Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1866-10-26

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Der 1st, 1866.
While it is perfectly impossible to foresee
the future, yet affairs in Maryland are wear
ing an aspect, very unpleasant to all who ear
nestly desire peace throughout the length and
breadth of the land.
The Police Commissioners of Baltimore
are complained of by many citizens for fail
ing to do their duty in the late municipal cleo
ton. In one instance forty-three voters make
affidavit that they cast their ballots at one vo-
ting place, where the Commissioners only re-
port twenty-one as voting. On account of
many charges, of like illegal proceeding on
the part of the Commissioners, made to the
Governor, he has cited them to appear for
hearing before him, in order that he may act
as the evidence and the circumstances of the
ease require. This has raised howl among
the radicals not only in that city, but through
out the North, which seems portentous of Sc
rious results.
The New York Tribune, in speaking of
the probable removal of the Sheriffs, (elec-
ted by the people, } by Gov. Wells of Louis
lana, for refusing to discharge their du-
ty, which it reports will be resisted, express
es the belief that the President will sustain
Gov. Wells and is disposed to praise him
therefor This is a case in which the reno
val may inure to the benefit of the radicals.
But the probability of the removal Of the
Police Commissioners of Baltimore for refu.
sing to discharge their duties, which is threat
ened to be resisted, to the drenching of the
streets with blood, in which case it is proba-
BILE the President will sustain the lawful au-
lorities in the maintenance Of the laws of
|e State, and because this removal may inure
70 the benefit of the Conservatives, it is made
the occasion by the Radicals of the North to
volunteer their services for the overriding of
lawful authorities and laws of the State of
Maryland.
A letter to the Philadelphia Press says,
Gems. Dennison and Woolley have offered
their services to the Mayor to resist the re-
moval Of the Commissioners and the re-
turned veterans Of the Union army are ready
to fight" 1t also expresses the belief that
the President will send the regular troops to
sustain Gov Swami, eff the removal of the
Police Commissioners be resisted by the peo-
pie, as resisted it will be-" and calls on the
Northern people to be prepared and exclaims,
"let Pennsylvania be ready"
The Constitutional Union, Washington,
says, if the laws be violated by these diabol-
zeal mischief makers, the President is q we'll
prepared and decided how to act and g that
it was not an idle boast of the President that,
treason being put down in the South, he was
ready for it in the North" and i" if the Rad
ical party have pluck enough the country
will be plunged into another civil war ere
many days" We trust that the laws may
be upheld without interference on the part of
any, and that the predictions of the Wash
ington Union may fail to be verified, but the
times in Maryland seem fraught with evil,
which only love of law and order can avert.
May the same spirit which would accord
praise to the President for sustaining the
lawful authorities of Louisiana, give him equal
praise for sustaining the lawful authorities
and laws of each and every State, and may
the bitter cup of another fratricidal war, now
90 prominently looming up, be turned aside
from the lips Of our whole people, and the
country speedily attain that positive peace, SO
essential to its prosperity and progress.
The New York Herald in its efforts to