The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-29
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1868.
Democracy in Maryland.

vened since the nomination of Seymour and
Blair, but because we were curious to see by
what arguments their election would be advo-
Gated in the State afectionately apostrophized
in the favorite rebel song as Maryland, my
Maryland" Sparing our readers many prolix
details, we will endeavor to describe in brief
some Of the leading features of this asssmblage.
The Democracy turned out in full force, with
banners and transparencies, which would have
been much more significant If they had en-
braced the standards under which the Balti-
more rebels marched and fought when they
were serving as Confederate soldiers.
The President of the meeting in his open
ing remarks, eulogized the New York Con-
vention, because, as he alleged, 1t presented
q most interesting and inspiring spectacle in
the fraternal reunion of gallant soldiers of the
North and South, representative survivors of
those embattled hosts whose stubborn valor
upon a thousand fields prolonged civil con-
test through the vicisstudes of four long and
bloody years. He was undoubtedly correct
in assuming that the Rebel soldiers were re-
markably we'll represented in that assem-
blage; but few soldiers of the Union army acted
as bona .Ji1e delegates at Tammany Hall. Wade
Hampton and Forrest were welcomed
rather by the Northern symI Iathizers,
who, throughout the contest had hoped for
their success, than by the warriors who
had ensured the triumph of the Union
cause. 1t is astonishing what pains the
Soathern orators are taking to disseminate
the fiction, that they have captured, in civil
contest, the armies that defeated them in a
martial conflict; and We are inclined to sus-
pect that one of the objects of this bold mis-
representation is to pave the way for future
outbreak, by persuading the ignorant white
voters of the South that the antagonists, whom
they know by experience to be invincible, may
become their allies in a new rebellion. What
ever be the object, the falsty of the assertion
is evident and it is amazing that even despe-
rate politicians have the hardihood to repeat
it.
The second speaker was Hon. G. A. Ed
ridge, the Democratic Congressman from
Wisconsin, whose name figures frequently in
the reports of colloquial debates in the House
of Representatives. He delivered a speech
which reproduced the leading ideas of the
famous and favorite Democratic editor of
Wisconsin, Brick Pomeroy. If the prevailing
sentiments of the Democracy of the North
west are to be judged by the utterances of
their representative men, we must look there,
rather than to the South, hereafter for the most
rampant and ridiculous exhibitions of rebel
lious radicalism. A specimen OF the reason
ing of the Wisconsin Congressman is given
in the following sentence, as We find it in the
Baltimore Gazette:-
"The motive which actuates this radical party
In opposing reconstruction is illustrated 10y the
opposition OF Massachusetts. VINO fears that ner
influence as a manufacturing State may be
overcome by Louisiana, Aiabtma, aud other
agricultural States, and thus Sne dis plays tnat
seltishness which caused her to influence the
passage of an act by Congress To tax whisky
two dollars per gallon. ana Immediately after
wards to pass prohibitory WHISKY law in tue
State, SO that her citizens would not pay any
portion of this tax. Tne policy of tue radlcs Al
party is selfish from the crown OF its head to the
sole of Its feet"
The advocates of prohibition in Massachu
setts will be much surprised to learn that the
object of their labors was to evade tax
rather than to promote what they believed to
be moral reform, and among all the reasons
yet given for preferring the Congressional
plan of reconstruction to the policy of the
to the allegation that the manufacturing inte-
rests of the North would be injured by the
latter and benefited by the former.
Another speaker was Governor Swami, who
began by asserting that the meeting he had
addressed in Philadelphia, Immediately after
the adjournment of the Tammany Hall Con-
vention, was one OF the largest that hal ever
been assembled in this city on similar occa-
sion, and who discussed at length various
issues, taking care to deny in the most en-.
phatic terms that the Democratic party favored
any form of repudiation. On that topic, Ell
bridge who probably shared the views of his
co-laborer POmerey preserved a significant
silence.
Baltimore as acOmmeTcal and manufacturing
city whose prosperity was greatly promoted
by the measures which prevented the success
of the schemes devised by her Democratic
politicians to unite her fortunes formally with
the Rebellion, evidently contains too many
citizens interested in the preservation of the
public credit to render it expsdient to adyo-
cate in her precincts the reputation dogmas
which the Democracy love to dwell upon at
points further South, and in the West.
The next speaker was fowery orator named
William Pinkney Whyte, whose effort was
noted for remarkable attempt to prove that
all the friends of all the aspirants for the
Democratic nomination were under special