The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1857-07-25

F-rPmkncy Ewing has sent us the follow
ing letter addressed by HIM to the Elitor OF
the Cecil Democrat. in reply 10 certai IT,
marks in that paper last week. So far as Mr..
Ewins's .Repuhlcani|m is concerned, we
leave him to attend to that; and III fact, he
has so well answered the attempt Of that pa
per to rrprbi'caai-c the American party Of
Cecil that additional remark is useless. -
When large numhcr Of the Americans voted
lui him in 1879, he vas an independent can
atc---who Lad been democrat, and never
anything else and we know perfectly well
dat many Americans in this district voted
for Mr. Grason on The ground that both can
relation to Them.
Fit was mt for the "niggcrs.' as Ewing
writes the word So don't know what The
Democrat would do, "Nissars," "Rcpub-
licanisln," "AbolioniSm these arc the
themes he dwcIls On and as he and his pre-
decessors always proved the Wings OF Mary
land to he bol'iianiSls-s so he now in every
campaign proves i'm his way.) that the Amer
leans mc AholltiDniStS We sometimes won
der whut the people Of The Suulh would do if
his doughty champion Of their rights and
Ewes were no, here on the border, with his
powclfnlpen iobcat back the Northern aegrcS.
sorS ,,u.h'cr,d 'niEgcrs' and ai,"litiu,istS
crowd his columns weekly, but in seems to
rs he hasn't 81 ,agh'crld Ewing yet. Read
the letter:
TO tie Edifor Of The Democrat.
SIR In your lea ling editorial of last
week IN reference to myself, &c, you say:
What We want to get at is the fact, that
Mr.. Ewing was taken up in this county in
the fall Of 1850. and lun upon the American
or Know nothing ticket, as candidate for
States Attorney III oppDsto'. TO Richard
Glason, Esq ~.
Now such is ao' the fact. The American
party made lao nomination for The Oil &c Of
States Attorney, and some four weeks before
the elect IN Offered myScfa, an Inlrp cndent
candidate, expecting to lind in the county n
large number Of friends, who considered me
competent to fulfil the duties of the office,
and would vote for me accordingly without
any regard to my polilica views. My po-
si.ion and antecedcnts were well known.
had been Il Dem ;rat while the Democratic
party remained true to the principles of jeff
crson and jackson, land even while Mr..
(irasor favored G,a Tylor), bat when it
adopted the notification creed of Ca lhoun
| Jounl myself unable to act with it any
longer, and assumed all independent position
In this attitude stood in the fall Of So, and
it, as you have frequently asselt,d, the mem
bers Of the AneilcLh party are sworn to sup
port their candidates, ther failing to give Inc
their entirevote shows conclusivcly they did
not take me up or consider themselves under
any obligations to support me. | claimed
no ailialy with them. | was distinctly
announced. on every American ticket vot ed
as an independent candidate" My opponent
clectloneered against me on the plea that II
was as much of Democrat as he and if poll
tics were to have any weight ir. the matter
that we were abont ever on that score" and
on that very ground some Of thcmost prominent
Democrats in the county voted Jor, and some
of most prominent Americans against. Inc.
Your insinuation that Republican views and
opinions" would have influenced me urduly
in the performance Of the duties CT the ofti;e
can make your party no capital i'll this county
where have been known, from my youth up.
And aattcr myself that the numerous
friends who Supported me so warmly in the
fall Of 55, did not do 50 because was Re-
publican, an American, or a Democrat, but
simply because they thought me equally as
good citizen, and equally as competent to
attend to the States business as Mr.. Grason
and also that I have since given then no good
reason to change their opinions of NE.
| But why, in the conclusion of your article,
do yoa call upon 1.-The Shareholders in
Maryland to stay the march" of Republican-
ism? Why do oucal upon he 10000 slave
/ owncrS and aud have no word to say to the