The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-07-18
.1DDR E,SS
OF the Grant and Collar club Of
1'OsCsontO,Cn, to the Republicans

Ofthe county.
We mentioned last week that Il committee had
been appointed by the Grant and Colfax club OF
this town to prepare an address 10 the Republic
cans Of the county, urging them TO organize for
the campaign, TO form District organizations
and to work earnestly for the success OF our can
didates and cause The committee have in pur-
suance of the duty assigned 'hem prepared the
following, which is published with the consent
and at the order OF the Towsontowu Grant and
Colfax club
In order that accessions may be made 10 our
party ranks-that recuits may be added 10 our
columns and that every whose heart is
with the cause of freedom, peace and prosperity
may vote his true sentiments, secure the promo
ton of his convictions, the advancement of pro-
gress and that the entire vote of the party in the
county may be polled for the most iluslrious SOL
der of the age, Gen O. S Grant, and the sound
est statesman of the country, Schuyler Colfax,
we urge upon the Republicans of Baltimore coun-
ty the absolute necessity of a thorough organza-
ton of the party in each Election District.
In our humble jugment, TO secure, these results
we should have at least one wel-organized, eff
Gent working CIR nj and Colfax Club in each
District. This will put the members of the party
in position to hold authorized communications
with the different parts OF the county, when any
united action is necessary to be taken. 1t will
give the entire party the facility of acting in
concert of making bold, united effort at the
prosecution Of successful canvass it will Gre
ate interest in the cause it will inspire zeal in
the ranks of the organization it will give en-
thusasm and vitality to the campaign; it will
reclaim he wandering and call home the prodi-
gal son who has been living on the husks of DEM
ocratic parsimony. By thorough organization
we can consult the entire party upon any desired
movement and thus obviate that much-condemn-
ed and justly deprecated practice of caucusing
having the will of the people set aside by the in
terest of few politicians.
We deprecate the notion too prevalent among
many true, earnest Republicans that there is but
little probability of giving the electoral vote of
our State for Grant and Colfax, and, as Sc
quence of this, they say it is useless to spend
time and money in a campaign that will result
in this. Such notions we consider ill-timed and
Characterize the conduct of every member of the
party in this great and growing Republic of ours.
We admit neither the premises nor the reasoning
in the above allegations against those whose con-
duct, in this regard, we deem unworthy the par
ty and the times. In 1862, Ohio went demo-
cratic ny d raiSe WaJoIitJ ou' III looo nc e"t-
ried the State by hundred thousand majority,
against one of the ablest democrats of the nation,
and certainly, in devotion, the most indefatiga-
Bile member of the party. The same general re-
suit is true of Pennsylvania in those years
This ''turn of the tables was brought about by
earnest labor, untring effort, unceasing devo-
ton to the cause of thurman freedom. Comrades,
rally 10 the conflict, and redeem Maryland, by
giving Grant and Colfax her seven votes in the
electoral college Moses vanquished Amaleck
because Aaron and Hur held up his hands. Let
Maryland Republicans hold up the hands of
Gen. Grant, and by their worthy example in-
spire their comrades with heroic devotion to the
cause of equal rights. 1t was by organization
that Napoleon withstood the attacks of the COM
bined Powers of Europe. By organization France
thwarted the united efforts of the leading En-
pires of Europe, in attempting to reduce her to
subjugated province. Organization made Daniel
O'Connell potent i'll liberating the oppressed
Catholics of Ireland from the tyrannic sway of
British rule. Organization, drill and discipline
are the efficient weapons of which great victories
are won and their fruits secured. They inaugu-
rate triumph ont of disaster, success out of ap-
parent defeat, and erect the standard of the vic
tors where the vanquished expected to be trium-
plant
That splendid aphorism of Patrick Henry that
the VlCtOry is not 10 Tue STOnR alOne, out 10
the vigilant, the active, the brave" is as appli-
cable 10 the present as to the past-now as then.
1t yields the same magic influence to-day as it
did in the days of our revolutionary trials; it
touches the same chords of patriotism now that
it did then, and it will meet the same joyous
response that then welcomed its grand appeal
Those who respond, if they do not have the hap
ply satisfaction of seeing the State cast her cleo
toral vote for Grant and Colfax, will have the
consolation of knowing that they have done their
best 10 promote the cause of progress.
We would urge upon all who desire to see
the success OF our cause-all who favor the cleo
ton of our candidstes-all who endorse the
principles we advocate-all who seek the promo,
ton OF freedom-al who claim thai ''the will Of
the people should be the law of the land'-to
organize, as soon as practicable Grant and Col
fax clubs in their respective Districts. Thus
they can put themselves in the best possible po-
stion to disseminate political information, dis
tribute speeches and other campaign documents
among the people, and bring all the arguments
fayoring the good cause home to every one
At stated meetings of the clubs, at which all
who choose TO attend might be allowed to do so,
the great issues of the contest could be discussed
for the peoples information.
Voters, will you organize for the conflict, or
will you allow it to go by default? 1t is now
time TO decide.
CHARLES A. CONNER,
@ D.. D.