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

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ing letter addressed by HIM to the Editor Of
the Cecil Democrat. in reply to certain re-
marks in that paper last week. So far as Mr..
Ewins's "RspublcaniSm" is concerned. we
leave him to attend to that: and in fact, he
has SO well answered the attempt Of that pa.
per to rcpnbliconise the American party Of
Cecil, that additional remark is useless.
When large number of the Americans voted
for him in 1850 he was an independent can
di,latc-who lad been democrat, and never
anything else, and We know perfectly well
that many Americans in this district voted
for Mr.. Grason on the ground that both cam
didatcs being democrats, stood in the same
relation to ,h,m.
Fit wasn't for the .niggcrs as Ewing
writes the word, We don't know what The
Democrat would do. "Nissars," "Repub-
icanisn," "AbolitioniSln these are the
themes he ,lwcls On and as he and his pre-
lcccssors always proved the Wings OF Mary
land to be AboliiiuniSts he now in every
campaign proves lin his way,) that the AMIR
leans ave AbolilioniSts. We sometimes won.
der what the peoplc Of the South would DO if
this doughty champion Of their rights and
lives were not here on the border, with his
powerful pen tobra back the Northern aggres-
sors Slaughtered "nisgers and ai~lltionisS
crowd his columns weekly, but in seems to
Us he hasn't slaughtered Ewing yet. Read
the letter
To the Editor Of The Democrat.
In your lea ling EDITORIAL of last
week. IN reference to myself, &c. you say:
What We want to get ut is the TACT, that
Mr. Ewing was taken up i'll this county in
the fall Of 1855. and run upon the American
or Know nothing ticket, as 4 candidate for
States Attorney i'll opposition To Richard
Grason, Esq ~.
Now such is not the fact. The American
party made lao nomination for the ollie Of
States Attorney, and some four weeks before
the elect offered myself as an Indcp cndcnl
candidate, expecting to lind in the county a
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 political views. My po-
si.on and anteccdents were well known.
I had been Dem ,crat while the Democratic
party remained true to the principles Of jeff
erson and Jackson, land even while Mr..
GrasoI favored G:n Tlylor), bat when it
adopted tho notification creed Of Ca lhoun
| found myself unable to act with it any
longer, and assumed al independent position.
In this attitude stood in the fall of 'j5, and
if, as you have frequently assert I'D, the mem.
bers Of the Ain.ricin party are sworn to sup
port their candidates thcr failing to give me
their entire vote shows conclusivcly they did
not take me up or consider themselves under
any Obligations to support me. | claimed
no affinity with them. | was distinctly
announced, on every American ticket vot cd
as an .'indepcnlent candidate" My opponent
ccctIoneered 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 about even on that score" and
on that very ground some Of thcnost prominent
Democrats in the county voted for, and some
of most prominent Americans against. me.
Your insinuation that 'Republican views and
opinions" would have influenced the unduly
in the performance Of the duties cf the Off 80
can make your party no capital in this county
where have been known from my youth up.
And I Aatter myself that the numerous
friends who supported me so warmly in the
fall Of '55, did not do so because was Re.
publican, an American, or o 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 have since given them no good
reason to change their opinions of me.
But why. in the conclusion of your article,
do you call upon "the shareholders in
Maryland to stay the march" of Rcpublican-
isms Why do youcall upon he 10000 slave
owners and aud have no word to say to the