The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-09-15
+" The Rows in Blue"

The Boys in Blue"
A number of Maryland soldiers, nearly all of
them the recipients of Government or State pa
tronage, have issued call for mass meeting
to be held in Baltimore, for the purpose of elect
ed Soldiers Convention to be assembled at Cleve-
land, Ohio. Knowing well that the signers to
this call did not represent the political sentiment
of the soldiers and sailors of Maryland, another
call and address has been issued, numerously
signed by the real soldiers and sailors of Mary
porters of My Policy" and warmly endorsing
the policy of Congress in reference to the recon-
structed States. A mass meeting, of all who ia
vor this call will be held in Baltimore city on
Wednesday next, the 10Th inst, when delegates
will be elected to represent the State in the Sol
diers' and Sailors National Convention which
will meet in Pittsburg, Pa, on the oath instant.
Below we publish the protest now being signed.
The I" Boys in Blue " who endorse it are invited
and urged to attend the mass meeting at Balti-
more on the 10th instant. Attempts are being
made to hand us over to the party against whom
for four long years we battled, enduring all the
hardships of the camp, the march and the field
against whom we faced death in the time of bat
tie. We fought against rebellion and treason
let us vote as we shot. Let us show to our fell
low-citizens that we condemn treason now as
we did in the dark days Of the war let us show
them that we despise traitor still-whether it
be jefferson Davis, the bogus head of the South
ern Confederacy, or Andrew Johnson, the be-
trayer of the party that made him the head of
the nation let us show them that we can not
sciU not act politically with the men who during
the war denounced us as " thieves, murderers
and assassins," who stigmatized US as being
/" Lincolns' hirelings," and " the mercenaries ola
corrupt government" wholaughed at and rejoiced
over our defeats and mourned when the strong arms
and willing hearts of our soldiers had conquered
traitors in arms, and re-establshed the supremacy
of our nations flag all over the land. Fellow
soldiers, let us be true to ourselves and to the
principles we have advocated. We may not rep
resent Custom-houses and post-offices and the Of
fetal places of our country, but we can speak
from our homes our farms, our workshops, our
places of business, protesting against any attempt
to commit us 10 policy favorable to treason or
to the interests OF the traitors who have laid our
comrades in unnumbered graves all over the
South They died that the Government might
live they gave their lives willing sacrifice that
the principles of free government might be forev
er perpetuated-let us not prove false to their
memory let us not allow them to have died in
vain, by snrrepdering all we have gained to the
dastardly crew who essayed to stab the nation
even unto death.
The following is the call referred to. We can
not publish all the names that appears to the pa
per as it appears in the Baltimore Americdn, but
we give those from Baltimore county, as far as
we have been able to collect or recognize them
TO THE CITIZENS OF MARYLAND
AND THE UNITED STATES:
The soldiers and sailors of Maryland, who are
now as true to their Country in the bloody days,
months and years which have passed by, who are
as ready and willing to resist a revolutionary
overthrow of the Republican Government Of the
United States by the arts of Northern Conserva-
tives or copperheads, led on by traitorous and
recreant, accidental Executive, as by the arms of
Southern traitors on the battlefield who repre-
sent, by their names and record, that the princi-
pies for which they fought cannot be bought or
sold out for policy and whose names will call
up no recollections of the Custom House, Post
Office, or any other department Of the Public
compose the great Bread and Butter Brigade
who remember that the grass is not yet grown
on the graves of our dead comrades, and that
even now burial parties are busy collecting their
unbured bones from hundred battle-felds,
where they fought and fell by our side for prin-
cple, respectfully present this, our Protest,
against being considered as in any way political
" identified with men who are representing
themselves to the people of Maryland and the
Union as the Soldiers and Sailors of Maryland,
and who are thereby casting upon us the odium
of bartering our principles for miserable "My
Policy" r'o
WE, THE BOYS IN BLUE, endorse cordially,
heartily and entirely the Congress of the United
States, and hereby notify the loyal men of the
country, that the Soldiers and Sailors of Mary
land will be found on the day of trial in the front
line of battle contending, as fold, foot to foot,
and hand to hand with traitors and their allies
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