Wants Advice
Summary
Evidence is given of the lengths that registers will go to in order to give Maryland's Southern sympathizers the chance to vote. A former rebel soldier presented his personal pardon by President Andrew Johnson to a local Register and felt it entitled him to all the rights and privileges he had before the war. The Register came to consult in Frederick over whether in this case the soldier should be put on the voting list. It illustrates to what lengths the Registers "will go to serve the interests of the rebels." The Examiner says Gov. Swann has "outrageously insulted and offended" the people of Maryland and is "playing into the hands of traitors."
Transcript
WANTS ADVICE – We understand that one of Gov. Swann’s Registers for this county, came to town on Monday to get advice touching the right of a person to register who has been in the rebel army, but has in his pocket one of Andy Johnson’s pardons. This conscientious Register goes on the ground that the pardon reinstates said rebels to all the rights and immunities he enjoyed as a citizen prior to the breaking out of the rebellion. – We do not know whether he got the advice he came for or not, but judging from the tone and character of the political opinion given to the Register a week or so ago by two lawyers of this city, we suppose he did. We allude to this circumstance to rely to show to what lengths some of the Registers would go to serve the interests of rebels, were they not afraid of incurring the judgment of the law, and to show how gravely Gov. Swann erred when he stepped ____ from the plain paths of duty to play into the hands of traitors. A murmur of indignation is swelling up from the loyal people of this county; and if there is such a thing as corrupt and perfidious officials ever receiving the rebuke their political crimes merit, Gov. Swann may rest assured that he wil not escape the righteous anger of the people he has so outrageously insulted and offended.
Article Source
Newspaper: The Frederick Examiner
Publication Date: August 22nd, 1860
Page/Column: 2
Town: Frederick, MD
County: Frederick
Subjects
- Politics
- Civil Liberties
