The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-03-30

property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws
and proceedings Tor the security of person and
property as is enjoyed by white citizens and shall
be subject to like punishment, pains and penal
ties, and to none other, any law, statute, ordi
nance, regulation or custom, to the contrary
notwithstanding. The final section of the bill
IS retained, providing that any person who shall
deprive any one of the rights named in this BILL
shall be fined one thousand dollars, and imprson-
ed not less than one year. An additional section
is added to the bill, providing for final appeal
in any case arising, to the Supreme Court fthe
United States.
This bill passed the House of Representatives
by vote of 100 yeas to SO nays Every Demo-
crat who was present at the time the vote was
taken, voted against the bill, and every Republic
canexcept six, who were present, voted for the
bill so that in spite of all our efforts we seem
to be on the verge of the equalization of races
in this country Our distinguished Representa-
tive, John L. Thomas, who ran on two tickets
last fall in this county, at least, is among the
| affirmative votes on this question.
Well, be it so, fany body has been deceived in
his course, it is not US we never expected any
thing else from him, nor do we see from his
speeches and the company he kept how any
other person could have been deceived. But
there was really nothing more enacted in this
county, and indeed in this congressional district,
last fall, than of the most miserable and con-
temptiblefarc ever attempted to be palmed off
as an election and so have the elections been in
this State for more than six years. Think of
about one-half only of the votes in this county
being cast, and much less than one-fourth being
cast in the city of Baltimore and then imagine
one of the successful candidates-against whom
scarcely any person was permitted to vote
mounted upon his door step, returning his
heartfelt thanks to corporal's guard for the i'm
niense majority by which he was elected and
then you have a fair picture of an election in
Maryland in these latter days. But this is a
part of the Republican creed The formation
OF this party, with its platform of principles was
a declaration of war against the government of
the country, for they looked only to centraliza-
ton and sectionalisrn, the two worst enemies of
all free governments. No one who has observed
with interest the course of events in this
country for the last few years, but who must
have seen that ideas have been steadily advan-
cling among the people of the Northern States,
which are fatal to the sovereignty ofthe States,
-subversive of their rights-and destructive of
the civil tights ofndividuals, in their results.
Wherever the Republican party has obtained
whether in the State or national government
the work of Capitalization has been pressed for.
ward with so much zeal, that unless the people
check it now, it will not he long before our de-
strnction as republic will he complete
They will continue to demoralze the people by
vicious teachings aud hypocrltcal philanthropy
strike down the last pillar of our social system,
and destroy the only props which are necessary
for the support Of free institutions. Are the peo-
pie ready for this?