The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-08-11
For The Cecil Uhig.
PRESCRIPTION.

Mr.. EpIroR.-The party which so zeal
ousl Y denounces Gen. Taylor and his adj
miniStraion, must be made up of cam
nibals or natural FOOLS. We bring the
charge, bold and sweeping as lit is, before
the accused before the sovereign people,
and before the world, without reproach of
conscience, or fear of contradiction. What
mean these dolpful lamentations over a
fallen dynasty-over prescription and in
novation; those bug-bears to modern de-
mocracy! We believe, and our official re-
cords confirm it, that they must originate
in Il rapacity for the emoluments of office,
or an ignorance that knows not the true
means and ends of reformation.
On the one part, arising from the force
of circumstances, and on the others from
defect, attributable to bad chronological
developments, some meme lass, faction
or party of men, have, and always will ex-
list, which, setting themselves up as the
nonpareil of whatever is noble and popu-
lar, claim either by immcmorial custom,
or jne dirino an exclusive dominion over
their fellow men, and co-partncrs in gov
eminent; claiming to be the central umi-
naries of knowledge and wisdom, the light
falls fcebly on the benighted people under
their control, while, taught in the school
of hypocrisy, they dissemble the most ma
lignant crimes under the guise OF an afec-
ton strong, and peculiar, for popular rights.
We tell such, for they exist among us, as
their public prints &C like Niobe, all tears"
plainly show, that no William the Con-
queror has stamped a Feudal System on
our soil, by which Offices, dignities, and
franchises become hercditaments, to des-
| cend from father to son. In this Republic
there are no libertines nor star-chamber
culprits, our motto is "Equal Rights" in
contradistinction to crushing aristocracy.
What is prescription and what has it
been? 1t is the Legitimate offspring Of a
change Of rulers,-a consequence to the
triumph of party. In honest hands, it
conscrves the public good,-in hands that
are dishonest it becomes terrible instru-
ment ofvengeance. What man, unless with
jaundiced eyes he sees things in false COZ
ors, will not admit, that in expelling clerks.
auditors: commissioners, &C., from situa-
tons they have Icng disgraced, Gen. lay
lor has acted right. He has acted right or
the ground Of unftness for their stations,-
in his capacity as President ofthe whole
people, and, also, from the principle natu
raj to all governments that a change o
measures presupposes to certain extent ;
change ofmen. When principles that art
calculated to inspire the Republic with
new vigor, are to be executed by men, in
efficient, and miserably divergent from
them, how can we expect political unity
harmonizing together, and working on
ward for the public welfare. A reforma.
ton to be effectual must be cntire,-it mus
embrace the whole national policy, its leg
islation, administration, and official patron
age.
"Can one be pardoned; and retain tn
onence?" Can the nation grow up will
health and vigor under the regenerating in
nuences that the President was elected t.
put in motion, while the vulturcs that ca
gerly watch every financial pulsation ar
still permitted to eat out our substance
Unless this relic of barbarism be soon wipe'
out,-this perpetuity of corruption throug
privileged blood, just as sure as the strick
en- deer follows the trail of his lick, so sur
will an arlstocracy be the issue, and no
tibbi be enscribed upon the entrance TO CIV
cry profitable office, for the intelligent