The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-08-24

/ conquered Spain for 500 years There
/ is no Spaniard who does not feel the
/ disgrace of that era. To deprive the
Dissidents of Poland of their rights,
the dissatisfaction was sown which
ended the independence and glory of
the Polish kingdom.
( But | can come to Maryland, also,
with an example. In 1914 the fear of
negro instruction in the old slave
! peninsular, at which is aimed the
! present Acknowledgement, so paralyz-
ed the militia OF Maryland that they
would not fight and ran away from
! hardly two regiments of british sol
| diers and sailors. Yet the negroes of
Baltimore helped to defend it a very
little later and were found in the
ranks. We have negro regiments in
the United States Army, and l haye
heard that our most invincible cav
airy regiment is colored one. The
man defending his country, and fac
| ing pestilence in the South. for he is
happily an immune, can come back
to Pennsylvania or Ohio, and be an
American, but not to Maryland,
where he will be legally dead. Thus,
we are setting Maryland to the front
as foe of service and labor, and al
ready we are scarce of laborers, who
are drawn away to Pittsburg and
West Virginia, with no immigration
to make up the deficit. Baltimore is
now securing Canada for laborers
discouraging that colored labor
which the late Judge Frederick Store
of the Court of Appeals told me was
the best peasantry in the world.
The colonel of the Second Mary
land Regiment in the Confederate
Army, Judge Crane of st. Mary's
county, has been on the bench for 20
years in that so-called black belt,
elected by the cheerful amnesty Of his
dark constituency. If the negro had
| it in his to disfranchise the white
race, he would not do it, for he has
neither political revenges nor plots.
He is the politest race in the State.
He never starts a strike when he
hears his employer getting too much
work. He likes to see the man above
thrive His opportunities are few and
small, but he has a native happiness
we cannot match.
Where | live, on a mountain TOP.
1t never occurs to me that any black
man will iniure me. If he had the
pride and ingratitude of the other
race, we could not live with him at
all. His is the only race in America
all native born. He number 5000. 900
in our county, and one-fOurth of the
people of Maryland. The blow is not
aimed at him, but at the proportion
of republican whites in MARYLAND
who are supposed to have the aid of
his ballots, and it, therefore, is euuiy-
alent to DISTINGUISHING us. The eff
feet, if successful, will be to remand
Maryland to the column of slavery till
the next revolution, and make Mason
and Dixon's line our Chinese wall.
The great North, backed by Europe
and Asia, will class US as insensible to
the public opinion of the world. and
not.requiring assistance. as we reject
ed what we had looked our gift horse
in the mouth.
"lf the malarious lands of Mary
land were helped by the Government
with scientific reclamation they would
be filled with white settlers: the
negro will not leave them, as he is
immune. The white minority there
thinks it wise to disafTected great
population in order to get one men,
Der of Congress who will not have any
influence in capital whose overflow
the Democrats long disfranchised.
and disputed white mems habitation
in the gravel hill of Montgomery and
Prince Georges. Yet | see that
Washingtonian, Blair Lee, has put
down the ancient Spencer Jones, in
spite of the frauds of Damascus.
DO you think that negro disfran-
chisement will make Maryland Re-
publican?
81 have no belief in bad means, and
no idea that the average Maryland
Democrat can see into the future.
The amendment will keep the new
population out of the State, and en-
able the couspirators to finally coerce
their own majority from Within they
would not, III the rear of the Ameri-
can capital, neutralize the truest
friends of liberty and unison, if they
expected not to hold the situation as
long as any of their gang is alive. If
any Republicans want to decitizenize
their humble neighbors, they are
bastard brothers in the Republican
party, which was formed to promote
humanity and kindness. The attempt
of the gang is desperate politics, and
shows how thew perceive that there
if no Democratic party left, and they
must intrench in Maryland the last
of Cataline's diShandinp camp''