The Cecil Whig., 1845-03-15
The Cecil Whig.
EEKTD.R: sMa,
Saturday, March Is, 1915.
P.C RICKETTS,, EDITOR.
TssE REGISTER, &c.


Ter Of Wllls--George II. Howard has go,
the appointment.
There are several considerations which
make it proper and necessary that we
should say something upon the subject
We have hestaled Iong-wc have dread
ed to begin, bu. what we say. we mus.
say quickly for the press is abou. to shut
our columns for the week. Never since
our induction as conductor of this paper
did we feel such embarrassment, but the
great and prevailing dissa,isfac,ion-,he
long delay-'the strangeness and injustice
of some of the proceediugs-ihe i'll feeling
existing among members Of our party
the suspicious, threats, and bitterness of
expression on all sides indnged in-lhe
conflicting opinions entertained and tue
an'agons!ical courses pursued BIZ many
who previously had acted together, make
place for much remark, and our faithful
ness 20 our trust as Whig Editor of the
county. requires at our hands, comments
upon these things, or upon some of them
at least.
We would wish 10 do il in proper
spirit. We would not do injustice to any
individual. Through all ,he conflict
amid all the excitement, we have acted
ungoverned BY friendship OF animosily.-
by any motive Of sell.interest or by the
fear OF any personal unpropi,ious conse.
quence. All that we have said or done
has been with on eye to justice and the
good of the party, and if we have a, any
time erred i! has been al error of iude-
ment, TO which ell men are liable. We
wonld still be Influenced by the same
principles, and we ask tina, the indulgence
and the charity Of all unbiased and dis
interested members of the party, may be
extended Id ary want Of proprie'y and
justice which may appear in what we
shall say as we proceed with this hasty
article. We would dismiss the heat that
has been resting on our brair; we would,
for the time, give to the winds, all person.
al preference-al! personal antipathy. A
lorren, Of bitter invec,ve is trembling on
the very point Of our pen-it shall be
withheld, popular indignation in a sea
of foamlng, noisy pillows heaves and
roars around--lel ii be our aim 10 "lhrow
oil upon the waves"
1t is useless TO attempt to conceal the
fact -'ine-tenils of,he Wings of the coun-
ty believe and feel that gross outrage
has been committed No man here wW
dare publicly to deny ii, whatever NAV be
said IN private letters, or privately out of
the county. But it canno, be helped
IL mnst be endured, and it behooves us to
make the bes, of il.
We would turn particularly TO that
great mass of the party who feel so in,en-
sely upon the sutjec,-who believe them
selves to be insu,ed, slighled and held to
be O! no account, by men to whom thev
have given or assisted to give place and
consequence-(or whom they have toiled
and baltled through every opposition and
every difficulty, with an earnestness and
slavishness unknown 10 tlrem when they
labor for themselves. We would address
the@ once again, with all our earnesiness.
Citizens Friends Wings! let no per-
sonal insult, real or lancied, induce you
to waver in your faih--be no, shaken
with distrust- calm down your passion
and your rashness--let GOODNESS and So
Der sense prevail. "Come, and lie, us rea-
son." Wing principles are not corrupted
by the evil actions Of one or two. or any
inconsiderabe number Of the members of
the party, whatever may be their position.
Those Principles remain The same, and
tVaigS must and lciii defend and support
them. If individual Wings have sinned,
lie. them suffer all their actions merit, but
let the party remain undivided, undismay-
cd, strong. And before you pass sen
ence on any man, see that you Judge him
righlly---take all the views Of the case
look at it in every lisht--every man, how
ever guilty he may be, has a right to "A
fair and impartial trial. We speak 10 YOU,
tellaTihs you 10 be ,nen Of princivlc.~-