The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-11-03
REPORTED FOR THE CECIL WHO.
That Joint Discussion.

Monday night was cloudy and disagrecable. Your Re-
porter did not fancy the prospect Of night in the rain,
AMI yet could not resist the temptation to onk the
fierce but II" longer ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, in their
pitched battle at the" Fox Chase 1t was To h rr,u-
lar contest Of the ring in the most approved styr: the
conbitLis on the siie "f the Diiglts being the old
bruS"r Rowan and til" little giant johnson: ON the
sid" IF the biSIni"ni-t, hp" called Scott anil tie
yrus-gtIinc rk commonly called rli" plowbgy If the
old fourth. Vim. L. Ewing. Esd. and yur Reporter.
together with numerous Lincoln and Bell m"n, were
julgrs e the fight
At o'clock nhaIrt one hundred people were collected
IN TIL" lmrro,m Of the ancient building in which. in the
ullrn time Mistress Katy Dcy-tr di.pcnsrd the A.
paiitcS If tn" place I" and hrst. The flow If free
iinT was MT a> immrn>" rs is usul such urra<i,s
fr il evident = man itlnt know who he was trent
in, and consequently the noise aud confusion usually
attendant nl"n the meetings Of the old fourth" che
home Of the pow-hpyj not great. True. one excited
Constable q; all the li District. male some noise on the
end Of the porch. in the midst Of which could distn-
gnsh til" words iennsyauy election g." Joe Barr"
Winter Davis, Dam Douglas men, ETC.. but which
was generally unn"ligblc Thc crow! itrd patient
~ for the nun advertised and which finally came At half
lr'S ",ick Sni Exporter made his way into little
back paror where he found the great leaders Of the two
lEtricS-imt engaged in saving the Union; cursing
the ID Black Erruhcnns not trying to save Cecil
from -Nothineis'n: not even taking drink--but
on the contrary engage, in tremendous strife who
should speak first and last u, to how long each inn
should speak. 40. The Douglas had evidently the
best of IT, and kept their tcmp"rI. Tile BrcckinridgcIs
sucn and vastly out Of TEMPER Their words w,r,
sharp and bitter. They refused To- have discussion
and then refused to let the little is" state their re-
refusal t"sthe crowd. The contest fierce and long
and got tho organization hypponting James Mackcy Sr
Chairman. Samuel :. Mailt then mnunr, dry-gn,ls
box, aud explained to the crowd that the friends Of the
hero OF the oregon waTdcht. would not join in the dis
riiSson Just as lie concluded sharp voice broke out
from behind the crowd in these words. jest YOU 20 on
nov and speak for 20 minutes and we'll fllrr. Nvl..y
took any notice of this proposition. and from cui If tie
centre Of the crowd John b. Rowan Esq spoke as follows;
II propose that TIE Douglas NOR snail Omen the lr,,t.
by speech Of haanh ur: the Breckenridge men shall
th"w IN speech 81 an honrana-lalf and the Douglas
men shall have M hour close These were the terms
'd in'in and Douglas and think they will do here
Nm. Miller Esq. then denied for the Breckenridge
men any intention t." debate and advised the Douglas
mon To go on with their meeting. Voice in the crowd
asked liI VIII You debate any crnist" Mr. Miller
has not yet answered the question At this put il was
evident that the friends Of Joe Iuc and secession were
about 10 back ont. and the Douglas continue the
meeting alone. but suddenly another appeared in
the Shape of til" illuStrius pluwboy who stood On heap
ni stones AMI commenced to ratc abunr his uuitiun
discussion because it would widen the h,ctrl, in the
great An %rloons D,mucratic pa ty. He talked consider
ally It invariably cam" out at the hole he went in,
ara only made himself ridiculous by stating that discus
sion might ID harm in III" Penn wanna election In the
course Of time he subsidized. and could not he found when
called The Douglas men again challenged and no man
"'k up The glove; the fight was all theirs. John u.
Rowan Esd then took the stand and followed by
| McSSrS Mailit ana John in ID ,ugl;tS speeches
After the houglas meeting the Disununsts tried to
organize another, after having lively promised To do
nothing Of the KIN but were prevented by the rcsol,itc
action" the friends the little giant Your Reporter
was compelled to leave ,inc the close hut it is said Mr.
Rowan challenged the orator of the Old lh TO meet
him there again. We did not leave however until it was
settled beyond the possibility Of doubt that the Brcrk-
mllse men were AFRAID t" have their party principles
discussed in their strnnghol afraid To meet The,
Douglas that they ,ailri and shrauk back like the
N"ri" towards and were taun ed with their fear and
| mat the Douglas men took TIL. field AMI kept it,
Upon ms subject let us have light let know if
we have di,"nonists among us who afraid to tell
| their principles.