The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1844-08-31
yTr. JAMES CARROLL.

fIfS age" Z" ofthS fHS nc iotttC tHtO heOh'
Again and again have tire locoGoco
presses and loco(oco orators throughout
this Slate, charged upon the Wings that
they were the authors of the state debt
that they by holding out delusive induce
ments, seduced the good citizens of Mary
land into eXtravagant expenditures upon
Public Works, the effect of which has been
TO bring direct tax upon them which is
gricvous to be borne. And after making
these declarations, they have feelingly up
pealed to The poor tax-rdtlen people,
whether they would again Trust with office
and power, those who had thus brought
them into difficulty.
We have all the time declared the asser-
ton that the wings brought the state into
debt, TO be false, and to the satisfaction
1--WE have no doubl) Of the people of this
county, it has long ago been proved so to
be, ia the columns of this paper, and in
the wing papers throughout the state
proved by the most conclusive evidence:
The Journals of the Legislature.
We now purpose TO show by evidence
equally conclusive, that JAMES CARROLL
the candidate nominated by the loColoc os
for Governor, as much as any other living
man, is accountable for the present in
debtedness of the state; tina, chiefly
through his i'll counsel she was trepanned
into those vast expenditures which have
ruined her credit, and oppressed her peo-
pie; and after having shown this, as we
shall do beyond all cavil, we will call
upon the tax payers Of Cecil county, to
know if they are prepared to vote for the
man who by holding out false inducements
has brought theirgood old state hard upon
The borders Of utter disgrace and bank
'uptcy, and themselves very many oi
them into the most difficult and straight
tened circumstances; aye well nigh
ground them into the dust.
IN the month Of December, in the year
1884 an Internal Improvement Convention
was held in the city of Baltimore, for the
purpose, in the language Of the Journal Of
It's proceedings "of considering and adop-
ting such measures as should seem most
likely TO cause the Chesapeake and Ohio
| Canal to be soon fnisled-and such other
porks Of National character TO be uader-
taken as may advance the welfare of Mary
land, SC" In that Convention we find
! Mr.. JAMES CARROLL, member from the
city of Baltimore, and prominent actor
because Of his great wealth.
! The deliberations of the Convention
according to the journal were s'characler-
lied by great zeal and unusual harmon a.,
and the Reports and Memorials 'preparet
with great care and ability. From thi:
Journal which was published in Baltimore
early in 1885, and copies of which arr
still in the possession of may citizens o
the state, we intend to make extracts t.
prove what has already been promised.
On pages and S we find The following
at also appears, that this Canal has been sue
cessfully and well constructed by that Company
from tide water, along the left bank of the Pc
tornac, los miles, at the cost of about four mil
lions of dollars, which sum is but little, if an
more than its estimated expenses and that by tin
construction ofthis work, the further distance O
, 10 miles, which may be done at an adGitona
cost of about one million and ahalfQf dollars,
line Of Canal will be completed from tide waite
10 Cumberland, in the midst of a region abound
with bituminous Coal of the very best q,Ialit
and mc&haustbls extent, that would inmedatei