The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1853-10-27
LOOK OUT FOR YOUR POCKETS.
READ! READ!
See the Concluding Charges.
PASS TEES AROUND
10 Your Democratic Neighbors
THE COUNTY FUNDS
Wasted by Thousands upon
Thousands.

several tunes lately we have spoken
OF CERTAIN reports concerning an ar
rangemenf, or ''compromise," which
was stated TO have been made by the
county Commissioners, through some
counsel or agent, with the phIl., Will.
and Bait. Il. r. Company, by which a
large sum OF money due for back taxes,
came into the possession of the county,
and by which, as .he story ran, large
amount was to the county lost The
substance these REPORTS as we have on
other occasions minated, led us to the
conclusion that there had been gross
mlsmangement of the public affairs and
a reckless squandering OF the public
money, all the Transactions in which
were kept by the actors IN a deep, pro-
.tound md mysterious secresy. And af-
ter the public cation of what protested to
be an official statement and what ought
to have been hHe M0temeRt-of the re.
ceipts and disbursements by the County
Commissioners, for the year ending on
the LIST OF August, in whit no mention
was made Of the large sum said TO have
been received by them, we recountcd
some Of the reports floating abroad; ask.
cd # they wore true or not and called
for statement of the facts; expressing,
at the same time the wish that the state
ment might be given early, so that the
people might see the truth, and that we
might have opportunity to do justice to
the parties whose official conduct was
imppached, if we had wronged them by
insinuation, or, even by the bare men,
ton OF tie reports.
Our remarks have at length drawn
out Stotemcnt;-and something in adj
di'ion, IN the shape Of series of articles
and editorial in the last cecil Democrat.
That series Of articles, and the orig-
nal subject, it is our purpose in this eX-
ira sheet 10 discuss. 1t has not escaped
the notice Of the intelligent observer of
events, that that statement and those ar
tlcles have been kept back until the last
issue Of the paper which would ensure
their certain and general circulation in
the distant portions of the county, and
until, it was thought we could make no
reply which would expose and counter
vail them. 1t is to balk such a design,
conceived in such despicaoIe trickery,
that we put forth this extra in advance
OF our regular issue.
Admitting in the start that the present
board of commissioners are honest
enough and we'll disposed enough in the
main; We nevertheless believe, and the
circumstances prove, that they have
shown lamentable degree Of happiness
and imbecilty, and that they have been
Influenced, over-ruled and over reached,
by clan of willy knaves and hungry
cormorants, who have had uncommon
luck in appeasing their greediness for
public plumber; who have led their vic
TINS INTO fatal mazes of disaster, to them
and TO the people; and who would strive
tor and most likely obtain, an undue and
dangerous influence over any Democrat
&c Board likely soon to be elected-an
influence which would lead to farther
robbery of the tax payers of the county.
Passing hastily to the articles in The
. Democrat, we shall take them in the
Older in which they come to hand. And
we call your especial attention, Citizens
and Tax payers, 10 the nature Of these
attacks on the Editor of this paper. AS
for ourseli, we care nothing for such bun
tIcs Of epithcts; we can brush them aside
Ike co5.wehs or like dew from the grass.
We acknowledge no equal opponent
no Coleman worthy of our steeI"pen,
in such silly, weak and, as The sequal
will show, ignorant scriblers. They
ar, Citizens! men whose very hands are
giI all over with your gold, whose
pockets are distrnded with money wrong
fully taken from you, and who trembie
hest the eXpoSitIons we are forcing from
SHEER secret grasp, will cause you TO put
il out OF their power to do YOU further
wrong.