre-
cipitate a violent revolution i'll that State
The Police Commissioners Of the city Of
Baltimore, appointed By the Legislature,
having served faithfully and Loyalty during
ali the rebellion, have fallen under the dis
pleasure ot the traitor Svulpatl.iZers. be-
cause they refuse - appoint Judges of tho
election who will take the votes Of the
rebels registered III defiance of the Consti-
tuition and laws Of the State. He is there
fore appealed To, to remove these Commits
soners and appoint othcrs in their stead,
who have already been designated as the
fit agents of treason. having deserted
the people who elected him, in - doubtless
clevatnS and strengthening tho rebels.
Should he decide upon this outrage, the
Police Commissioners. backed bv NIavoi.
Chapman and the radical lnyaiists of the
State, will refuse to surrender their trusts.
AZ this ]nncturr, tho rebels claim to have
the promise Of Andrew Johnson to employ
force to pnt down the Union lncn and give
the State 10 the traitors. We do not be-
hevc that either Swami or johnson will
have the hardihood to perfect this crown
ing outrage, though the indications that
point TO 1t are numerous. But should this
belief be disappointed by ,ae result, there
will be but one remedy left. and that is for
the Maryland patriots to appeal to the.
people OF the North to keep open the gate
way to the capital Of the Republic They
respond Il to !. similar call in 1861, and
will not be backward i'll 1866. The feeling
IN Baltimore yesterday was intense. The
radicals were firm, qniet and wholly re
solved. They have possession of the field,
and intend to kecpit at all hazards. They
will never y!cd it to rebels and traitors
The plots OF these latter are hardly con
cealcd and their .cXultation proves that
the revolutionary policy in the celebrated
Ledger despatch is carefully cherished, and
only requires q fitting opportunity to be
announced and perfected. That policy is
daily advocated by the organ Of Thomas
such copperhead papers as the Chicago
Times. Though the despatch sent to the
Ledger has been denied, the revolutionary
policy 1t recommends hrs never been re
pudIated by the man who denounces shc
Congress of the United States as Illegal
and unconstitutional. The Maryiand pa
triots arc right, therefore, in cabling uron
the loyal millions of the North to prepare
TO come to their rescue when the attemp;
IS made to give them Il specimen of its op
prcssions and crueltics. They are fully
competent to take care of themselves;
"S"iiSt an tht itociS anu lid4lolS aioulnA
them: bnt if it is resolved to employ force
to help these rebels and traitors into con
troll, bat one remedy is left, and that ~ an
Invocation to the people Of the country
In reply to this menace, the Washington
Constitutional jniom saya:
Let Forney's army os traitors come on
they will be met rs they deserve. The an
nouncameht o. the President was not an
idle one, that treason having been pm
down in the South. he was ready for ii at
the North