The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-03-10

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The great, grand and magnificent outpouring
Of " the people Of the county to endorse Presi-
dent Johnson's Veto Of the Freedmens Bureau
Bill, &C., came ofaslccording to programme, on
Tuesday last. After the strenuous efforts that
had been put forth, we really did expect to see
much larger turnout. We believe we rightly
estimate the number present at the meeting when
we place 1t at between two and three hundred,
Of whom probably one third had no sympathy
with the majority, but had been drawn there out
of curiosity to see how Democrats looked while
endorsing the {" boorish tailor they were lately
so fond of deuouncing.
We have said that We expected to see larger
meeting We had been induced to expect this
by the public announcement that over z, 900 y
citizens had signed the various g calls " which
were so promiscuonsly scattered over the county.
Why didn't those 1000 attend 2 The card of
Mr.. Foster, our county Treasurer, published in
our paper to-day, gives one answer. II was be-
cause hundreds of good Union men, who had in
good faith given their signatures to the call, be-
fore the meeting, saw the real object of the pro-
posed gathering, and resolved to keep aloof from
all political utilization with the men who were
the prime movers in getting il up. Union men
cannot unite, politically, with the men who have
for four years denounced, in unmeasured terms,
them and the cause for which they were contend
| ing loyal citizens cannot work in the same po-
litical harness with Hop. Hunt, Lewis Gross,
| Fred. Talbot, Scott Dance and other worthes
of that character, who left their State to assist
the traitors of the South in overturning the Gov
ernment. These men that we have named were
at the Tuesday meeting, assisting to pass loya'
resolutions, and one Of them, at least had made
District in presenting the &c call - for signatures
and even had the impudence TO ask loyal men to
sign it.. Let US tell the Democratic leaders Of
the County, that by no such flimsy measures as
these can they divide the Union party. Their
| pills may be sugar-coated, but they won't GO
down, and although they may succeed 10 coax
ing over to their side few weakened Unionists,
| yet the rank and file of the great Union party
know them and their tricks, and cannot be in
duced to give their influence to the same men
and measures that have already plunged oul
country into civil war.
| A series of resolutions were passed at the
meeting, containing of course, the same old ster.
eotyped pretensions to loyalty which every dis.
| loyal meeting held in our State for four years
has arrogated to itself. President Johnson i:
Landed to the skies, and Congress called upon &c
4" restore the excluded States to all their consti
tutional relations to the government" which
means, we suppose, that A. H. Stephens, late
Vice-President of the Southern Confederacy
shall be Immediately allowed to take his seat as
Senator from Georgia.
The meeting was addressed by Hon. ]. Morri-
son Harris, Richard Grason, Esq, Rev. Samuel
Brady, and Hon. John Wethered. We have not
room TO notice the addresses of these gentlemen
now, but may hereafter refer to them. The APP
plause which sometimes greeted the speakers we
thought pretty we'll indicated the material of
which the meeting was composed. When Mr.
Harris commended that the policy of Mr. johnson,
in reference to the seeded States was the same
which Mr.. Lincoln advocated, and when be allu-
ded to the fact that those States had not sent
their best and most unexceptionable men to rep
resent them in Congress, his remarks fell upon a
silent audience, but when he told them that he
had more respect for a rebel soldier than for
Charles Sumner, the applause was tremendous,
Taken altogether, we doubt whether the meeting
paid.