Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1860-07-05
For the Griiian and Telegraph.
VOX POpuli VOX Del.

Mr.. EDIToR-Lazly lounging in our luxu.
rlous easy chair, with fragrant segar in the
clasp of our lips, we have been mllsing.
Though an impossible, good, easy-natured
Old bachelor rs we are, we have, nolens roiens
found it impossible to keep intact from the
herce and turbulent excitement that is surg q.
ing and seething around us. We fain would
clear our skirts from the slightest participa-
tlon IN the terrific paper Dar that is now
being waSed against Pill-box and his COM
patriots; but solemn duty--a duty incum-
bent on us as citizen of Alegany-:mpels
us to speak out to our fellow-ctizens, and t.
the best of our humble ability "teil what we
do know, show forth as in mirror, plainly.
the state and condition of our county that
the people may look, and see, and yonde,
And this has disturbed our otiun cum dig-
Ritate.
| The desire for political as well as social
reform should lie nearest the heart of every
| good and true citizen, and it is the practical
working or carrying out of this desire that
has tended most materially to the onward
march and progress of civilization, together
with all the benefcent. results attendant
thereon. 1t is innate and inherent to a
greater or less extent in every community,
since it is grand induction built up and
based upon the surest of all foundations viz.
experience, that mankind even in its most
normal state have ever entertained some
crude deas of the pernicious effects that will
always and inevitably follow corrupt and
dePravcd political system. The fierce and
bloody revolutions that have time and again
devastated the earth and delayed the fair
fields of many fair country with the bes,
blood of its nobest Sous, are but terrible
manifestations of the potency and strength |
Of this desire. Like the "rush of many
waters" attempt to curb or suppress its Ca
rccr and you but concentrate its power, in |
tersify its force, and render its destructive |
results the more inevitable.
Actuated then by this noble and elevated |
feeling we now lay our appeal to the indig-
nant spirit Of an insulted and deeply injured
people. Should we ingloriously fail, and our
words fall upon their needless ears as .'the
idle wind which they respect not" why. then
alas, fear you must take poluntas uro Gacto.
Tho time has at last come when this mid
night gloom and darkness that has for So
long overhung, as deadly pail, the despair
ing efforts and wasted ener les of our citl-
zens, should be removed when the unhealthy
vapors and sickening mists of non-adminis-
'e'SN yuotSo "bu poltiSdi
be dissipated; that this prostratinz and de-
pressing incubus whatever it is or whence
i comes, should be annihilated. through the
agency of total and thorough REFORM The
lime has at last come when the honest, intel
igent, and enlightened masses Of Allegany
county should arise in all their might and
strength and power, and crush out from our
midst these eye-sores in our community who. |
and pulled up with corruption.
ire winding their poisonous and paralyzing
rails over the best interests OF our county
who are fast teaching us and our children
o look upon honor and uprightness as anus
ne myths. and honesty as all imaginary vir- ii
ne, beautiful doubtless in theory, but wofully o,
ION paying in practice. Yes, the time has al
ONE when these political hucksters, Irish
raggadocios-who with an arrogant impu-
ence THAT would be really refreshing were
not deep and burning disgrace) presume
} threaten to the death an editor of one of d,
nr leading journals-should be put down, nj
70 crushed down to their proper level Aud r.
sure as the deep under current of tho great la
ody Of the citizens of Allegany county flows c.
I'd GIBBS in its right and proper channel. so d
ey ,oiU be. Il.
Let us look for moment at the two great ST.
terests Of our county-the Canal and the tic
'ei interest. The former Of these is directly, pc