The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-02-09


S'na,e, for valuable public documents: to
Hon. II. Winter Davis for copies of Hon Mr..
Clemens speech, and 10 Hon. J. Morrison
Harris for copy Of his recent eloquent APP
pcalin behalf of conciliation and compromise
Al, these gentlemen vii. please accept our
hanks FOR their invurs.
Oar kind and conSiderate friend II. Lovely,
E'q.. Chicfrierk to Comptroller, will also
accept our thanks for a bound copy of the
Annual Report of that excellent officer. Hon
VIM H. Purnell, Comptroller of Maryland.
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The Secession Slate-Last trick of the
Maryland Conspirators.
After mouths Of diabolical schelnng for
the precipitation of Maryland into the horrible
vortex Of disunion, the FIX. Speakers Of Elk
Legislatures, Ex Governors and ex. poll
trlans, as the Baltimore in'ric1n poin.edly
styles the secession horde of this State, have
succeeded in arranging matters, if not accord.
ing to their original design, yet, it is pre-.
sumcd, in accordance with one feature of
their programme, and somewhat to their sat
isfhction. The pertinaci,y with which these
ex. individuals have sought the accomplish
ment of their purposes in spite Of The known
hostility Of the people Of the State. has been
no less striking than the method " of their
Madness" and both these pccul;ari,ies
have pointed to the existence of Deliberate
~ formed plan. or :" sla'e,' as it is called
for the 'hurrying Of this good old State into a
Union with that nest Of treason South Caro-
lima.
One side Of this disunion estate" was
made ny for these demagogues at Charleston
"A very'p'orer locality for Matching treason
during the session of the last memorable
Democratic Convention. The " slate" was
completed at Washington, where q vast
amount of traltorous rascality has been con-
cocted in the last few years, immediately
after the casting Of the Electoral vote of this
State by Elk. Gov. Lowe, and his colleagues
Of the Breckenridge Electoral ticket. The
Charleston portion of the programme was
preliminary in character, and provided for
the assistance of Maryland in disrupting the
democratic party, and by thus rendering more
certain the election of Lincoln, create a pre-.
text for dissolution, and the formation of a
great Southern Confedcracy.
The Washington side was mere corollary
TO the other, in which these Mary land disor.
ganizcrs, under the lead of one Of the Ex's.
were to follow the bent Of their own inclina.
tons while aiming at the full accomplish
mcnt Of the Charleston design. This pro-
sramme provided for the immediate Assem-.
blsgc Of the late notorious loco-foco Legisla-
ture, which was TO he made, under the whip
and spur Of the Ex's 5, an easy instrument for
the contamination Of their dlaboical purposes,
either by the employment OF its own inner
ent powers of wrong doing in the passage Of
an Ordinance Of Secession, or by the calling
Of a State Convention, which, IN the midst Of
an intense excitement famed into flame BY
themselves and their neophytes, they expec
ted to he able TO elect, and, when elected to
control. Failing in these. their next, and
probably. e. if the devil failed them in
suggest ions their last card was the cal
of State Sovereign Convention which,
brought about by however few county meet
ings, attended by however few citizens of the
State, and denounced by however many OF
the Cnion.loving people of Maryland as rev.
olutionary, should, nevertheless, with the
rtirontery Of a run.mud Red Republcanlsm
assume to speak for the people, and hitch ~
them on to The South Carolina Confedcracv
kite" willy, nily."
How. and why, 1lltheir plans in reference
to Constitutional Convention have filled
we are all advised. Their profuse but Judas
like professions Of attachment to n Constitu.
fional Union did not deceive. and, thank God
failed to move from his firm and patriotic pur
pose the Dorchester Caesar" who keeps
house at the Executive Mansion. The cajol-
cry and the threats Of Judges, Senators and
other official and unofficial characters were
alike unayailng. "Gibraltar Hicks was
neither to be battered or frightened into al
instrument for aiding and abetting treason
and p,ecipitating civil war, with all its Eor
rors, upon the peaceful and conservative cit
liens of Maryland.
Having failed in all else, their mischievous
Efforts fer hurrying US out of the Union cul
minated in the playing of their last Sovereign
Convention card "on Friday night the Is
inst, at the Maryland Institute in Baltimore
There, assembled under call addressed t
none but those uho desired Sorere1nn Conuen
ton. some two thousand out of the %, 00(
voters OF Baltimore are reported TO have list
ened TO the reading Of set of adrotly and, il
the main, hypocrilicnlly worded Union
Heaven save the mark!-resolu tiuns, intende
to deceive Union Democrats, and lead them
INCREASINGLY, into the Convention trap set 70
them BY the arch agitators and politica
Judases, who, under the lead of such men a
Elk. Gov. Lowe and Bob McLane, are work
ing the secession wires in this State. W
have said that, in he main, these resolution
Of the Baltimore meeting were hypocriticall
worded. We do not, Of course, apply that re
mark to the resolution denouncing Gov Hicks
nor to one or two others in which the .. clio
ven foot " Of His Satanic Majesty was not at
tempted to be hid. After speeches by tn
chairman-n certain DR.. A. G. Robinson, =