The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1870-02-26
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or if it cleared Charybdis it was sure to be dash
ed TO pieces upon the rock of Scylla.
This is Illustrative of the dilemmas that beset
Baltimore county at this time in consequence of
the programme laid down by those, envious of
her wealth. prosperity, influence and thrift, out
side of her limits, and which programme. we re-
greet to say finds too ample endorse ment from
misguided citizens within her borders, who have
been deluded by aimsy Preterts that veil the
deep laid schemes of designing men from their
vision
We now find ourselves called upon 10 do two
things apparently. The one is the screen that
was gotten up mainly 10 hide the intention OF
the other, and to aid ultimately in securing its
-succesS.
The removal question has been vigorously ag-
itated from the beginning by the Baltimore city
papers, and wherever the movement has put its
head above water-with any vitality whatever,
Baltimore city men--those who Estate the OBJ
iects of the meetings have been the most prom
inent in the affair, stating the object OF the
meeting making them '.defnte and pointed
showing what Baltimore county is to make" ~
by the operation, calculating the idea that such
an enterprise would hasten the no-taxation mil
lennium, so eagerly sought yet ever vanishing,
demonstrating the iqcontrorertible ~ fact that
the aims house could be fitted for tribunal of
Justice at cost of $40, 900. Stating financial
theories about buiding-lots that will speedily
enrich the county beyond question ~, until the
attention Of our citizens is entirely absorbed
with their extravagant decisions and their at
,entive gaze fixed upon Swamp Puddle" then
they. with all the artifce of military strategy,
attack our lines in different quarter at what
they suppose weaker point-the extension of
the city limits We, through the mastery ma
noeuvres of the city managers of the move
ment, find ourselves called upon by them to
steer between the Charybdis of "Swamp Pud-
dle,' and the Scyla of the ''city hail."
They present the dilemma and ask you which
horn YOU will take-exteRsion or removalP
Fellow-citizens, fayoring removal, do you not
see that yon have been deluded Is that delu-
sion. unless it be dropped Immediately, not like
ly to result in the success of extension?
Baltimore city can have no interest in the re-
moval of the court house. Then why should
she agitate the question, except to spread her
wings over our territory and TO gather more
pourishment to recuperate her exhausted treasu-
nv? individuals in Baltimore city can have no
interest in the removal, except they own proper
ty in the vicinity of the aims house, which they
expect to sell at an inflated value, while the
question is being submitted, and thus replenish
their pockets. To accomplish this for few in
dividuals. Baltimore county is asked (modestly)
to remove her court house at an expense of not
less than $500, 900? Gentlemen of our county,
engaged in the prosecution of the removal, are
sou willing to sacrifice the interests of your
hourlshing county to thus crafty the ambitious
ayarice of few individuals either in or out of
the county7 We trust not. We hope not.
Then if not, why not face about at once and
raIIv with the opposition and present an unbro-
ken front against extension? The continuance
in folly after II is discovered, is, in many in
stances, more culpable than the original trans
erosion. Will this not be trne of those who
have been deluded and refuse to retrace their
steps after the real naOtiUe that conceived the
movement has become patent TO all7
The county is divided over a false, foolish
issue. brought into existence by her enemies for
the purpose il has almost secured already, while
the city is a unit with her gigantic influence and
her powerful 'iriugs."
"Uuited, we stand divided we must falP'
prey TO our enemies.
Nebraska and TecGs i1t the Line.
On the 18th instant the Legislature ofNebras-
ka ratified the 18th amendment TO the Consttu-
ton of the United States. there being but one
dissenting voice in the Senate and four in the
House. The native freedom pervading the halmy
air of this virgin State has inspired her sons
with that spirit that guided the pen of Jefferson
and inspired the words of Adams, Hamilton and
Madison.
All the territory Northwest of the Ohio river
was ccpsecrated TO freedom by the bill introduc-
ed into Congress by the immortal Jefferson in
1887. That territory now includes the great
States of the Northwest, and is dotted with grow
ing villages, thriving towns and busting cities
They to-day boast OF tee greatest pork market
-Cincinnati-and the greatest grain market
Chicago on the globe. Dedicated to freedom
and free-soil Institutions these States an APP
propriate embodiment and exponent of the ideas
set forth by those men whose liberal spirit set
them apart as a reserve for freedoms boom.
Their thrift, intelligence and enterprise, out
stripping that of their older sisters have infused
free spirit into their noble sons, until they
have proclaimed the doctrines of the Declaration
of Independence TO be 'tihe supreme law of the
land" by the ratification of that provision to our
Constitution that secures equal and exact justice
to all men. How different might have been the
result had the whitening blight of slavery been
engrafted upon its sell while il was rocked in
the cradle of territorial government.
On the 18th instant, the LEGISLATURE of Texas
as if conscious of her tardinet.SF
her lethargy and made amendvSoe .ser past Of
lenses and expressed her three-fold gratitude by
the ratification of the l3th, l4th and 18th amend
ments all at the same time This is gratifying
indeed. Although the required number ofStates
had given their voices in favor of ratification
without Texas, yet we are rejoiced TO know that
we have more than enough.
Texas, in this affair, is much like the individ-
ual who applied. in ancient times, TO college
for admission as a member He was told that
the college was full by the significant symbol of
glass filed so fall of water that not another
drop could be received without its running over.
The sagacty of the applicant, perceiving the
beauty of the symbol, made reply by placing a
leaf upon the water 80 delicately that not drop
was spilled The bystanders, approaching the
force Of this reply, gave the candidate stimuli
taneous burst ofapplause, whereupon thecollege,
interpreting the reply to mean that they were
not so full that they could not receive one more,
admitted the candidate, complimenting him by
ayowiug that their number had been increased
an hundred fold.
Although the college of ratification was full
before, the addition of Texas gives us more than
enough and adds much 10 the moral effect of the
affair
The battles Of century are about to be crown
ed with the success that The justice of the cause
demanded and Its friends long years ago insisted
upon giving 1t, bat which has ever been thwart-
ed by the political chicanery of its semi-friends,
aud the arrogant demands of the slave olgarchy,
making every other interest bow submissive
ly to their interest and cater 10 their whlm or
caprice.
'Procaim liberty from Dan 10 Beersheba,
from the rivers TO the ends of the earth, to oil