The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-11-01

Evansville Heard From.


EVANSVILLE, Oct. %.
MIR. EDITOR: The desperate straits to which
the opponents of Democratic rule are driven,
both in and out of the family circle show how
bitter and implacable is the hatred which,
from the formation of the Republican party
up to the present time, has been evinced by
them toward any who had the temerity to OPP
pose them. Every charge which could poss-
bly, be originated, and many which are bare
faced fasehoods, have been exaggerated, dis
torted and in many ways misapplied by the
radical press until it is possible that "even the
elect may be deceived"
Now let us see whether this state of affairs,
this so-calcd reign of terror, fraud and cor
ruption, will be changed by turning over the
offices of the State to a party which, being lin
Hartford county, composed of three negroes to
one white man, is naturally inimical to the
white race.
They were in power In this State from 1861
to 1867, and there are few voters left in Har-
ford who remember the condition of affairs at
at that time, when a mans life, property and
and all he held dear were subject to the whims,
| caprices, avarice or envy of a few ignorant
and passionate men by whose direction or at
whose instigation, open robbery and imprison-
ment were visited upon all who dared disagree
with them in their political opinions how the
voters were compelled to march to the polls
| almost between files of soldiers, while certain
Republicans stood at the window and pointed
out all charged-whether justly or not-with
dsloyalty, and an oath was offered which no
| true man could take, and a refusal to swear
meantldisfranchisement.
Democratic reader, if you have age or expe-
rience you will reno mber; if you have youth
osly fati,
things are true. We charge the Republicans
| with, first, subverting the true principles of
popular government while in Office in Mary
land; second, with enfranchisng the unedu-
Gated negroes who had just been freed, and
| with DISTINGUISHING the whites, in order to ele-
vate a few Adventures to the Importance and
| emouments of office; third with keeping DOS
session of the Southern States by means of
| Federal bayonets, against the wishes of the
majority of the people; fourth, with robbing
the Democratic party in 1876 of the Presiden'
tiaI chair, to which Samuel ]. Tilden had been
| justly elected; fifth, with attempting, by the
passage OF the Federal Election or Force bill,
to enable them to change the returns after
they were counted; sixth, with depriving the
people of Maryland from 1864 to 1865 of THEN
| votes by unconstitutional and iniquitCus test
OuILS, SSfCiiOhi "ieA oooSiApSiiS W ASeSA -
| Republicans us elected in 1885 in Anne Arun-
del county when Democrats had received d
| majority of the votes cast, and renewing that
| attempt in 1889.
We charge that from 1862 to 1866 the regis
try or poll lists OF the State were filled with the
names of Federal soldiers, which, while the
| owners OF those names were dead, missing OF
absent on the field, were retained upon the
| lists and voted upon to keep the Republican
| party in power; and that those names were
| far i'll excess of the list claimed as fraudulent
in the present election.
| We charge that in the Cumberland speech OF
| Lowndes, in which he promised equality in
| every respect between the whites and negroes
| the keynote of the Republican party's inten
ton was struck, and that If this county OIL
| State is turned over to them we not only may
| but must expect as result division of office:
| between the races-negro jurors negro mag
istrates negro registrars and negro consta
bles-and, in school districts where there are
no negro schools, mixture of the races in thu
same house. at the same desk and in the same
classes.
Are we prepared for these changes? Are Wa
willing for them? Are we to have then
forced upon us? If not, let every Democrat q
to the polls on Tuesday and vote the straight
| Democratic ticket CLAY.