The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1872-11-02
Con, n,N1licdted.
NINTH DIsTRICT,
~ nal 1919

NINTH
Oct goth, 1872.
Messrs. Editors Perhaps you think that the
secrecy which attended our meeting at the
county seat to-day, both as regards the time
and exact place of meeting, looks little suspl-
cious Well, we intended to arouse your suspl-
cions. We were invited to hear the truth ex-
pounded by able Democratic doctors, ana we
determind, if possible, in order that we might
not be misunderstood at this important period
of the campaign, to keep every Grant radical
a safe distance off. Therefore the place of our
meeting was and will be kept a profound secret.
We have been Inisrepresented SO much by the
radicals that we determined that this, the last
gathering of our patriotic party at this place,
under the dear old democratic name, should be
enjoyed only by faithful few who had chung
to the good old ship through all sorts OF weather,
and were ready, in order to save the Constltu-
ton, to cling to ts still. We enjoyed our meeting
in secret we listened to the truth as it was ex-
pounded by the regular speakers, and we pass
ed some appropriate resolutions.
Horace Greeley will never consent to be our
President unless change our name, our old
clothes, and some of our old ways-in fact, be-
come thorough converts to the doctrines OF the
good old page, and this being mainly business
meeting, we therefore in all kindness, excluded
our radical brethren. AS the public will soon
know the whole truth, will here give few OF
the items of business transacted. In the first
place, it was necessary to strike at the root OF
the great Democratic disease, and entirely and
forever change our creed, which heretofore, as
our good Horace hath quoted 1T for US, consisted
only of one article. viz:
"LOUe rum and hate niggers." We resolved
therefore in behalf of the great democracy in
Towsontowp assembled, hereafter to drink no
more rum, forever, and to love our colored
brethren sincerely, and to guard their interests
as own, but in order that no evil results
might follow from sudden change as that
proposed in regard to our former innocent
beverage, it was unanimously resolved that
little unmixed Whiskey, taken occasionally
during Greeley's term of Office, would be highly
beneficial /; and as to the second part of our
resolution, agreed that it should not take
effect until after the election, and it further
more resolved that the resolution was not in
tended tn bind our brethren in Georgia, neither
was it intended as rebuke for their little frolie
held some days ago.
1t was also resolved, tas,t in az usu0h as our
great and good Horace has said that the demo.
cratic party would be stronger if there were no
common Schools in the country and it being
necessary that the party should die, that we
hereafter would be the especial custodians of
our great school system, and that nothing, from
the biggest job on the calendar TO the printing
of seventy-five cent school bill, should pass
through the hands Of any one save an honest
Democrat or a liberal Republican.
Many other resolutions were passed, in order
to make the above more binding and forcible,
and we then adjourned, snufhng victory not
far off and eager for the spols of November.