Year: 1869

colored votes to elect Walker, and the re-
suit shows he was elected by the votes of
the blacks. In fact about enough voted for
him to account for his whole majority.


SO the Bond men set themselves at work
to multiply these colored leagues in Mary
land. Reference has already hecn made
to them in this correspondence Their
character has become thoroughly known by
the Republicans of the State. They are
being rapidly extended. The agents of the
Educational Department of the Freeds-
mems Bureau are engaged in it, as they
were in this State and in Virginia previous
to General Grants nomination, and active
ly again in both States since the late Con-
servative movement began.


The sum and substance of the work of
these leagues is to bind the blacks to sup
port Judge Bond and Mr.. Chase. The
signs of the league, and the pass words
used at their meetings have been asertaned
and in all cases they are the initials S.P.C.,
and H.L.B., or combinations of the names
Salmon P. Chase, Hugh L. Bond. Doubt
less certain parties will laugh at this and
term it silly, but it is we'll known in Balti-
more that it is no fiction. Most will admit
that such constant use and association of
these names would go far toward keeping
the minds of the blacks, who were in the
movement, clear as to who they were to
follow. Very few will be able to discover
any earnest support of President Grant in
a system of political leagues that at this
juncture of affairs adopts the name of the
Chief Justice as its password.


THE LAST POSITION GAINED.


Perhaps the most surprising appointment
of all made in Maryland is the late one of
the District Attorney. 1t is made directly
in the Chase interest, and, as is supposed,
through the influence of Mr.. Chase with
the Attorney General. Mr. Creswell and
the whole regular Republican organization
of the State protested against the appoint
ment, and the President, before he left for
Long Branch, directed the commission,
which had been made out and signed, to be
withheld. Taking advantage of Mr.. Cres-
wells absence, the Bond men pushed the
matter, and the Attorney General took the
responsibility of issuing the commission.


The applicant was one of the counsel
retained against the Government in the
great case of the Ullman distillery, the
seizure of which involves between three
and four hundred thousand dollars, and is
considered at the Internal Revenue Bureau
as the most important whisky case which
has arisen in the country. Judge Bond
himself and some of his associates were
also interested in the case against the Gov
ernment, and 4 strong effort was made to
prevent the Grand Jury from finding any
indictment.


Commissioner Delano, it is said, protest
ed against the contemplated appointment of
the new District Attorney, and the whole
bearing of the case was explained to the
Attorney General, the result of which was
the belief that the commission would still
be withheld. Instead of this the Attorney
General telegraphed to Mr. Stirling to come
to Washington at once. He arrived within
few hours, and Judge Hoar himself de-
livered him the commission as District At
torney General of Maryland. So far as the
Cllman case is concerned, the Treasury
Department has been obliged to retain
other counsel, and so far as the Republican
party is involved, it has Ito the extent that
this important Office can do it) been placed
in the hands of the Chase men in Maryland.


The next step of these same men, with
Bond as the main actor, has been to at
tempt the removal of the Supervisor of
Internal Revenue, who is an active and
honest officer. and who from the breaking
out of the war has been a working Repub-
lican. Judge Bond himself labored with
the Grand Jury to induce them to indict
this Supervisor, as it is believed he did to
prevent the indictment of the Ullman par
ty. But the corruption of the scheme was
too apparent to give it any strength with
honest men, and it signally failed. 1t is
worthy of notice however, as an example
of the lengths to which these men are will
ling to go, and of the desperate nature of
their plots.


OF course the whole movement turns
upon the adoption of the Fifteenth Amend
ment. The hope for success then depends
upon detailing portion of the colored vote
from the regular Republican organization
and casting that with the Rebel Democracy
for the defeat of the Republicans.


Through the control of the offices which
they have secured they have been lifted
from small bolting faction, without adhe-
rents among either whites or blacks to a
strong party, controlling two-thirds of the
Federal patronage. All this they have OBJ
trined through the Attorney General and
Secretary Boutwell,, against the expressed
preference of the President and the warm
protest of the Postmaster General, backed
by the entire strength Of the Grant Repub-
licans of Maryland.


The Conservatives of the State now fully
understand the movements, and are secretly
encouraging Bond. The meetings called
among the negroes to further the projects
are now noticed favorably by the intluen-
tial Conservative journals of the State as
"large and orderly assemblages of colored
people, and resolutions laudatory of Judge
Bond, and calling upon the colored people
to support him, are found worthy of notice
by the same journals.


The more immediate cause of the present
activity is an attempt to control the pri-
mare elections of delegates to a State Con-
vention, and so to secure the State Com
mittee. If the plan succeeds Maryland
will take her place with Virginia and Ten
nessee in any party which the late changes
there may call into being. II. V. B.


The MOrmOnS to be Drowned Out.