Year: 1874

From the Baltimore Gazette.


1t will not do for the Democrats of one
county to depend upon the majority


which those Of another county will give.


In this crisis Of our political history,


when the addition Of a single Democrat


ic member of Congress may give us con-


troll Of the House Of Representatives, it


is the duty OF each county of the Dis


trict to rely upon itself, and give the


largest possible vote it can command


each emulating each, and counting moth


ing gained until the returns show what


each has done to promote a triumphant


result. There is everything in the gene


raj political outlook to stimulate them,


and nething to discourage. The Democ-


racy Of other districts are watching with
deep interest the struggle upon which
they have entered for the redemption of
their district. They may not be able to
reflect, in as large a degree as elsewhere,
the great change that has been going on !.
in public sentiment in regard to the par
ty in power; but they may help, by car
rying their district, to consolidate and
emulate, in their smaller sphere of ac-
ton, the example set them by New
Hampshire, Connecticut, Indiana, Ohio
and Arkansas. Bearing in mind that
the honor of Maryland is in their hands,
they cannot, they ought not, to do less
than their party has done elsewhere, and
through whose magnificent exertions,
ever since last spring, the Democratic
party has been marching from victory to
victory. In the eloquent words OF Sena-
tor Bayard:


"The States upoH which the Radicals
counted so confidently have been carried
by maiorities 80 emphatic as left no
grounds to suppose that personal reasons
affected them, but that it was some
4 that thu
pulse of the people to declare themselves
as they did. What was it moved those
people,? 1t was nothing less than the
instructive sense of national self-preser-
vation. The people, the masses of this
country, shrank from the terrible abyss
Of Radical government that has opened
| before their feet. That is it. Do not
question. 1t is not simply party names
or party successes or failures, but l be-
lieve it has been the God-implanted in
stincts of self-preservation that impel
them no longer to follow the leadership


that has led us to the unhappy condition
where we now find ourselves. Am / stat


ing the case too strongly when say that
for the last thirteen years the people OF


the United States have lived under q


real despotism yelled by the forms of


Republican government For the last
thirteen years there has been no Hmita-
tions-noue of those limitations upon
the government of this country which
we need to-day as well as our ancestors
needed them in 1776. All the essential


safeguards of the freedom of this people
LIVERY limitation of the government,


has been cast down and prostrated. The


people to-day feel the effect of this, and


the issue of the campaign of 1876 is SIM


ply whether we cannot restore q linn


tied government-limited because it's
powers are distributed first in the State,
. next in the General Government, and


again re-distributed by the departments
of the General Government; whether
! liberty and freedom shall be rights in
America and not permissive enjoyments,
as they have been for the last thirteen
, years"
The issue of the present campaign
, also-which we hope to emphasize in the
| | Presidential election two years hence


is in point of fact whether we shall con-


tinue to live under o real despotism,
yelled by the forms Of republican gov,
t ernmelt," OF, whether the liberties and
!. franchises we inherited from the fathers


shall be reclaimed as rights, and not ex-
G ercised on tolerance, and only by the


gracious permission OF our Republican


masters, ''as they have been fer the last
r thirteen years. We ask the Democracy
: of Maryland to ponder well the wise and
thoughtful words of the manly, honest
and frank hearted Senator Bayard, and
c acting in the spirit worthy of Maryland


men, see to it that the State receives nc
g detriment from any neglect of theirs.