The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-11-17
The Constitutional. Amendment.

A series of articles favoring the adoption ofthe
Constitutional Amendment by the Southern
State, is being published in the Huntsville Gala. J
Adcocate. They are all by the same writer and
the AdOocae states that the letters have attracted
larger share of public attention in Alabama
than any similar letters since the celebrated series
in 1860, from the pen of Hon. John A. Campbell
of Mobile against secession The letters are adj
dresses to the Alabama Legislature. Fromone re-
lating TO the third section Of the Amendment we
quote the following
" History will declare that milder and more
healing cup of medicated elements was never pre-
scented TO his lips of rebellious community as
corrective for the body polite. 1t strikes at the
root of the disease and eradicateS the prime cause
of the morbid action. Recognizing the former
political leaders of the seceeding States as the in
stigators OF the great national calamity, it dis
qualities them from holding those positions of
trust which was the lever of their political power
1t holds them responsible for that willy diploma
cy which under seemingly patriotic motives, dis
integrated the great Democratic party, for the
purpose of securing the election of the Chicago
nominee as the Inauguration of the secession pro-
gramme. 1t brands them with that criminal ne
cation of the duties of statesmen which dismissed
with studied contempt the hope so dearly cher
ished by Southern patriots of adjusting the ques-
tons of the day through the instrumentality of a
National Convention. El5a
commentaries by a constitutional punish
ment that wild and wicked ambition, which held
as nothing the splendid prestige which our coun-
try held among the nations of the earth, as well
as its security to liberty and property its univer
sal prosperity, its ripening intelligence its purity
of morale and religion, and lis wonderful inter
nal development. 1t estimates at its proper
worth that empircism which desolated the South,
bankrupted families who were surrounded by
everything that wealth could bestow, closed up
our schools and churches for years, killed so ma
ny hundreds of thousands of her sons by the
sword, consigned so many of her fathers and
mothers to a more bitter death by grief, broke
the hearts of her wives and sisters with sorrow
demorazing the whole community, and debauch-
ed the patriotism of the whole South And it holds
the secession leaders especially responsible for the
two last dreadful years of that war of rebellion
when not hope OF success against the Govern
ment was honestly entertained by any man in
his proper senses and during which nothing
was feasible but postponement of that day of
reckoning which had such terors for them That
destructive retrograde from Vicksburg,; that
funeral march from Chattanooga to Marietta,
every step of which planted hundred graves
that carnival of suicide which Hood rioted in
from Pulaski to Nashville that food of gore
which Lee poured out from the Wilderness to bis
surrender all so wanton, and so unavailing to
a cause which was lost at Donaldson, at Shiloh,
and at Vicksbnrg these are among the witness
see that testify that the country can lose nothing
by disqualification for Office of men who advis-
ed and defended the grandest and most useless
slaughter that the world ever Witnessed