The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1907-04-25

all foreigners were driven from the polls
in Baltimore, and riots, murder and
manning continued till 1860, when the
legislature made a police board to turn
out Mayor Tom Swann's police. Said
the Methodist, Rev. Francis Asbury, in
1776: 4 was fined near Baltimore G5 for
preaching the gospel The antifederal
riots of 1912 killed General Lingan ard
gored out the eye of the father of Gen.
Robert E. Lee so that he died from his
injuries. The riots against the soldiery
in Baltimore at the opening cf the war
had reciprocation in the state Corsti-
tuition, which caused the very men to
wall at the disfranchisement who now
have no other issue than to disfranchise.
THE melancholy conclusion of the OBJ
served must be that little or no progress
has been made in respecting the rights
of others, while intolerance to religion
has been the custom of all nations, de-
privatiOn of citizenship is unusual and
contrary to the humane process of all
the nations, for the empires and king
doms are now democratic, while the De-
mocracy of Maryland is despotic and
enact the bred Scott decision for the
twentieth century that black men have
, no rights which white men are bound to
respect. They say Taney did not say
that, but they do now say it, and take
away from the electors of 235, 900 color
ed people in Maryland their only right
: which Identifies them with representa-
ton. For what? Has there been an
; instruction? Cannot the negro learn
, to read? The census shows that negro
illiterates in this state are only six or
: four illiterate whites. The entire number
: of Maryland illiterates is 1873, coo less
| than all the blacks in the state So
: there must be 172,OO0 educated colored
; people in Maryland.
5 What is the motive for such late
: move in our state history?
= ''To keep the Offices. Maryland had
< become a debatable state, and, and no
! issue was left but race prejudice. The
4 cOrruptions Of the Democratic party in
: Baltimore had driven German from the
| Senate and Rasin and others from the
S spoils. A Republican governor and
! legislature and two Republican senators,
r two or more Republican mayors of Bal
: timore, Republican congressional dele
r cation sometimes, alarmed the coterie
= with the fear the great North would
settle Maryland by the growth of Wash
2 ington city, would assimilate Baltimore,
4 also, to modern thoughts and enlighten-
r ed mutually of kindness. The late
: slave must be deposed from his 40 years
2 of the enjoyment of the ballot, medi-
= tated crime, the greatest of all the
= crimes of the party which for years
r crammed the ballot-boxes and mis-
counted the votes. History must be
e searched far back for such persecu-
] ton
e 81 can think Of two-the Jews in
S Spain and the Protestants in Pol.nd
{ The Jews had been tolerated by the
: Arian Goths till they turned Orthodox
: and took away all the reasonable rights
of the Jews. The Jews opened the
e gates of Toledo to the Noors, who con-
quered Spain for 800 years. There is
: no Spaniard who does not feel the dis
= grace.o that era. To deprive the Dis
: sidents Polands of their rights, the dis
: satisfaction was sown which ended the
d independence and glory of the Polish
d kingdom.
f But | can come to Maryland, also,
n with an example. In 1914 the fear of a
negro instruction in the old slave pen
It insular, at which is aimed the present
}, disfranchisement, so paralyzed the mill
f tia of Maryland that they would not
: fight and ran away from hardly two reg.
iments.of British soldiers and sailors.
# Yet the negroes of Baltimore helped to
e defend it "a very little later and were
n found in the ranks. We have negro
regiments in the United States Army
l. and have heard that our most invinci,
= BILE cavalry regiment is a colored one
$ The man defending his country, anC
d ia cling pestlence in the South, for he is
happily an immune, can come to Penn
g sylvania or Ohio and be an American
IN but not Maryland, where he will b.
E. legally dead. Thus we are setting
r Maryland to the front as foe of ser
E. vice and labor, and already we are
E. scarce of laborers, who are drawn ava!
e to Pittsburg and West Virginia, will
no immigration to make up the deficit
s. Baltimore is now securing Canada TO
a laborers and discouraging that coloreC
g labor which the late Judge Fredericl
lie Stone, of the Court of Appeals, told m
e. was the best peasantry in the world"