The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1855-09-08

| BrcadStuilS had slightly advanced.
ave question much if that few Of the
Elkton oath bound locofoco oflce-holdcrs and
oilice-bcggars believed what they said who
stated last Saturday with such apparent
qualification, that Tile Hing was at last
.donc (or''-,,scd up and slain outright by
the Turks Island Editor. IT. however, they
were in earnest they shall find themselves
confirmed in the doctrine of resurrection
| Looking over the two and a quarter columns
| of The Democrats last issue, through the
weary length of which the little editor and
his mii'mcts strive to make an impression on
| The Iihig, we not only discover in them
nothing fatal but nothing the least danger
Gus or alarming.
1t does not depend upon our assertion
that its first article is founded on falschood.
We have not only the name of the writer
who signed himself ~ Jockson Democrat"
but we have the evidence of a gentleman in
this town who saw the article and heard it
read and acknowledged by the writer before
it came mo our hands. 1t was written by
democrat who is alike firm in his opposition
to both the Wings and Know Nothings. 1t
was written by a dcmocrat who by public
accord stands far superior to the conccitcd
little Turks Island editor in all the nobler
qualities of head and hcart-far superior in
the opinion Of the community to that strut
Ting little ',laughing- stool" in intellect and in
all the characteristics of a man and gentle
man. The Wing will deny &C., &C., says.
The Democrat: yes The Wing docs deny
and lrhen ii does deny it is needless for The
Democrat, in this town and in this county
to affirm. But we, also, have the proof that
The Democrats leader starts out with a lie /;
is the proof demanded? r..... .s
TO the tender mcrcics of "a Jackson DEM
matters between th,m, and he may rely OH it
he will be attended to. The reader who OBJ
served his leader in his last paper, seeing
that he but half denies the charges of "a
jackson Democrat" will readily come TO the
conclusion they are wholly true. Why. it
comes to us from both democrats and wings,
flat once Oh the evening of a convention
'little Turk Island" had almost crow
in the street with member of the conycl,-
charging i'm with debating his nomination
for the lIonsc of Delegates.
Passing over his prophecies about what
.Rickctts will do" we come to his Tor some
body clses) second and third articles. 1t is
true the "showing up of that oathbound
band of locofoco Office bcggars (likc himself
and Office holders was an achievement
1t turns ont to have been quite an ''achcvo-
mcnt it happened to us to make the expo
Silion. but it would have been the same
"achicyomcnt' by whomsocycr made lit
made the whole tribe howl and they arc still
bowling; it is telling its tale all over the
county, and that's where the trouble is.
When we ironically alluded to "letting
down his dignity" which he affected to as
sumo when We last drnbLcd Kim, he prctcnds
to take it i'll earnest. Why the VAN, con-
ccited impudcnt, little mortal! Does lie
arrogatc to himself any superiority over the
Editor Of The Wing III social moral or bus
mess view or in any respect whatever! 1t
is most true that in chat bantam strut" the
little editor is 8 some pumpkins" but we
never heard that that raised him in any body S
cstnla ton except his own. Or does he hold
his paper superior to The Wing in any par.
ticular! The papers arc before the people
how have the people answered? We assert in
h is face that the number of subscribers ia
The Wing exceeds by hundreds those to his
paper, if they do not double them; and qrl
chcllcnge him to go into Tie proof. Let those
who wish to know enquire at the leading
post Offices in the county, from that at Elk.
ton ,out in any direction. Why really this
"dignity"-this "selrconsequcncc" this
"pomposty'' of little Turk S Island is a ric
allair-if he'd got that consulship there d
been no holding him-salt, (thcrc's plenty Of
it over there too wouldn't have saved him
Now here is an extract from an intelligent
democrat of this county-wc can prove it to
be from onc-whlch we have received while
writing this article; its facts may serve tc
instruct our dignifcd (!9 little editor Read
''If The Democrat represents the scnti
mcnts of the gentcel portion of the community
and of the better elements of that party
whose name it bears. why is it that all tho
writers of any note in the county and many
out of it, majority Of whom a:e not wings
speak through the columns Of The Wing II
preference to those of The Democrat? And
lastly but not least, why is it that between
200 and 800 Democrats in fhiS county-Dcm'
ocrats of the Jefferson and jackson school
are subscribers to The Wing. and many who
continuc to take The Democrat do so grunb
lingly (becausc they think they arc in duty
bound to support it., but openly avow then
preference for The Whigf That these thing:
are so the editor of The Democrat with al
his mcndacity dare not deny, and that they
are so proves concusivcly that The Cecil
Democrat pandcrs to and is justly styled Tho
organ ofan Elkton clique.
can assure the editor bear him no i'll
will whatever: but when he brands TIL
Wing as "a filthy Sheet" and thereby vrtu
ally accuses its correspondents and readers o
being men and women of filthy instincts
when he lauds the corrupt in Thu
county who are held together by the COHESIVE