The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-08-25
Baltimore Ccttcr.
Correspondence ofIbe Cecil Wing
BALTIMORE. August 18th, IS

| Orr People and P0lifrS-SCranbfe fOr "a
| J"dgcshp-The People Isl Penthouse Poll
| ticiaas-Optmions thereon Changina-1he
Stomach Of HE Body Poliiic-CaIing on
Goimh-Fii.ht of the Foreign Party. &c.
MIR. EpIroR The people of the United
| States appear to have constitutions adapted
| to political life. No other subject certainly
could enlist so many for its discussion and
| actively engage such number in its man
agerncnt as politics. The state of the at
| mosphere does not rctarl them, for even now
! with the thermometer at 90, politics n re the
! all engaging subject Of conversation here.
This is accounted for in some degree here
! by the sudden demise of that very cstimabe
| man and excellent Judge, Mr. Frick. The
| office vacated by him was like bone sud
denly cast among hundred cxpcctant ours;
! all jumped for it. The appointment was in
| the hands of the Governor, and many of the
| brave . ones of the Foreign party had much
more confidence i'll asking Office of him than
| from the people at this crisis. Judge Lie
Grand was applicant the first. The commits
sion was rendered him, but on consultation
with his friends here, whittier he repaired at
once. 1T was thought since the general cleo
ton Was to be held in November, at which
time the people had a word to say about the
character of those who were to hold Office,
his present Office at Annapolis, was, to the
one which the people had then to bestow, as
bird in the hand was to ono in the bush.
| He declined the honor.
| The present appointcc is b. G. Freshman.
Esq, late City Councillor under the Foreign
party. The people at our late City Election
put their mark upon them; it is likely there,
fore the sceptre will be wrenchcd away by
an unncal hand--no son Of theirs succeed
ing. William l.. Marshall, Esq, present
Judge of our Court of Common Pleas seeks
the nomination and in a way too, which will
insure his defeat. 1t is thought the Amer
leans will vote for Geo. NJ. Gill, Esq, most
excellent and suitable man for the office.
lfthcre IS any one thing which has con-
tributed to swell the ranks of the American
party it is the determination of the people to
put down the dctestcd system of pot-house
electioneering and ward packing, which so
lately obtained and even now exists al ,d,S-
cam among the old political hacks.
late member of Congress from this dis
trict-One who had some of the blood of
linckney in his viens-prior to his election
was accustomed to parade the streets at tho
head of fire company with whom, be it I'M
derstood, after the votes were cast, he had no
sympathy whatever. To listen to the stump
llarangues. you would have thought formerly
the men Of America had gone from home, SO
much court was paid to those who usually
threw their votes in body and so little to
our own people. who are usually divided in
their opinions, as every people must be who
| think for themselves. AS the curtain raises
on the political stage, we, the people, are be-
ginning to sec the actors. The overture of
the performance has been played in Ken
lucky. The first act wewill take part in
Among the Foreign party, almost exclusive
ly, We see those old staScrs who have lived
OH the public bounty, for 10 these many
years, and yet are not filled. Ifthcrc be any
proprety in the phrase Body politc' and
if our wise men are the head of the body
our laboring men the hands, &C., these old
hacks represent the stomach, and it is n
stomach ike the grave, never satiatc.
know not the feeling of the people of Cecil,
but here the determination appears to be to
oStracisc every man of them, and begin anew.
The new wine of the American Party will
not be put in the old bottles, depend upon
it.
The Foreign party have made some of their
nominations. They have selected some men
who had been out of political life for ten Or
fifteen years. Having ruled without these
gentlemen for so long: having succeeded be-
fore the people with men of no prctension to
American feeling, or interest, selected merely
because they controlled foreign voters, now
when few of the halls Of our public Offices
have heard the pure native American ac-
cent for years-whrn we are represented
abroad by Belmont, the Austrian charge
by Soulc, the cxpatriate Frcnchman, no
American being fourd worthy of thus repre-
scnting his couatry-now the Foreign party,
when they see the hand writing on the wall,
are running about, saying, ''Do Mr.. Baker
take nomination to the House; 10, Mr.. John
Nelson, though we have so long done thee
such despite, do be Our Senator; do Mr.. Nc.
Nlahon, in this the hour Of o,lr cxtrcmi-
ty come up with your lungs of leather and
voice of thunder-be our Goliath in the next
campaign"
| 1t wont do, Mr.. Editor. If. as these
men maintain. "Ancricans should not rule
America" why did they rot nominate Pat
rick ODoughcrty or James OFlinn. or any
other man who was likely to know SO much
more of American politics because he studied
it at respectful distancc-3000 miles of
ocean rolling between 7--Do you not think
Sam has frightened some body here when
the signs of the times are such as these.
| MORE ANON.