The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-12-25
Gle Cecil (l1Die.
ELKToN, DECEMBER IS, 1856.

gcod thing last week. 1t voted TO keep Hon.
}. Morrison Harris in The scat to which he
was elected BY a majority uf 3UC0 votes. ii
turned down the purchased testimony Of
pinkney White. Ii vindcstcd it's own honor
against any cha,g" Of lsrtissn bias in this
d,ci,on. Il refused 10 believe idle tales in
vented to keep loc0iccos in power sud true
men out Of office. Bat. above all, it put the
seal of eternal condcnnaton on the malicious
falls, hoodS, ciIculsttd 10y the Baltimore Loco
ioco shd neutral newspapers, concerning cleo.
ton riotS in that city. 1t completely sus.
tanned The American government Of that city,
10y vote Of lOG TO 81 and consequently,
we, who lIsve denicd these charges and claim
Cd always for Baltimore as much decent le-
spect for authority AS eau be found in any
other city, give TO the Democrats voting for
Mr. Harris this credit. We salute the House
, of Representatives and thank God that in
| these degenerate days o. politics honest men
ale sometimes found. We thought, too, that
this tenihle blow would silence the noisy
demsgogues who whine about " mockcIy of
justice and Outraged freedom - who only
disgust men by lameuiilg and dsnouncinc a
state Of things which could alone he true
though the unmaniinoSs aud Cowsrdicc Of he
complainants. But We were mistaken. Neither
public sentiment, nor the Legislature ul
Maryland, nor the Congress Of the Cuitod
States, can silence these br.zen and unolush.
i'm Il fan NT ,,;t g.. Al,
truth. Adopting the old maxim of fools,
thst "a lie we'll stuck TO is as good as the
truth, " in spite of this climax of cond,mna-
ton just set upon them, they still complain
and whine more than ever.
The Exchange Of the day following the vote
in Congress, airs its vocabulary in col
umD Of the same stale old cries about the DIS
regard of the minority and actually takes the
House of Representatives to task because it
did not turn out Harris who was ahead by
1000 votes, and put in White who was behind
1000 votes, when there wasn't shadow Of
proof to justify it, Listen to the Editors IA
wings.
" The House Of Representatives nevcrthc-
lcsS-whatcvCr il may tiinl;-has voted other
wise. and the citizens Of Baltinurc-dri
out Of the protection and imsuliingly denied
the corntcnancc of their own constituted
aTtholitcs--havc found as little Of sympathy
or support among the Representatives OF the
people. IiaCnchliN, new election wuHni
have amounted to but little, rs he Session
is short one, ALREADY advaleing-but, as
matter Of principle. it would have been a
pr"';i and memorable thing for the Legislature
Of the nation, without respect to party, to
have proclaimed its fixed hostility to iraud
and violence at the bailut-bcX, and to have
made ii understood, for all time to conc. that
no man shall sit in its seats. with such stains
on himscli OF his constituency. But the House
OF Representatives, unfortunately, is not II
place Of large ideas or lofty principles. 1t
has its own little mtrigucs and anbitluns-its
jobs and its countcr-jobs Presidents to
make or to opposc--ts Offices to look after
its logs to roll. What cares il for the dis
reimbursement Of the third city in the Union
If Baltimore had been in Kansas, or Nebraska
or even in Sonora or Nicaragua, it might
have been considered. If its people had been
bordcr-rufiians or tU"dom- ShrirkrrS- ilbuS-
tiers. or even slave-tradcrs-thcy might have
found advocates and voice. AS ii is, they
wcrG--Llid Oh the table. Without debate -
Honorable gentlemen would not read, neither
would they hear. Doubtless they had their own
views OF duty, and acted accordingly. Their
business is to take care OF the Mosquito X ing
and look after Japan and the commerce of the
Pci-ho."
The a6surdity of the article is only cquallcd
by its unparalleled impudcncc. A Baltimore
penny newspaper pretending to be neutral in
politics and doing its best to pull down one
party and put up another a newspaper,
which :" ont llcrods Hcrod " in its abuse Of
the city and the men which give it breath:
which has made itself obnoxious over the
whole state, in its short lived existence: which
only lives on means drawn from men who
will either "ruc or Iuin " the city of Bal,i-
more; attempting TO make itself Il censor Of
the public morals and public justice, by crit.
cising the motives which induced over one
hundred honorable gentlemen in Congress to
vote for truth and right, and TO send it with all
its sympathizers into ignominy and oblivion.
Verify we have fallen on singular times
The nations representatives and all, dishonest
and upmindlul Of the welfare of the people
No honesty now is found anywhere save in
the hearts of those terrible patriots and in
comparable mon who compose the LccorOco
minority in Baltimore. What Mey say is
t.uth--any evidence to the contrary notwith-
standing What they DO is right and no man
must gansay it. The ticket they vote is the
only one which can be elected by fair means,
and The Exchange stands ready TO prove all
this by column oftlcnunciation against Con.
gress. Mr.. Whytc proves it with his own as,
sortion and the Exchange proves his assertion
with another and so they move OIL together.
Nothing piovcn and yet Congress must turn
Mr.. Harris out and say % that no man shall
sit in its seats with such stains on himself or
his constituency"
We pause here; the theme becomes dis
gushing; but let it be kept in distinct remom.
brance by every Locoroco Editor in Mary land
and they shall not forget it, e we can induce
them to read The JIhig. as we shall do our
best to keep it before the people" that the
locofocos in Baltimore have appealed to the
people and have been defea' ed driven from
that they have petitioned the Legislature of
the state and there have been turned down ::
and now as last resort they have memorable
zcd Congress in which that party has large