The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-03-21
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worm itself ont of the contradictory and
! double faced position in which we placed
it, by~eentrasting its present. with its
former course; and we doubt not, It's weak
and inpotent article has excited the
sympathy of all the members of its party
who do not dsspise it. -. Those who have
read it know that it took the course in
dcated in the extracts we copied from
its columns, and that they were fairly
quoted and not garbled, as it charges.
Its says that on the former occasion
its opposition rested upon the terms Of
the union of Democrats and Old Line
Whigs] and not the union ITSELF" that
it opposed that union because it looked
to can abandonment of the name and or
ganization' of the Democratic party
''and the formation Of a new party upon
its ruins, composed of Wings and Demo-
Gratis" Very well Now let us see
where he is. ..r.
His article of 1855 from which we
quoted, was entirely in reference to this
Stafe it only referred to 'sunon" in
this State. Then he thought the loco
foco party strong enough to carry the
State, and the idea of union was not to
be tolerated; SO he denounced it.
Times change, however. In 1857 he
says the Democratic party Of itself is
powcrless in this State, and he proposes
a union; and what does he now say as to
the terms. We quote from his article of
the 21st ult.
"Thc,c must he no higeling about names.
no looking to the antecrdcntS ola man who
proclaims his willingness to fight under the
"hanncr"-
what banner 9-wlly, no. the banner Of
the Democratic party of course; for there
must now be no ''higgling' about MINES
but under the banner of the union par
ty he proposes; which is, i'll his words
s'Whigs and Democrats must unite" and
so far from proposing that it shall be a
Democratic banner they are to fight UNI
der he says:
eve must learn to esteem every man a
- traitor to the Cause. who now upon the eve
- OF battle pauscS to enquire whether he who
bears the standard or fights in the ranks
g against our common foe was Wing or DEM
ocrat;"
and many other equivalent words; and
in fact, proposing to surrender every
principle of the Democratic party to en-
sure victory over the American party,
on just such terms as he says he opposed
less than two years ago. We turn tie lit
tie Editor over, however, to his own
party, all of whom we are assured, do not
forget his changcful positions as fast as
he does himself, or fall into IN equal er-
ror i'll regard to 'sferms."
AS to the old line wings of this coun-
ty, who supported Mr.. Buch anan, we
are gratihcd to know that since these
late union propositions of his (Which arc
said not to be from his own pen,) many
of them have publicly stated that they
voted for Buchanan thinking that the
surcst way of defeating Fremont, and
that next fall they will be found waging
war against locofocoism as vigorously as
ever.
Now, as to personal affairs. The lit
tie editor of the Democrat, who is men
toned in letter before us, from a dcnl-
ocrat, as "the best illustration of the
infinite divisibility of matter" known to
the writer, talks of personalities. He
heaps upon the American Party, with
members of which he is in daily assoc ia
ton, the most villanous cpithcts known
in the language, and if he is taken to
task about it i'll this paper, he straight
way begins to whine about personalities.
The foulmouthed little scamp abuses and
villifes the very best men in the COM
munity and sets up the cry of injured
innocence if he gets newspaper cutting.
He can't deceive any body in this man
ner. lie always commenced pcrsonali-
ties between the papers here and he al
ways got the worst of it. He says he
will not notice what VIC may say &c. We
tell him We will notice what he says,
and that he shall not escape with his
scoundrclly abuse of the American par
ty. He talks about his nigh purposes,
and our want of manliness. The peo-
pie will remember 4 notable instance of
his high purposes. when, in professing to
copy debate, to injurc an Old Line
Wing of this county, he was guilty of
forging, lying and garbling' And we
suppose it is because we exposed him in
that, as we'll as in many other of his sim
liar high purposes, that he complains of
our want of fairness and manliness.
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