The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1842-07-23
To the SVssig Voters Of
Maryland.

ulnB resolutions OF the wing Contra
Committee it is perhaps proper that they
should accompany them by brief refer.
ence to some Of the reasons which have
led TO their adoption. Some NAV pro.
badly be inclined to think that such action
at this time is prcmature--that the peo-
pie required repose after the arduUus and
exciting struggle from which they have SO
recently emerged. IL is true llpt aronq
the hopes which rested on the result of
the great contest of 1910, not the least
was that which promised us a temporary
respite from those scenes OF political strife
in which, for twelve years we have been
SO increasingly engaged. 1t is true that
the country did require repose, and that
in the victory which we then achieved, I'VE
believed we had attained it, and we rejoi-
ccd in this triumph, not so much in the
vain glorious spirit of mere parllsans in
tent only upon the spoils Of the victor,bu,
as expressing the emphatic judgment of a
vast majority of the people in behalf Of
the great principles when our cause in
VOWED. 1t was to the honest application
of these principles in the administration
of the Government, that we confidently
looked not only for securing that repose
which the country so much needed, but
for restoring that prosperity from which
she had been SO long astranged.
And if after fair trial of these princi-
pies, we had failed in the accomplishment
of these obJects-or they Lad fallen short
of the power to produce the promised
good, and the continued embarrassments
of the country should be thus traced to
the inadequacy of the means 10 the attain
mcnt Of the end proposed, then We might
indeed be upbra!ded with the tallacy Of
our predictions, and feel constrained 10
surrender the county 10 the crude eXpe-
rlmentS ui our adYeisaiIGS. But " hru so
far from this being the case the FAC. :, no.
iOrious that all our great measures OF re-
Lief, the systems for which we have SO
long laborsd arc, or are about TO be Slran-
gled in their very birth by he odlous ap-
pllcalon OF the veto puWcr--a power The
frequent exercise OF which, contributed
so largely to the tide of Indignation that
swept away the past administration, ant,
when in addition to this we reflect that
these measures are thwared, these princi-
pies assaled, andrnrs relief arrested by
the very hand that stool pledged to their
support,-when in word we have lost
not only the opportunity NJ infusing our
policy into the administration, but have
lost it by the trcachcry of him 10 whom
we had entrusted its execution, we hold
that We should be rccreant to every i'm
pulse by which we have been hitherto
actuated, were we to stand idly by, wit
ness this Dissertation of cherished plinci-
Piles, and ignobly seek reposo when the
crisis calls so loudly for exerIion. When
such things come to pass we feel that the
time for action has arrived, and we feel
less hesitation in summoning the Wings
of Maryland to such course when we
witness as we daily DO, the flashes Of the
ancient spirit of the Wing cause bursting
forth in different sections of the Union,
and did we require any assurance Of that
cause, and the G orous principles which
it embodles, we should find it in the fact
that rejecting men every where are day
by day coming to the conclusion that the
country can never prosper until some of
those principles receive The practical sane
ton of the government. That sophisical
and most mischicvous doctrine which for
so long a time under the delusive guise
of free trade or by the more insiduous
appclation of judicious tariff has cram
ped the industry and consumed the re-
sources Of the country, may be now reck-
oned as one Of those exE loded fallacies
whose epitaph may be read hereafter a.
mong the other monuments of abstrae-
tions and notification. Whilst every day
is strengthening the conviction that the
present depression in all branches Of A
mcrican industry can only be relieved,
and the public credit only restored by such
a tariff of duties as shall protect American
labor from foreign competition, and pro-
vide for the revenues of the country upon
such basis as to prevent the recurrence
of the humiliating condition to which her
credit is now reduced.
With such tariff. alfording both pro-
lection and revenue, in con- JUNCTION with
National Bank, competent to the dis
charge of all the fiscal duties to which
such an institution has proved itself adap-
ted, we may be restored to that prosperi-
ty which once accompanied those systems
ere yet the restles spirit of reform had
marred their fair proportions.
But it is in vain, fellow-citizens, for
us to indulge the hope of any conserva-
tive measures, so long as Executive pow
or of the Government rests in The faithless
hands which now WELD it. Whatever
may be the disposition of Congress
however thoroughly its legislation may
meet the wants and wishes of the nation,
they are destined to be thwarted and
oyerruled by the same influence to which
we have already alluded. Even while we
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