The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-10-19


always becomes cautious, and never
allows fanaticism to control it's policy
Tell them, if there are some lessons at
the bottom of this inserrection, they are
not mortal, or beyond the surgery Of
patriotic Statesmen; nor need they kill,
quarter and dissect the National patient
to cure an irritation. Tell them, all that
is evil will be cured, because the future
National prosperity, power and stability
depend on such healing. Under free
institutions like ours, bad government
works itself out and good government
works itself in. The national crisis we
are undergoing is of this character. 1t
is the moral eruption Of that poison
which political ambition, jealousy and
intrigue, stimulated by sudden and I'M
paralleled opulence, have infused into
the life blood of government. Let us
rejoice in the vitality which is still able
to expel the venom! Once extirpated,
we shall breathe better and see clearer.
We shall perceive, with quictcr pulses
and less agitated nerves, what we may
need. We shall be more just to each
other; we shall be less sectionally con-
ceited we shall be more tolerant and
less meddlesome ; we shall proceed to
clearer definitions and boundaries of
powers and rights we shall admit the
necessity of the constitutional and final
settlement of every thing which may
rc-create sectional contention: we shall
learn that subordination to law is in no
wise inconsistent with State, personal
and general liberty we shall understand
that the law guarantees every man the
right of opinion, but does not make every
mans or every sections opinion the lar;
we shall insist on administrative morality
and accountability; we shall oblitcrate
all possibility ofquestons as to property;
and, at length, the greet people Of this
Union will become really free, when they
cmancipate themselves from the demago-
guical combinations of party conventions,
whose wicked dominion has stranglcd
andirlduni liberty, and almost destroyed
Il nation which was the wonder, the
model, the hope the glory of our age!
We have but few more words to say to you,
fellow citizens, but they touch some things
which we know are home questions in your
minds. Tell your assailans Union men of
Maryland, that you, as Washington did. will
denounce secii0nGlism, wherever you find it
and that you will cultivate kindness with al!
honest men and patriots Of all parts of the
county, for you can only master the evil pas
SlonS OF men by sympatliizing with what is
virtuous in their natures. Tell them that it
is false that Maryland, while loyal to the
Union, sees. in its persistent defense, any
thing like GO ercion - or ss subjugation - of
the South. These are words cunnngly
coined to alarm sympathy. We are simDIv
for the ap, as the fathers made il crcry man
who odeys is our brother; we have more
interest and right in protecting it, as a sub
stantal blessing we own, than others have in
destroying or diminishing it. g Coercion :"
and {: suhiugaton signify the infic;ion Of
laws, or dominion which the coerccd or sub
dued had not before. We pretend to no
exercise of such arbitrary power. Obedience
to the Constitution and the Union under it is
all wc insist on. The moment it is yielded,
love, ten-fold more ardent than of old, takes
| the place OF present sorrow, and the soldier
becomes the Samaritan. Tell them we have
the same rights, the same spirit the same
pride as they have and that they who fired
the first gun at the American flag shall not
Sc coerce us-shall not 6 subdue " us
For these reasons, fellow citizens of Mary
| land, we call on you to support our candi-
| dates at the next election. As yet, we have
no absolute opposition. or any defipite sys.
| TEN Of policy. A Convention recently assem-
| blcd in Baltimore on what was called a plat
| form of peace; ; yet as far rs we are informed ,
it adjourned without disc losing practical
| plan, official or otherwise, for the successful
attainment Of that blessed boon.
| II by Dnace thew mean smnle neccotion
Of war by return Of the opposing soldiers to
| their customary avocations at home, we con
| feSs our INABILITY to discern in such an act
any solution of the National difficulty. 1t
would be an abstinence from present conflict.
rather than pledge of permanent peace. 1t
would be merely a sympathetic response to
whomsoever, on either side, wishes to be
| s!et aiOne.''
If they mean that the withdrawal is to be
accompanied by a recognition Of the southern
| Conedcracy, it would be an assent to the
doctrine of the right of secession. for which
no loyal man is ready; or a palpable adms-
sion of the fact, that what we and the world
| once believed great nation, is nothing but a
wretchcd mass of voluntarily divorced mater
ials, nnentitled to confidence and unworthy
the respect of mankind. Peace parties, in
our judgement, at this time-much as all men
| dcprccate war seem to us not even empirical
| paIllallNcS III tney mean anything anon e
statesmen, they mean recognise Disuuion. We
hare no toieraion Of voluntary Severance in order
! 10 come together again ut neW uHCrs and uHder
other priests, Tie marriage ofhhe dirorced is u
dism0i mediock; nor is there Il word Of cheering
or promise from the Southern leaders that such
reunion you'd ercn be tendsredt
There is point in this rew ofMs question,
which is exceedingly important to Mary land.
! The oldest and most experienced of our
National Journalists has lately observed, IN
| his columns, that: " it is understood the so
| called Peace Party, in the State Of Maryland
is organized for the single object Of promot-
| ing an mediate cessation of hostilitics
between the Seeded States and the General
Government. AS peace declared
at this moment between the high belligcrent
parties had in contemplation by the friends of
this movement in Maryland, would have for
its inevitable effect to leave that good old
| State in political fellowship with the North,
and in political isolation from the South, are we
to understand that it is part of the policy and
aspirations ofthis Peace party to accept the
final and perpetual alienation OF Maryland
| from her sister slaTeholding States If so,
the Maryland Peace party appears TO be more
essentially, Northern in its aims than has
been generally supposed -
| We. TOO. ARE FOR PEACE ; but IRE are for
something more; toe are for PEACE AND UNION,
because IL is our CONSCIENTIOUS conriciion that
there can be no endWing pence riihQut Uni0n.-
| No sister Of this family can make runaway
marriages beyond the sea None of them
can leave their home petulantly, for protec-
| ton abroad nor can ANYTHING but sudden