Columbia democrat and star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1867, 1866-11-14
The Election in Maryland.

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tory, and which is a burning disgrace to the
American name. They have triumphed, too,
by peaceable means, against difficulties and
disabilities which seemed to forbid all rea-
sonabIe hope of delivery. We rejoice, for
the sake of popular institutions, that the
victory was won against such odds and such
adversaries, by gentle and legitimate meth
DDS, rather than by violence. The radicals
are not in good temper, of course. They an
ticipated very different issue. They fan
cied that force and fraud would prove too
strong for people whom they had tried to
intimidate by threats of bloodshed and rev.
olution. All that was needed to defeat their
atrocious designs, was fair election, and
that was secured, to sufficient extent at
least, by the manly integrity and intrepid
virtue of Governor Swami 1t is true, H.
deed, that when his lawful removal of the
Police Commissioners, who had grossly
abused their trust for partisan purposes, was
resisted by those disloyal and seditious NAL
contents, there was some reason to fear that
the election in Baltimore would be so con-
trolled by revolutionary mob as to defeat
the viii of majority of the legal voters of
that city. And this apprehension was in
creased when it was found that a servile and
prostituted Judiciary engaged with trea-
.sonable faction to defy and resist the author
ity of the State Executive in his effort to
secure to all the citizens of Maryland who
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the elective franchise In the choice of their
own representatives. Judge Bond and
Judge Martin have rendered themselves in
famous. They made themselves accessories
to most nefarious plot to destroy the civil
liberties of the whole people of sovereign
Commonwealth. They aided and abetted a
band of revolutionists in project to subvert
the legislative and Executive authority of
their State, and they did so at the risk of
precipitating civil war by their arbitrary
and wicked collusion with set of knayes,
who had combined to carry their lawless pur-
poses through, or to drench the streets of
the Monumental City with blood. They had
no more legal right to interfere as they did,
in case with which the Legislature Of
Maryland had invested the Governor with
exclusive and final jurisdiction, than they
would have had to arrest the President ofthe
United States and the high military officers
who were jointly prepared to aid Governor
Swami in the execution of the law and in
preserving the public peace. They have
failed in their iniquity, but their crime re-
mains. Let it not be overlooked Men who
have so dishonored and perverted their Of
fees, should be deposed and punished. Their
conduct is the more to be reprehended, for
the reason that it tends to break down that
barrier against revolutionary tyrants which
judicial power was intended to interpose. :
The first instance of judicial infdehty, there
fore, should be dealt with in an exemplary
manner. 1t must be made certain and no
torious that judges cannot use their author
ity to promote the corrupt and unlawful ends
of political faction, without incurring popu-
lar condemnation, and being dismissed from
their positions in disgrace.
: We were not, indeed, altogether unpre-
pared for this completely of the courts with
domestic and foreign conspirators against the
laws and peace of Maryland. The North
american and United States Gazette
in an editorial in its edition of last Sat
urday, headed the Troubles in Maryland, y
said-''The true plan of the Union men of
Baltimore, (pah, is the one they have adopt
ed-a legal but peaceable resistance. Thes
hare full and entire possession Of the courts
of the State, and may appeal to them with
the certainty of justice !" Now, the idea
of any political faction having full and en-
tire possession of the courts Of State, Is
certainly remarkable. We venture to say
not only that courts should not be SO possess
ed anywhere. but also that real justice is not
likely to be dispensed by them when they
are in that anomalous condition. That the
editor of the North american regards the
conduct of Judge Bond in the Baltimore
troubles as entirely just and laudable is be
yond doubt, because he thinks whatever 9
Judge does while in the custody and control
of revolutionary mob Of Radical RepubE-
cans, is justice, par excellence. Besides, the
"Union League" here, of which he is dis
tinguished member, have formally applaud
ed Judge Bond for doing that for which all
right-minded and right feeling citizensshould
execrate him. But weseriously doubt wheth-
erthe 'Torch-and- -Turpentine party would
Ike to have the same kind of 'justice" ap-
piled to them when they shall become weak
minority in the land. While they are domi-
nant and seek to perpetuate their dominion
by any means whatever, it is easily under
stood why they favor a government of force,
rather than a governmental Of law. They are
influenced by pretty much the same consid-
erations which favored the Introduction of
the Roman law-which was slave-law-
when monarchs were just establishing their