The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-04-13
For The Cecil Hhig.
The Union Movement in MARYLAND

1t is circumstance most gratifying to
every true patriot in Maryland tina. measures
are now III progress To unite in one solid
column the unqualified " friends Of the
Union throughout the State.
The element opposed to the quiet of the
people, and the continuance of Maryland in
the Cnion, is organized and prepared for the
conflict. 1t is true that they do not openly
avow their purpose Of involving our State in
the disorders Of Secession, but with n policy
better suited 10 their designs, they deny it to
those whom they would dupe, and, for the
present, seek to mislcad by clap-trap dcclala-
tons against coercion. and an outcly in gen
cral terms about Southern Rights, coupled
with genera denunciation of all true Union
men as know. nothinSs, se,ni-repuhlcans,
submlsSonists and the like. The phrases
invented and employed by persons and presses
in the interest Of secession are desi gncd to
operate upon all Union men who have weak
nerves, III order to prevail upon them to
betTay their country, and give into the hands
OF the conspira.ors the power of the State,
which will, Of course, br used for their own
diabocal purposes.
All the machinery brought to bear in the
recent Presidential canvass, unfortunately so
potent in deludns large numbers of honest
lnen into the support of the candidates of the
SecesslonSts, will again find favor with dis.
union conSpiratOrs, political tricksters and
desperate factionists for the accomplishment
Of another and final act in the drama of the
destruction o. our Government, antp for tn.
purpose Of placing themselves, as our masters.
in permancncc in the high places already
planned cut in another Government.
WIN the true IIuion Man oG N,rrl,nl
those who appreciate the iaesimabe blessings
of free Governments rho nre not unmindfu
Of the patti loliSm of a noble ancestry, who
impcrlled every thing in order to be able to
secure 10 themselves and brqucalh to us Sc
rich legacy who must reuizc the fact tina,
a government made by men capable Of such
priyation and sacrifices, and Of such pure and
elevated impulses and wisdom, is safer for
us, than any one made by designing poli'i
clans and consplrlng malconlca,s! VIII
| the people, who feel and know these truths
and who are in so vast majority in Mary.
land, fail to unite so as to give force to lheil
sentiments P! Will they blindly, in tins
hour of peril TO themselves, their families
their interests, their country Look back to tn,
dead issues of the past instead Of tor,rord tt
the living realities Of the future VIII the,
| alu lue COliSplIatoIs, OF Slanu neutral ana per
nit them to gain the ascendancy? vii
Wings, Democrats, Americans of the past
notwithstanding the immnence of our danger
look upon each other us strangers, OF viii
distrust, merely because of former homes
differences ofopinon upon issues now obso
lcte, or Insignificant when compared with tn,
ore great, all peryading question which
comes home with such force and power to ~
all. viz-"Shall we continue to enjoy the blcs
sings OF free government in the Union OF tn
Slatcs?' lfyour House were falling woulc
you decline the aid ola man who oppol tunel,
came with prop, until you had first Learned
what manner Of man he was
Let us therefore be up and at ork,-let II
come together as patriots. who know on
duty and dare perform it, conforming tn
base insnuation Of sinister purpose, b.
secession partizans and presses, as unworth
the attention Of frcemcn engaged in so nobl
a cause, as a stale trick of mendacious an
melcenary conspirators.
Let all true and unqualified " Unto
men come forth to the primary meetings o.
Saturday, the 10Th inst, and evincc to tn
world that they are not held in straight Jacket
by designed partzans, who cry out party!
but that, disdaining all minor considerations
they are willing now, in this trying hour, t
act with an eye single to their Country
homer, and CORY, and perpetuity, and tia
this shall be their guiding star in this tim
Of our Country's trouble and humiliation.
UNION,