Year: 1869

Under this caption, we print on the first
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette.


We bespeak careful reading of the arti-
Gle by Republicans, and especially by the
colored men, whose interests are vitality
concerned by the combinations and trick
cry exposed by the correspondent of the
Gazette. The writer doubtless gives undue
Importance to the strength and influence of
what is commonly termed the " Bond
Movement" in this State and also does
injustice to Secretary Boutwell,, in ascribing
to him strong partiality for Bond and his
co-laborers in the cause of disruption which
they are attempting in the Republican
party and the bargain and sale which they
ultimately mediate to the Copperhead
party. However the hypocrisy of that
clique of politicians may have imposed
upon those who controlled the educational
interests of the colored people of this State
and Mr.. Boutwell, for a time, the day has
gone by when they can longer be duped by
the managers of this plot to sell out the
Republican party to the old rebel party of
Maryland. The Virginia and Tennessee
business has opened the eyes of all who
were disposed to trust the leaders i'll this
southern Conservative" scheme, which
is nothing short of a deep laid plan to be-
tray the colored men to voting their most
bitter political enemies into power, when
they would certainly attempt to despoil
them of the rights which the Republican
party have struggled so long, and i'll the
face Of untold difficulties to secure to them.


The article which we publish on our first
page gives fair idea of the end aimed at
by those intriguers, as well as their mode
of operation. Of course the denouement
here pointed out will depend altogether
upon the adoption of the Nv. Amendment
Without this additional clause to the Con-
stitution, the Copperhead party of the State
care nothing for Bond or his allies, but the
adoption of that article places the ballot in
the hands of every man, white and black,
and with this almost certainty not far in
the future, the present corrupt Democratic
concern, which is eating out the vitals of
the State, looks forward to with apprehen-
sion. Their only hope to escape, not merely
defeat, but political annihilation, is the
prospect of treacherous plot, Matched and
kept alive inside Of the Republican party
by Judge Bond and his fellow conspirators,
by which large per cent Of the colored
vote may be' detached from that party, and
ut the critical moment be thrown for the
Democratic candidates, as it has been in
Virginia and Tennessee.


The very fact that the Democratic party
favor Chief Justice Chase as their probable
candidate for President in '72, with whom
the Bond party of this State has ever been
in close political union, and that the Bond
conspiracy has always received the approx
ing smiles of the Democracy, should be
sufficient warning for every sincere Rcpub-
lican, and especially every colored man
who hopes for political emancipation, who
by their intelligence stand as the sentinels
for their brethren less fortunate in having
acquired information, to read and ponder
the plot Of those who design to sell them
when the proper time arrives, to promote
their own selfish ends and be forewarned
of the danger that turks in their path at
the very outset of their political enfran-
chisement. When has that old party of
the slave masters ever ceased to abuse and
traducc the colored race, and why should
that race risk their interests outside of the
Republican party, and in the hands of a
faction of demagogues, who, from the very
nature Of the case, are powerless to do
aught but lead them into the camp of their
old enemy, the Democratic party?


The Administration of President Grant
is taking decided ground in support of the
Republican Organization in Mississippi and
Texas, and will put It's foot down on all
trading factions, like the Walker, Scnter,
and Bond conspiracies in Virginia, Tennes
see and this State. In the two former
States their object has been well developed,
and the hopes of the Copperhead party
have risen very high by their unexpected
success. The conspirators in this State are
correspondingly jubilant, and determined
push will be made hencefoth to commit
the colored men of Maryland to Bond and
Chase, in order that i'll the hour of victory
they may be handed over to the present
rebel party, bound hand and foot, to behold
when too late to remedy their mistake, the
band of conspirators who sold them out,
receiving the reward Of their treachcry.


YIcK's ILLUSTRATED CATALoGU..-We
have received a copy of this valuable cata
iosue of Hardy Bulbs, published by James
fick, Rochester, N. Y. Mr.. Wick is one
of the most extensive florists and seed men
in the country. His Illustrated Annual
Catalogue Of flowers and vegetable seeds is
a marvel, printed on fine tinted paper
The engraving, type and all other material
will be entirely new. The work will con-
tain 100 pages and nearly 200 engravings:
and the first edition for 1870 will contain
$4,000 copies. This work will be distrib-
uted free to customers, and for 10 cents,
which is not half cost, to others. This
may give our readers a faint idea of the
extent and expense of advertising. BY
tiiis means his business is increased hun
drctls of thousands, while without this cx-
penditure in a judicians system Of advcrtis
ing, his receipts perhaps would DO counted
by Il few thousands only.





Information against % parties in Mo-
bile, for violation of the Revenue laws, and
for defrauding the Government out of near
'y $3, 900, 900. having been received by Sec
retary Boutwell,, Special Agent 5. D. Mills
was sent to Mobile to investigate. Air.
Mills is vigorously at work. and has thus
far procured indictments against seyen of
the parties, involving nearly 5000, o00.-
Some of these cases are peculiar. In the
case of the schooner Ann d., of only 40
ions burden, she purported to have cleared
with 1865 barrels of whisky and 200 box
es tobacco and an assorted cargo, enough
to have sunk vessel three times Us large
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