The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-08-08
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HENRY S. SITES,
j.. Z. RICKETTS,.
j. L MCCULLOUGH.
Commute.
THE LETTERS TO AND FROM
MIR. GROONE.

A letter signed by Hon JAS Alfred Pearce
and some thirty others, among whom are a
motley asscmblagc of Dougherties Ruarks
and Rudensteincs, has been addressed to
Col. Groome of this county urging him to
become candidate for Governor and assuring
him of their support. -
We had supposed that after the rcbuke
given to Mr.. Pcarcc, and others of his kidney
at the last election they would have the good
sense and modcsty not to thrust themselves
again upon public, whose disgust at their
pitiable trickery was too strong to admit Of
conccalment. When the peoI lie in the very
precincts where these gentlemen reside, in
spite ofther manifcstos and speeches piled
up increased majorities against the sham
Democracy, we hoped, that decent re-
gard for public opinion would at last have
kept them silent. What authority we ask, has
James Alfred Pearcc to speak for the people of
Mary land, and whence comes this pie-bald
crew of Uougherties Rudenstenes and Ru-
arks! The ia ct is the letter comes with no
authority, and carries with it no influence:
and we marvel much that the Colonel, even
without his spectaclcs, did not sec through
the fmsiness of that wool. and that to be
clothed with snch rags would leave him ma
ked indeed. But, with his cha racteristic
politcncss, he has written these gentlemen
Il very handsome letter. which We propose
briefly to examine, leaving more extended
review for a future day.
The letter abound, in glorifcation of Lo-
cofocoism, and we look in vain for that de-
claration, "a wing and nothing but a whg,"
heard so often within the last few months.
and which, we were told, by Mr.. Grooms's
old wing friends, was to be the corner stone
Of his platform. Of the American party he
says: at was born and nursed in secre cy.
and when its principles were made public and
became known they were found, or at least
seemed to the uninitiatcd in its mysteries,
to be restrictive of religious liberty as they
were clearly in f ct adverse to individual
political equality" And in another place
he says. 'it-the American party--stil ad-
hears to its proscriptive policy Now does
Col. Groome know, that in this American
party arc nine tenths Of the men with whom
he has been accustomed to minglein political
fellowship! By what authority then docs
he stand up to impugn the patriotism of his
former associates, and charge them with
cherishing principles restrictive Of religious
liberty, and clearly in fact adverse to indi-
vidual political equality7
We will not say that his old whis associ-
ates had right to expect that he would
not take up and rciterate these stale Abuses
which strike not merely at their political pc.
sition, but at their personal honor and pat
riotism. but we will say that when he so far
forgets himself as to attack them in this
manner, they will know how to meet him
when he asks them for their votes 1t may
be that his regard for old wings was bounded
by the narrow circle of Rcverdy johnson,
Pratt and Pearce, and that feeling no SYM
pathy lie recognises no claim upon his re.
spect. then we fear he Imnst look to that
Court House clique for his support for he wi!
get precious little from any other part Of
the old wing party, He again charges
that ''in the North the American party has
combined with fresoilers, and thus formed
the Republican party" but he forgot to
state that Fremont S heaviest vote was made in
whit was formerly the very strongholds
of locofocoism, and that, but for the firm
stand taken by conservative An ericans at