The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1858-11-06


week is the issuing OF an Address by one hun
drcd and siXty-sx citizens Of Baltimore, en-.
bodying all the lies and abuse against that
city which has lately been published in the
locofoco papers. They join in delaming the
city which gave most of them birth and where
many of them have been warmed into afflu-
cnce and distinction. The object appears 10
be to organize some sort of a club of " Reg
ulators " to NEEDLE with the public affairs.
1t seems the first intention was to organize a
Vigilance Committee to set the authorities at
defiance, but they backed down from that
and issued a windy manifesto. The whole
thing is ridiculous locofoco farce and will
be dead and forgotten long before another
election comes on. The Clipper refers to it as
follows:
The idea ola provisional government seem,
however, to have been abandoned. The
energy of the Mayor and the entire freedom of
the city for two weeks past from crime and
lawlessness, removed every excuse or shadow
of excuse for the sudden overtuIning Of all law
and the institution of bloody and terrible riots;
perhaps, as it has been hintcd, the authors Of
this revolutionary movement found, as did
Governor Ligion, that the masses of the pco-
pie Of Baltimore were not in favor of any
such lawless and anarchical proceedings, and
that not even the gallant six hundred, who
constituted the Governors army in his famous,
or rather infamous, foray upon the constitu-
tional rights of the citizens of Baltimore, were
willing to take up arms against the consitu-
ted authorities.
Be this as it may, the programme was
changed and instead Of the call to arms and
the sudden alarm Of war, the gallant one hun.
dred and sixty-six contented themselves with
an appeal to the citizens to form affiliated
societies " to cure evils which they admit are
already cured, and to right wrongs which they
acknowledge the vigilance of the Mayor has
already righted.
1t is only necessary TO observe the ANALYSIS
of this one hundred and siStv-six Vigilance
Committee mtn, to see at a glance that it is
nothing more than renovation of an expert
mcnt that has been divers times unsucccsSfuly
attempted since the American party has been
in the asccndancy in Baltimore The list of
signers of this lorofoco Vigilance Committee
proclamation comprise one hundred and forty
Acknowledged Loeotoeos. thirteen who claim to
be old line wings, toT renegade Americans
and nine whose political affiliations are un.
known. Thirty of this singular "associa.
ton are papists, and at least tuenty Of them
were members Of Governor Lyons special
police, upon the memorable occasion of the
Gubcrnatora invasion of Baltimore.
1t would, as one of our evening contem-
porares suggested, be an easy matter to pro.
cure proclamation signed by five or ten or
fifteen OF even twenty thousand of our citizens
in opposition to this ridiculous and nccndiary
and lawless movement, but the whole affair is
so superbly farcical that it is a matter Of
public ridicule rather than serious considcra-
ton. 1t would be, as we have said, easy to
| procuTe signatures to a counter manifesto
counselling a supper, Of the city government
and obedience to the laws, from citizens of an
hundred times the aggregate property inter-
ests and at least equal responsibility, but
neither the American party nor the American
COVER nment know any such distinctions in So
cety. While in our ranks We arc proud to
number citizens of the creates. wealth and the
highest responsibility, We know that the
masses Of theparty are composed of mechanics
and those who depend upon their own indus.
try for their support, and there is no need tl
appeal to such men to stand by the laws
they have sworn to maintain, nor to sustain
the government Of their own choice from the
revolutionary movement Of few discontinued
political opponents. When the time comes =
and God forbid it shall ever come in this our
beloved native city AN army Of twenty thou
sand stauncl and true Americans can be read
~ Summoned upon the side of the law anG
good government against any insurrectionary