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outrage on the part of Southern sympathizers.⁴⁷ On the
whole, intimidation rather than. violence was the cause of
many citizens failing to vote. The judges of election re-
ported only one case of military interference, that in the
Rockville District of Montgomery County. A second
election was held in this district according to the provisions
of the Convention Bill, but as the total county vote had
shown a sufficient Democratic majority to elect the three
candidates on that ticket without any doubt, the final result
was not much affected thereby.

Out of the total of 96 delegates elected, there were 61
Union men, nearly all pledged to unconditional emancipa-
tion, and 35 Democrats, coming mainly from the southern
part of the state.

Governor Bradford, immediately upon the receipt of
the official returns, issued a proclamation for the assem-
bling of the Convention on Wednesday, April 27, 1864.

The first act of the emancipation drama was now com-
plete. As we have attempted to show, the movement was
aided more by the general policy of armed restraint exer-
cised upon the Southern sympathizers of the state by the
National Government since the beginning of the war, than
by any of the above-mentioned instances of military inter-
ference. The radical Union program had been a success.

582, 639-40; ii, 915-6; iii, 1726, 1763. Scharf, "History of Mary-
land," iii, 579-80, gives an account of a most unfair system of chal-
lenging and questioning, aimed against those under suspicion of be-
ing Southern sympathizers. Also see Nelson, "History of Balti-
more," 551-2.

⁴⁷ Frederick "Examiner," April 13; "Sun," April 7; "Ameri-
can," April 7, 8.