The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-10-17

formed that he said there was no truth in
that charge against Mr.. Buchanan and that
whoever asserted it was himself a slanderer
of Henry Clay. We do not now intend to
argue the question it was argued thoroughly
during the last Presidential campaign +; it was
argued then in this paper. Every whig of
this county who took part in the politics of
1886 and will believe that on this point
the Col. falsics history. Every younger
wing who has since come into politics will
believe that he falsilics history and they will
with terrible retort, return on him at the
ballot box, that in voting for Mr. Buchanan
he voted for traduccr of Henry Clay, and
thus became himself, TO that extent, an ac-
com plice in Buchanan's shameful crime.
And now, as the matter of the Colonels
speech is opened. we may as well remark on
other points gift. lie stated that as United
States Bank man he Lad opposed the Demo-
cratic party, but that since Tylcr's veto of
the Bank Bill the bank question as dead
and not an issue, and there was, consequent
ly, on it, no difference between him and the
Democratic party. What did he, as a United
States Bank man. do with that part of the
Democratic Platform of 1856, (he very plat
form under which Buchanan was running J
which says:
That Congress has no power to charter Nh
bel Sui.h an in uti
Of deadly hostility to the best interests Of our
country, dangerous to republican institutions
aud the liberties Of the people, &c"
In place Of the Democratic party asSimila-
ting il:eif to his views, as he sail, here it
made direct onslaught on him as National
Bank man. He used the same sort of argu-
mcnt as regards the Distribution of the pro-
cccds ofthc Public Lands, ye. the locofoco
platform of 1856, says:
"RrsoIvED, That the proceeds of the Public
Iands ought TO be slcrcdly applied to the national
objects specified in the Constitution. end that we
are opposed TO any law for the distribution Vi such
proceeds among the States as alike inex pelient in
poll y and rPugnant to the Constitution
Here again we find the locoloco party,
which he said had come to agree with him,
in its platform, denouncing another of his
chief wing principles, as he stated them.
On the SUI ject of internal Improvements
he spoke in The same strain; yet the Buchanan
platform asserts " the Government has no
power to commence and carry on general
system of Internal Improvements. And
when he tIumphantly referred TO Gel tain acts
of the last Congress on this point, he seemed
to have forgotten that all that occurred after
he had voted for Buchanan.
He, also, said that in the last alteration of
the Tariff, the Democratic party had acknowl
edged the principle of discrimination in favor
Of our own manufacturers slightly indeed.
but still had recognized it. Here, again, he
brought up an act of that party tending to
draw him to vote for it, which took pIace after
he had gone to it. And miserable diScrilni-
nation, indeed look now at our manufactures
under it-crushc1, broken up, their people
turned into ldleness.
lie commented with severity on the Amer
lean Platform of 1850, yet during the year
1855, he saw ''whig clement" in the Amer.
lean Party, (Which he liked and that fall
he vo,cd for many Of its candidates. lie de-
noumced native horn ProteStans with polu-
ting the sacred desk, throwing away the
bible ; with being the originators Of treasonS
and riots, &C., and vsacd up Catholics and
foreigners with mmoderate junction.
He read from wing address of 1910
dcnunciation Of Duff Green's Amcrcanism,
when he ought to have remembered that the
combinatlon of foreign catholics in 18Th to
defeat Henry Clay, in which they were sue
ccssful changed the wing sentiment in that
respect, and caused deep murmur Of disSa-
tisiaction among the wings throughout the
land and awakened among them u detcrmin-
alton to thwart in the future, if possible, such
nholy politico.rclgious movements in this
country. lie bore down on Northern conven-
tons to consider the dissolution of the union
but failed to remember the movements of
southern ocofocos in the same behalf lie liz
sisted on the great claims he had on the
wings, because he had been with them and
OF them for years, yet he said he had never
made but one speech Of a few minutes for them
or their party, while he now is canvasslng
the whole state for the locoloco party. He
made appeals to both Democrats and Amcri,
cans for their support, telling the former
that in their darkest hour he came to their
relief and seemingly forgetting that that was
the very hour he turned against the latter -
But why follow him farthcr-we are assured
that his speech here lost him votes, and We
have TO doubt of the fact.
Attention Americans.
There will be meeting Of the friends
of Amer canism held at Principle on (this)