The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1856-10-18

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would seem that the locofoco cry of Adolf
ZIONIST has not been made TO init,lc Mr..
Davis. even in that District-the one most
interested in tle matter Of any in thc county
Correspondence of The Cecil Whigl
CECllToN, October 10Th, sc.
DEAR SlR:In last week S Democrat an
article appeared over the signature of Sassa-
iras in reference to a lttlc disturbance that
took place at Democratic meeting and pole
raising held here on Saturday, the 4th inst.
1t was said in that article that Mr.. Grason S
whitening expose of the absurditlcs of know
Nothngism and bogus wings so aroused
them (the Amcricans) that their backguald-
ism, NC, broke out and uistu, bed the meet
ing.
| had not the fortune to hear MI Grason's
speech, but am crcdibly Informed that the
facts are, that at that meeting. which was
made up m great part by the friends of Fill.
mole u Doneson, who had gone there hoping
to hear Democratic principles discussed, and
whom Sassaflas superciliously and super
lcanedly stginatlzts as mot knowing what
they are friends Of" Mr.. Glason, after
having elected forth foul abuse upon the
American party until every decent man sup
posed that he could not have any more filth
left for any other purpose, began an attack
upon the Hon. IL. W. Davis, which, in the
opinion OF many present possessed of as much
knowledge concerning Mr.. Davis as Mr..
Glason, was SO unjust and ungentlemanly
and in language only lit to be emitted from
the scpulchral throat of rotten Locolocoisln,
that they gave vent to their feelings of honest
indignation by proposing three cheers for
Davis which were given with hearty good
will and which was the disturbance spoken
Of.
Now, | do not excuse my own party for
disturbing the meetings of the other under
any circumstances, but think that some
allowance should be made for the impulses Of
ardent politicians when their favorite cham
~pon is so assaulted and slandered, as was Mr.
Davis on that occasion, especially when the
slanderer belongs to and is advocating the
claims of that party that pretends to be SO
penitent over their abuse and bitter calunna-
tons of the much beloved Henry Clay
When they truly repent having done evil to-
wards him, they should discontine to practise
1t III the same manner towards Mr.. Davis.
Before Sassafras undertook to condemn
the Americans for creating disorder at that
meeting he should have said something about
the behavior of some Of the members of his
party at the American meeting on the Satur-
day evening, before. He entirely neglected
to say any thing of their inccssant efforts
to annoy the speaker on that occasion and of
their abortlvc atteml to get up a hurrah for
Buchanan, at the breaking up Of that meet
ing, lie says that the scathing rebukcs Of
Mr.. Grason "caused them the Know Moth.
ings, as he terms Them to sink away and
hide III darkness, whence they will issue
forth in November next, to vote in rows and
drills as their chief and master commands
All there's the rub. They will issue forth.
not from darkness, however, or to vote under
the commands of a ''chief and MASTER" but
from the qulctudc of their homes to vote as
independent citizens, and like their yeomen
fathers under the leadership of the swamp
toxto Strike CONSERVATION and dismay into
the ranks of their country's foes, of whom,
SaSsairas probably is or would like to be
''chief and MASTER" | would say to him
that the ''ciief and master" of the American
party is but a creature of his own frightened
Imagination, or spectral illusion, seen
through hE orn classes. CECIL.