The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1843-07-08

tnu0u0ted, 1t was Their GUtv 10 post
pouc the election aud submit the whole
question regarding the Senator. to the
people Of ll'e Safe in TIE next election
Ihat th"y have done; ard it is now
for the people To decide whether they
VIII shut lhemsel, Ps out for six YEAR,
from VII hope OF getting their share of the
proceeds of the Public LANDS.
We do not believe that The people of
THIS State are willing to be represented by
Senator adverse to tho distribution of
these proceeds: especially that they are
willing to elect Senator whose vote
may possibly be decisive Of tina, question
for six years in the Senate.
Maryland is the first State in the Uni
on which brought this question of Dis
trhu'on to the Fedora! Government.
Oar Legislature passed resolutions as
sorting the claim in 1920 That legisla.
turc addressed memorial to Congress
on the subject, which has been the ioun-
dalton of all the action since. From tlat
date, until Henry Clay became inlcn;iticd
with tho measure, gave it body, dimen-
| SONS and life, all parties in Maryland
stood up for our right to the Public
Lands: no party dared gainsay it. We
claimed the lands, from Conscientious
opinion of right, when we had no debt,
as belonging to the States-our State a
mongst the rcst-undcr the deeds of ces-
sion by which the United States got them.
All parties acquesced in this right /,
never lost its importance with any portion
,f Tho Doppl, until tI,o AZ ;.Lo
Statesman of Kentucky became its pa
tron. From that moment, party spirit
decrccd its abandonment by many who
had been It's friends; and thus it has
now come through the mere pcrvcrsi,v
OF parlzan antipathy, TO be the Wing
measure, when It's intrinsic merit ought I'd
make it the measure Of the country;
When the law for the distribution pas
sed, it was hutthc consummatiou of Ma
ryland's first wish-a compliance will,
her petition. We cannot believe that
party drill! can so cnthra the free minds
Of our people, tina, at the bidding Of any
party leader, they Viii rciinilrish theft;
right to this incstimah!e property.
The proceeds Of tho Public Lands ar
~
series of ten years, when we compute the
share of lh, S ate at one hundred and
iwerty thousand dollars IA year. Give II.
that sum and it pays of two millions
more of our Public Debt,-lcaving be.
htnd. upon the computations heretofore
mahc,- If the Wing Policy be sustained
but one million and quarter Of Sale
debt.
These arc tw" great questions which
will chiefly engross the public attention
III The approaching election. The dis.
trictng OF the Safe for the House of Re-
Is another subject. though Of
minor Importance to these, which will
belong to the next Legislature. An M
fortunate division OF opinion between the
Senate and House Of Delegates. and an
utter refusal of all accommodation on the
part OF the latter, are understood to have
prevented the passage OF law, at the last
session, to lay off the Congressional Dis
tricts i'll accordance with the new appor-
tIonmcnt. ], is presumed iha, this qucs-
ton will be promptly disposed Of by The
next General Assembly in such manner
as will leave no one right to complain.
II our friends obtain the control Of The
Icgislature,-as we have li,Ie reason to
doubt, by proper eXerlion, they must--.l
prompt and effective act! IN upon the sub
lects we have referred to will place the
State upon position from which she may
speedily re-asceId to her accustomed
will restore confidence in her
good name and wipe away every stain
which feeble, lrresolate and unenlightencd
rounsels have recently cast upon her long
earned and long honorcd reputation.
To accomplish these ends the Wings
must be active, jealous, vigiant. We eH-
treat them to organize the party through
out the State: to appoint County Commit
ces for purposes of general communica-
ior,, and District Committees in every
School District with view to an efltclu-
Il canvass of each county. 1t is time To
BRING our Candidates into public view.
We invoke our Wing friends every where
@ bring out their best men, and, as thcv
'aluc their success, on account to
permit themselves, in any section of the
State, to fall into that unfortunate error Of
oeratng a contest between two Of their
own side. Surely there can be no rca-
'onable objection to selecting candidates
trough the instrumentalty Of Conven-
ions for the purpose Of making nomina-
ions. No effective party action can be
usaincd without it. We earnestly be-
eech those who have heretofore made
his mistake to allow no personal rival
les, no preiudiccs Of past times, no pre-
erences for individuals unsauctioned by
he grea, body the Wings in any county,
. expose us again to the jeopardy of these
contentious by which VIC have already
ost so much.
We are now or the cvc Of the rrra.