The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1874-10-17
The Maryland Congressional Canvass

The Baltimore Gdzette Of Monday says
AN election for members Of Congress is
to be held in Maryland on the Sd of next
month, and if our Democratic friends are
yigiant and active, they can make it a
sweeping one. Their prospects of success
in all the districts arc good but il does
not do to be too sanguinc. OF the six
Congressional Districts there will be no
difficulty in carrying three--the Second,
Third, and Fourth-but the First, Fifth
and Sixth will be warmly contested. In
the First District, the Hon. Philip Francis
Thomas is opposed by that chronic Office
seeker, Henry Ii. Goldsborough, who was
the Republican candidate for Comptroller
at the last State election, and was beaten
badly by Mr.. Woolford, now reappears as
a candidate for Congressional honors on
the strength of the laurols which he did
rot win in 1871. In the Fifth District,
Mr.. Hagner is the Republican nominee.
Fourteen years ago he presented himself
10 the voters of his district as an indepen-
dent candidate for Congress, and was as
unfortunate in his aspirations then as he
certainly will be now if the Democrats of
that District do their duty. To those who
know how bitterly in the Republican Con
yention at Annapolis the friends of the
rival candidates contested, to the very
brink Of bloodshed, the nomination that
was to DO made, his declaration that he
"did not seek the Office" but that it was
thrust upon him, was most amusing. 1t
was the coolest sort Of effrontery to say
this in the presence Of the young but
ambitious political pervert Mr.. Geo. G.
Merrick, and of Dr. Wilmer, older in the
same heterodox faith, both of whom, says
the Prince Georgian, sat by with clouded
brows and vivid recollection of their own
ignominious defeat" More amusing still
was tho necessity they found themselves
under Of sustaining him, and Of commend
ing him to the negroes who were present,
when he disappointed them, by repudiating
utterly that part of the Civil Rights bill
which provides for mixed schools So,
too, in the Sixth District. Mr.. Lowndes
has offended his negro supporters by his
course at the last session Of Congress, in
regard to the Civil Rights bill. lie helped
to scotch it in the House, but it must be
remembered that it is not killed. lie knew
that his term was expiring, and that, if he
voted for that bill of denominations, he
could not hope to be nominated for re-elec-
ton. So, to conciliate the white Republi-
cans of his District, he voted to let the bill
lie on the Speakers table. But this was
II mere Republican trick Many members
of that party, in view of the fact that they
sought a reelection this fall, did not dare
to 90 before their constituents burthened
with the odium Of that bill so they simply
lot it slide. They knew that il had passed
the Senate, and that by letting it go over
in the House, when the elections were
concluded and Congress again assembled,
they could pass it with immunity. II no
argument TO say that the negroes in this
State do not care to have mixed schools
If the Civil Rights bill became law, It's
provisions would be binding on tho State,
and the negroes who care nothing now for
mixed schools would be melted by design
ing Republicans to assert their right u
send their children to the public schools
now set apart for the children Of white
parents. Let no one imagine that this
would not be done. 1t is the object, the
policy and the settled purpose Of the
Republican leaders to keep up, by every
possible means, an antagonisIn between the
whites and the blacks, SO as to control and
vote the latter en- masse. No more efficient
instrument could possible be devised than
this bill, which keeps the negro under the
wardship Of the party now in power, and
brings the whole force Of the Federal
Judiciary, backed by the army and navy
to support him in his claims. Under
pretense Of equality, il discriminate,
against the white race, inasmuch US II
gives the negro the right of appeal to a
Federal tribunal, and imposes heavy fine
and imprisonment on the school authorities
If they refuse to receive a negro child into
the white schools as now established--nc
matter what the child's condition aud hab
its may be. We think nothing of Mr.
Lowndes' vote at the last session of Con
gress. Ii simply postponed action. II
did not kill the bill. Il lies on the Speak
er's table, ready to be taken up among the
very first business of the session. A
majority vote will pass it, aud with the
Presidents signature it may become law
at any moment. No white man who loves
his child, and desires the maintenance Of
our public system as at present organized
can vote in this State for any of the Repub
lican candidates now in the field without
making himself party to an innovation
which would shatter and paralyze, if it die
not actually destroy, the usefulness Of oul
schools. As II is, the colored population
are well cared for in the schools provided
expressly for them. The school tax i
eoufessedly heavy one but ii is cheer
fully paid, aud the burthen of it fall
almost exclusively upon the whites. i
may be prejudice, il may be the instinct o
race call it what we may, the whites arr
opposed to the Civil Rights bill, bu
especially to that provision of il which
makes it imperative on the States to pu
blacks and whites together in the sam,
school, and mulcts in pains and penalties
the school authorities who refuse.
TENNEssEE.-Governor Brown, of Ten
nessee, sent telegram to the President