The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-01-21
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ELKTON, JANUARY 81. 1850.
FOR PRESIDENT,
EDWARD BATES,
We put up this week, our
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dental flag for 1860: EDWARD BATES,
Of Missouri. AS announced last week,
Mr.. Bates stands on no ingeniously con-
structed platform His face is,not black
to the South and white to the north.
The purity Of his private lifey and the
sterling integrity which has characterized
him in the discharge of all his public
duties are the best guarantees Of an eco
nomacal and honest administration of the
Government.
His earnest advocacy of those great
measures Of compromise, for the settle
ment of the conflicting views of opposite
sections, and his depreciation of the agita-
ton of the slavery question mark him as
eminently the man into whose hands, at
this trying hour, we are to entrust the
preservation Of the Union and the Consti-
tuition.
The boldness with which he has con-
tended for the right of recovery of fugi-
tives from labor, his hearty condemnation
of the renewal of that most cruel of bar
barisms, the African slave trade, his well
known disapproval of the illegal interfer-
ence of the citizens of Missouri with the
affairs of Kansas, and his oft repeated
declaration, that the rights of the people
of the South to their property in slaves
should be fully protected, prove that
under his administration the whole power
of the government will be evoked to the
enforcement Of the lars.
MIR. Bates is a native of Virginia; but
removed in early life to Missouri. A
lawyer by profession, he has most ably
and faithfully represented his District in
the Congress of the United States, besides
filling high judicial stations in the State
Courts of Missouri. He has always
shown preference for private life, and
has refused public position wherever he
could do so, consistently with his duty
to his fellow citizens. During the ad-
ministration of Mr.. Fillmore, he was solic-
tied, but refused, to accept seat in the
Cabinet.
In politics, he is a Henry Clay Wing,
and was a most ardent and powerful sup
porter of that great and good man, cspe-
cially during the contest of 1850, when
Mr.. Clay gathered around him the patri-
otto Statesmen of all parties, and crowned
a life of honor and devotion to his coun-
try by his advocacy Of those measures,
the adoption of which, to use his words,
left not single foot of territory about
which there could be the slightest con-
tention upon the question of slavery
Which view of the case, Mr.. Bates still
retains, and that the agitation of the sub
ject is as useless as it is dangerous, it
being question solely for the consider
alton of the people when they come to
form state governments. In 1856, Mr..
Bates gave his support to Mr.. Fillmore,
and was President of the Convention in
Baltimore, which endorsed the nomina.
ton of that statesman by the American
party. The Opposition in Missouri have
already named Mr.. Bates for the Presi-
.dency, and he will undoubtedly receive
the nomination of the convention, which
is to assemble in that state in February.
His name is everywhere hailed as rally
ing point for a United Opposition in 1860.
An opposition to the corrupt and extrav-
igant rule of Locofocoism, as exempli6ed
by the present Administration-to the
useless and dangerous agitation of the
slavery question, and the continuance of
sectional bitterness and threats of dis
union; united for The ECONOMICAL AD-
MINIsTRATIoN OF THE GOVERNMENT,
THE PRESENTATION OF THE UNION AND
THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCE
MENT OF THE LAWS.