The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-06-30
OUT IN THE COUNTRY, May 10. 1860.


To tie Editors Of The LouiSriHe Journal:
There is no necessity for ratificat ion meet
ings.> The nomination Of Bell and Everett
ra.ities itself Many of the old line Wings
who have been voting the Democratic ticket
FOR sometime past, seem rejnced at the Oppo:
s'ton nominations. They say it is q safe
ticket. and one that neither Wing nor Demo
GRAFT can object to. The whole negro cla,nor
is suddenly silenced. With this ticket dis
union is as remote as at any Corner period of
the history OF the Government 1t will REQUIRE
hard drilling 10 get anything like union of
Democratic forces against John Bell. Some,
office seekers only, taking their cue from the
Democratic papers, call Tim fogy and fossil,
and other diSparaging names. 1t Is but light
dispraise. What they mean by it we do not
Know. 1t is true that in bribery. corruption,
aud III pluniering the Government for party
purposes John Bel; has not kept time to
democratic progress, and never can; aud If that
is what the little editors and Office seekers
mean by calling him fogy and fossil, We shall
have to own up: but ifa clear head and clean
hand and sound heart are of any value in
race for the Presidency, we can with pride
and confidence challenge the nation to present
his superior. We do not present him as
fast man in the modern, cockney Sense of that
phrase, and we rejoice that he is not "a fast
man. lie is an old man. too old now to learn
treason, or ia lschooG, or any of those refined
modern practices Of fast men by which the
expenditures Of the Government in time of
profound peace are swtllcd from forty millions
to eighty millions Of dollars.
But the Covodr committee will explain all
this. Are any Of you old enough Messrs
Editors, TO recolect the Jackson and Reform
movement that inausurated the Democratic
party! What a hurricane it was! This
administration is jackson and Reform in
progressive state. 1t is the philosophical
sequence of that revolution The election of
General jackson may have been necessary on
other grounds, but not for reforming abuses
that existed in the public expenses. Let
those abuses be pointed out now compare
them with the developments of the Coyode
Committee. Look at them as the ground of
overthrow of party and the Democratic
party would not meet at Baltimore in June,
it would disband. dissolve, mith Eighty
millions Of pubiic money! One half of that
amount (the sum actually spent for purposes
Of corruption1. forty millions of dollars in the
hands Of party, devoted exclusively to pro-
longing party rule. How many Editors and
Congressman will it not buy? How many
Constitutions will il not frame ! How many
English Bills will it not pass! Dun't we
need a Fogy President? lie would bring US
back to Forty Millions again. The iron of
Pennsylvania and Kentucky. the sugar of
Louisiana, and the looms Of Massachusetts,
might hope for Some protection. The people
would make their own Constitutions, and The
English Bills might so under the table, the
lowest bidders would get the public contracts
and the government mules would not be sold
in the Rocky Mountains whore none but
eovcnmen, pets could reach the place Of sale
But after all, what will the Covode Com.
mlttce achieve for the country? Nothing, or
next to nothing. Before the Charleston
Convention few Democratic Conventions
did venture TO endorse the course of the
present Administration. 1t is the last
endorsement it will ever receive. But what
OF that! IL another Democratic adninistra.
ton succeeds it. will it be any better? Will
1t not consist Of substantially the same set of
men. or worse men Men who will See
plainly that the eighty millions must be
doubled or the party split to pieces! Will
they hesitate TO use the means! If the
county supports this fast party sitter the
exposures of the Covode Committee, what
Government official, high or low, will have
cause to fear punishment or shame
In conclusion. | will say one thing to you
IN confidence. If Douglas IS nominated at
Baltimore, Bell will carry Kentucky by 10000
over the united votes of Democrats and Black
Republicans. The political distinction be-
tween Douglas and Lincoln must be broader
and clearer than it was in their contest two
years ago, to enable a Southern man to make
Il choice between them K