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I am for keeping the control of this Government in the hands of loyal men exclusively, now and at all times.

I am for the reconstruction of the Union by admitting the revolted States to representation in Congress, provided they elect men of undoubted loyalty prepared to take the oath required by that body.

The masses of the Southern people I am prepared to trust, because I believe they have been deceived by ambitious and designing leaders. With Congress will rest the power to protect itself and the country against disloyal candidates seeking admission into our National Councils.

I am for maintaining the integrity of the Unconditional Union party, which sustained the Government in its efforts to put down this rebellion, and am for adjusting our domestic differences within our own lines. I am utterly opposed to universal negro suffrage and the extreme radicalism of certain men in Congress and in our own State, who have been striving to shape the platform of the Union party in the interests of negro suffrage.

I look upon negro suffrage and the recognition of the power in Congress to control suffrage within the States as the virtual subordination of the white race to the ultimate control and domination of the negro in the State of Maryland; and in view of the action of certain extreme men in Congress, for three months past, upon the bill to introduce universal negro suffrage into the District of Columbia, against the unanimous voice of the people——the enlarged Freedmen's Bureau bill——the civil rights bill, and, finally, the reconstruction scheme of the committee of fifteen, I consider the issue upon this subject of negro suffrage as well made in the fall elections, and the important that has even been brought to the attention of the people of the State of Maryland.

I deny that the admission of the revolted States, by loyal representatives, subjects the reconstruction plan of the President to the charge that no guaranty has been secured for the future. The States asking admission have, by a constitutional amendment, granted universal freedom to the negro, and they have further guaranteed, in another form, a repudiation of the debts incurred by them in the rebellion. These guaranties I deem as securing for the present all that can be reasonable asked.

In these views I believe I am sustained by the almost united voice of President Johnson's Cabinet, comprising many prominent Republicans who have been the friends of both Presidents Lincoln and Johnson.

I look upon the war now being wage upon President Johnson as ungenerous, unwise, and uncalled for, and I believe that its longer continuance will greatly embarrass the national prosperity by keeping alive a state of uncertainty and distrust in the public mind, both North and South, certain to eventuate in financial trouble——affecting the tide of immigration now flowing in upon us——the domestic commerce between the States and exercising a most destructive and paralyzing influence generally upon all the great interests of the country.

I am, gentlemen, with great respect,
Your obedient servant, THOS. SWANN.
ANNAPOLIS, May 10, 1866.

Position of Ex-Governor Bradford.
Messrs. Editors Baltimore American: 
I observe in your paper this morning an extract from a Hagerstown paper in reference to a public meeting to assemble there, in which I am advertised as among those whose attendance is expected. You will oblige me by saying that such announcement is without authority. 
May 10, 1866  A. W. BRADFORD

The American lugubriously remarks that the Governor was "invited," and of course was "expected," which make the matter decided worse for the revolutionists.——Baltimore Transcript. 

CONGRESSIONAL MISQUOTATIONS from the post are proverbial. Mr. Clay rarely had occasion depart from the realm of his affluent imagination but we have been informed by a former honored editor of the INTELLIGENCER, that on one occasion essayed to quote from Shakspeare the familiar passage——
 
Let the galled jade wince, 
My withers are unwrung.

He was twice corrected by Mr. Preston, of South Carolina, but had it wrong at last. 

The Springfield Republican has a good hit in t[[rest cut off]] wise. We quote;

SHAKSPEARE IN THE SENATE—— - Scripture, Shakspeare, the old Greeks and Romans generally fair badly when they fall into the hands of Congressmen. There was an amusing illustration of this in the Senate, Thursday, when three distinguished Senators tried to give a familiar quotation from Shakspeare, and neither did it correctly. Mr. Doolittle Wisconsin, had described the different wings of the Republican Party——the universal suffrage party, led by Mr.Sumner the universal confiscation party, led by Mr.Stevens; the universal hanging party, led by Mr.Nye; and the universal amnesty-in-return-for-universal-suffrage party, led by Mr.Stevens. The attempt to unite these he described by a quotation from Shakspeare, putting it in this way:

Mingle, mingle, as they may,
Blue spirits and gray.

Mr.Sumner suggested, by the way of correction:

White spirits and gray.

Mr.Cowan said there were no white spirits in it. Mr. Doolittle did not know; gave it up, and said he would trust reporters to quote it aright. But the reporters did [[?go to]] the trouble. Mr. Doolittle was nearer right than either of the critics. Mr. Sumner failed to mix the colors correctly. Mr. Cowan was altogether wrong in insisting upon leaving the white spirits, though perhaps he meant, by way of it to insinuate that all the schemes described by Mr. Doolittle were "colored" ones. The true rendering of the [[?wi]] song is:

Black spirits and white
Blue spirits and gray,
Mingle, mingle, mingle
You that mingle may.

A DESPATCH from Hamilton, Ohio, states that Hon. D. Campbell was serenaded by a large number of his citizens on Wednesday night. He made a lengthy speech which he denounced the Radicals and declared his first determined support of President Johnson and his policies. 

RAPHAEL SEMMES was, on Tuesday last, elected judge probate for Mobile county, Alabama.

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