Maryland free press., 1867-04-11
HAaERsToWll, MD.
Thursday, April II, 1867.

EU' Before this paper will have reached
our readers the people of Maryland will
have voted upon the most important ques-
ton that has been for years presented to
their sufrages. They will have decided by
their ballots whether they acacrvc the
name of freemen, hy carrying by an over
whelming majority the election il favor
OF Constitutional Convention, or they
will lave demonstrated their pitierl and
contemplate cowardicc, and total unf.-
ness for anything but slavery, by defeat
ing that measure. Some of our friends
em to fear that the Conv6ntion bill will
be defeated, but we cannot permit our
selves to doubt its triumphant success.
Any democrat or conservative who casts
his vote against the Convention, being in
undated by the frantic howlings and
desparirg threats ofHke sleek, Gh.co fed
gentry who have kicked, cuffed, and
ground kim to the earth for the last four
or five years, had better hencetorth and
forever, hm | over his brooches and his
manly prcrogatives generally, to his wife
or daughters, and confnc himself for the
fnur, to attending to the family sewing,
washing, mending &c. and other each sqJe
and useful domestic emp'oymentS
If the men of Maryland who were able
Yesterday by q majority OF at least 30 600
il hurl from their limbs fctters with which
tn " haze been bound, and to consign to
perpetual retirement from public life,
and to an nfamy of public contempt, the
wretchcs who have forged their chains;
shall have neglected 10 dc SO through
cowardite or corruption, they are not lit
to be free. they deserve not the name Of
men. We should be strongly tc pied in
that event to 90 for "wonalhood suIragc!"
in the hope that Rs cur men had turned
qe)men, our io6aie, might be disposed to
feel and act a little like men.
As to the trembling herd Of placemen
and Office holle:s, who have been in one
breath threatening their neighbors with
violence and boolshed, aul in tho next
whining like beaten Ours as they are, at
Sh feet of fan*tiGal and totally dsgra-
ded and unprincipal Congress, and send
ing up the most piteous appeals and heart
rending cries for their assistance and pro-
lection, their threats and their appeals
are alike disregarded and despiscd by all
who are worthYof the namd Of men.
- Can their allies in the North to whom
they send up from their corrupt and das-
tlrdly hearts the piteous cry, o Baal
aelp us!'O Baal help US! seem disposed to
turn a deaf ear to all their groans and
lamentations 4 late number of the
Boston Advertiser tells these Maryland
''pateiote," very contcmptuously that it is
thoir own fault that political power in the
State has Slipped f,om their grasp, because
they did not allow the right ofs1Grage to
xle negro when they had the power to do
.sc, and tells them that they richly merit
'hdir downfall, In speaking of their
petitions tn Congress, to interfere in the
internal aGails of Maryland, the Adver-
tiser' says, Reconstruct Maryland. if
we permit this we shall have Congress
reconstructing the Northern States next
I'VE commend this dose of wormwood to
The lips of these ';;i:tease patriots" and
wish them much satisfaction in draining
chs cgp to The drcgs!
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