Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1870-04-19
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The Washington correspondent of the Bal
timore Gazette, under date of the l4th, says:
There is every indication that Maryland
will very shortly feel the rod of the General
Government To be sure it is an up-hfil
business to find fault with her official action
(as with the wolf and lamb) it is easy to pick
quarrel and find matter of complaint against
doomed community, however unofending.
In. order to lay foundation for bringing
your State before the bar of Congress, "Oc-
casional" has been employed, as usual, to
malign her in advance-and what do you
think he charges upon your people, especially
the citizens of Baltimore? The alleged Of
fence is no less than wholesale implication
in the assassination of the .martyred Lincoln"
To accomplish such purpose, downright
lying, besides long string of non sequiterS,
was, of course, necessary. In the first place,
it is assumed that the conspiracy of Booth,
which terminated, in the spring of 1865, in
the death of Lincoln, had its origin in the
winter of 1861, and that the people of Mary
land, generally, were his accomplices; that
the martyred President would have been as
sassinated while passing through BALTIMORE,
before his first Inauguration, but for the warn
ings of detective employed by the President
of the Philadelphia Railroad, named Pinker-
ton, aided by special interposition of Divine
Providence. But this argument" being con-
sidered. perhaps, rather too far-tetched, stand
ing without single fact to support it, the
lUgician of the Chronicle quotes from a sem
satiOnal report extracted from the Baltimore
SIM of the 25th of February, 1861, giving an
exaggerated account of the treatment Hrs.
Lincoln receiCcd at the hands of Baltimore
'mob," and from thence argues and infers
what would have been done with her husband,
bol bo o1,,;r NSli al IL
the city between two days! Upon quoting
at large the Suns glowing account of the
maltreatment of the coming Presidetness,
..OoccasionaP thus sums up his whole case /:
This happened on the 23d of February,
1861 On the 10Th of April succeeding the
! Massachusetts men were shot down in the
streets of the same city by the De,y assassns
,ohO rere .foiled for the time in their conspiracy
against the life of Abraham Lincoln. In
| October of 1868 the same rM6funs attacked
Union men going home to vote for General
Grant, the Republican candidate for PRESS
| dent"
These charges, it must be confessed. would
| feebly sustain a national indictment against
| Maryland, and her consequent ''reconstruc-
| ton" But logic not a whit more Legitimate
has put State after State under the ban of
! Congress, with the accompaniment of unmiti-
gated bayouet rule
bill now pending in the House shows
conclusively the design to place the whole
subject of UOtiMg under Congressional control
! II is another step in the direction Of CEN
/ tralized despotism. 1t provides that no citizen
ofthe United States shall be required to write,
| print or place his name on any ballot, or to do
anYthiny trheyeby the identity or name IF any
person casting The ballot may be hno.cm !; aud,
further, makes the printing writing of a