The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-09-08
VIM. Pinkney Ewing and The Cecil
WING.

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Mr.. W. P. Ewing, Republican Elec-
tor for this District, disciple of Horace
Greeley and poor imitator of his style,
essays through the columns of last
weeks Democrat, what, in the exuber-
ance of his egotism, he no doubt sup
posed would demolsh this paper, and
thus create necessity for one in. which
he can vcntilate his peculiar views. TO
accomplish this purpose-a purely selfish
though characteristic one, he has resort
ed to bcspattcring of us and The Wing
with mud "a dirty business it is true,
under any circumstances, but particu.
larly dirty when, under the guise of
party zeal, and ostensibly for political
effect, mere personal objects are sought
to be accomplished. AS, however, ac-
cording to the old latin maxim "thcrc is
no disputing about taste,'' and as Mr..
Ewing's tastes appear to lead him into
the mud-throwing business, we suppose
he must even be allowed to enjoy his
occupation as sscomposedly' as only
one long accustomed thereto can. If he
sol. his own hands and clothes in lis
efforts to bc-spattcr others that is his
own business not ours.
We do not, at this time, propose a
defence of The Wing against the few
open charges or more numerous innucn.
dos contained in this singularly disin-
gcnuous letter of Mr.. Ewing. Neither
shall we tell our readers that which Mr..
Ewing desires as to tell them as to our
course and position, but which even his
stock OF impudencc aciN not permit him
TO assert as true. Our readers are as
competent to judge of our course as Mr..
Ewing is, and We think their judgement
in this matter likely to be more impartial
than that of one "who longs to be a
small place holder" under a Republican
administration, and who, in addition to
that, has other reasons equally selfish
for disparaging the Wing.
One or two things, however, We will
tell Mr.. Ewing who talks so fippantly
about our readiness to throw ourself's in.
to the arms and submit to the embrace -
of the followers of Douglas. When he,
now Republican elector, was wallow-
ing in the mire of that locofocosm which
he now processes to hate so much, the
present Editor of The Wing was standing
shoulder to shoulder with its late gifted
conductor in the ranks of the old Wing
party, battling against that locofocoism of
which MIR. Ewing was then an advocate,
and so long as wing banner foated to
the breeze in the country we fought side
by side under it. When that party,
hated and maligned by Mr.. Ewing and
his locofoco confreres during its cxis-
tence, was disbanded, we enlisted with p,
Z. Ricketts, in the ranks of the American
organization, whose principles Mr.. Ewing
never loved whit better, perhaps, than
he did the principles of the Wing party
In 1856 that party fought a battle
against sectionalism, northern as we'll as
southern; and, under the control Of
Palmer c. Ricketts,, The Cecil Wing, in
all material respects, as its files will con-
oluslyely show, advocated the election
OF MiHard Fillmore over all other candi-
dates for the presidency, just as The
Cecil Wing now advocates and labors for
the success of John Bell. Its Editor
then believed that the success of either
of the sectional parties into which the
country was then, and is still divided,
would be disastrous to the peace, har-
mony and welfare of the republic that
the agitation of the question Of slavery
in the territories was the mercst abstrac
ton, and that the election Of the candi-
date of the conservative Wings and
Americans of the country was the ef'ec-
tual remedy for the ills brought upon it
through the agitation of impracticable
issues, by Northern and Southern
dcmagogues, to the neglect of all the
material interests of the country That
was The Wings position in 1856, and
that, Mr.. Ewing to the contrary notwith--
standing, is its position to day. Does
any American, any Wing, or any body
else that knew Palmer C. Ricketts,, save
and except Mr.. Ewing, suppose that in
his hands now The Wing would not be
the honest, able and fearless supp OTTER
of John Bell! One thing The Wing did
not do in 1856, and has not done in
1850. 1t did not put weapons in the
hands of its enemies, to be used against
its own candidates, either for or without
pay How then does The Wing of 1860
stand Numerically opposed" in its
course in this respect, to The Wing Of
1852 Was its policy short sighted