Maryland free press. [volume] (Hagerstown [Md.]) 1862-18??, 1867-02-14

| mas been brought before tae Legislature
Of this State providing for The election Of
mayor aud city council in Baltimore OF
Wednesday the 18Th of March next.
a bill for that psrp"sa was passed come
| weeks since fixing the election on the
! first Wednesday Of February but had to be
repealed few days age, en- account Of its
being defective in not giving three weeks
notice of the day of election, as required by
the code. Such cfamor had been raised
against the bill, and SO many piteous ap-
poals were being made to that sssemblnge
Of maa men ana bad men in Washington,
called Congress, for their Interference
the internal affairs of the State Of Maryland
BY the radical Office holders, their pimps
and dependents, who placed in their pres
ent rositions by the most grinding oppres-
sion and shameless frauds perpetrated upon
free people, have been fattening for the
last few years upon the public plumber,
that we began to be little apprOhensive
that timid and weakened concentrations
might thus DO induced to falter hesitate or
delay. in the great work of State purifca-
ton and regeneration that was before them.
We notice symptoms of this hesitancy in the
tone of several of our exchanges last week,
but are glad to see that as yet our Legis-
lnturc does not seem to be frightened at
their own holiness" as a late issue Of the
Baltimore American contemptuously aud
sarcastically intimated in regard to the
course of certain weak-kneed gentlemen
who lately became alarmed at the idea of
having another municipal election in Bal
timcrc city. and who thought it better to
submit to the monstrous outrages that hid
been heaped upon them, by RECKLESS aud
unprincielcd minority than to own the risk
of offending their opprcssors. calling down
the ire Of Congress SC.
We have no words with which to express
the length aud height and breadth and
depth of the contempt which every honra-
tle aud high minded man must feel for
those who having NOW the power to redress
the wrongs and insults that have been
heaped upon them, and the opportunity Of
obtaining Indemnity for the past, and BE-
curity for tho future" instead of striking
boldly and increasingly for each and all. of
those rights, would certainly and meckly
tell their oppressors "Dont get into pas
sion, gentleman Don't get that terrible
Congress after us! Although when you
had the power, you kicked, cufFed and
insulted Us to ysur hearts content, yet we
are willing to forget and forgive it all
Only let us have a little share in the
Government of the State. from which you
have totally excluded US for the last three
or four years and We shan't quarrel about
the Offices. You can keep what you have
got, it matters not by what villainy obtained
and for the future perhaps we may compro-
mise and divide with you! Perish the
idea of such contemplate and degrading
propositions and purposes.
The lately oppressed and DISTINGUISHED
masses Of the people of Maryland, com:
posed in great measure of the virtue, tho
intellect, the energy and the capital of the
State. demand speedy, simple. and COM
pleto justice at the hands of the Legislature,
their servants.
On the 18th of March next, we hope
the men of Baltimore will cast from their
shoulders with loathing and disgust the
foul incubas that has been fastened upon
them in the shape ola city Government;
and we will hail the passage Of the con-
vention bill as similar opportunity but
one ofvastly greater Importance afforded
to tho people of the State at large
For the fiat has gone forth The party
that until the last election has held undispz.
ted sway, and exercised it too with q re-
mcrseless hand against all who differed
from them in opinion. however pure how
ever honest they may have bean hS filed
up to overlooking the cup of their iniqui-
ties. and it is for us to show them now,
"that with what measure ye mctc, it shall
be measured to you again.
And we tell our whilon opprossors who
have grown sleek, fat and greasy upon
their i'll gotten gains that Tor all Of them
Tho day of reckoning is approaching The
work which the Legislature has began SO
we'll must be completed by State conven-
ton and a new constitution, which will
make clean sweep of the whole radical
horde of Office holders many of whom had
no doubt congratulated Acmsalves that
hey were nicely settled for long time
10 come ifno for life. How uncertain
ire all human hopes. MAN proposes, but
God disposes." When that auspieious day
,hall have arrived. and we trust IL ia NOT