The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-10-20

popular sovereignty. When strict and
equal Justice was the only motto, even of
exp edlency, left for our security. 1t was 1T
tempted, per fas ant netIs, to impose on State
sovereignty itself the dictation Of force fraud
ulently devised, and fraud most violently
executed. Nor thern men were told that the
South would perE,it them to vote for hut not
against proposed form of State constitution:
and Southern men were entrapped into the
scheme of rendering slavery the only institu-
ton which Congressional intervention against
intervention should permit to be pro-
scribcd at the polls. For the sake of sub
.jecting slavery, and slavery alone, to un friend
" discrimination. Southern men were taught
t. forget even the wisdom of the cock in
1Esop's fable. That cock did have the sense
to say to the horse, Ic you won't tread on
my toes won't tread on yours. But our
cock was taught a cock a-doodle-doo strain
Of unprnciplcd arrogance-taught to scratch
the iron shod hoof Of ant-slavey sentiment
to provoke aggression by aggression. to clamor
for the game of hardest tend off, by fair
means or foul. People of the South asked
each other, Is this Southern policy 2 Peo-
Pile at the North asked each other, Is this
Southern justice?' Slavery was made to
stink in the nostr!s of the people of Kansas !:
the justice of our position, the morale of our
organization was sacrificed and our frieEds
at the North were estranged disheartcned,
crushed, rendered poweriess for our ald and
easy victims Of persecution directed against
our welfare and dignity. At the time | saw
the weakness Of degradation to which it was
attempted to consign the South, and | fore
saw the issue Of the more acute than astute
policy of the President. in disavowal, in
depreciation, and in warning l raised my
feeble voice at Richmond. The answer was
prompt. The telegraph conveyed insIruc-
tons from Washington for my immolation
Twcnty-four hours had scarcely elapsed be-
fore presses, politicians, Congressional eau
cnscs and General Assembly caucuses rang
with the same cry. cruelty him cruelty
him +! Thank God fellow. citizens, am al
least alive to tell the tale. Would to God
that my State, my section, my whole county
could emerge from the consequences Of the
fraud as proudly conscious of triumph and
safety as have stood unscalhed by the in.
trieucs of caucuses and the scurrity OF Fed
era rclaners.'
In concluding the arti; lie the Intellisencer
justly remarks as follows:
A party, which, IN the favorable Judge
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has suffered itself to be identified with such
diSasterous issues las surely orfeited its
claim to the public confidence, and most OF
all to the confidence of that section whose in
terests it has been noninally UNFOLDING, while
IN TACT the two great measures upon which
lis reputation has been staked are stigmatized
by Elk Gov. Wise as nothing better than a
"hocus pocus" in the one case and an in
famous fraud " in the other. This is strong
language stronger than any we have found
1t necessary to use in commenting on the
same topics-but the source from which it
cmanates may secure for it more patient
consideration than if it were uttered by less
dsinterested witness. The lesson which it
lnculcates is so transparent that it needs nc
elucdaton at our hands, and is clearly read
IN the light OF current events. which dictate
the imperous necessity Of dissociating " the
cause of the South " from all Identification
with the Democratic party, by whom that
cause has been according TO Ex-Gov. Wise
admissions, so previously compromised dur
ing the last few years. And the growing
popularity of the Constitutional Union party
IN that section affords the best assurance
that the Southern people, while concurrine
with the Ex.Gov. IL his diagnosis of the
disease will very prudently refuse to take
the specific " which he prescribes for thei
relief in the shape of Congressional inter
vention for the protection Of Slave propeit,
in the Territories, according to the prcscrip
tons recommended by the Breckinridg
Democracy Prescriptions which their yer,
authors have already sufficiently discounte
nanced by refusing to try their efficacy upoI
eases calling aloud for treatment, if indeet
the evil complained of be not Sin ulatet
rather than real.