The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1867-07-13
Tha Fourth ofJuly.


During the Festivities Of our late anniversary.
very many were the growls and Rrumbles
Of our Coppcfhead friends. They could no long
er sec anything IN Independence Day 10 make
any one rejoice-freedom was n moCkeTy, liberty
a reproach--lt seemed sAcrileKe Cor rs 10 Be hap
py when the people Of ten States Of the Union
were being crushed under the dsspOtie heel Of
Black Republicans. Such were the thoughts
and words Of our COpperhsads- was Il with
the people for whom they expressed so much
sympathy The telegraph informs US tha,
throughout, the South there was an old-fashiOu-
ed celebration Of the 4th Of July. Its coming
was ushered In by the firing Of cannon lie pro.
gress commemoraied BY meetings, speeches, din.
ners, &c, while from almost every window
throughout the cities there streamed forth our
national emblem, all tending to assure us that
the people still lore 10 bear witness TO the brave
~ aud patriotism Of our revolutionary fathers,
aud that they still cherish the Gag Of the free and
the institutions Of which Il Is the emblem. We
pity the people Of the South. They have sim
ned greatly, and great has been their punish
meui. Urged on BY promises Of support from
Northern Democracy, they hurried into rebel-
ion, aud then, deserted by these hypocriies, they
were compelled to bear alone the burdens Of y
hopeless contest against the Union Because Of
this confdcnce 10 democracy, hundreds ofthous-
ands Of brave Southern men sleep In unhallowed
graves, victims 10 wars demands their fields
have been desola,ed, their property destroyed,
their prosperity blghted and for oil this dcsola-
ton and ruin Northern democracy 10 responsible.
aud the Southern people are beginning to realize
IL. We have never heard harder things said Of
any party than is now contained In the uiier-
ances Of no, a few. but of nearly the entire
Southern press, aud the speeches made At the
public gatherings in the South on the late 9Th Of
July were full Of denunc iatons Of that policy
and party that had 50 urongfully and shame
! fully deceived aud miscd the Southern people.
Particularly was this the case at Charleston,
where Gov. Orr, late General in the Confede-
rate armies, and others prominently identified
with the late rebellion, made stirring and pa,ri-
otto speeches, invoking tue people to come away
from the party with which they had been acting
TO lean no longer on broken reed, that was
powcrless to assis, aud too prcjudeed To proper
| ~ advise, and TO hereafter give their adhesion
TO that party and policy which could rebuild
their shattered fortunes. Again, as another In.
dicaiiou Ut the dying ont OF democracy aud
Johnsonism in the South. We ARE told that at u
4th-of-July celebration in New Orleans, the health
Of the Presiden, Of the United States was drank
in silence. deserved rrbukr; for this man, NOR
than all others. should SoutheTners despisc.--
Hal he not, with all bis official power ami pa.
irouage, opposed the Republican party in It's pa.
trotic efforts 10 reconstruct the nation this 9Th
Of July would have found tue country truly a,
peaee-ihe States all back into the Union ami.
iy restored between the sections, aud the whole
country tar on the road to that prosperity aud
greatness interrupted by the war. hut the peo.
! pie are now kecnly awake 10 the importance OF
this question. North, ihey are readily support
| Ing Congress South, they are ready to accsp,
the terms proposed by tina, Congress, aud We
have good hopes that ere the coming Of another
Independence day despite the efforts OF Andrew
johnson and the whole democratic party. our
nation will again be OHe, and the principles OF
right, Of repubIicanism, Of the Declaration Of In.
dependence every where triumphant.