The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-07-02

we are going backwards. Beneath
the touch of locofocoism leading evidence of
our Improvement and civilization on this
Eastern Shore of Maryland has just been blot
ted out. Our daily mails from Elkton down
through Cecil and the counties below, and up
to Pennsylvania, have been discontinued bv
order Of the Postmaster General. The old,
one-horse system Of three.tilnes- a-week has
been revived. Business men below -mapu
facturerS above whose interests impera.lvely
require daily communication with the cities
must curtall their business curb IN their
enterprise aud their energies, and fall back
with our slow coach government into half
living and half dead condition. "Three
times week is the ORDER So submit
patient countrymen, while the holdes that are
al!en'ns on public pluLder, pockat the money
that should support your mails.
The reason given for this taking away Of
the conve'lencies and the rights of the people
OF this county and this Shore, is that Congress
failed to make an Appropriation for the Post
otilce Department. Sc be it. A ocofoco
Congress-with locofcco majoritics in both
llouses~-fails to do its duty, and thus the
people nre made to suffer. We incline to
believe the people will remember this as one
OF the reasons why this locofoco party which
is gorging It's NAV on the fat of the land,
consuming the very sincws and energies Of
business, should be discredited and doomed
to certain overthrow
The locofoco Congress, frightened by the
terrible expenditures of the locofoco Admins
tration, or from some other reason good TO the
minds of locolocos, fails TO make an appro.
FriatIon, and as consequence, the locoloco
Postmaster robs us Of our mails we rcpcat
the proposition that it may lie the better re-
menlbered.
The leading cause ofal this is the scarcity
public funds growing out Of the extraor-
binary expenditures Of The Administration.
When we talk of millions we have but
limited idea of The amount indicated. When
we say that the expenditures und er Fillmore
were scarcely $4,000 900 per year. and that
now they are more than 500 100000 under
Buchanan we scarcely realize the vast differ
ence. Here is fifty millions difference equal
to more by ten millions, than the assessed
valae of the whole eight counties Of the
Eastern Slore-more than equal the assessed
value Of six such counties as Cecil. This is
the representation Of the excess oe cxpcndi-
tulc Of this locofoco Administration over the
expenses of Fillmore's time. And at their
rate of using the public money the whole
assessed value of the state of Maryland
would no, last the present lccofoco govern
ment three years. 1t is positively enor.
nous, and frish,ful. Millions on millions
squandcred, and yet the people robbed Of
their rights-of privileges which the advanced
state of our improvements and public enter
prise have made necessaries Let the people
OF Cecil and of the Eastern Shore carry the
recollection Of these outrages to the polls with
them at the election coming this fall-let
them strike then and prepare to strike harder
at the approaching Presidential contest A
government should be turned down when it
has grown so wanton in its waste Of public
money and so regardless of the good of the
people. Democracy is no name for such an
Administration as now curses the country
why should Democrats adhere to msera-
Die organization which bellies their princi-
pies and its very name. The Opposition
Americans, Wings and Democrats who are
no longer to be fooled by a name-arc sure
to band together for mutual protection and
for the common good, against the hordes O.
locotoco office holders, who are eating up the
country's substance and causing the people
to be robbed of their rights.