WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1866.
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person who undertakes to examine the pro*
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government; and no law shall ever be made
to restrain the tight thereof. The free commu
nication of thought and opinions la one of the
Invaluable rights- of men; and every citizen
may freely speak, write and print on any sub
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dence.”
Address of the Democratic State Com-
Democratic State Committee Rooms, 1
Philadelphia, Oct. 17, 1860, j
To the Democracy of Pennsylvania:
In a poll of more than six hundred thou
sand votes, you are beaten less than three
per cent, on the whole. A change of one
and a half per cent, would have given you
the State. You have reduced the majority
of your opponents, and polled nearly twen
ty thousand-more votes than ever before.
Upon the aggregate of the Congressional
vote, still greater force is shown.
In this contest you have proven your de
votion to principle, have demonstrated the
strength of your organization, and yield to
your enemy a dearly-bought victory.
You are “defeated, but not dismayed.”
Buoyancy and hope pervade
your ranks, whilst chagrin and dismay
H)ark the visages of your opponents.
They judge you rightly ; lor, in the light
of this exhibition ol'your stern devotion to
the doctrines of the Constitution, and to the
perpetuity of your Union, and to the su
premacy of your race, they read theiroom
ing defeat.
For the first time since the final disband
ment of our armies, you have met the forces
of the Republican organization. They
fought for the life of their purty ; they
concentrated against you the influence of
almost every manufacturer, corporation
and bank; they had at their command a
large preponderance of the public
press of the Stale, speakers without
number, all the money that a dynasty of
contractors—to whom the public treasury
has been a mine of wealth—could furnish ;
memories of the war still fresh enough to
bo the means of exciting hatred; laws en
acted with a view to their own political as
cendancy; a well-disciplined organization,
and all of the advantages that thepossession
of municipal and Slate power could bring
them; and yet, unaided and self-depend
ent, you have combatted this powerful com
bination, and almost carried the Slate.
All honor ami praise to the Democracy
of the Keystone, for this most gallant light.
A band of men, who, in JS6S, can poll for
their candidate 25-1,000 votes; in lsij-t, 276,-
ofjii votes, and in lsiiil, 205,000 votes ; who
plant themselves upon principles that tire
eh-rnal; who u i/I not despair of the lb-pub
lic, and who possess the physical power
and the moral courage to maintain their
opinions and preserve their liberties, must
eventually be the ruling power in the Stale/
Implicit belief in the justice and truth of
the great doctrines that lie at the base of
our form ot government, aversion to its
centralization, and confidence in the effici
ency of the Constitution for the preserva
tion of your liberties, have ever distin
guished you. These tire the magnets around
which yon have gathered in many a hard
fought contest, and to them you will be
true as the needle to the j)ole. opinions of
individuals may change ; but, in the future
as in tin* past, come victory or defeat, as a
party you will ever be found rallying to
these principles as the leading lonels of
your political faith.
llopc, contidencc and courage should be
gathered from the remembrance, that two
thirds of the white freemen of the Repubbc
think as you do upon these subjects, and
that, on {*very field on which they are
staked, your united action will overcome
all opposing forces.
We ask you to persevere in the work so
auspiciously' begun. From this hour, let
us determine to go forward. Del us have
done with spasmodic efforts, and move on
ward with unliagging energy.
The thorough and effectual dissemination
of truth, is the proper means to your even
tual triumph ; and organization, discipline,
systematic effort and individual exertion,
aro the avenues that lead to victory. Will
you pursue them? United, disciplined and
determined, you wjll be irresistible.
By order of the Democratic State Com
mittee. William A. Wallace,
The Punishment of Traitors.
Whilst President Johnson is in the
main performing his high and respon
sible duties to the satisfaction of every
Conservativeamltrue Union man in the
country, and is receiving the commen
dation and support of a large majority
of the American people, there is yet
one thing which many are of the opinion
lie ought to do. The penalties iucurred
by the leading traitors of the .Snath are
still hanging over them, and may be
euforced by the proper authorities at
any time. These operate as restraints
upou the Southern traitors and guaran
tee their good behavior. But the “trai
tors at*lhe other end of theline ” —such
men as John W. Korney, Wendell Phil
lips, Win. J). Kelley, and Benjamin K.
Butler —being under no bonds to pre
serve true faith and allegiance to the
Government, are doing their best to get
up another civil war, and again involve
the country in bloodshed and devasta
tion. Jt is the opinion of many of
the President’s supporters—especially
those of them who voted for Mr.
'Lincoln and sustained his admin
istration —that hr ought to arrest the
traitors and dismiionists (d>ovc named,
and their leading aiders and abettors all
over the country. The persons who
take this view of the case do not advo
cate the hanging of these miscreants,
however richly they may deserve the
gallows; but they maintain that they
ought to be shut up in Fort Lafayette
or sent to the Dry Tortugas, where they
could no longer disturb the peace of the
country. They argue that so long as
these vindictive, corrupt, plundering
agitators and traitors are permitted to
spout Lheir incendiary and treasonable
language, so long will the country be
kept in an unsettled condition, and the
restoration of the Union be a moral im
possibility.
We are not much inclined to favor
the exercise of doubtful powers by ex
ecutive officers, but it must be admitted
that a step of this kind on the part of
President Johnson would have in it at
least the merit of ail act of retributive
justice. It would only be giving these
scoundrels a taste of the specific for
” disloyalty ” that they were so free in
administering to Democrats during
Lincoln’s Presidency, for venturing to
question the wisdom of some of the
measures of his administration. Any
argument that could be made In favor
of the incarceration of a Democrat in
Fort Lafayette, or his transportation to
the Dry Tortugas, at any period of Lin
coln’s administration, would make in
favor of the immediate arrest and close
imprieonmentof such cowardly ruffians
as Forney, Butler, Phillips and their
coadjutors, who are straining every
nerve to convulse the country with a
civil war which would be vastly more
destructive, and in every respect infi
nitely wome, than the one from which
we have just emerged.
The ravings and threats of Beastßut
ler and John W. Forney against the
President have been read by everybody.
No frantic rebel ever denounced and
threatened President Lincoln as fiercely
during the hottest period of the late
war as these vulgar and envenomed
scoundrels now denounce aiid threaten
President Johnson. Wendell, Phillips
Las lately added his denunciations and
threats to theirs. In his late address
on the “Peril of the Hour,” at Boston,
after reiterating Butler’s demand for
the impeachment and removal of the
president, and denouncing Gen. Grant,
who, he said, “occupied the most hu-‘
miliatirig position of any man on
this continent,” Phillips proceeded
to declare that “his theory was that
there is no President. He is a deserter.
The legislative power is the only power
left. Our James 11. has abdicated, and
Parliament rules the nation. He wanted
Congress to commence its next session as
a perpetual one . He would have the next
Congress enact that they should re-as
semblc in March , 1867, and be themselves
the Government.”
Upon what ground would those who
defended the arbitrary arrest, by Abra
ham Lincoln, of men who questioned
the wisdom of his acts as President,
condemn Andrew Johnson for arresting
a man who publicly declares that “ there
is no President,” and calls upon Con
gress to ignore the Executive and usurp
his functions. If ever there was cause
for tbe arrest of persons for the use of
“treasonable language,” there is cause
for it now.
How the Radical Majority in Congress is
Manufactured.
The people of Pennsylvania know
something of the method by which the
dominant party manages to manufac
ture majorities for themselves in repre
sentative bodies. Our State Legislature
is a fair specimen. The Democratic
party polls nearly as many votes as its
opponents, yet they do not elect one
third as many members of the Legisla
ture. This inequality is effected by
means of the most infamous political
“gerrymandering.” The same means
have been employed throughout the
Northern States to increase the Radical
majority in Congress. The Cincinnati
Enquirer has a summing up which
shows that there are to-day in favor of
the policy of President Johnson, as re
gards the restoration of the Union, these
utimbers:
In the South 1,500,000 voters.
In the North
Total 5,500,000 “
Opposed to the President there are—
In the North 2,500,000 voters.
They are thus represented in Con
gress :
],500,000 voters in the South None.
2,000,000 “ “ North 60
5,500,000 voters have.s
2,500,000 “
What a beautiful representative sys
tem ! How thoroughly it reflects the
majority of the pefcple ! Daily we hear
the boast that the elections have gone
against the President, and in favor of
his opponents in Congress. Yes! They
have gone against him in a peculiar
manner. His .‘l,-300,000 friends have
sixty members; his 2,soo,oDOopponents
have 216 members in the Federal Con-
gress!
It is I)3* the light of these figures that
we see the victory the Radicals have
achieved. For every twelve or thirteen
thousand of their number they are
credited with a member of Congress.
The Anti-Jacobins, on the contrary,get
a member for every oo,oon of their num
ber. One Jacobin counts as much in
the basis of representation as four Con
servatives !
Calling themselves by their Right -Name.
Since the election in this State the
Radicals have dropped the pseudonym
Union, and have accepted their real and
true title. They call themselves Radi
cals, and dub their political organization
as the Radical part}’. To this bold step
that pitiful little trimmer, Raymond of
theNewYork Times, objects. Hestands
shivering on the brink of the stream
into which his party associates have
plunged fearlessly. His hesitation is
but another exhibition of his cowardice
ami he will not only sanction the
acts of the Radical part}’, but will
soon adopt the new nomenclature and
forgot that he ever protested against
the abandonment of the term Union.
That is a name the organization never
deserved, and we are glad to see that
the leading newspapers of the party
have concluded to abandon it. They
show some signs of honesty in marking
the newly elected members as D. or R.,
Democrats or Radical. Tocall such men
as Tliatl. Stevens, liill Kelly, Bottled up
Beast Butler, and Red River Banks,
Ciiion men is to insult the intelligence
of the American people. We commend
the honesty of leading Republican
newspapers in designating their entire
party as Radicals.
('huinmti),
Death of lion. John Van Buren.
The death of this well-known citizen
of New York is announced. It occurred
ou board the steamer Scotia, which ar
rived yesterday at New /York from
Liverpool, when that vessel was two
days out at sea. Mr. Van Buren was
the second son of President Martin Van
Buren, and was born at Hudson, New
York, on February Is, 1810. Fie grad
uated at Yale College in 1820, and sub
sequently studied law, and was admit
ted to practice in New York city. His
preceptors were Benjamin F. Butler
and Aaron Yanderpool. "When his
father was Minister to England dur
ing President Jackson’s administration,
John Van Buren accompanied him as
an attache of the legation. In 1845 he
was elected Attorney General of the
State of New York, and afterwards was
an active Democratic politician of that
State, and during the war supported
the Government in its efforts to crush
the rebellion. Mr. Van Buren was an
eloquent speaker, an able lawyer, and
a man of rare abilities. During the
last few years he has been in ill health,
and his journey to Europe, ou thereturn
from which he died, was made by his
physician’s advice. Fie was in his 56th
year when he died.
What Was Decided by the Election of
lieary.
The Harrisburg Iclcgraph and For
ney’s Press are the authorized organs of
the newly-elected Governor of Pennsyl
vania. What they say of the result of
the recent election may be taken as law
and gospel. The Telegraph declares ed
itorially :
“The ‘nigger’ will be no longer the issue
between parlies. The adoption of the Con
stitutional Amendment by three fourths of
the States, and the admission of Southern
Representatives to the 4Ulh Congress, has
been insured by the late election. The ex
tension of the right a of franchise to the
blacks will quietiy follow—and the next
question will be:* Shall the right of fran
ehise bo exietidod to women?
Of course! We agree perfectly with
the Telegraph , in all except the asser
tion that the Amend
ment will be adopted by three-fourths
of the states. \Ve admit, however,
that, if it is, negro suii'rage will speedily
follow. We asserted throughout the
recent campaign that the Radicals in
tended to force that upon the country.
They denied it duriDg the canvass, but
freely admit [it now that the election is
over. We hope no Republican will pro
fess to be disappointed in the result
and that no one who voted for Geary
will attempt to deny that he voted for
negro suffrage. To do so would be to
confess that he was made a dupe and a
fool.
The First Fruits of Geary’s Election.
Forney has a whole letter over the
signature of “Occasional” announcing
that on the reassembling of Congress
the bill conferring the right of suffrage
on the negroes in. the District of Co
lumbia will be forthwith passed. He
concludes by saying:
My object in this letter is simply to show
that the elections have settled great
principles on solid foundations, they have
also made great duties moi'S plain and im
perative.
Such are the first fruits of Geary’s
election.
The Radicals are pursuing a most un
wise policy in regard to the South. If
this Republic of ours is to continue, it
must have its foundations in such an
affectionate love of the mass of the peo
ple of the whole country as will cause
them to be ready to defend it in every
emergency. When we Bee a majority
of the people of one half of the country
doing all they can to alienate the affec
tions of the entire masses of the other
half, we almost despair of our future.
The effect is seen, not only upon the
minds of those who were active partici
pants in the rebellion, but upon the
substantial men of the Border States,
who stood by the Union cause with un
flinching fortitude throughout the war.
These feel the burthens imposed upon
the people of the South as keenly as
any other class in that section. We do
not wonder that they are growing res
tive under-the exactions of the Radical
majority in the North. Perhaps no
paper published anywhere so well rep
resents the views of this class of true
Union men to whom we refer as the
Louisville Journal . Its position was
never an equivocal oue. It opposed
secession from the beginning, andstood
by the Union cause at all times, re
joicing in tbe victories of our armies,
and holding the State of Kentucky
within the Union. The following para
graph from the last issue which has
reached us is decidedly significant.
Says the Journal:
If the pc-oplt* of Kentucky had kuown
from tbe first how the Republican party iu
the North would treat the South after the
putting down of the rebellion, we don't
believe that the masses of them would
have raised a linger to put it down. More
likely they would have raised five fingers
apiece to sustain it. Still we think that it
was right ami best to quell it. if we are
fated in consequence to have another war,
we shall no doubt know our duty.
We do not suppose the Radicals will
heed that or any other warning which
may be given. Blinded by passion and
prejudice, they refuse to hear the teach
ings of history or to regard the de
ductions of reason. They boast, and
bluster and threaten. Forney even goes
so far as to urge the immediate initia
tion of another civil war, for the pur
pose of enabling a rascally minority in
Baltimore city to carry elections by
force and fraud. They may precipitate
another revolution. Such a thing is
not impossible, and from present appear
ances, seems not to be improbable. It
may come. If it does, away go the na
tional securities, away go the U. S.
Bonds, and universal national bank
ruptcy will be inevitable. But that
will only be an incident in the struggle.
The Radicals who precipitate tbe strife
will be the earliest and latest victims.
They will then speedily find how com
pletely they were in the minority, ami
an outraged and exasperated people
will demand full atonement in blood
for their infamous crimes.
.2,000,000
6U members.
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Forney’s Speech to the Xcgroes at Wash
John W. Foruey has made another
speech to the negroes at Washington.
They assembled in front of the Chroni
cle. office on Friday eveningand tender
ed him a serenade. The Sunday Press
has a long account of the jubilation,
headed by staring announcements in
which Forney is toploftieally styled
Colonel. Where did this fellow get the
military title wnieh he flaunts so per
sistently and conspicuously. He never
belonged to any brigade, except “the
bread and butler brigade,”
“ Never set a squadron iu tin- Meld.
Nor the division of a liiiUle Knows,
More than a spinster
yet he constantly reports himself in
his two newspapers under the high
sounding appellation of Colonel John
W. Foruey. Well, according to the
Press the negroes serenaded Col. John
W. Forney, and Col. John W. Forney
made a speech to the negroes ; said Col.
John W. Forney therein explaining to
said negroes the true intent, meaning
and significance of the Radical triumph
in the recent elections. Said Col. John
W. Forney to the negroes aforesaid:
My friends, among the issues disposed of
by these crowning results there is no lesson
more convincing than that addressed to
that portion of the people of the District of
Columbia who, like some others, allowed
themselves to be deluded by the authors of
this just-defeated second rebellion. The
theory that this portion of the public domain
is under the exclusive jurisdiction of the
Congress tmark, not the Executive) of the
United .States, universally accepted before
the rebellion, and sanctilied by the success
of the Union arms, fell into strange disre
pute when what is called “My Policy”
began to be experimented upon. The re
cent elections have reaffirmed and re-estab
lished it, and nothing has been more em
phatically declared (except, perhaps, that
traitors shall not control the Government
of the United States; than that the national
capital shall be n free capital ; that slavery
having hen.- in on abolished, and the freecf
men made citizens by that abolition,
it is the duly of the representatives of
the American people to see to it that
the rights of citizenship shall be
secured to the whole people of
these ten miles square. [Applause.]
Who is now so purblind as to deny that
the American people sustain wlmt is called
the Radical programme as applied to this
District? Kvery extreme Republican mem
ber of the recent Congress who was a can
didate for re-eleetiou has been returned, in
some eases by larger majorities than those
received in UO-l. Not one of the fearless
progressives lias been deleated. First
unanimously renominated, and then,
though opposed with a bitterness that can
only be called fury by the “satraps” and
mercenaries of Andrew Johnson, all so
nominated have been triumphantly re
elected. Julian and Orth, of Indiana;
Schenck, Bingham and Ashley, of Ohio;
Stevens, Kelley, Williams, Scofield, Mercur
and Bfoomall, of Pennsylvania, (Kelley,
you will recollect, being the author of the
bill which passed the House of Representa
tives, providing for universal suffrage in
the District of Columbia,) have all been
returned to the Fortieth Congress. This
lesson is as eloquent as any that ever was
taught, and if it is not an instruction to the
closing session of the next* or Thirty-ninth
Congress to complete the legislation of the
last session, 1 do not know the meaning of
majorities. Remember that every vote
given in reference to this District, especially
that on the question of suffrage, came di
rectly into the canvass, was charged upon
the Republicans, and bv them not only not
denied, but boldly accepted. A volume of
argument could not make this powerful
fact more impressive. (Prolonged ap
plause.)
We fully agree with Colonel John W.
Forney. Every vote cast for John W.
Geary, every vote cast for Tbaddeus
Stevens, and every vote cast for any
Republican candidate in the recent
election in Pennsylvania was a square
vote for negro suffrage in the Dis~
triet of Columbia and elsewhere.
Some soft and very simple people
may not have intended so to vote,
but they did it. There is no use
in attempting to disguise the fact. For
ney knows what the issues were, and
he did not state the case one bit too
strongly in his speech to the negroes at
Washington. He and the negroes both
understand the whole case.
All our Democratic exchanges from
the northern tier of counties charge
that the most enormous frauds were
committed in that section of the State
at the recent elections. Thousands of
voters were colonized from New York
and distributed throughout the strong
Radical election districts, where they
were allowed to vote in spite of protesta
tions and objections. Multitudes of
these men have already left and gone
back to New York to vote for Fenton
and Radical Congressmen there. All
over the State the evidences of frauds
are being made manifest. Neither Cake
nor Covode could have been elected
except by the colonization of voters.
\ et, in the face of all these things,
the Radicals have the impudence to as
sert that frauds were perpetrated by the
Pemocratic party. That is an old game.
It is the rogue’s cry of “stop thief.”
But it will not avail. The damning
evidence of Radical infamy Is too plain
to be thus covered up.
A Word of Warning.
Enormous Frauds
The New Civil War to Begin at Balti-
Our readers are aware of the fact that
since the war began, nearly or quite'
three-fourths of the voters of Balti
more city have been disfranchised* •
An insignificant minority, represent
ing not one-twentieth of the property
of that city, have held control of it by
means the most infamouß. The recent
municipal election was the merest farce,
all except the favored few being kept
from voting by the partisan judges ap
pointed by the Police Commissioners
and both the regular and an immense
extra police force being engaged to see
that none but partisans of the Radical
stripe were permitted to approach the
polls.
By the law creating their office, it is
expressly provided that the Police Com
missioners “shall not, under any pre
“ text, appoint or remove any policeman
“ or officer of police, or other person wi
lder them, for or on account of the
il political opinions of such policeman or
“ officer, or other person.”
And the act of 1862 provides that “ for
“official misconduct, any of the said
“ Commissioners may be removed by a
“ concurrent vote of the two houses of
“ General Assembly, or by the Governor
“ during the recess thereof .”
In defiance of the express law of the
State by which their office was created,
the Police Commissioners of Baltimore
city have put into office the basest and
most unscrupulous partisans, not only
as policemeu, but as election officers, of
whom they have the appointment in
every precinct of the city. These elec
tion officers, thus appointed, have al
ready shown in very many instances
that they are prepared to disregard the
oaths they took, and the police have be
come but a pack of roughs to prevent
all except their own party friends from
voting, insteadof protecting all entitled
to do so in the exercise of the right of
suffrage. <
Such being the condition of affairs in
Baltimore city, and the intention of the
Radicals to prevent thousands of prop
erly registered voters from exercising
the rights of freemen, through the aid
of the Police Commissioners having
been openly avowed, it has been
intimated that Governor Swann in
tends to remove these corrupt and per
jured men and to appoint honest and
conscientious officials in their stead. To
a proposition so fair and so completely
within the limits of the law, one would
suppose there could not be a single ob
jection urged. In such a case the duty
of all good citizens to sustain the Gov
ernor of the State, would seem to be too
plainly imperative to be questioned for
a moment. Yet, strange to say, there
are rumors of proposed resistance on the
part the of Radicals of Baltimore.
The Philadelphia Press of Thursday
has a long and most revolutionary
letter over the signature of John W.
Forney. It was written at Baltimore.
We lay the concluding paragraph be
fore our readers :
Il'he (Governor Swann) attempts to re
move the commissioners thev will resist.
Their policemen are directed to arrest as
disturbers of the peace anybody pretending
to interfere with them. "The* Mayor will
never succumb, but tight il out to the bitter
end. All the Union men in Baltimore
swear that they will drench the streets with
blood,but they will protect their rights and
the law. The brave General Dennison and
the gallant General Woolley have both of
fered their services to the Mayor, ami the
returned veterans of the Union army are
ready to light. Swann will have a terrible
responsibility if lie should do this thing to
defeat Stewart, Thomas ami Creswell. They
are all good Radical Unionists, and the
people will and cun elect them under the
law. It is only by lawlessness that they
cau be overcome, and it is said that John
son had promised some Federal soldiers to
help him putdownthe Union men of Mary
land. If he shall attempt this there will
be civil war. The men 1 see here mean fight.
They do not mean to submit and will not
submit. Allthey ask is that the mighty North
shall stand by them iu theirslruggle forlib
ert}* and Union. You will remember that we
have jepealedly admonished the people,that
Andrew Johnson would-favorably respond
to an appeal for military force to put down
the Union men of Maryland and to restore
the rebels to command. That is precisely
the pending peril. The Ledger despatch
was but the pioneer of a prepared usur
pation ; and the first act of the tragedy
will come off in Maryland, unless the trai
tors and their tool, Andrew Johnson, are
convinced that the spirit which met and
mastered the rebellion in lstil, and which
rebuked so overwhelmingly the revolution
ary questions in the despatch referred to. a
lew (.lays ago, is organized to rise agaiust
them and to chastise them as they deserve.
My solemn belief is that Andrew Johnson
will send the regular troops into Baltimore
to sustain Swann, if the attempt of the lat
ter to remove the police commissioners is
resisted by the people, as resisted it will he.
In that event let the North be prepared !
Let Pennsylvania bo ready !
Will Pennsylvania respond to that
call ? Are her property-holders ready
to risk all they have in the world, to en
able the Radicals of Baltimore city to
prevent legal and properly registered
voters fa-oin exercising the right of suf
frage? Will Governor Curtin callout
the militia of the State at the bidding of
Forney, and set this Commonwealth in
hostile array against the Federal Gov
ernment? Not he! Geary might be
fool enough, but Curtin would surely
hesitate. He has sense enough to know
that the Governor of Maryland would
have both law and right on his
side, and that in suppressing any
outbreak which might ensue, the Presi
dent of the United States would only be
discharging a bounden duty. Forney's
frantic utterances can never precipitate
this State into such a struggle as that
would be. But, should it come, we can
tell Forney that Pennsylvania will be
fully ready. All the manhood, in the
whole mass of three hundred thousand
Democratic voters will be thrown into
the contest at a moment’s warning.
For the right of a free ballot they will
gladly do battle whenever and where
ever the issue of arms shall be joined '
against it. Should the contest begin in
Baltimore as Forney predicts it will,
two-thirds of the whole fighting mate
rial of Pennsylvania will respond to the
call of the President with a promptitude
never known in all the annals of war.
Yes! Pennsylvania will be ready, fully
ready.
We hope Gov. Swann will promptly
remove the corrupt officials, and see to
it that every citizen who is entitled to
vote is fully protected in the exercise of
that sacred right. If he should do less
than that, he would utterly fail to dis
charge his duty as the Chief Magistrate
of a free State, and would deserve the
contempt of all decent men.
In or Out, fflicn ?
President Lincoln, on the (itli day of
February, 1R63, directed his Secretary of
State, Mr. Seward, to write to the
American Minister to France, Mr. Day
ton, as follows :
“ We have, in the political sense, no North
and South, no Northern and Southern
States. * *_ * _ The Congress of the United
States furnished a Constitutional forum for
debate between alienated parties. Senators
and Representatives from the loyal portion
of the people are there already, freely em
powered to confer; and seats also are vacant ,
and inviting Senators and Representatives
of this discontented party, who may be Con
stitutionally sent there from the States in
volved in the insurrection.”
Mr. Lincoln, at that time, did not
think the rebellious States were out of
the Union, or had committed suicide.
Will some Radical inform us, when,
after that date, Mr. Lincoln changed his
opinion ?
The Cholera,
This disease still lingers at Richmond,
Norfolk, and Portsmouth, Va. In the
latter place Robert Dickson, Esq., a
very wealthy citizen, died on Saturday.
His sister, Mrs. Bogart, of Savannah,
Ga., who came on to attend him, has
also fallen a victim to the disease, hav
ing died on Friday night. East week
there were 67 cholera deaths in Phila
delphia.
; More Threats of Civil War.
The Harrisburg Telegraph is the State
organ of the Republican party in Penn
sylvania. A meaner, more mercenary,
or more mendacious sheet was never
published, and it is only fair that we
should say that some decent Republi
cans are ashamed of it. We have seen
in several of the more honorable Radi
cal country newspapers severe strictures
upon the course and character of this
filthy and unreliable sheet. Its proprie
tor is a miserable, bigoted ignoramus,
who hires a relative of John W. Forney
to do his dirty work. Some Radical
newspapers pay a little regard to the
truth, but the Harrisburg Telegraph
lies boldly, unblushingly and habitu
ally. It shows an utter disregard of
truth, and when clearly proven to have
uttered the most barefaced falsehoods
persists in their repetition with an ef
frontery that is astonishing. Radical
newspapers in this State are, as a class,
much given to this kind of thing, but
the Telegraph stands preeminent in
baseness.
The last specimen of deliberate, wil.
ful and malicious lying which we have
seen in it, is in relation to political af
fairs in Baltimore. Forney’s worthless
relative, a meaner specimen of humani
ty even than the proprietor of the Press ,
has an editorial in yesterday evening’s
issue of the Telegraph , which is the
most unfair and untruthful thing we
have seen. Speaking of the proposed
removal of the Police Commissioners of
Baltimore, this base creature distorts all
the facts to bolster up the revolutionary
position taken by the editor of the Press.
He declares that the objept in the re
moval of the Commissioners is to secure
the registration of rebel voters in Balti
more. That is a lie, for the utterance of
which there is and can be no possible
excuse. From day to day it was an
nounced for weeks together, during the
summer, in every newspaper in the
country, that the registration of voters
in the city of Baltimore was proceeding
according to law, under registration
officers appointed, not by the Police
Commissioners, butby other and proper
legal authority. With the registration
of voters in the city these Commission
ers have nothing to do. But they have
the power of appointing the judges of
election and all the police of the city
In the late municipal election the judges
thus appointed refused to permit legal
voters to cast their ballots, and a large
(.i'fra police force, which had been sworn
in for the occasion, was employed to
keep Conservative voters away from
the polls. It is for this infamous de
sign to prevent a free election by the
duly qualified voters of Baltimore city,
all of whom have taken the “ iron-clad
oath ” in good faith, that the Police
Commissioners have been summoned
by Governor Swann to show cause why
they should not be removed from office.
Rebels have not been registered in
Baltimore, and thousands who are just
ly entitled to vote, have refused to take
the infamous oath which is there ex
acted ; but the Radicals know that
enough Conservative Union men have
been registered as voters to defeat the
“ torch and turpentine ” disunion can
didates for Congress and the State legis
lature. If the present corrupt Police
Commissioners are removed, and hones 4
men putin their stead, judges of elec
tions who will regard their oaths of of
fice will be appointed. To prevent the
Governor from exercising the power of
removal, which is expressly granted
him by the act creating the offices, the
Radicals of Baltimore threaten to fight,
and Forney calls on the Radicals of the
North to aid the rowdy revolutionists
of that city in the inauguration of a
civil war, which would bankrupt the
nation and deluge the streets of every
northern city, town and village with
blood.
We publish elsewhere the report of
the interview of a body of prominent
citizeus of Baltimore with Governor
Swann, and also the incendiary reso
lutions of the Radical Convention. The
committee who waited on the Gover
nor represent seven-eighths of the voters
of Baltimore—the Radicals who passed
tiie resolutions to which we refer rep
resent onc-cighth. In case a fight en
sues in consequence of the action of
Governor Swann, we think the Con
servative Union men of Baltimore can
dispose of their opponents without
any help. Should the Radicals of the
North attempt to interfere, they will
find work euough to do before they get
as far as Baltimore.
The Harrisburg Telegraph concludes
the infamous article to which we have
alluded with a brutal threat against the
President of the United .States. Speak
ing of the probability of his aiding
Governor Swann in the suppression of
the contemplated insurrection it says :
If a faithless President attempts to make
Maryland the theatre of his further usur
pations, or invades Baltimore to violate
Constitutional State law, we must not be
slow in finding out how to act. Indeed, we
begin to believe that it is time for the men
who saved the government from the slave
holders’ war, to prepare to save it again
from a tool of the ex-slaveholders. We
once thought it necessary to secure the
pe..ce of the country that Jell'. Davis be
hung. It is our opinion that we erred in
this thought; and we believe now that
peace would be best perpetuated by throt
tling Andy Johnson.
The law of the State of Maryland by
which the office of Police Commission
ers was created, expressly declares that
these officials are liable to removal at
any time whenever they may be found
interfering in politics, by the Legisla
ture when in session, “or hg the Gov
ernor during the recess."
The right of Governor .Swann to re
move the corrupt and perjured Police
Commissioners of Baltimore is plain ;
and liis duty in the premises is no less
clear. Should the Radicals rise in in
surrection, it would be his duty to sup
press the revolt. If he should call on
the President of the United States for
assistance, that official would be bound
to furnish it.
It is under such circumstances
that the State organ of the Radical
party in Pennsylvania uses the above
revolutionary language. In case the
conflict should come, every man in the
nation who lias a proper regard for his
own rights under our form of free Gov
ernment would be in duty bound to
stand by the Piesident, and to take up
arms in defence of the Constitution.
The success of the Radical revolution
ists would be the end of our Republican
institutions, and the people would cease
to elect their rulers. Should such a
struggle be inaugurated by the Radicals
we would have no fear of the result.
The punishment meted out to their
leaders by an indignant and outraged
people would be a warning that would
not be forgotten for ages to come.
The Fish-Way Completed
We are gratified to learn, from the
Wrightsville Star, that there is a fair
prospect of a free passage of shad and
other fish up the Susquehanna, during
the next season. The Star says:
“ The schute or fish-way in the dam be
low this place has been completed by the
Susquehanna canal company, and is now
ready for the purpose for which it was de
signed. We suppose the shad will give it a
trial on their next annual migratory fresh
water tour up our stream the ensuing
spring. If there were any young shad to
descend this fall, as they were won’t to do
before dams were built in the Susquehanna,
they could notify their old folks when they
arriveiit home in shaddom, that the track
is clear.”
The Texas House of Representatives
has rejected the Constitutional Amend
ment by a vote of 67 to 5. They will be
repudiated by every Southern State.
The Official Tote for Governor.
Below we give the official vote for
Governor as we find it stated in the
Harrisburg Telegraph. It professes to
be correct, and is full except that from
Pikecounty, where only tbemajorlty for
Ciymer is reported. We also give the
official vote for McClellan and Lincoln :
* o
* g -g u
fl • a • > o •
COUNTIES. 8o ®0 !» 5,0
e > O:> S -
" o SO
I I 5 i c I
Adams 2612 3016 2910 3126
Allegheny 21519 12414 20511 12795
Armstrong 3528 3211 3758 3078
Beaver 3237 2304 3310 2385
Bedford 2336 2752 2591 2835
Berks 6710 13266 7121 13288
Blair 3292 2686 3520 2768
Bradford 6865 3007 7134 3091
Bucks 6436 7335 6805 7399
Butler 3475 2974 3544 3061
Cambria 2244 3036 2643 3295
Cameron 325 232 374 303
Carbon 1721 2251 1906 2339
Centre 2817 3399 3094 3565
Chester 8446 5987 1776 2813
Clarion 1730 2SS3 S5OO 6221
Clearlield. 1510 2801 1650 2786
Clinton I 1666 2135 1754 2337
Columbia I 1914 3467 1965 3583
Crawford 16441 4526 6714 4969
Cumberland , I 3604 4354 4030 4576
Dauphin [ 5444 4220 5691 4301
Delaware 3664 2145 3647 2262
EUf 348 8351 3761 916
Erie 1 6911 3722] 7237! 3951
Fayette j 3221 4126 3569 ' 4359
Forest 85 62] 100 76
Franklin 3562 38211 42519 4106
Fulton ' 694 9061 775 1055
Gre ne 1 1583 3074' 1699 3220
Huntingdon ! 3321 2477' 3248 2239
Indiana j 4320 2197] 44.58 2109
Jefferson 1820 1877 2015! 1912
Juniata I 1437 1753. 1516 1814
Lancaster -14470 j 8448 14592 5592
Lawrence 1 3408' 1389 ! 3560 1410
Lebanon : 3780! "779 4194 2696
Lehigh 39us 5920 4159 5731
Luzerne 7645 0045 8733 12387
Lycoming ! 3400,14207 3871 4448
McKean i 707! 652 877. 714
Mercer j 42201 3569 4416 3757
AlifUin 16431 1718 1725. 1835
Monroe j 685; 2698 705, 2699
Montgomery ! 6872] 7943 7286, 8342
Montour 1130 1496 1131! 1523
Northampton ! 3726! 6944 355!1! 6870
Northumberland ! 2915] 3608, 3:1.81 33-19
Ferry ] 2406, 2446! 2531, 2495
Philadelphia ;55797;44032 51205 : 48817
Pike 1 260, 1180, 724
Potter j 1390 680' 1346 620
■Schuylkill I 7S5i; 0540 , 8793 10514
Somerset ! 27S8| 1719, lBl2j 1326
Snyder j 1679, 1368 3(162] 1759
Sullivan 369 660 436- 761
Susquehanna 4203 2959 4429, 2981
Tioga ] 4673 J 534 4701 1628
L moil ! 194.5 1352! 1991' 1278
\ enungo ] 8,849 8341 4409,' 3492
" arren 2541 1.50.5; 2637' 1.572
Washington j 495i] 4559 4977! 4712
Wayne 2274! 8989] 2857 2SS3
Westmoreland 4650 59771 5046 6113
Wyoming 1337 1402 1 1408 1499
York j 5568 8.500, .5896 8780
Total
otal Lincoln vote..
“ McClellan vote.
Lincoln's majority
Total Geary vote.
“ Clymer vote
Geary 's majority
A Lecture on Lying.
The New York Times , which, amid
all its now and then
shows some signs of decency and a
sense of honest shame at the infamous
lies and frauds of its party, reads its
Radical in Pennsylvania
a lecture on Ij ing. It says:
“ ft would be ,i convenient thing, if, after
the close of a political campaign, those par
tisan papers and politicians that havefound
it necessary to propagate falsehoods and
slanders about their opponents, could lie in
duced to make a general confession of their
misdeeds in this respect. There would be
strong moral arguments in favor of the
custom, and we do not see that anv valid
objection could be made to it. It'would
be better, it is true, if they would not
concoct such falsehoodsduring political can
vasses ; but what hope is there of violent
and narrow-minded partisans attaining
such aheighthot virtue as is implied in their
adhering to truth, when falsehood will better
serve their ends? But after the inventions
have served their purposes—after their
party has achieved success, who, we ask,
should not the inventors make a clean
breast, and correct the errors of belief or
fact into which they have led the public?
A study of the Pennsylvania newspapers,
and oi the political speeches delivered in
Pennsylvania,during thelatecampaign has
led to these remarks. The great excitement
of the campaign and the tierce rivalry of
parties to achieve success, led the more
unprincipled partizans to indulge in the
utmost violence of language, and to make
charges against their opponents with per
fect recklessness as to their truth. We
observe now that a great number of the
grosser statements have been proven to be
lalse, and that in some cases tliev have been
brought home to the parties 'who were
originally guilty oi them. One of the
worst oj these got spread in the
form oi a telegram all over the
country just before the election. We
were told that at a certain Democratic meet
ing in a Pennsylvania town, a prominent
politician delivered an eulogy upon Booth,
the assassin, in which among other things,
he said that “Switzerland had her Winkei
ried, Scotland her Bruce, and America her
Booth, to riil them of tyrants.” Of course
this was a fine electioiTeering card, which
was made good use of, and doubtless ser
ved its purpose during the canvass. But
it turns out that no such sentiment was ut
tered by the speaker to whom it was attri
buted, neither at the meeting referred to
nor anywhere else.
Wo instance this as but one in a thou
sand cases of similar character, munv of
them equally, effective and equally false.
W e really think it would be an excellent
thing if, as soon as the lies oan do no more
service, ail parties guilty in such mutters
would} make a general confession for the
public benefit, now ami hereafter. It would
set people right about munv matters in
which they are now grievously misled.
Will the Radical newspapers of this
State take the advice of the Xew York
Times, and ease their consciences by
owning up to just a few of the innumer
able and infamous lies they swore to
during the recent campaign ? Will they
recant one of a thousand undone? Will
they take back the single one instanced
by the Times’ We ask the Express,
which was so busy in circulating it
after it was authoritatively denied. We
request it to do so, and assure it that if
it does it will disappoint us by exhibit
ing a degree of decency to which we
now believe it to be a total stranger.
Let it obey the Times, and admit that
it lied knowingly and wilfully in regard
to that Bedford despatch.
Revolutionary Resolutions of the Radi
cals In Baltimore.
The following resolutions were adopt
ed by the Radicals of Baltimore on
Thursday night. By the law creating
the office of Police Commissioners of
that city, they are liable to be summa
rily removed for interfering in political
affairs, by a concurrent vote of the two
houses of the Legislature, or ü bg the
Governor during the recess.’ 1 ' Their
case is not triable in the Courts. The
resolutions below will show the ani
mus of the Radicals, and their resolve
to carry the next election by fraud, or
by force, if need be :
Resolved, That, in the judgment of this
convention, the attempt of the Government
at the suggestion of rebels, to control the
coming election, by tbo removal of our
police commissioners, without a trial by
jury, the birthright of American citizens, is
a usurpation of authority never before at
tempted in Maryland, and will bo resisted
by force by every loyal man in the city.
Resolved , That we rely upon the present
board of police to maintain their position,
and not to surrender the loyal interests of
Maryland into the hands of traitors from
any fear of disturbance or contlict, but to
trust the loyal men of the city to bring
them triumphantly through any revolu
tion which the Governor may inaugurate.
Resolved, That if the police commission
ers have been guilty of official misconduct,
the Courts are open, and the fact may be
judicially determined ; but the loyal men
of Baltimore will not submit to any rash
attempt to set justice aside for the sake of
accomplishing a partisan purpose.
Resolved , That we recommend the wards
to organize, that the people of this city may
not again be taken by surprise by the men
who perpetrated the outrage of April 19th
The resolutions were adopted, cheers and
other demonstrations of delight being given
as they were read. ° °
The Banner County
The editor of the Fulton Democrat
claims that Fulton is the banner Dem
ocratic county of the State. The Radi
cals made a desperate fight, yet the re
sult was the largest Democratic major
ity ever given. A look at the figures
convinces us that “Little Fulton ” is
entitled to be called the banner county.
We know her Democracy, and there is
no truer band in the State. They did
nobly and are worthy of all praise.
The Baltimore Police Commissioners.
Their Action In the Late Election--Ap
peal to the Governor for their
Removal.
[Reported for the Baltimore Sun.)
The committee of twenty-five citizens
of Baltimore, appointed by the City
Conservative Convention. (specially
called, for the purpose,) to prefer
charges before the Governor against
the Police Commissioners, for official
misconduct at the late municipal elec
tion, yesterday visited Annapolis for
that purpose.
The committee had in their posses
sion a memorial of citizens of Baltimore,
which was stated to be 120 feet in length,
and to contain eight thousand names,
in double columns, all of which were
obtained in two days. The memorial
alleges that the Commissioners of Police
have been guilty of “official misconduct”
in the appointment, on political grounds,
of judges of election, their clerks,
and special policemen, at the recent
municipal election, in violation of the
provisions of the police law ; that said
judges of election, at the recent muni
cipal election, refused to receive the
votes of legally qualified voters, or to
place their ballots in a box for rejected
ballots, as required by the police law.
and that said commissioners connived
at said violation of law; that said com
missioners sustained the action of tbe
judges of election in usingunoflicial and
inaccurate printed lists of the regis
tered voters of 1565, by which many
thousands of citizens were disfran
chised ; that said commissioners sus
tained the judges of election in ordering
the arrest of citizens on election day for
insisting upon having their votes placed
in one or other of tbe boxes required by
law to be used ; that said commission
ers gave orders to the police justices not
to release any person so arrested, or to
give them a hearing, or to take bail
until the close of the polls on election
day*, and until it was too late for them
to deposit their votes; that certain
judges of election refused to open the
ballot-boxes and eouut the ballots pub
licly, as required by law, with the sanc
tion of said commissioners; that said
commissioners have made removals
from the body of the police force, and
appointments therein, exclusively with
reference to the political opinions ofthe
persons removed and appointed, in
violation of law ; that said police com
missioners, notwithstanding the many
gross violations of law by judges ofelec
tion, have not removed any of said
judges, but propose to keep them in
office, and to confine to them the im
portant election for State and Federal
officers, which is to take place in No-‘
vembernext; that said commissioners
have also been guilty of other gross
“official misconduct,” ifcc., for the com
mission of which the law makes it the
duty of the Governor, in the recess of
the Legislature, to remove said police
commissioners and to appoint others in
their places.
To sustain these charges, the com
mittee visiting Annapolis had in their
possession a large package of affidavits,
which had been procured for the pur
pose.
On arriving at Annapolic, the com
mittee proceeded immediately to the
Executive Chamber. Geo. \V. Her
ring, Ksq., who had been selected to
present the memorials and affidavits of
the committee then addressed His Kx
cellency Governor Swann as follows :
ADDHKSS TO TIIK IiOVKRNOII.
Governor Hwnnn : A majority of the people
of Baltimore, feeling aggrieved at the result
of the late election held in that city, con
vened primary meetings and selected dele
gates to a convenlion, which elected one
gentleman from each ward to form a com
mittee to lay before you this memorial, and
evidence ot the manner in which that elec
tion was conducted, The chairman of that
committee appointed a committee of live
for that purpose, of which I have the honor
to be one.
You must be aware that the efi'ect of that
election was, that only about one-eighth of
the citizens of Baltimore were allowed to
participate in the election. I am not a law
yer, but you understand that these elections
are carried on by means of police commis
sioners, who appoint judges of elections,
clerks, Ac. The law specifically states the
mode in which these officials are to be ap
pointed, ami we have given you evidence
in these documents before you that in inanv
eases the law was not conformed to; in
fact, open violations of the law in that re
spect were winked at by the police commis
sioners.
Besides, sir, we who were not registered
in lS(»f), and who, consequently, were not
allowed to vote, in accordance with At
torney-General Randall’s opinion, asked
that our votes should be recorded in some
shape for future reference ami purposes,
but a rejected ballot-box was not to be
found in the precincts. The inalienable
right of tile ballot-box, which belong to
every free white man, was taken away by
these commissioners, and the law, sir,*r be
lieve, gives you the prerogative, in case
sufficient evidence is shown of their mal
feasanee, to remove them; and we, repre
senting seven-eighths of the population of
Baltimore, ask you in your wisdom, rely
ing upon your known patriotism and de
cision of character, and also of your well
known disposition to do what is right and
just to the entire community, to relieve us
from this incubus.
If this thing is allowed to go on we have
no rights A large proportion of the tax
payers of Baltimore have no rights, and in
belmlf of these seven-eighths ot the entire
population of Baltimore we appear before
you to-day.
There was a time when, perhaps, this
system of tilings could bo tolerated, when
the land was deluged with fratriridal blood,
when civil war spread its devastating
Raines over our country; lmt now, when
“grim-visagod war has smoothed his
wrinkled front,” it is time that these high
.martial measures should cease. But tor
the mere purpose of subserving the selfish
interests of party—not for the good of the
community, not” for the good of this State,
it is endeavored to perpetuate this system
of exclusion, in utter disregard ofthe rights
of the Majority of our citizens. We repre
sent here different parties, Union men, men
who were known as Union men during the
war, and also another class style by our
foes “.Southern sympathizers.'* *r belonged
to the latter class, but on that account we
are not to be ostracised nor deprived ofthe
legitimate exercise of our just and inaliena
ble rights as freemen of a uow united coun
try. Frederick the Great, we are told, in a
memorable instance made aj nobleman of a
peasant who had defended his homestead
against one of the King’s own soldiers, but
the radical element will not make noble
men of us, but would persecute us to the
extremest issue, even to that of perpetual
disfuuchisement.
We place this matter in your hands, and
solicit you to take immediate action upon
it, as there seems to be a determination on
the part of the radical element that theelec
tions shall be all in their favor. How they
mean to do it, T cannot say; but we know
from experience that there is scarcely any
means, however questionable, to which
they will not descend or resort, to attain
their ends. They are your enemies, and
the enemies of the bos r t interests of the
community. I do not know what policy
they intend to maintain. They vote tor
measures in Congress, and on the stump in
Maryland they say they will not apply. In
conclusion, we ask you to lake urgent and
prompt measures in behalf of those we rep
resent, ami we rely on your nobleness arid
impartiality of character to do us justice in
the examination. Our memorial is signed
by over ten thousand names, collected in
less than two davs.
TIIE (iOVEIINOtt's ItESI'ONsU.
The following is a verbatim report of the
reply of Governor Swann :
Mr. Chairman, and dcntlrmcn of the Com
mittee: I regret most exceedingly the cause
which has brought you here to-day. You
must recollect that ! am Governor of the
whole State of Maryland, and not of a part.
In the discharge of my official duties here]
I can know no party nor no interest in this
State but the interest of the whole State of
Maryland.
Coming as you do, gentlemen, represent
ing this large element of our population,
(pointing to the memorial and other docu
ments laid before him by the committee,)
with affidavits and testimony which you
ask me to examine, I am bound to enter
tain you with that respect and that consid
eration due to so large an element of our
population.
It would be unbecoming in ine to refer
either to the past or the present. I am here
to examine the testimony which you have
laid before me, and I am bound to dispose
of that testimony as becomes the duty ol an
impartial judge. The constitution of this
State must be respected, the laws of this
•State must be executed without fear, favor
or affection ; and I can only say, gentle
men, that I will give a prompt hearing to
the application you make to me here to
dav; and in the position that I occupy I
shall endeavor to see that under the con
stitution and laws of your State the rights
—all the rights—of every citizen, from the
highest to the humblest, must be respected.
The address of Mr. Herring and the reply
of Governor Swann were listened to with
the profound interest due to the great im
portance of the subject by all who were
present, either as parties to or spectators of
the proceedings in the Executive Chamber.
At the close of the formal addresses the
members of the committee exchanged per
sonal greetings with the Governor, and en
gaged in quiet conversation with him upon
the subject which occasioned their presence
at Annapolis.
The committee returned to to Baltimore
about four o’clock, feeling a high degree of
confidence in the ultimate success of their
efforts to procure for themselves and their
fellow-citizens that just equality of civil
rights whioh lie at the foundation of all
good government, social fraternity and
business prosperity.
COMMISSIONERS CITED TO APPEAR.
The Police Commissioners received a
communication from the Governor, notify
ing them of the application made for their
removal, and citing them to appear before
him on Monday next, to show cause why
such removal should not take place.
MARYLAND.
lh© Case of the Baltimore Police Com*
mlialonen.
Hearing Before Governor Kwann—The
Postponed nntU Friday.
Proclamation of the Governor Against
the Intended Rebellion.
Baltimore, Oct. 22. —Tbe hearing of
charges against Police Commissioners com
menced this morning at Annapolis, before
Governor Swunn, in the Executive Cham
ber. The case was opened by the Governor
making a statement. He said that beforo
taking up the case he desired to correct a
statement that he had seen published, that
ho had proposed a compromise. Ho had
made no compromise. When ho found it
necessary in examining into the conductor
a State officer, he would do it in tho shape
of instructions commanding them to obey
the laws. He could make no compromise
of the laws of tho State.
The Governor said ho repudiated the
charge that had been made that the Gov
ernor ofthe State was associated witli rebels
and rebel sympathizers. He was in favor
of a prompt reconstruction of the States
upon the basis of loyalty. lie could not
recognize that any State was out of tho
Union, and he was opposed to forcing negro
suffrage and negro equality upon an un
willing people in any State without their
consent. For this difibronco of opinion, ho
said, he was denounced as a rebel sympa
thizer and a traitor. He would also notice,
he said, another fact: Before this investiga
tion had been entered upon, or beforo any
intimation had been given as to what his
judgment might be, military organizations
were being inaugurated in Baltimore in
opposition to anticipated action, and threats
had been holdout of invasion of the Slate
by parties living beyond its limits. He
warned all engaged in such efforts to incite
the people of Baltimore to a resistance of
the laws of tho State that they would be
hold to a strict accountability. He said lie
would now take up the caso with an entire
freedom from all partisan bias.
Mr. Sterling, of tho counsel for the Com
missioners, then proceeded to read the re
ply of the Commissioners, in wliicli they
take the ground that the power of removal
conferred upon tho Governor gives him no
power to try them for official misconduct,
and that he can ouly do so after such
charges have been proven by a court of
competent jurisdiction.
Messrs. Schley and Lntrobe, for tho peti
tioners, maintained tho jurisdiction of the
Governor, and evinced their readiness to
argue tho question.
Governor Swann said that, after mature
reflection, lie was satisfied that the law gave
him tho power, and made it his duty to in
vestigate and pass upon charges of miscon
duct against the Stato officers, and therefore
he maintained that lie had jurisdiction in
this case. The counsel for thoComniission
ers then announced that their mission was
at an end, and withdrew.
A tier consultation with tho counsel for
the petitioners, the Governor appointed
Wednesday next to try tho case, when
witnesses will bo summoned to appear.
[SECO N O I)F.SPATCH.]
Baltimore, Oct. 22—Evening.—Tho erase
ofthe Police Commissioners has been post
poned till Friday. General Canbv, com
mander ofthe department, came here to
day from Washington and had an inter
view with the Mayor and Police Commis
sioners. It is understood that tho object of
his visit was to inform himself as to Iho
condition of affairs in this city.
There has been considerable excitement
in tiio city to-day in reference to the case of
tho Police Commissioners. Upon tho an
nouncement of tho fact that tho Governor
maintained his jurisdiction in the case, and
his determination to investigate and try the
charge of official misconduct, some slight
manifestations of excited feeling look place,
and one person was knocked down near
the headquarters of tho Unconditional
Union party. Nothing more serious limn
this slight affair has occurred, however,
and there is at present no reason to expect
that the public peace will be disturbed fur
ther.
Tho following proclamation has to-night
been issued by Governor Swann :
State ok Maryland, [
Ex ECUTI V E I)KPA HTM ENT. )
It has come to tho knowledge
of the Executive that military and other
combinations are now forming in the City
of Baltimore for the purpose of obstructing
and resisting the execution of tho laws of
this Stale; and,
UVtercas, There is reason to believe Unit
similar combinations are attempted to be
organized in oilier States, with tho intention
of invading the soil of the State of Mary
land, to deprive her citizens of their just
rights under tho law, and to control the
people of the Slate by violence and intimi
dation,
Now, therefore, I, Thomas Swann, Gov
ernor of the State of Maryland, do, by tiiis,
my proclamation, solemnly warn the lead
ers of all such illegal combinations against
tiie peace and dignity of the State that, in
tlie event of riot and bloodshed growing
out of these revolutionary proceedings, they
will be held to the strictest accountability,
and the power of the State will be exhaust
ed to bring them to prompt and merited
punishment.
Given under my hand and tho great seal
of the State of Maryland, this, tho 23d day
of October, A. D. lsiiG.
[Signud.l
By tlitj (lowriinr,
John \V. Caktku, Secretary of State
Thomas Swann
Fast Transportation of Freight,
On Monday the Baltimore aud Ohio
Railroad Company put in operation a
fast freight train, which they designate
the “Baltimore and Ohio Lightning
Express.” The Sun says fifty new and
substantial cars have been built for this
line, and they are regarded as admira
bly adapted to the purposes for which
they arc designed. Each car is built
upou what are termed, in railroad par
lance, “passenger trucks.” These will
insure both speed and safety, while the
cars themselves are constructed in the
strongest possible manner and hand
somely painted and lettered.
The “Lightning Express” is de
signed especially to accommodate two
large interests, namely, the oyster and
the dry goods trade. Baltimore, as is
well known, is the great oyster mart of
the country, millions of capital being
invested in that trade alone. Site also
supplies dry goods to a large portion of
the West and Southwest.
The Sun learns that arrangements
have been fully effected by the Balti
more and Ohio Company with all its
connecting lines in the West to push
this business through with all possible
speed. The time on oysters to Cincin
nati is designed to be less than thirty
hours from the period of departure from
Baltimore, aud to Chicago fifty hours;
to Columbus, 21 ; Indianapolis, W
Parkersburg aud Wheeling, 19; while
to Duyton, Toledo, Detroit, St. Louis,
Louisville aud other points west, north
west and southwest, the transit will be
proportionately rapid.
This movement on the part of the
Baltimore and Ohio road will probably
be responded to by the establishment of
fast freight trains on all our great north
ern railroads. The day seems not to be
distant when the western merchant
who stops “between trains” to see a
friend on his route will be beaten home
by the goods he has just bought in one
of our eastern cities.
Banks “arc” Nominated,
The Radical, Red River drunkard
Banks has been renominated for Con
gress. He proved himself to be entire
ly sound on the negro, and his big
drunk at Portland and all his other vices
were forgotten by his hypocritical, Pu
ritanical constituency. Massachusetts
will have a nice delegation in the lower
House of the next Congress. Bottled
up-Beast Butler aud drunken Banks,
will be fit representatives of the fore
front of “ the party of great moral
ideas.”
After the returns come in from the
“Hub of the universe," John Covode, a
representative of the intelligence of the
Radical party in Pennsylvania, who
said in a speech during the late canvass>
reterring to the charge that he had been
importing votes: “the allegation is
false and the Alligator knows it,” and
who spells staff with three fs, will be
able to repeat his celebrated telegram r
“ Glory to God ! Banks are elected !”
Congress may plume itself in pride*
when two such heroes as Butler and
Banks are among Us member?. Would
it not be well, under modern, political
ideas, to leave all th,e rest out, and run
Congress by the heroes of Big Bethel
and Red River,