The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1859-09-24
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SYNOPSIS OF
MIR. WIS., SPEECH,
THE FOURTH DISTRICT OF MARYLAND,
ON THE FIFTH OF SEPTEMBER, 1859,

pTeclatlOn OF Inc n0n0f conferred by the
preference of the people of the district, and
his grateful acknowledgement for The an
waverngHsupport they had always given
him. in the midst Of the trying scenes of mis-
public service, and in the face ofevery clamor
ard every falsica ton of his conduct aud
motives, proceeded to say
The present circumstances Of the country
are analogous to those of 1855.
Now, as than, an administration having at
its origin elements of vast power and in lis
first Congress a great majority in both
Houses, has been broken down and destroyed
before the end Of the first session of its first
Congress.
Then, as now, the failure was occasioned
by the deliberate violation ofpledges of peace
and honesty touching the slavery question
accompanied with fragrant disregard of the
laws and Constitution punished by the
withdrawal of the confidence Of the country
and the sending of great opposition majority
to Congress.
That great rebuke failed of success by I'M
happy divisions. This administration is the
front of this bad conduct Of the opposition in
1855 and 1856: and similar conduct now
will be followed by similar retriJution in
1860.
We of Maryland can be responsible only
for the vote Of Maryland, and for wise and
moderate conduct and counsel to those with
whom we would act, If they will meet US on
ground on which we can stand
The vote of Maryland is contested by the
Democrats in the counties. They are not
likely to give us much trouble in Baltimore.
The Convention Of the former met in Free
derrick and expounded in many resolutions
with foreign accent, their claims to the
popular vote, which, in substance, consists
in its confidence in the integrity Of the present
National Administration and its grand con-
curronce in the public measures of that Adj
ministration: and that the Democracy of
Mlryland retain undislurb,d confidence in
the integrity and ability Of James Buchanan,
and in the patriotism of his administration
The first act of his administration vas
the shooting down of thirty-lour peaceful
citizens and subjects CT the United States. in
The streets of the National Capital, by United
States marines, Illegally, without warning,
provocatlon or excuse-a massacre to this
day UNPUBLISHED, and for VIII lch no one has
ever been called to account.
TWAS this act which inspired Gov. Lyon $
invasion of Baltimore. OF course, Mary land
Democrats could not fail TO approve 1t, how.
ever hunllating the interiority Of the invita-
ton.
The present and last administration have
invented new laws unknown to our fore
tathcrs--whereby the military is converted
into posse comtatus, the sword Of mrrcena.
rles substituted TO, the array four neighbours
and friends under the Sheriff or Mas shall {:
and under this usurpation, Washington has
been deii.cd with blood and Kansas ridden
down by United States troops yet all this
meets the approval Of Maryland Democrats.
Sui clutching at the power of the sword,
the President asks Congress to delegate to
him the power to make war at his will and
pleasure. lie wishes the right to send the
army and navy on the transit routes whenever,
in his opinion or that of his succ,ss ors, they
are obstructed, or American citizens deprived
of their rights. Ofcourse Maryland Democrats
can refuse nothing to the patriotism of this
Adminstration-not even the most sacred
provisions of the Constitution.
They approve his ridiculous crusade against
Mormondom, prematurely hurried into, end.
ing III no conclusion, buying peace by pardon
from men in persistent rebellion and humb-
ling the United States by allowing their
government to be reduced to vain shadow
outside the cmcampnent Of their troops.
They approve the Paraguayan expedition,
beginning in MI unconstitutional delegation
of the power 10 declare war to the President,
illegally begun before negotiations had failed;
extravagantly and illegally conducted by the
hiring Of rotten steamers, at runous rates
and then buying them al more extruyagant
rates.
They approved of the Presidents proposal
to invade Mexico in time of profound peace,
and to take military possession of Sonora and
Chihuahua, without provocation or excuse,
under false pretexts, and in pursuance of the
aggressive, tillibustering. domineerng policy
which is so Obstructive Of our true interests.
| They are IN favor of MIR. Mason's bill-to
| give to the President, without declaration
Of war 10y Congress. to whom exclusively the
power is coniided by the Constitution, the
power at his will and pleasure to wage war on
Mexico, the Central American republic and
all the republics of South America. They
ale content to make us more hateful to our
Republican brethren on this hemisphere than
we are now-to persist in the policy of bully
ing the weak which Pearce inaugurated at
Greytown and Buchanan initiated in Para
guay-to take the last step on the retrogade
path from Clay's policy of Cancellation to
Folks policy Of conquest and this at the
mere will ofthe President!
They are willing to insult Spain by pro-
posing to purchase Cuba. which she will no
more sell than we will Washington, to bully
her into selling by threats of taking it, to
trust to the mere discretionary keeping Of the
President S3OO00,0O0 to be paid by him to
| Spanish officials On terms not known or ap.
proved by the Senate and liable in the mean
time to be so deposited as to accomplish any
political purpose the President may be weak
or wicked enough to permit. Such is their
confidence in his honesty
They are anxious to add Cuba TO the United
States, with its variegated, mixed and degra-
ded population of lien race and anti.Iepubl-
can religion, at an expense OF 100000, 900,
to be pa I'd out OF an empty treasury or to be
saddled for generations on our back perhaps
never to De removed the beginning Of per-
petual and crushing debt like that Of England
the interest alone Sl8 600 600 per annum
They approve of his veto of the Agricultural
and Mechanical College bill Of Mr.. Morrell,
whereby Maryland is depl lived of the proceeds
of20, GOO acres of land for each representative
to endow her magnificent Agricultural College
just erected while every Western State has
vast reservations granted her for public
schools, &C.; millions of acres are yearly
gwen for Railroads and Bounty lands. The
farmers and mechanics Of Maryland will be
apt to think that the constitution which
allows the one cannot forbid the other.
President Buchanan dedicated the whole
power, patronage and Establishment of his
administration, to force on the whole mass Of
I the people of Kansas a constitution which n