The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-02-04

| travagant and lmDcclle National Auuln-
| istratlun:
Address Of the Superior Council.
| BROTHER AMERICANS:
We have fallen on evil times.
| Through supinlncSs and neglect of duty,
we have been defeated III the counties. and
our political enem les are in power in the Leg
Sla,ure. We take TO ourselves as much OF
the Blame for this untowald state of things,
as we are ready TO attribute to you.
But, though beaten in the counties. we are
not dead. Our strength is not in our ha ir. as
Sampson was. 1t is in our honest hearts,
and our irdomltable wills.
We mourn not oven our defeat outside OF
Baltimore. We have no tears to shed for the
loss Of that which we can regain. And we
know you have none.
| But this is not II.
Our enemies IN B,ltimore, though routed
and defeated in November last. have not had
the manlinrss to acknowle ledge their defeat
They have crouclcd back into their lair, and
there in secret have concOctcd series of
measures, known as the " Police Bills to
deprive the people of Baltimore Of their rights
liberties, and franchises, without their con-
sent and to transfer them to fur of our polit
ical opponents. chosen by the Legislature, and
! clothed with unlimited power, to govern us
with rod of iron, and armed with the right
to call out the military at discretion to reduce
us to suhj,ciion.
| Such IS the character, in brief, of these
odnuS measures.
They have been introduced into both Houses
OF the General Assembly. In tie Senate they
were reported back from the Judiciary Com.
| ~ viii ,i ~ r,,i,
ever being read IN Committee, ard have pass
ed, IL to 9. just as they came from the hands
of their authors, without being cngroSscd.
The Senator'S Of our party in the L"gs
ture, made all the resistance they could to
these Bills of abominations, and we have
every confidence in the fidelity of the Amcri-
can delegates to their brethren in Baltimore
tina, they will never submit to their passage
unless overpowcr,d by numbers.
Our Mayor and City Council, have protcc-
ted msnruIly against this invasion Of our righ' S
and franchises, and have taken the prclimi-
nary steps to test their coastitutionality by
| the most eminent counsel Of our city.
Not content with this effort to uproot our
municipal government, and bring us under a
foreign dcSpotSm. our enemies, now tempo.
rarily in the ascendant. propose to vacate the
recent November election, for no other real
reason but that they arc in minority, and
could not beat us, so that, most probably, we
sho Il have our civil Offices recently filled by
men of our own choice. taken from us ANUS
tIliably and 10y force and relillcd by appoin-
tees Of the Legislature.
So things stand at this inncture.
These measures may or NAV not be carried
in the House of Delegates. There may b,
some of our political opponents Influenced by
sense of Justice and right, who may be gov
Cincd by The Constitution and the laws. and
who may refuse 10 violate them, in order to
punish Baltimore for her Amclicanism
! But whether these bills are finally passed or
not, we how say to you. we stand upon the
Constitution, and cur rights under it. The
| American spirit still CLOVIS in our bosoms. -
We are fe,men, and we will never submit to
be governed by minority party, who, in
"fuer 10 suodae us, nave violated the conStl.
(a'>on ana 'hc laws, ny uhcoIstltutiona and
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-" Onward to victory!
Whether we live or die"
Unanimitv of purpose should be our ANNA
ting thought For what? To drive the cor
rupt dynasty out of power, now eating int,
the very vilals OF our State Government. Blu
how! Bv standing by each other as a ban,
of Brothers in the conflict.
Aud now, Americans of the eyerlastin.
Alleghanian mountains, dash down from YOU
Businesses with irresistible force. and gather
ing new strength from the rich valleys Of tn
county honored by the name Of the Father o
his Country, descend TO Monocacy's fcrtil
plains and the grass-c,ad hills of Lnganorc
there to marshal YOUR m,iorl,ics bv hundreds