The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-03-02
Maryland Politics.


struction of Baltimore city aud the Csnven
ton bill, both having the one grand Demo.
cratic incentive to intensity their interest
with the present so.called Maryland legsla-
ture, which is the filling all the offices, State
and municipal, with the numerous swarm of
trading Office hunters which at present bur.
row in that party. There is no shadow of
excuse for either Of these measures, fraught
as they would, or will be, with an enormous
expense to the State. The "Reconstruc.
ton " bill, provided for Baltimore, does not
differ essentially from the present charter,
showing, conclusvey, that the leading OBJ.
ject in overturning the city government is to
effect change of officers, the hungry crew
being unwilling to wait till the term of the
present officers of the city government ex.
pires.
The object of the Convention bill to form
new Constitution for the State, at cost of
$3.50, 900 or more, to DO taken ont of the
pockets Of the people in the shape Of taxes,
is the ousting Of all the Judges of Courts and
other officers in the State, who are princi.
pally Union men, and the supplying Of their
places with sympathizers with the rebellion,
and that other eager hope of the southern
county secessionists, the involving the State
in debt of thirty millions for compensation
for slaves emancipated by the present free
State Constitution.
That this Convention bill, which proposes
to alter the form Of government of the State
so as to legisate into perpetual power the men
who most bitterly opposed the war for the
squeching of the rebellion, is to cause a
useless expenditure Of the peoples money,
is evident, when the present Constitution of
the State makes provision for its alteration
by submitting any article or articles Of it for
repeal at general election as the clause re-
1uiring tax Of five per cent. for the purpose
of accommodating school fund was submitted
to the last general election. In framing
their Convention Bill the little etietc coun
ties of Southern Maryland have their repre-.
sentation in the General Assembly incpeased
till it reaches in numbers almost that of the
populous and wealthy counties of the north
and west.
BY this means, the same party that has
ever ridden the State, like a night. mare,
bearing down every interest save that of
slavery, with the members they can secure
in the city Of Baltimore and the northern
and western counties, they hope to maintain
the aScnndcncv in the government of the
State.
In the mean time, while those blind Ephc,
sian shareholders are planning to stay the
march OF popular government and universal
suffrage, The tide is roaring and rising on
every side Of them. In the District of Go.
lumbia the first election under the universal
suffrage law has passed, iuausurating a new
era, indeed, south of Mason and Dixon
line. The Military bill for the reconslruc.
ton Of the rebel States provides universal
suffrage as the only door by which they can
again enter and resume their forfeited places
in the Union. In Virginia ---.' that mGther Of
Presidents '-Gov, Picrpont has connscled
the legislature to accept universal suffrage
and the plan proposed by Congress. Gov.
Brown, Of Georgia, also counsels the chiv.
airy OF t...4. State to receive in good firth
what they cannot evadc.
And thus the republican idea Of universal
suffrage moves irresistably forward, and no
opposition can long withstand it. And how.
ever our blind leaders of the blind in Mary.
land may strive against universal suffrage,
for a short time, they must succumb 10 fate
at last. With universal suffrage in Virginia,
on the South, and Pennsylvania, on the
north, how long would the great laboring
population Of the former slave counties re
maiE. ss.racized in their own State, they
will leave it, and who will fill their places?
\ population OF universal voters, and the
hills and vallies Of Maryland will shont with
gladncss over the graves of an cffetc arts
tocracy. Universal suffrage, like an army
with banners. must sweep the iano, conquer
ing everywhere its enemies.
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