The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-11-03
VOTERS OF CECIL, !

REMEMBER, That John G. Breckenridge is
the candidate of the Administration nay,
REMEMBER, That he is part and parcel of the
Administration of James Buchanan, and so
RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS MIsDEEDs.
REMEMBER, That the Administration Of
James buchanan and John & Breckenridge
has in time of peace run up debt Of forty
millions Of dollars for ordinary expenses Of
Government, in preference to alt,iing the
tariff to supply thcwan,s Of the country
while at the same time il would have benefit
ted you.
REMEMBER. That under this extravagant
and corrupt administration the expenses of
the Government have been increased to over
eighty millions of dollars per annum.
REMEMBER. That this enormous increase in
the expenses Of Government is occasontd in
part by the corrupt distribution, by direction
Of the President himself. land who will dare
to say without the knowledge of his
Vice President p Of the surplus conpensa-
ton ff the government printing department
for party purposes; by temporarily employ
Ing at high prices in the government navy
yards, incompetent workIncn, and illegal
voters, only designed to aid Ivy their votes
in returning Democratic members to Con.
gress: by appropriations of large sums of
money to aid in carrying elections ; by a
corrupt system of contracts for navy yard and
government supplies, by which favorites are
paid large bonuses for furnishing inferior
articles, and by numberless other equally
corrupt methods unheard of till within the
last four years, and that it would require us
days to enumcrate.
Remember also, That the party of this
Administration is as cxtravagant and waste
full in State as it is in Federal administra.
ton; witness the shameful extravaganza
and corruption of the last Mary demo.
cratic Legislature.
REMEMBER, That the Administration of
which John &. Breckenridge is part and par.
eel, is that Administration which, after at
tempting, by violence. to force upon the
people of Kansas a Constitution that they
dctested, attempted, by corruption, to force
through Congress a law to make that Con.
stitulion the Constitution of Kansas; and
when the people of Kansas adopted another
Constitution its party in the U. s. Senate al
lowed it to lie upon the table for months
without taking it up.
REMEMBER, That the Administration of
James Buchanan and John e. Breck nridge
allowed innocent and honest American citi-
zens to be shot down in the streets of
Washington by American soldiers; and
finally,
REMEMBER, That The Breckenridge party
'sm tie hands 2faro,ccd, lifelong Disunion,sis,
who are using it only for PURPOSES OF DIS.
UNION, arho are controlling ii 10 that end, and
who will continue to control it, if successful,
10 the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the government, and
the establishment of Southern Conftdcracy,
the object OF their highest hopes and ambi.
ton.
When you have remembered al, this
VOTERS OF CECIL, and much more that
will rccur to your own minds, THEN co TO
THE POLLS on NEXT TUESDAY and cast your
ballots for
JOHN BELL,
the tried and sagacious statesman Of Tonnes
see, the friend and follower of Henry Clay,
and advocate of his great doctrine of protec-
ton to American industry, and for
EDWARD EVERETT,
the scholar, statesman and patriot of Massa.
chasetts, and thus aid in securing to the
country AN HONEST and wholesome admins.
tra,ion of the affairs of the government and
a cessation from the sectional strife and dis
cord row threatening the perpctaity of our
republican institutions.