The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1866-03-17
Comm, tnicated. ,
|IIl COMMUNICATED. u
BLACK Rock. March. 18th. 1856.

Messrs Editors We feel ourselves much
| indebted to you for your full and satisfactory
| explanation of the 'two meetings in Towson-
| town" In this section of the country many
| good Union men, like our worthy Treasurer,
| Mr. Foster, signed the call for the meeting on
Tuesday, under entire Misrepresentation, and
now join with him in saying that the meeting
and proceedings of our loyal citizens on Mon
day night, meet their entire appreciation.
In looking over the Journal of last week, we
| find nothing in the resolutions or the speeches
OF the Tuesday meeting endorsing President
johnson except wherein they think he has ex-
pressed little sympathy with those who have
been fighting against their country. We're he
| to repeat any speech he has made from the be-
ginning of the war to the time he took the
Presidential chair they would denounce him
as loudly as they now applaud him. He means
the same to day as when he made those speech
es and our returned rebel soldiers who were
so loud in cheering him at the Tuesday meet
ing and their sympathizers, will soon find it
out, when, if they do not cry out against hin,
they will keep very quiet, as they are Begin
ming to do already. IiAo3 aii " hshis.tCi I
The journal says sthe meeting was called to
order by Geo. H. Carman, Esq, and addressed
by the Hon. j. Morrison Harris, Hon. Richard
Grason, Hon. John Wethered and the Hon. S.
Brady" In the speeches of these gentlemen re-
ported in that paper they tell us they are
Union men and always have been. Who has
heard either of them raise his voice in behalf
of the Union during the four years of wal
wagedr for its destruction? Nobody! They
deemed it inexpedient to speak in public du-
ring the war; and did all in their power, qui ct
" for the South and against the Government.
The Hon. Mr.. Brady explained his silence by
saving that he had no opportunity of making
Union speech, and feared ifhe attempted it he
"would be called traitor Is it not strange
that these distinguished and Union-loying men
living in Nd, have had no opportunity for the
last four years to make Union speech? Now
the Y. do speak what do they say? They say
everything in favor of the South, and those APP
PLYING for seats in Congress who have been at
the head and front of the rebellion, doing all
in their power to break up the | MON. Who do
they denounce They denounce the majority
in Congress who voted the men and means to
crush the rebellion and save the country
Were the Southern Confederacy established,
Jefferson Davis President of it, and Maryland
part of it, who would be more congenial spir
its than these gentlemen m ..-as5s.. l.,,rf .
The Southern Confederacy has. been blotted
out of existence, rebels whipped and driven from
the field and yet are they and their sympathi
zers to rule us? That is the question. eb9i9
The Hon. Mr.. Brady said, in his opinion, the
new difficulty about the status of the Southern
States could not be settled by the ballot box !;
there would have to be another war, and as old
man as he was, he was ready to shoulder his
musket and do his part upon the battle field.
Mr.. Harris, in the same strain said, "The
country stands in no fear of revolution if they
admit into Congress every man from the South
from Alexander Stephens down" If they are
not admitted, if men, who when they were in
Congress, plotted treason, violated their oaths,
vacated their seats, swore allegiance to the
Southern Confederacy, instigated the rebellion,
carried on most wicked war for four years
against the life of the nation and even muir
dered our brave soldiers when taken, and starry
ed them in prison pens, if these men are not
admitted into the councils of the etion and
treason made as respectable and honorable as
loyalty, we are told "THE COUNTRY IS IN DANGER
OF ANOTHER REBELLIoNr' This is rather large
talk for whipped men, taslIo1 s6} so 19T
Says the Journal, ''Mr. Grason commenced
by saying that when he looked around him and
saw present men with whom he had beer in
political antagonism through almost life time,
he was almost strxck dumb Most of the ju-
rors and many other Union men Were there be-
cause it was during the term of Court, and
few Union men went through curiosity, and
Mr.. Grason seeing them present seems to. i'm
agine that they had left their party and join
ed his. His speech was brief, but to the point,
chat none should be punished for treason and
whoever the South sent to Congress should be
admitted without regard to whether1they had
been the leaders of the rebellion or not, just SO
they would take an oath to support the Con
stitution and Laws. This, he said, is Andrew
Johnson's position, and in this he endorsed
him." Now this is no endorsement at all, for
the simple reason that this is not Andrew John
sons position This is the one designing poll
ticians would like to assign him, butope which
he has not and does not intend to take. OIL
FIFTH DIsTRICT.