Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-05-27
Baltimore Correspondence.
BALTIMORE, May 25th, 1870.

| Baltimore Correspondence.
BALTIMORE, May 25th, 1870.
The great XVIII Amendment Celebration
on Thursday last, of which the daily papers
have already given you full accounts, was in
many respects very credtable affairs, and
favorably impressed the minds of most Of
those who witnessed it. 1t was we'll ar
ranged and we'll carried out. The whole
plan of the affair seems to have been thor
oughly considered, and there was nothing, SC
far as we have been able to learn, that in any
way materially marred its execution. The
authorities here afforded the colored people
every assistance in their power for full and
uninterrupted enjoyment Of the day, and the
people generally seemed disposed to give them
ample scope for their jubilations. The ap-
pearance of the procession was far more re-
spectacle than we had anticipated, and we
know of no exception to the decent and or
derby department of the colored people parti-
cipating in it. We do not think the respect
ability of the affair was at all increased, how
ever, by the presence in the line Of certain no.
torious white persons, editors, judges, &C.,
who seemed to seize this as most fitting OPP
portunity to demonstrate their appreciation
of the freedman's ability to give them assis-
lance at the ballot box 10 future political as
pirations. The tone of the speeches, at the
grand mass meeting in Monument Square,
was trimming full of patriotism and ballot
boxing. A glorious reformation in the poll
tical condition Of Maryland, by the aid Of the
new franchises" was promised. Perhaps
the most sensible speech made on the occasion
was that of F. Douglas, Esq, which contain
ed good deal of sound advice to the colored
people. Frederick, however, was rather non
plused when, on ENDURING of the assembled
Stables by what party they had been liber-
ated and enfranchised, he received from a
considerable number the response-'the De-
mocrats." His Honor Judge Bond was kept
rather in the back ground, and was not afford
ed an opportunity to let off his full charge of
Africo- patriotism. He did, however, wedge
in for few minutes, but his remarks were
principally confined to the discussion of the
physiology of heels, contending that whatever
might be the peculiar shape of that part of
the human system, he could say to Maryland
that man would be known by his conduct.
From the very nature Of the subject you may
infer that the Judges wit was of a low order.
Under the decision of Judge Giles, render
ed in the U. S. District Court several weeks
since, declaring the right of colored people to
ride in the city passenger cars, quite num-
Der Of cars, bearing the sign, "colored people
admitted into this car" have for some time
been running on the various routes. This
class of citizens seem to have taken to car
riding quite naturally. and many is the penny
spent 10 the luxury Of rfd11s, by dirty little
darkies, that would otherwise be spent, per-
haps, more judiciously in buying bread or
ginger cakes. An effort was made in the City
Council to pass an ordinance restraining white
people from riding in the colored peoples
cars, but it was unfortunately defeated.
The trial of the case or cases of the State
of Maryland us. the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road will not take place, it is thought, before
September. l have already noticed in the
Times the names of the distinguished counsel
who are to assist the Attorney General in
these cases. There is one fact, however,
which seems to have been overlooked in the
the resolution passed by the General Assem-
bly,, authorizing the Governor to employ adj
ditional counsel, and that is. that by the word
ing of the resolution additional counsel are
employed to assist the Attorney General in
instituting and prosecuting such measures as
may be necessary. The design of the resolu'
ton was. doubtless, to employ counsel to as
sist in prosecuting. As it stands, however, il
relieves the Attorney General of great re-
sponsibility. It is but one of the few In
stances of the loose legislation of the last ses'
sion of the General Assembly.
The weather continues unsettled and disa
greeable. The markets, however, are wei
supplied with vegetables, &c. Strawberrie
are abundant and cheap. WEGG.
The Enforcement Bill---OpiniOns of tn
/ Press.
The bill for the enforcement of the Fifteenth
Amendment, which passed the Senate on Sat
urday, provokes diversity Of comment. Th
bill contains twenty-one sections, and IN brie
provides heavy fines and imprisonment 70
any obstruction, direct or indirect, by officer
or others of the negroes right to vote; ne
gro elector who has been denied registry shal
be entitled to vote on his own affidavit Of tina
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