The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-10-31
From the World, ctober 23.
Maryland Or the Brink of Civil
WAR

The proceedings commenced yesterday at
Annapolis before Governor Swami, and the
spirit OF mob resistance which prevailed du-
ring the day in Baltimore, are Of grave and
painful import. If it were mere exhibi-
ton Of local lawlessncss, it would still be
deplorable, but would not have the porten-
agement Of the Radicals in other States
The Radicals Pennsylvania, by the inSti-
cation OF Forney, are secretly preparing to
march in arms to Baltimore and aid the in
surgents to resisting the State and Federal
authorities, General Butler, so one of our
correspondents informs us, has telpgraphed
to the police Commissioners stimulating
them to resist, and offering to go to their
aid at the head OF ten thousand Massacbu.
setts soldiers, who, he says, would fly with
alacrity to avenge the Massachusetts blood
shed in the streets of Baltimore on the 10Th
of April, 1861. Unless the Radicals are
trying to practice upon Governor Swami by
empty bravado, the whole party will side
with the Baltimore mob, and are ready to
pour out men, arms, and money to drench
the soil Of Maryland with tie blood OF her
own citizens. n.s
In Baltimore itself public feeling is d.
scribed as running as high as it did at any
time during the surging excitement il the
spring of 1861. Mobs are already patrol
ing the streets making, threatening demon
STATIONS. Yesterday they assailed the off
ce of a D,mociatic newspal er--the 1,aAs-
script and tore down its bulletin board, -
AT the corners OF the streets in the liquor
saloons in every place where knots OF men
assemblies. they rave, and threaten and gcs-
ticuate, and fan the rising flames OF evil
discord. Governor Swami would lose his
self-respect, would expose himself to the
contempt Of all men OF spirit, if he quailed
before these efforts at intimidation. 1t is
his duty to proceed calmly with an impair
tial investigation OF the charges against the
Commissioners, neither allowing himself TO
be prejudiced against them by the violence
Of their a5ettors, nor weakly condOning
their offenSes if the evidence establishes
their guilt.
Thus far, Governor Swami is clearly act
ing in pursuance of the law, and the Radi-
calls are braveing and deiying it. Sworn
charges have been made, and the Governor
cannot, if he would, refuse to examine
| then-Ihe Commissioners dare not face
the accusation, and so they deny the Gov
ernors jurisdiction. Hon. Rcverdy John
son, the leader of the Maryland bar, and
perhaps the ablest lawyer in the country,
gives written opinion shosi,g that this :
NAL Of jurisdiction is absurd. No fair-mind
ed man Of good intelligence can read his
opinion without considering it conclusive. -
To be sure, he does not prove the guilt Of
the Commissioners; that depends on evil
dence yet to be produced. But he does
prove by arguments which cannot be sue
cessiully controverted, that the law would
make the Legislature the judge Of their
guilt. if the Legislature were in session,
and that the Governor, in the recess Of the
Legislature, has precisely the same powers.
That the Police Commissioners chooses to
dispute position SO clear, produces an inn
preston alike unfavorable to their candoi
and their innocence. They have deliber'
ately determined to plunge the State in the
horrors of civil war rather than submit to a
trial by an officer expressley clothed by the
law with authority to remove them for mis-
conduit