Montgomery County Sentinel

Another Maryland Black Republican in the North—The Bell and Everett Party propose Fusion in Maryland.

At a Republican mass meeting in New York on Thursday night of last week, Wm. E. Coale, Grand Marshal of the Wide Awakes of Baltimore, was introduced and received with three Wide Awake cheers, waving of hats, &c. Mr. Coale proceeded to speak of the prospects of the Republican party in Maryland, and said they had lately received an accession of 2,000, openly in the field.

Mr. Coale, in the course of his remarks, made some interesting and important disclosures in regard to the Bell and Everett party of the State of Maryland. This party, which with so much unction is claimed to be National and Constitutional by its orators and press, it appears, did actually propose to the Black Republicans of Maryland that they should fuse with them. Mr. Coale said:

"They proposed to the Republicans of Maryland that they should fuse with them. The proposition was made that the Republicans place a certain number of their men on the electoral ticket, and that there should be a Union party to work against the Democracy. This proposition was brought before the Republican State Committee, and the reply was unanimous, that they were determined that their sentiments should be their own, and unmixed, and if those who made the proposition wished to come to them, they must come as Republicans. He was proud that the Republicans of Maryland had refused the intimacy of that party."

[Unable to obtain fusion with the Black Republican Sectional Party, this Union party, par excellence, has resorted to the despicable trick of printing a large number of tickets with the names of Lincoln and Hamlin over the Bell and Everett Electors, and have scattered them broadcast through the State, hoping by this means to secure its vote by fraud.

Mr. Coale's Estimate of the Republican strength.—Mr. Coale said, by a careful estimate of the Republican strength, Baltimore city would give 5000 votes for Lincoln, and the rest of the State 1000 more.—Baltimore Republican.