The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-08-07
political friends, the whole community knows

, the little forger tells lie No. 7.
A few old wings have gone to the locofoco
party; our position with these politically, of
course, has changed but our personal inter
course with all Of them, zone eXcepted,) is as
| formerly. Two Or three men, still voters i'll
| the American party, have fallen out with us
! because we have not supported them for
| nominations, or have otherwise intgr!crcd
with their political aspirations. The public,
quite generally, know the facts, and it is not
necessary here to dilatc on them. No man
Of them to-day, will say, we presume,
that he stands better with the American party
| than we do; and when the Democrat says
these men tolerate the Wing, in business
way, he pays a greater compliment to its
circulation and influence than he intended.
The little forgcr, (organ - who didn't go
to Turks Island, but did cord wood, and who
has just lost the public printing, has no
enemies Of INIT kind in his party. No man
in it ever supposed him capable Of iujuring
his political prospects, while all the leaders
of all the factions in his party continually
| dcnouncr him as an ass and fool.
LII iCSdlh " VIC comparative circulation
of the two papers, we dare him to print what
the paper maker, from whom we both purchase,
may say as TO the quantity We respectively
use as to " dead heads, !" if we have deude,
head, in any respect, on our list than he las
proved wherever he has been, we don't know
him. As 10 exchange lists, that is too trifing
| to mention VIC rather think his the larger;
! his friend the postmaster can say. lie SAYS
he has been ten years building up his crcula-
ton, while VIC have been seventeen he never
built his up at all, while we commenced ours
from nothing. lie took the Office and list of
| the lOcotocO paper started here in May, 1887.
more than twcnty-onc years ago, and its list
was built up during the pride and power Of
that party in this county, by a publisher, far
more enterprisng (cNccpt in forging and
lying,) than It's present proprietor. We have
referred to several Of his minor lies in this
paragraph but will let them pass without
numbering.
His whole reference to the result Of any
controversy with the Republican, while in
Baltimore is lie No. s. We have the files to
show. If We went to Baltimore to better our
condition, we did so; we were paid good
salary while there and left there voluntarily.
and we have been offered more per annum to
go there again to take charge of an American
paper than. as we believe, the whole gross
yearly income Of his office.
1t is not worth while at this late day fifteen
years after the occurrence, during all which
ir,, have I,I A.;
make any vindication Of oursclf against his
"castng up " to lis the aflray of1Sl3. When
he speaks of our s. neck being saved from the
halter" and intimatcs that our children will
hear said olus 60 there goes miserable 'scape
gallows," we can only say that there is no
protection II ON these attacks from SO base IL
scoundr9l as him, and that there IS no injury
sustained by them. At time Of intense
political excitement; on the day Of a demo-
cratic convention, man far larger and more
athletic and better armed than We after
threatening our life, instigatcd by miscellaneous
persons, sought us and attacked us, while
peacefully pursuing our private affairs. The
nature of the atfray, and that the fortune of
the fight went against him and not against us.
Is known in this community as well as We can
tell it.
That owing 10 the political aspect Of the
matter and the excitement Of the occasion
many Of the other party took sides against
us was not to be wondered at nor complained
of. That many among them, at the first, sus
tanned us is well known here. That if no
party feeling had been mixed up with it
every one Of noble or manly f,eling would
have stood by us, we do not doubt. Now
when most Of those, who in the excitement
of those times were against US, arc on
terms Of personal friendship with us and we
Lave lived down the difficulty, our composite
is not to be disturbed by such assaults from
such quarter. We can say this however,
and all men Of character will sustain us, that
no one but thief and assassin Of character {;
no one but degraded and dcbascd villain {;
no one but an innately mean, rotten, low
born dog, would have made such an attack
and let the little forging, lying. depraved and
disgraced scoundrel hearken That he may
hear; this very attack oc his Will damage
him a hundred fold more than it will us in
this county and this community.
For the present we will dismiss him; we
have named eight prominent lies of his of
which we have proof in this controversy {;
there are scores of Others within the knowl-
edge Of the people a correspondent of The
Wing two weeks ago, convicted him of lying
on the Tariff question another last week,
exposed the lie he published headed - look at
home" Dscrcdited disgraccd, SO despica
BILE forger and liar that nothing he says is
to be for oGe moment believed, let him wend
his wormy way, turned down, Kissed at and
despiscd.