Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-11-08
B@In this county Albert receive,

s@-In this county Albert received
1856 votes, and Judge Merrick 1887.
Compared with the vote of 1870, Albert
received -6~votes less than Gary, and
Merrick 308 less than he did them
The Radical vote this year is not larger
than then, although numbers of ne
groes, who have not resided here for
several years, came from Washington
and voted, because their names were
not'strieken from the registry lists as
they should have been. twill be thus
seen that our defeat in the county has
been caused by the failure of our friends
to attend the polls. Some few, we are
sorry to say, voted for Grant and AL
bert; but we believe they are nearly
balanced by honorable exceptions a.
mong the colored voters, who were not
mustered and marched up like slaves,
but voted like freemen. We cannot
see how, even if those who did not vote
could not support Greeley and Brown,
they could reconcile it with their sense
of duty, as good citizens, not to attend
and vote for Judge Merrick. They have
thus, by their supineness, aided in the
defeat of an able and faithful repre-
sentative of our principles and opin-
ions, and in foisting upon the district
a man of no intellectual ability, and
one who will naturally aid in the pas
sage of odious enforcement election
laws, by which his seat may be retain
ed. Worse than that, the Radicals
have been SO encouraged that they will
persist in their attempts to get control
ofour county. Fellow-countymen, and
especially you who, by your absence
from the polls, have Indirectly encour-
aged them, how do you like the pros
pect? What taxpayers of the coun-
ty, will be your burdens, in compari-
son with what they are now, when car
pet-baggers, scalawags and negroes levy
your taxes? What will be your feel
ings, farmers and laboring men of old
Charles. when your county offices are
filled by such people, and you are or.
derea about and badgered> by them!
1t is not too late, though, yet to redeem
the past. Let there be no division a.
mongfrieudg .Werespect a consistent
and honest political opponent. How
much more, then, can and ought we te
forbear and respect the honest preju-
dices of men of our own political faith
Let us from this time unite, and Or
ganize for our defense. Let us resolve
tordo 50, and we shall disappoint the
comparatively few who have deserted
MS for what they deemed the stronger
side. How, entertaining such opinions
as they once protested, they can sup
port the men and party they so recent
ly despised, passesour comprehension
Even those who use them, although
they may fatter and promise prefer
ment in their hearts, have, no respect
for them. Our political future is in
cur own hands. The great body OF
our people are true and honest. They
are not politicians, however. Iii the
part and duty of those who read and
watch political events, to warn them
of danger, and arouse them to activity,
It is the dutyo those who have means
to- use it for the dissemination Of poll.
teal information. Thus determining
and thus acting, we can, with certain
ty, redeem our county, retain it's affairs
and government in our own hands, and
thWart the political harpies preparing
to prey upon her.
sSaThe result of the election or
EFnnsf1svl from the news rnoeived nv II,