The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1870-05-27
1bingdon, Va., May 20, 1870.
THE NEXT CONGRESS-.

MEssRs. EDIroRs.-Thc election which
is TO take place next November for mem
bers of Congress will be the first occae
sion that the people of Maryland will b.
called upon for the exercise of the cleo
tive franchise since the forced adoption of
the measure which its friends call the Fiji
tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States. In ordinary times it is not a
matter of vital importance who may be the
selection of the people as their candidate for
Congress. While the requirements of the
Constitution were observed and obeyed by
the ruling majority, so as the representative
was man of good sense, and whose charac-
ter for honesty of purpose was good his con-
stituents might rest satisfied that his vote
would be properly cast; at least it was suf-
ficient for them to know, and they were con-
tent with the fact, that he would 60 with the
party. But unfortunately times have changed.
The angry waves of great political revou-
ton are now threatening to engulph those
principles which the great Democratic party
has always upheld, and which have, under
the pressure of events transporting for the past
few years, been almost annihilated, and which
will most assuredly be entirely overwhelmed,
unless that party, throwing aside the apathy
and indifference which appears like horrid
nightmare upon it, rousing itself to proper
appreciation of the situation of the country
and with all that enthusiasm and vigor which
characterized it in the days of Jackson and
Liberty, when it made, with its equally patri-
otto and gallant foe, the old Wing party, the
issue of United States Bank or no United
States Bank, and High Tariff or no High
Tariff Let this old spirit be revived in the
Democratic party, and there need be no fear
OF the result of the impending conflict be-
tween it and the allied forces of black and
white Radicals.
Now, as to the means of enkindling the rap
idly-waning fires of Democracy None more
effective than the selection by the Democratic
conventions of the respective districts, of can
didates who may have the power, through
and by their reputation for political honesty
and consistency, and personal rectitude and
their ability and eloquence, to draw the peo-
pie from their accustomed aYocations to hear
them, and thereby to rouse them to q true
sense of the impending crisis; to show them
all the dangers to be apprehended from Radi-
cal misrule if that faction is allowed to OBJ
tain the ascendancy, which they are striving
to accomplish by every appliance known to
the corrupt and tricky politician. Now as
to the man? So far as the Second Congress
sional District is concerned, we know of none
who combines more thoroughly in his own
person the above characteristics than William
2. Preston, of Baltimore county. A Demo-
crat of the old school, one that has never
swerved from the political creed formed and
established by the fathers of the Republic,
and who has ever been prompt and ready,
whenever called upon by his fellow citizens, to
give the aid of his acknowledged ability and
powerful and convincing eloquence to the
defence of the truths of the Democratic faith;
and his efforts have been the more success
full because they have always been confined
to that earnest sincere and persuasive line of
argument which has so great an effect upon
an intelligent audience.
Although citizen Of that part of Balti-
more county which is comprised in the Sc
cond Congressional District, still his profess
sional duties have connected Mr. Preston so
intimately with the people of the city, and
they are so entirely acquainted with the fact
of his eminent fitness as a candidate, particu-
larly for such a canvass as will be absolutely
necessary to ensure success at the coming
election, that his choice by the representatives
of the people of Hartford and Baltimore coun-
ties, would be cheerfully responded to by the
first
SEVEN WARDS OF BALTIMORE CITY.