The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1849-12-15
For The Cecit Wing.
Compl aints Right and Wrong.
GEORGETOWN, Dec. Sth,

GEORGETOWN, Dec. Sth, 1919.
Mr.. EDITOR The submission of free
people to an administration, elected by
the majority, and boldly meeting its legal
responsibilities, is alike an indication of
sound judgment and disinterested patriot
ism. While the national faith stands I'M
lmpeached abroad, and justice is PARTITION
ed with equity at home, every voice of
complaint will naturally betrav the venal
and lactious spirit of the source from
whence it had its origin. A diversity in
political belief will now and then honest
ly exist, but, when, for purposes of re-
vengc and public plumber, it is made to
degenerate into hot-bed of disorganza-
ton, the proiessed patriot at once becomes
a detestcd Jacobln. We cannot but ad-
mire the doctrine taught by Englshmen
in their school of political ethics, which
makes the censorship of the subject on the
prerogatives of the King, subordinate to 4
loyalty for his person. There have been,
and will continue to be, excuses in the
use Of executive power, wherein a servile
acquescence from the people is identical
with disregard for the national rights.
Resistance to George the III for his Colo
nal restrictions, and the decapitation of
Il
Louis X by act of the French National
Assembly, naturally arose from a usurpa-
ton Of power or the one part, and thirst
tor liberty, with an honorable opposition
to tyranny on the other. Here in our own
country, indignation was natural to peo-
pie determined to be free; when General
Jackson removed the United States Bank
deposits, and James K. Polk plunged us
into an unconstitutional war; because we
saw IN it another Troj an horse, pregnant
with destruction to the public veal. These
are principles which do honor to human
nature, glorious offsets to that spirit,
which would apply the incendiary torch
to dwelling, only TO revel in the plum
der.
While proceed to another considera-
ton, if my pen is not sometimes dipped
in ven ON, attribute it kind reader, more
to the goodness Of my heart than to the
promptiIgs of duty. In these suspicious
times,-when the nation is governed by
impartial administration; it is painful to
hear our venerable President illuminated.
The breath of detractlon, which, like ga
foul and pestient congregation of vapors"
would blast his civil honors, and the au- !
rels won in victorious battles, is enough to
arouse our pity while it excites our indig-
nation. An opposition to violated law
maintained with becoming candor, is mag
unanimous in ain American citizen, but it is
he who complains without cause, that
we have reason to disrust tor'hls seditious
spirit, and contempt of public order. For
cquallizing Government patronage, SO as
to make the institutions under which we
live alike accessible to all classes For
not basing his opposition to the assumptions
OF Great Britain, respecting Nicaragua and
the Mosquito King, on the doctrine pro-
mulgated in the Monroe declaratlon,--a
doctrine repudlated by the leaders Of the
opposition party, and repugnant to sound
policy;-For expclling refractory min
lister from our courts, and for presiding
over our affairs with unexampled dignity
and justice, these have been sufficient to
call down from scribbling loungers vol
ley of abuse and s'bold bawdry," Inch, III
not the language of the devil, has at
least the merits of being spoken by his
imps. Foremost among these malcontents
is Thomas Richie, through whose brain
dawn visions of''Inquisitions" and "guillo-
tines" like the figures in a pantomime