The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1856-06-07

President.
NOTES ON TIE LocoFoco CoNynNTEoN.--
The great I.ocofpco Convention hold n at
Cincinnati tie present week, to nominate a
candidate for the Presidency, is IA matter of
mark and the doings and sayings there de-
serve attention.
After great deal of preliminary SQUAD
bling and the knocking down of the door
keeper by one Of the eenton delegates from
Missouri (who were refused ailnittance,) Nj.
John 4. Ward of Georgia, was finally elected
President Of the convention. In his address
on being led to the chair, he sail:-
'lhc distinguished gentleman who yesterday
presided who Was The connecting link between the
pas! and the PIcssnt had carried them buck to
period when the Democratic party was .ustoIncl
to assemble and so forth to do battle with Il great
noble, and gallant party, but that party with the
issues that dvidclus has passed away, all the
great Leaders OF that party have by one stolen
away to their silent resting place filled with wears
and honors, mournot by political friends for.
'liow s.eep the brave who sink to rest
With al their counuys honors LEST"
Others Of that noble baud who still survive are
with Us to day, 20 take part in oar dciber. tions
lion and Union"
We ask such readers as were old Wings to
note that paragraph. "Gredt, aobic and gal
hHA" are the terms nor tlippantly applied by
these locofocos to the old Wing party; but
when that party, as such, was in the field
against them, no name was to harsh to be
applied tot-" British wings" TRAITORS to
their country" &c, were among Tire mildcst
Of the cpithets they bestowed on the Wings
Now when they are laying traps for wing
votes. and Sinking and smiling around whig
mcn-oh! the wing party was a great, noble
and gallant party" Let them remember
odd birds are not caught with chail.
Mr.. Ward grows pathetic, poetic, sym
pathetic, as he proceeds: -"the great leaders
OF that party have one by one stolen away to
their silent resting places, filled with years
and hOnors, mournod, &C." Yes, Mr.. Ward,
Clay is gone, Wooster is gone, Berlien is
gone-many great wing leaders are gone:
but while they were living what did you say
Of them. You and your party called Mr.
Clay "a gambler" "a sabbath breaker, :" "a
perjurcr, "a murderer" You lied him
down and you kept him down as far as in
your power, by your internal Islander of bar
gain and corruption" and now when he is
dead and out of your way and you ant the
votes Of Clay men, you pay glowing Tribute
to his memory. All the hypocrisy and i'm
pudence is too palpable-you can't come that
game, The glorious old man once, speaking
at~hjs home in Lexington, said that like
pack of hounds you had pursued him in all
his path to worry and hunt him down, but
and the old man, his grey hair streaming in
the wind, rose on tip-toe as he said it, he d.
tied you then as he had d,f,d you ever. BE
quite sure, Mr.. Ward that wing men appre.
ciate fully your posthumous praise of their
gallant leaders who are gone. And Mr..
Wcbster-why you never dreamed of calling
him midcr name than "black cockadc
fredericksburg enough on your eulogies of
our departed great leaders," We appre-
bend you are perfectly understood and per-
tecuy dcspiscd in all such compliments.
A correspondent has furnished the follow
ing in relation to the ''Softs" and the ina
| tionality" Of this Convention Of patent De-
mocracy, which the reader will please OBJ
servc:--
| Mr.. EnlToR The beautiful consistency
Of the party calling itself Democratic is
evidenced by their recent action IN Cincinnati
in admitting the Soft delegates from New
York. These Softs, headed by the Van
Burens, are the most bitter abolitoniSts in
New York. They abolitionizcd the Demo-
cratic party in that State, and supported Mr.
Pierce in 1852 only on the ground that the
convention adopted the Virginia and Ken
lucky Resolutions, which recognized the
right ofany State to declare the Fugitive Slave
Law null and void. This is well known
fact, so declared at the time by the Ncw iork
Post, then the organ Of this Soft party. Such,
sir, are the means made use Of by this party
TO cajolc the people. They dcnounce aboli-
tioniSm open mouthcd in windy resolutions
and occasionally give it Gaming, and the
next day they take it to their arms as the
quntcsscnce of simon pure democracy, tip it
a knowing wink to convince it the other was
only part of the farce give it collectorship
and two or three hundred clerkships in New
York, divers comfortable Offices in Washing
ton, one or two places in the Cabinet, a few
seats in the United States Senate and a good
many more in the House, in a word, not only
countcnancc, but give it material aid ard com.
fort quite sufficient to satisfy abolitionsm loi
all the curses and canings it gets. We shall
see whether such despcabc cheat can de-
ccive southern men any more. ALEX.
The friends seemed TO differ in I'D to
the virtues and abilities of Mr.. Pcrce's AID.
ministration, and spoke their sentiments with