The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-10-12
The Third District.

mark in the last Cecil Democrat in
spirit winch demands some comment at
our hand. That there should be On the
part OF the locoocos of the district, some
disappointment and chsgrin al their de-
feat, we are not surprised; but accustomed
as the wings OF this county are to repeat
ed defeats, which they have learned 10
bear with good degree OF patience, they
cannot repress their surprise, NOT indeed
their mrthiulness, at the great uproar
made by their opponents. because OF the
druboing they have received
Study patience, gentlemen, it is beau
tiful grace. We remember OF being de-
feated in commissioners election in thus
district by 5 votes; one less than our ma
'jority now. yet we bore The threshing you
gave us without a murmu1.
The Democrat publishes a protest sent
10 the Return Judges, and understands that
it is the intention of Mr. Walmsiey to
contest the election The protest, we
observe, is without specification OF affida
Wit, and the Judges, OF ccurss could pay
no attention to 1t.
We are at a loss to know whether the
talk about contesting the election be seri-
Gus or not Certainly If be serious, II
is under all the circumstances ridiculous
movement, and one that will as certainly
fail il perSevered in, as failed their efforts
to elect Mr.. Walnsley in the first place.
TBut our business is with the charges and
destinations OF the Democrat.
The wings, slys the Democrat, were
determined to defeat Robcr, NJ. Walmsley,
and they were preparing their plans some
time previous TO the election. Aston1sh-
ing 4! oh you naughty wings, to determine
10 defeat a "democratic' candidate You
should be ashamed ot yourselves.
"The very fact that a person offering
to vote was whg," says the Democrat,
seemed to constitute a sufficient quaifi-
cation to entile him to vote, while il
was with the greatest difficulty that dem
ocrals who were proved TO be entitled,
could get their votes, and some lost them
altogether" Now all that is pertec,
tuds.-,t was not intended for belief
here, but for distant parts OF the county.
Nobody will believe 1t here. What!
does any man here dare TO impeaoh in
this style Abram Chandler, Jesse II. Sim
pers and john Hanson, sitting asjudges
of an election. Nonsense too uonsen-
seal to require serious notice.
But The Aims House was used asa coop,
says the Democrat, What the locofo-
cos talk OF cooping. Tradition says, we
know not with what truth, that Mr..
Walmsley himself, was the first man
who ever pract'sed coping voters iii
this section, and "Walmsley's Mill'' is a
n,an-coop known to fame. What the
friends OF Mr.. Robert Walmsley complain
OF coping! Gle, out. A little incident
which occurred on the election day, and
provoked much merriment, is brought to
mind just here. A well known Iocofoco
from the 4th Dist presented himself TO
vote "Where do you reside now, Mace"
asked the whig challenger. 'tAt aims.
ley's Mill" replied Mace "How long
have you been there - sSince Monday
night" "What are you doing there!"
sCome to vote for Bob Wamsl-y.' He
answered too honestly, and his hackers
backed out, and left him to stand IN the
category OF one of the "entitIed" who
"lost hi. vote.' We end our remarks on
cooping by the assertion, that all the
Democrat says about the Aims House is
incorrect. There were bu, twenty OF its
inmates voted we understand, and the
number has we are told, often been grea,
er when the House was in the hands of
locofocos.
The Judge Of the election who gave the
man permit, is aIso Trustee of the poor.
He knew nothing OF the mans politics,
but sent him to the Aims House because
he stated that he could not live out OF it,
There was no doubt but he was proper
person to be sent there; and upon stating
at the polls that he went to the Aims
House on a permit and intended there 10
remain, he was allowed to vote. The
Democrat will next attempt, we suppose,
to keep poor men from voting at all
But the Democrat states tina, a Judge