The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1868-10-31

of Ohio buried him under majority of 100000
and in November will bury him and his policy SC
| deep that neither will ever be resurrected Ap-
plause.
The nation will not now permit those to dis
grace it who tried to destroy it it will not vio-
late its faith it will maintain its honor, and
will pay its honest debts, contracted under cir
cumstances that should be binding on all honest
men. Negro suffrage, which heretofore has
troubled our Democratic friends so much, has at
last received their special favor. Only day or
two ago the telegraph wires brought with light
| ming speed the news that the Democracy ofSouth
Carolina and Georgia have resolved in favor OF
negro suffrage. This came since the elections in
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Iudiana Before these
elections they were going to elect Seymour and
Blair and overthrow negro suffrage, and the loyal
| State Governments at the point OF the bayonet.
| Now, they have concluded that they won't co
that, but will go in for negro suffrage. Laughter.
Negro suffrage at the South is an accomplish
ed thing fixed fact; matter of organic law,
just as much SO as emancipation is in the State
of Maryland. The question there is not whether
the negro shall vote, but how he should vote.
The Democrats are not only patting him on the
shoulder and coaxing him to vote with them, but
are giving him choice seats at the table, eating
with him, meeting and consulting with him in
conventions, speaking with him at public meet
ings, and complimenting him in their public
= ntelligent Democrats.
-an iss1$ here, aor
ior the Republican
platform adopted at Chicago expressly declares
that ''the question of suffrage in all the loyal
States properly belongs to the people of those
States'
If there is Conservative or Democrat here who
does not like the present Reconstruction laws Of
Congress- he can blame the Democratic party for
it. Congress proposed as the basis of reconstrac
ton the Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment
which left the question OF suffrage to the people
themselves but, because it cut down their rep
resentation to basis Of voting population as in
the loyal States and disfranchised the leaders of
the rebellion, they rejected it, which gave rise to
the present Reconstruction laws. g8EE
The present basis, is the only basis upon which
the Rebel States could be reconstructed. Congress
proposed other means, and waited long and
patiently to see what could be done. 1t assem-
bled in December, 1865. In 1866 it brought for
ward the Fourteenth Amendment as the basis of
reconstruction this was rejected, and i was not
until February, 1861, that Congress determined
upon the present plan of reconstruction. One OF
three things had to be done; either had to let
the Rebels take possession of the Southern States,
drive out and murder the Union men, or we had
10 either hold them continually by military pow
er or use such machinery upon such new basis
as would enable loyal Republican State Govern
ments to be raised up and, as Senator Morton
tells us in his great speech in the Senate, in the
last resort, after Congress waited long, the nation
waited long, experience had 10 come to the rescue
of reason before the thing was done-in the last
resort, and as the last thing to be DONE Congress
determined to dig through all the rubbish-dig
through the soil and shifting sands, and go down
to the eternal rock, and there, upon the basis of
the everlasting principal of equal and exact JUS
tice to all men, plant the column of reconstruc-
tion and though it has risen slowly, it has ris
en- surely and will be completed on the third day
of November next. 1t has not been hewn from
single stone. 1t is composed of many blocks, |
painfully laid up and put together, cemented by |
the tears and blood of the nation, and 'the gates
of hell shall not prevail against it." We are
charged with extravaganza, yet in this State the
Democrats spent upwards of forty-three thousand |
dollars more in one year than we spent in six |
years. They have spent $500, 900 on the Swami |
militia $500. 900 is taken out of the public |
treasury and given to Charles, Calvert and ST. |
Mary's counties to build a railroad Baltimore |
and the Western counties are taxed to build a |
railroad in section of the State that pays but |
little taxes; Offices multiplied and salaries
increased, and thus our expenses are swelled up |
to So, 585, 1879 so in one year. When we look at
the statistics ofpublc expenses of the General
Government we find the same state of affairs. A
regiment of soldiers in the regular army, under
Buchanan's administration, cost upwards of a |
million OF dollars each year in rees
'sfunageTncnt
the war costs but trife over half million a |
year in paper. The average expenditures Of the |
Government for TIE civil and diplomatic services |
under Mr.. Lincoln were annually upwards of |
twenty-one millions less than the same expenses |
under Mr.. Buchanan. We have already paid off |
upwards Of one-fourth Of the public debt brought |
upon US by the war Notwithstanding we in
herited bankrupt treasury, dishonored credit, |
and gigantic rebellion from the traitorous ad- |
ministration which preceded that of Mr.. Lincoln. |
The history of the Republican party is a proud |
record. While it has put down the rebellion and |
our credit it has so wisely administered
the Government that prosperity has been all the |
time abroad in the land it has built railroads |
and opened up rivers, carved Territories out of
the widest domain, and added new States of
promise and power 10 the National Union. APP |
plause.
No opposition can retard its process. General
Grant will be triumphantly elected. Then we
will have no more war every man will be pro- |
tected under his own vine or fg-tree, with no |
one to modest or make him afraid the unity of
the nations will be preserved and the national |
honor maintained we will have peace and ami |
UersaI prosperity" attending our progress as we
move onward in the beauty of our strength, and |
in the pride of our majesty, perfecting our free
dom and administering equal and exact justice to |
all men alike 1Continuous applause.