The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1866-02-08
THE "IsEBELLIOUS CONVEN-
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last week Issue III WHICH nc lapors w
be facetious over the proceedings Of the
County Convention of the 22d ult He
uses all the Latin he is master of (and
which he picked up at the Hippopota-
mus Show last summer, in his endeavor
to make the delegates to that body APP
pear ridiculous. If such trash is best
appreciated by his readers, it is another
very strong argument in favor OF an en-
largement of the sphere Of operations OF
our public school system.
The editor calls the gentlemen Of the
Convention "clowns." No doubt he
thinks it is manly and courageous to
heap epithets upon the heads of those
who have been. deprived of citizenship
by the infamous Registry Law, framed
under the provisions of a military Con
stitution.
This approved joker tries to make a
point of the Resolutions adopted by the
Convention, and quotes the following
extract:
sResolUed, That inasmuch as the
country has lately had enough of VIC,
lent commotion, and as we are inclined
to hope that even a majority of the par
ty in power may not have stomach
enough to continue this outrage, we re-
commend, first, to resort to the right OF
petition, and the trial Of all peaceable
means of redress begging our friends
outside of the State, in the meantime,
not to believe us capable of slayish sub
mission"
The ,Seatiacl says: "Their friends at
the South have been trying to prove at
Andersonyille, Salisbury, Richmondand
Belle Isle, that Unionists hare stomach
enough" No man will gainsay the no
Bile endurancc-the endurance unto
death--eyidcnced duringthe wholewar,
by both sides, in the fearful civil strug-
gle But to how much Of coprogs or
aoJle daring can the editor point as his
share of glory--upon what ensangulned
field feshed his sword--that he should
prate of the "stomacR displayed by the
soldier? The committee that framed
the Resolutions of which the above is
an extract fell into error indeed # they
supposed the leaders Of the party in
power had not "stomach" enough TO per
pctuate the Registration outrage. Have
they not, whilst welding authority over
the nation, spawned the foul incubation
which is now poisoning the very life Of
the nation =? Have they not, for the
sake of o6ice and profit, deluged the
land with gore and inflicted upon the
nation an almost unbearablo taxation =!
And in their effort to retain power in
this State, have they not bcgotten an
overriding despotism, perverted the &c.
MUS of our institutions, aud made the
very name of Liberty a by-word and
a mockory?
He says: az they (the Legislature
never repcalthe Registry Law until this
valiant band uses force, the babes Of
the present day will sec their grand
children registered undcrit' The forcc
meant may indeed never be used. We
have an abiding confidence in the abili-
ty Of the majority to assert theirauthor-
ity by the force Of public opinion, aud
believe the peaceful revolution set on
foot in the State Convention Of the 9th
ult. will at no distant day give the
death-blow to oppression. The sheer
conveyed in the above extract from the
Sentinel is in keeping with all that has
emanated from the Republican Press Of
the State when referring to the Regis
try question. But the men who by
force have ruled for years should be
chary of using that expression. A
short while ago mob law was the justice
dealt out in our midst. Citizens, de-
priyed of all appeal to an earthly tribu-
nal, could look only to Him who will
surely mete out a righteous rctribution.
Men were despoilod Of their property,
thrust into dungeons, and the commits
sion of grosscst wrong was declared q
laudable virtue, rather than crime to
be punished. Then the mass Of our
people suecumbod beneath the tread Of
the iron heel--but it was not from cow
ardice. No,e the time has come for all
to assert the rights Of common man
hood, and taunts and malicious llbels
will not defer the issue. The "rebel-
lious Democrats of the Convention
have no fears for the party of proscrip-
tionists of which the Sentinel is the
mouthpiece.
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