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elect men of undoubted loyally prepared to take the oath requi[red] by that body.

The masses of the Southern people I am prepared to tr[ust]because I believe they have been deceived by ambitious [and]designing leaders. With Congress will rest the power to [pro]tect itself and the country against disloyal candidates seek[ing] admission into our National Councils.
I am for maintaining the integrity of the Unconditio[nal] Union party, which sustained the Government in its effort [to] put down this rebellion, and am for adjusting our dome[stic]
differences within our own lines. I am utterly opposed [to] universal negro suffrage and the extreme radicalism of cer[tain] men in Congress and in our own State, who have been st[art]ing to shape the platform of the Union party in the inter[est] of negro suffrage.
I look upon negro suffrage and the recognition of the po[st]in Congress to control suffrage within the States as the vir[tual]subordination of the white race to the ultimate control [and]
domination of the negro in the State of Maryland; and view of the action of certain extreme men in Congress,[in]three months past, upon the bill to introduce universal [[negro]]
suffrage into the District of Columbia, against the unani[mous]voice of the people--the enlarged Freedmen's Bureau bi[ll,] the civil rights bill, and, finally, the reconstruction schem[e]
the committee of fifteen, I consider the issue upon this [ob]ject of negro suffrage as well made in the fall elections,the most important that has ever been brought to the attention of the people of the State of Maryland.
I deny that the admission of the revolted States, by l[egal]representatives, subjects the reconstruction plan of the P[resi]dent to the charge that no guaranty has been secured for [the] future. The States asking admission have, by a constitutio[nal]amendment, granted universal freedom to the negro,they have further guaranteed, in another form, a repudia[tion]of the debts incurred by them in the rebellion. These g[aur]anties I deem as securing for the present all that can [be]reasonably asked.
In these views I believe I am sustained by the almost un[animous] voice of President Johnson's Cabinet, comprising many pr[omin]nent Republicans who have been the friends of both P[resi]dents Lincoln and Johnson.
I look upon the war now being waged upon President Jo[[hn]]son as ungenerous, unwise, and uncalled for, and I believe its longer continuance will greatly embarrass the national
[pros]perity by keeping alive a state of uncertainty and distrus[t in]the public mind, both North and South, certain to eventua[[l]]
financial trouble--affecting the tide of immigration now f[all]ing in upon us-the domestic commerce between the Stat[es] and exercising a most destructive and paralyzing influ[ence]generally upon all the great interests of the country.
I am, gentlemen, with great respect,
Your obedient servant,     
Thos. Swan
Annapolis, May 10, 1866
     
Position of Ex-Governor Bradford.
Messrs. Editors Baltimore American:
I observe in your paper this morning an extract from a [Ha]gerstown paper in reference to a public meeting to assenm[ble] there, in which I am advertised as among those whose a[tten]dance 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 "invited," and of course was "expected," which makes the matter decidedly worse for the revolutionists.-Balti[[more]]Transcript.

Congressional Misquotations from the p[ost]
are proverbial. Mr. Clay rarely had occasion [to]
depart from the realm of his affluent imaginat[ion] but we have been informed by a former honored [sena]tor of the Intelligencer, that on one occasion essayed to quote from Shakspeare the familiar sage-
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
[?]wise. We quote:
Shakspeare in the Senate.-Scripture, Shakspeare,[to] the old Greeks and Romans generally fair badly when [they] fall into the hands of Congressmen. There was an am[using]
illustration of this in the Senate, Thursday, When three[dis]tinguished Senators tried to give a familiar quotation [of]Shakspeare, and neither did it correctly. Mr. Doolittl[[e]]
Wisconsin, had described the different wings of the Rep[blic]an party-the universal suffrage party, led by Mr. Sum[ner]the universal confiscation party, led by Mr. Stevens; the
[uni]versal hanging party, led by Mr. Nye; and the universal [am]nesty-in-return-for-universal-suffrage party, led by Mr. Stev[ens]
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 way of correction:
White spirits and gray.
Mr. Cowan said there  were no white spirits in it. Mr.[Doo]little did not know; gave it up, and said he would trus[t]reporters to quote it aright. But the reporters did not take
the trouble. Mr. Doolittle was nearer right than either of his critics. Mr. Sumner failed to mix the colors correctly. Mr. Cowan was altogether wrong in insisting upon leavin[g]
the white spirits, though perhaps he meant, by way of [this] to insinuate that all the schemes described by Mr. Doo[little] were "colored" ones. the true rendering of the witte
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.[J].D.. Campbell was serenaded by a large number of his f[ellow] citizens on Wednesday night. He made a lengthy speech which he denounced the Radicals and declared his firmly
determined support of President Johnson and his policy

Raphael Semmes was, on Tuesday last, elected jud[ge] probate for Mobile county, Alabama.