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The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1864., [Electronic resource], The War news. (search)
portion of them had entered the town and robbed the citizens of a large amount of valuable property. The free State Constitution for The Abolition Convention was already in hand to get up a new free States government for Maryland. Directly it was announced that the emancipation constitution had been called, this convention met and nominated Thomas Swan, of Baltimore, for Governor, and Dr. C. C. Cox, of Talbot county, for Lieutenant-Governor. A letter from Baltimore says: Mr. Swann's past career in the State and city is well known as president for a long while of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad when it was being pushed through to the Ohio river, and subsequently as Mayor of Baltimore in Know-Nothing times.--Though at first holding back on the emancipation subject, and committing himself to a gradual system, he finally went over to the radicals under the pressure and exigency of immediate action, and secures a nomination which is equivalent to an election.--Dr. Cox is