The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1841-12-18

FOR TIE CECIL WHIG.l

bloated with malice and revenge, attempts
with high handed injustice to obtain as
tendency over, & browbeata citizen against
whom wickedness has heretofore wanted
IA charge; it is time for the good and vir-
tuous TO see that the principles Of those
reared on their very hearth stones, become
not corrupted.
To animate 4 community celebrated for
their love Of valour, justice, and proprie-
ty, against cowardice, inquity, and indie
dency, to warn it Of The dangers springing
out of malice, wickedness, and every
mcanness, which degrades and dcbases the
character Of a man, whose heart is as dou-
bic as his face, is the purpose of this ar
tlcle; and if but succeed in inspiring the
people with all adherence for him, which
is SO justly his due, will lay down
pen with satisfaction, which had been ia
ken up with reluctance, and which had
been prostituted, but for its motives, by
the description of a character so dead to
honor, and So corrupt in principle.
Among the indecencies by which bad
citizens endeavor to irrtate those whose
superiority they feel, and envy, the articles
by which the Editor of the Cecil Wing,
has been assailed, are certainly of all 9TH
ers, the most extraordinary, and Improve
ked; nothing but the coolest malice would
have conceived, nor could any except the
most poisoned, and envenomcd DISPOSE
ton, have given them harbor; they are the
most wanton Of attacks, and their COW
ardly evasion Of locality, should at once
have designated the author; no man how
ever, is bound, nor has a right to insult
another upoa a suspicion, however well
founded, it was therefore the duty of the
Editor Of the Wing, after haring deter
mincd to offer such an insult to the author
Of those pieces, that none but the most
abject cowardice could rest under, TO OBJ
tain his name from ali official source; such
was the object Of both of his letters to
the Editor of the Gazette. appeal to the
public to say if iii this he did not sue
coed! and have lived to this day, to learn
that any man has right to demand a
challenge from another. Where in the
Code Of Honor is this principle TO be
found2 none but the most degraded fear
could have imagined SO base an advan-
tage; what?-wrte slanderous pieces over
ieigned name, and with false residence,
and refuse to discover the author, except
upon promise of the privilege of being
challenged! Such an outrage of honor,
dccency, and courage, could have origi-
mated with no otEcr man than the
one who wrote the address '.to the Pub
lie" The Editor Of the Wing, however,
procured the name Of the author, without
conceding so unfair an advantage, and in
manner which if it became me, should
say redounded little to their credit, or
courage, and much to his sagacily, as to
the determination of the degree Of force,
necessary for that purpose. No infer
ence that he intended challenge can be
! drawn from that sentence in his last letter
to the Editor OF the Gazette, which says
"YOu have no right to infer anything else
than that intended to hold him person.
ally responsibility for the difference be-
tween telling the Editor of the Gazette
what he has or has not right to expect,
is os different from telling the same to the
owner OF a certain Colt, which may vet
be ii. C means of his prostraton, as good
ness and sill! or virtue and enormity!-its
intention 'caS merely to acquaint the Edi-
tor of the Gazette, that he should no Ion
ger daily or delay, and that lie had no
right to draw an inference either to the
favour or discrcdit of the Editor of the
Wing. By what right could the Editor
OF the Gazette demand THAI slanderous,
anonymous stabbcr in the dark, should
lie concealed, unless forsooth he should
be granted all the privileges of the chal
lcnged party? READER answer by the
right of shameless impudcnt demand, con-
joined with fear! But even the author of
the address to the Public" had not been
sufficiently presumptuous to pretend his
expectation of challenge, rested upon
the ground Of the sentence referred to in
the last letter to the editor of the Gazette;
not at all-but because the bearer of the
letters at some time or other-and that
before he became member of a church,
carried or received an invitation, the last
resort of honorable men; nor can the
friends OF the owner OF the colt defend
him-as they do, by saying Devil
dering cloud in him, broods over the place
where intellect resides in other men-lor
this may well be imagined of one, whose
constant aim is to confound coura ge with
cowardce.
That he has been grossly and openly in
suited, presume cDen he willnot deny, and
the brave and chivalrous Andrew Jackson
has said "therc is No REPLY to liar, but
with RED lNK.o But what shall be said,
what defence shall be made of the cour-
age Of the man, who protesting to be
bound by the rules Of honor, courts the
interference of the police with the utmost
assiduity?-no other Interpretation, no
other construction of his motives, in wri-