The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-09-10

w. Inc DctnOCTatIC OF gan III lnlS county,
last Saturday, gave its readers the astonishing
intelligence that they would soon be called
upon 10 make their biennial visitation to the
polls, )" and further that the Know Nothings
were about to put up candidates of personal
merit and ability" another fact astonishing
in the highest degree, considering the denun-
citation of that party by the aforesaid organ
in days gone by, when they could only be
spoken of as midnight assassins, traitors to
their country, unprncipled office seekers,
abolitionsts and such ike delicate titles
The raw head and bloody bones of a secret
band of conspirators and treason hatchers,
with which Democratic organs once attempted
to awe the people into the support of their
ticket, are now abandoned and Know Nothing
candidates Of personal merit and ability"
of ." capacity and character" are held up to
brighten Democratic aspirants from looking
after their own political elevation" or
" scheming and working for friends and
favorites." We congratulate the country
upon this new born determination to select
for candidates "none but men of the
highest integrity and the most inquest nablc
capacity" and hail as the first fruits of this
determination the denomination of Ramsey
Mclienry for Congrcss(?) Had this determine.
ton been made before the presidential nomi-
nation of 1856, we might have been spared
the humiliating spectacle of a President of
the United States, endorsing his approval of
for votes for a Congressional candidate, or
Secretary Of War who robbed the nation of
a hundred thousand dollars in a flour contract
that he might put the money in his own
pocket. Blu: we warn you, gentlemen, that
this determination comes too late in the dav.
The people have tried you and found you
wanting, and your resolutions of amendment
will not deceive them, outraged and insulted
and betrayed as they have been by your
corrupt contracts and shameless waste of
public money.
And now when the Democratic organ talks
OF the enormous and oppressive taxation ?"
and RECKLESS extravaganza" let them point
out those items of the public expenditure in
this county, to which the Democratic party
is opposed. One large item of that expense has
been for the maintenance of public schools,
which the Legislature required the Commits
sioners to levy, and over which they had no
control. Is this the "reckless extravaganza"
you refer to! Then say So if you dare At
your county Convention, which selects these
candidates of T." the highest integrity" con-
stluct your platform upon the basis of oppo-
s't'on to Free Schools, and go out before the
people upon it. Add to this opposition to the
payment Of Witnesses and Jurors at the time
their services are rendered, which is another
of the items Of this reckless extravaganza
and going on still further, declare that no
more bridges shall be lmH no mo,e neg roads
made, for these, with the two former, make
the sum total Of what the Democratic organ
calls " reckless extravaganza" If the Dem.
ociatic party of Cecil county are opposed to
these things, then let them be honest and say
so, if not, then be equally honest, and tell the
people that the taxes have been occasioned by
these things, and these alone.