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The Registry Law (January 24th, 1866)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: Editorial expressing hope that legislators in Annapolis will dismiss all petitions to repeal or modify the Registry Law. Petitions being handed around to repeal the law are being signed by men who hate the Union, who wanted Maryland to secede or who hoped Gen. Lee would "liberate" the state. These men want restoration of the voting rights they "deliberately and voluntarily forfeited." The paper says there is constant evidence that rebels and disloyal people in Maryland cannot forgive Union supporters and that if they once again are able to vote that "there is no guarantee for the future." These people should not receive the "rights and privileges of citizenship until assurance is given, that they will not be exercised to the detriment of public interest." Citizens must be sure that millions of dollars are not used to remunerate slaveholders or indemnify rebels for losses during the war. A reprint of part of an article from the Baltimore American refers to Rebel shopkeepers who have pictures of Lee, Davis and others in their windows and to Rebel soldiers who walk the streets in grey uniforms and are adored by "light-headed females." Some of these people are as defiant as ever and keeping them on "probation" is necessary. Repeal of the Registry Law can await a decision of the people "as the general question of suffrage."
Full DetailsMosebyites (January 24th, 1866)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: The article discusses the effort of the "Mosebyites" to initiate a repeal of the Registry Law and to hold a convention in Frederick to elect delegates to their Baltimore convention. The convention was poorly attended - not more than 80 people including Union men who went out of curiosity. Colonel Jacob M. Kunkel was elected chairman of the convention and the vice-presidents were Major General Anthony Kimmel and John Bartholow. The chairman suggested that if the Registry Law was not soon repealed that another war would begin. The convention decided to send a "mass delegation" from Frederick to the convention in Baltimore. This would consist of about 45 men.
Full DetailsThe Cemetery at Ball's Bluff (January 24th, 1866)
>From The Frederick Examiner; Frederick, MD
Summary: A Washington dispatch to the Boston Journal says Gov. Swann has written a patriotic letter to Col. Moore, Superintendent of the Military Cemetery at Ball's Bluff requesting that the Stars and Stripes not be flown over the cemetery as was originally planned. Gov. Swann owns the land on which the battle was fought and he says the local people don't want the flag.
Full DetailsNational Blessings (January 25th, 1866)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Comparison of the Repulican and Democratic parties on debt, suffrage and other issues
Full DetailsA Changed Man (January 25th, 1866)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Governor Swann was formerly a member of the Know Nothing Party
Full DetailsAgitate, Agitate (January 25th, 1866)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: Urges local citizens to speak up and demonstrate about the right to vote whether they are disfranchised or not
Full DetailsCounty Convention (January 25th, 1866)
>From The Democratic Advocate; Westminster, MD
Summary: The results of a local convention to send delegates to the Democratic Convention in Baltimore are presented; members support President Johnson’s “Reconstruction Party” and oppose the current Registry Law
Full DetailsDemocratic Convocation (January 25th, 1866)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: At a meeting of Democrats opposed to the "odious" Registry Law in Westminster, delegates were chosen to attend the Baltimore Convention.
Full Details"To Soldiers!" (January 25th, 1866)
>From The American Sentinel; Westminster, MD
Summary: Advertisement of Wm. P. Eaton & Co., Baltimore, offering to help soldiers obtain bounties.
Full DetailsNegro Suffrage (January 26th, 1866)
>From The Republican Citizen; Frederick, MD
Summary: The House of Representatives has voted to allow African Americans the right to vote in the District of Columbia. The Republican Citizen mentions that the Frederick Examiner posted the entire new law and recorded that Hon. Francis Thomas voted for it. The Citizen wonders where the Examiner's editor stands on this issue of Negro suffrage in Maryland.
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