The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-09-24

western rivers need appropriations our city
is deeply interested in Pacific railroad on
the Central route and on these great sub.
jects the Northern Opposition vote for u.s. and
Southern and Northern Democrats against u.s.
To Northern Opposition votes we owe the
money for the court house and post office,
and the passing of our hal Dor bill over Presi.
dent Pierce's veto. and those votes sustained
the Agricultural College bill. so important to
Maryland and their whole vote was cast in
vindication Of the honor Of Baltimore assailed
in the person of Mr.. Harris.
Therefore, | say, our interests require us to
act with the Opposition of the North rather
than with the Democrats Of the South.
Shall Maryland not vote with the Northern
Opposition to elect President, because she
is slave State. and the Northern Opposition
do not agree with MS about slavery Neither
do Northern Democrats. Both parties 1t the
North hold the same opinions on that subject.
NldY we vote with Northern Democrats, or
can We vote with nobody 1t is true Mary
land is slave State, but she is also a free
State. She will fully protect the interest of
the Shareholders againat every aggression, but
her free-!a boring mechanical, manufacturing
agricultural and mining people will not sacri-
flee their interests to promote the schemes of
Southern Democratic agitatorS. We do not
agree with Northern men about slavery nor
do we agree with the extreme views of South
ern Democratic politicians. On that vexed
question our policy is to oppose all agitation
all aggression, from the North or the South
all schemes, direct or indirect, to alter by
Congress the actual condition of the terrific
ries, and the actual prohibition of the slave
trade with Africa. On these points, Southern
and Northern extremists demand adverse
legislation. We oppose any change. We
will unite with any one who will Join US in
preventing any change. Then will we have
peace. A President so selected will be DOW
erful for good.
If you do not wish me to labor for such
result do not send me to Washington.
On these principles think we can with a
fit man, count on Missouri. Tennessee, North
Carolina Delaware and Maryland in 1860 !;
and on every free State
If we remain divided the Republicans can
not carry either Penusy lvania. New Jersey
or Indiana 4: and must lose several Others
which the whirlwind of 1856 Frustrated
before them.
The result Of their attempting to nominate
and elect Republican President. is as it was
in 1856 to elect Democrat They are now
perhaps better organized than in 1856, hut
they cannot cast as many votes as they did
then. The examples of Pennsylvania and
New Jersey ought to inspire and warn them.
The masses of the North are for the union of
all good men against those in power and we
of the Southern opposition have shown how
powerful we are in that cause. If the Union
fail it will be because personal ambition and
partisan interests have prevailed over the
wishes and interests of the masses of the
people
This union can be effected only Wy candor,
frankness, good faith. moderation and COM
mon sense. We occasioned the division in
1856 by our premature and precipitate NOM
iaation of MIR. Fillmore, quite as much as the
Northern men by their fanatacism. Let us
take warning, not press forward our favorite
candidates, but await the day Of common con.
sultation. ready to take the man who shall on
due consideration appear to be the strongest
-subordinating every preference to the com
mon good There are not more than two
persons, possibly not more than one, who
unitcs all the conditions requisite for success
at this crisis. There was only one in 1856,
and nobody took him. If we now commit
the same blunder we shall cxpiate it by
another four years under the Democratic yoke
So much for our Democratic opponents 1t
is greatly to be regretted that recent events
require q passing notice.
A large and respectable body of citizens
have published Call for Town Meeting, to
deliberate about rescuring the city from its
present deplorable condition
The language and that call are more to be
deplored than the condition of the city.
No conduct or measures of Baltimore dem
ocrats could surprise me with the history of
their rule or ruin policy for the last four years
before me. am surprised and panied to see
among the names appended to this call, many
of the firm and consistent friends of the Amer
lcan cause and uncompromlsing opponents OF
democratic misrule, State and national in
company with the bitterest democrats of the
city-united in CONN on cause, and that
effort directed to the accomplishment of some
vague reform by our overthrow for it must
come to ttat They, doubtless. for reasons
to them satisfactory, refuse to co-opcrrte with
us, and consequently they are against us.
If they succeed, it must be by Democratic
votes and such success must carry with it
a democratic triumph, and return to demo-
cratic msrule and corruption in the city and
in the Stale.
l believe these gentlemen do not desire that
result but, in spite Of them, it follows inev-
itably on their success and our defeat.
The language of the "call' is sufficiently
startling, and implies what it does not
express-a total failure. intentional or unin-
territorial. of the city authorities, from lack OF
power or inclination, to maintain the author
ity of the laws. The bitter and insolent lam
guage of the Sun imprudently reveals the
democratic hate and violence raging beneath
the calmness Of the "call'
Its success" says the Sun, els of the
utmost Importance, for it would impress
every body with the conviction that means far
more energetic would be alone sufficient for
their {" the wrongs and outrages y cure"
II then proceeds to invoke all who have an
interest in society superior to rowdyism,
fraud, knavery, outrage, corruption, and the
general degradation of the time. TO unite to
free us from these evils, and again it exhorts
all to "come up to the delivery of your city
from the vile and pollutng brawls that have
contaminated the ballotbo the officer OF
authority the places of justice, the station,
high and low, which should be sacred to the
truth, honesty, &c.
We now know what "deplorable" means
in the call. We know whose inspirato ion
actuates the movement We see the boiling
hate which tried to subject the city to mill.
tary violence: and we have the distinct men,
ace of illegal violence if the present whole
sale and legitimate" remedy fail. Success,
Democratic success. or Vigilance Committee
When it is attempted they will find that
the mower which slumbers in the arm of civil