The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-05-11
Maryland Pslisics.

Political affairs in Maryland are as
snming very serious aspect. The Rad
reals are sore over their loss of power
ia that State, and are prepared to go
any lengths 10 recover it. The voice of
the white men, to which free expression
wac given last Fall, for the first time in
Eve years, having decided against them'
the destrucriyes are preparing TO invoke
the aid of the c"lored element to enable
Ihem 4" secure again their lost as
crndeney. They have suddenly dis
ca, cred that their State government
j. u"I repuhiicaN in form, and
ARE making arrangements 10 appeal to
Congress To give il proper shape and
character. IL was immensely rrpnbli-
can While Infamous laws, enforced by
snorr infumons men. gave 10 an insig-
ujticant radical minority the complets
control IF The State. All Of the negroes,
md fully two-thirds of the white men
were disfranchised under the domina
ZION of the SCHEMES dynasty. yet, mas
mach ~ white radicalism held sway,
The condition Of things was deemed 70
be lu perfect harmony r witir the
progreSsiyr political ideas Of the age.
Now that Suffrage is extended to the
white freemen Of the State, aud large
n"n-vothS p puiaiion is senfranchised.
We hear prodigious clamOr about the
ienial OF political rights IN the negro,
Hi, claims 70 the ballot like those Of
white Democrats, We're matter of lit
lie moment twelve months. since, rn0r
body could convince q Maryland Radi-
cal that the State government. was not
rrpuhlican in form. II il strange that
it sh0uld become anti-Iepuhlican with
the acknowledgment Of large number
"f men who 4 year ago were not voters.
In the face of their own record. the
Radicals sr- abont to give practical
shape Ia their objections to the charac-
Ter OF the Maryland Government. They
have called II convention. (which will
meet on the i4th inst. to lnyoke the
popular will; and it will appeal to Con-
gress To protect the loyal masses. The
emlranc hisement Of the colored citizens
will he boldly proclaimed and demand
ed" The Baltimore American is deliv-
..rad nf tn, f,,lInwi .u.
1T is but the renewal Of the old con.
dict in q new form. IL has to be met,
aud we have the right to demand Of the
General Government the necessary
weapon 10 meet it. Some twenty-five
or thirty thousand law-abidipg men
who were Yith Us during the wsr, and
are So stili, are kept from our ranks.
This is an element of strength and Q
certainty of success, which the Con-
gress of the United States ought to give
US, aud that, too, before, and not after,
the conflict. ~
''Shouid the. Congress meet inJ Isily1
we can certainly ask them, not for mil
itary interference, but the enactment
of a Law which will bring out the vote
upon q question of Importance. equally
vital to us and to the country. at large.
at will beth- duty Of the Conven-
tion which meeis on the l4th inst. to
consider the matter, and appoint . COM
mites 10 open y eorrespondebee With
every Republican member of Congress,
calling his special attention to the con-
dition of our affairs and urging that
body to enable us TO fight our, own bat
Ties by giving us the proper instrument
OF warfare-the votes Of Union and 10y
al men, without distinction Of COLOR
In plain English the Maryland Rad
ieah want Congress to force nego saf
irage upon their own State, to enable
The .'loyap to eontrdlif What action
Congress- win take in the matter, can
not be foreseen, but compliance with
the wishes of these dangerous sgitators
is by no means Improbable. 1vyry many
Of that body are already prepared for
Legislation Of the kind indicated, and
many others will do, in the future,
As they have done in the past,
follow their leaders,. regardless
Of consequences. OF eeurae IL Congress
may enfranehise the 'blscks OF Mary
land, it may distribute similar YDlitieal
,avors ismeng the psRssssd ethssl
states, aud we may be certain that al