The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-03-29
Maryland to be TerritorialiZed.

On Monday, Mr.. Francis Thomas presented in
the United States House of Representatives
memorial signed by the following members of
the Maryland Legislature Curtis Davis, Chas.
E. Trail, ]. Tome, II. B. Holden, Elias Davis,
James L. BiIingslea and Ed. p. Philpot, mem
berS Of the State Senate, and Daniel Z. Bruce, J.
Toby A. R. AppIeman, Thomas Gorsuch, J.
p. Bishop, Benjamin Pool, James V. Criswell,
John l.. Lnthicum J r Rouzcr, Henry Baker,
II. G. Bumord and S. R. Gore, of the House of
Delegates; and on the same day Mr.. Nye pre-
sened in the United States Senate a memorial
sign by II. Stockbridge ard Chas. II. Catch,
who represent themselves to be Grand Presi-
dent and Grand Secretary Of the "Grand
Union League of Maryland" which We cannot
publish to-day for the want of room. The sign.
ers to each of these memorials are Republicans
of the most rabid and violent stamp, and set
forth as one of their grievances, that there are
four or FIVE Thousand negroes in the State who are
dsfranchised, never dreaming that any one ex-
cept their sagncious selves knows anything of
New York, New Jersey and Ohio having with
in the last few months placed themselves exactly
on the same platform with Maryland as regards
negro suffrage The Legislative memorial sets
forth that there is great danger of boodshed
unless Congress grants the prayer of the memori-
alists and that "many loyal men are delbera-
atng upon leaving the State" on account of
the oppression under which they are grooming
We confess that we do not know in what these
expressions consist So far as this county is con-
cerned, almost every officer in it, from the
Judge down to the smallest in the county,
hods his place BY the choice of what is or was
known as the Union party, and we believe
that these same loyal memorialists belonged
10 that organization. The same thing which
exists in this county in this RESPECT, exists
! in most Of the counties Of the State More
over, we were not aware until now, that ''many
loyal men were celebrating upon leaving the
State" This may be so, but it is the first that
we have heard of it. We cannot suppose that
the Cecil Senator is one Of those who "are de-
iberating upon leaving the State" His ankle
ty for, and extraordinary efforts to secure the
passage of the Hartford and Cecil Boom Bill, " at
the late session OF the Legislature, forbids this
conclusion. From the ex rtions made here and
elsewhere to get petitioners and make friends
for the Boom b II, one would have thought that
the head and front of tie measure expected to re-
main in Maryland Gutil the next flood at least -
If the retus 10 grant the right ofsutfiare to the
negro is great wrong, then these pIemoriulisls
and their party friends are the people who help
ed to educate us in this direction. They are the
people who lent their aid to perpetuate this very
doctrine. They and their party had control of
all the ballot boxes in the State in 1864 They
had absolute control of the Constitutional Con-
vention which met in that year, and made a
Constitution to suit themselves, and among other
things prohibited Negroes from exercising the
right Of suffrage, which, if right in 1864, ought
to he right in 1867. At least we think that
gentlemen who profess to have the welfare of the
whole human family so much at heart ought
to show ii little more respect for their own off.
spring, and exercise a little more charity for.
those who think and actin 1867, as they thought
and acted in 1864.