The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-09-15

eu uOcLrlu0 OF OUhteS FlgHtS anu SH6ltbreu ny
claim Of constitutional obligation to maintain
slavery in the States, presented to the American
Government the alternatives Of oligarchy with
slavery ;or, democratic republican governments
without slavery ae
forbearing Government bowling to a sup
posed constitutional behest, acquiesced in the
former alternative.
| The hand of the Government was stayed for
eighty years. The principles Of constitutional
liberty languished for want of governmental sup
port. Oligarchy matured its power with subtle
design. Its history, for eighty years, is replete
with unparalleled "injuries and usurpations." =
1t developed only the agricultural localities-ge-
ographically distinct from the free-labor locali-
| ties, and less then one-third the whole-with
African slaves. 1t held four millions of human
beings as chatles, yet made them the basis of un-
just representative power for themselves in Fed
eral and State Governments to maintain their
enslavement.
| 1t excluded million of free white laborers from
the richest agricultural lands of the world. Fore
ed them to remain, inactive and unproductive,
on the mineral, manufacturing and lumber local
ities-comprising two-thirds Of the whole South,
in square miles, and real undeveloped wealth
simply because these localities were agricultural
ly too poor for slave labor.
Condemned them to agriculture, on this unag-
ricultural territory and consigned them to un-
willing ignorance and poverty-by denying cap
ital and strangling enterprise. raoYe
| 1t repelled the capital, energy, will, and skill
of free States, from the free labor localities by
unmitigated intolerance and proscripdon-thus
guarding the approaches to their slave domain
against democracy. .asa
Statute books groaned under despotic laws
against unlawful and insurrectionary assemblies;
aimed at the constitutional guarantees of the
right to peaceably assemble and petition for re-
dress of grievances.
1t prescribed democratic literature as incendi-
iary.
1t nullifed the constitutional guarantees of
freedom of speech and the press. =
1t deprived citizens of the other States of the
"privileges and immunities'' in these States, an
injury and usurpation alike unjust to Northern
citizens, and destructive of the best interests of
the States themselves.
Alarmed at the progress Of democracy, in
the face of every discouragement, at last it
sought immunity by secession and war. 81
The heart sickens with the contemplation of
the four years that followed-forced loans, i'm
pressments, conscription with blood-hounds
and bayonet, murder of aged Union men, who
had long laid aside the implements of labor,
but had been summoned anew to the field by
the conscription of their sons, to support chill
dren and grandchildren, reduced from comfort
to the verge of starvation the slaughter of no
bic youths, types of physical manhood, forced
into an unholy war against those with whom
they were identified by every interest; long
months of incarceration in rebel bastiles, ban
shment from homes aud hearthstones, are but
partial recital of the long catalogue of hOr-
rors.
But Democracy North and South combined
defeated them. They lost. What did they
lose? The cause of oligarchy? They lost Afri-
can slavery Sy name only. Soon as the tocsln
of war ceased-soon as the clang of arms was
hushed-they raise the cry Of "immediate adj
mission" and with that watchword seek to or
ganze, under new forms, contest to perpetu-
ate their unbridled sway. They rehabilitate
their sweeping control of all local and State or
CARNATIONS. The Federal Executive, easily Sc
/ dueed, Yields willing obedience to his old
masters. Aided by his unscrupulous disregard
OF Constitution and laws, by his merciless pro-
| scription of true democratic opinion, and by
all his appliances of despotic power, they now
defantly enter the lists in the loyal North, and
seek to wiring from freemen an endorsement OF
| their wicked designs. 7g-ll'I.t ~
Every foul agency is at work to accomplish
this result. Falsely protesting to assent to the
abolition of slavery, they are contriving to con-
| tinue its detestable power, by legislative acts,
against pretended vagrants. They know that
amy form of servitude will answer their un-
| holy purpose. They pronounce the four years
| war brilliant sword scene in the great revo-
| lutionary drama. Proscriptive public senti-
ment holds high carnival, and, profting by the
Presidential pilgrim, breaths out threatenings
| and slaughter against loyalty, ignores and de-
| nounces all legal restraints, and assails with
the tongue of malignant slander the constitu-
tionally- chosen representatives of the people.
| To still the voice of fliberty--dangerous alone
| to tyrants-midnight conhagrations, assassina-
tions and murders in open day, are called to
| their aid. reign of terror through all these
ten States makes loyalty stand silent in the
presence of treason, or whisper in bated breath.
Strong men hesitate openly to speak for iber-
ty, and decline to attend a convention at Phil
| adelphia for fear of destruction.
But all Southern men are not yet awed into
submission to treason; and we have assembled
| from all these States, determined that liberty,
when endangered, shall find q mouth-piece,
and that "the Government of the people, by the
people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth" We are here to consult together how
best to provide for Union of truly Republl-
can States to seek to relume thirty-six stars
on the old flag. We are here to see that ten OF
these stars are not Opaque bodies, paling their
Intellectual fires beneath the gloom and dark
ness of oligarchical tyranny and oppression
We wish them to be brilliant stars emblems
of constitutional liberty glittering orbs, spark
ling with the lifegiving priciples OF the modei
Republic fitting adornments OF the glorious
banner of freedom.
Our last and only hope is in the unity and
fortitude of the loyal people Of America IN the
| SUPPORT ana VlQu1CdGlOn VI OuC AAlA
| Congress, and in the election of a controlling
Union majority in the succeeding Fortleth Con-
gress. So
While the new article amending the Nation
al Constitution offers the most liberal condk;
tions to the authors of the rebellion, and does
not come up to the measure OF our expectations
| we believe its ratification would be the COM
mencement of complete and lasting protec-
tion to all our people; and therefore we accept
1T as the best present remedy, and appeal to
our brothers and friends in the North and the
West to make 1t their watchword in the coming
elections. ~
The tokens are auspiaious of overwhelming
success. However little the verdict OF the bal
lot-box may effect the reckless man IN the
| Presidential chair, we cannot doubt that the
j traitors and sympathizers he has encouraged
will recognize that verdict as the surest indl.
cation that the mighty power which crushed
the rebellion is still alive, and that those whC
attempt to oppose or defy il will do so at the
risk OF their own destruction, aa3a ~
Our confidence in the overruling .pfoyidenc'
of God prompts the prediction and intepslhe:
the belief that when this warning IS suihcleptty
tau4ht to these misguided ana RECKLESS men
the liberated millions of the rebellious Soutf
will be proffered those rights and franchises
| whioh may be necessary to adjust and settle
this mighty controversy in the spirit of thu
most enlarged and Christian philanthropy.
Geo w. Paschal of Texas, Chairman; Il.
, Sidney, of Mississippi; John II. Atkinson, o
W. Virginia; John A. Allderdice, of Delaware
A. W. Hawkins, of Tennessee; Samuel Knox
of Missouri; Wright R. Fish, of Louisiana; III
J. Safoid, Of Alabama Philip Fraser q Flor r
ida; D. r. Goodloe, of N. Carolina d. Y. For
> ney, of District of Columbia; ]. A. J. Creswen
of Maryland; G. w. Ashburn, OF Georgia.
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