The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-08-24
UNION MUTATIONS
FOR GOVERNOR,
AUGUSTUS W. BRADFORD.
FOR COMPTROLLER,
SAMUEL s. MAFFIT,
The Peace Convention.

" Peace Congresses. gotten up by certain
Utopians possessed, of very philanthropic
views, to which all the world was invited to
send delegates, to assist in solving the problem
of establishing and maintaining universal
and permanent peace.
Hearing nothing OF the Peace Congress for
a long time, we had concluded that, like the
many new tangled theories Of the nineteenth
century, it had taken an evanesccnt leave,
till we saw primer edition issued on Tues
day last, by the political gamblers and
jockeys OF Cecil, who commenced operations
by suspending the American flag across Main
street, in Elhton, and sppending TO the tail of
the same, piece of muslin on which was
painted in large letters PEACE. Seeing a
patch on the blue field of the flag which
closed up hole, some of our citizens were
disposed to inter that the inscription had
some reference to the aforesaid perforaton,
the photography being n little amiss.
As the day. however. wore on, citizens
from the distant parts of the county began to
make their appearance in the streets, who
reported themselves as delegates to the Demo-
cratic County Convention, for which call
had made its appearance in The Cecil Demo-
Graf, and on sundry sign.posts and other
public places.
This, then, explained the display of the
StaT.Spangled Banner, with the singular
addendum. and the Peace Convention was
organized and prepared for business. Messrs.
James w. Veazey, James W. Maxwell, John
B. Rowan, John B, Ruth, were appointed
delegates to the State Convention in Baltimore,
and series of resolutions passed endorsing
the course Of Col j. j. Ilecknrt, Messrs.
Maxwell and Miller, Of the Maryland Lesisla-
ture, and also advising secession, or the DIS
solution of the country, and with it the dis
solution of the Government, for they are
virtually the Something. Among the doings
of these worthy Representatives in the Mary
land Legislature was an effort to lay tax Of
Two MILLIONS upon the people, and place i:
in the hands of E. Louis Lowe, and other
kindred spirits-for the subjuga,ion of Mary.
land-who are now fighting among the rebels
against that same flag. which these men
dcsccratcd on Tuesday last. by lacking a
hnmliating badge to, and displaying it on
such an occasion.
The ring masters at this Peace farce, and
those who of course got up the secession
resolutions endorsing in this covert manner
jeff Davis and Beauregard, in connection
with lleckart x Co., and engineered the whole
proceeding, were ueckart & Co. We saw
several worthy and honest old farmers whose
heads were whitcned with many winters, and
who in times past had thought it the proudest
privilege Of their lives to vote for and shout
for the hero Of New Orleans, whose greatest
and GROWING glory it was to call the nation
to arms once. to crush in the bud, this same
secession movement which has torn down,
and traicd IN the dust that flag. 1t was
indeed humiliatng to see these men whose
antecedcnts have been ever to avengc an insult
Offered to their countrys ensign, led like
sheep to the shamblcs, by party of political
traders, who tried .heir best to sell them a
few months since, along with the State of
Maryland, like so many negroes, to an ire.
sponsible oligarchy. Ard these plain men
were wheeled up to vote an endorsement of
the courre of those political gamblers, whose
every act has been overwhelmingly condemned
and repudlated by the people. in their last
Congressional election. Blu! to add still
another chapter Of the ludicrous to this farce
of political farces, the political noise-lnakel
was brought to perpendicular and made te
play the part of Wambo to the same clique
who, at the last periodical election, traded
him off with as much nonchalance as they
would pair Of old shoes that had grown too
scedy for good society.
We happened not to be present at the birth
of this anomaly. being out Of town, or ",
should have reported the proceedings NOR,
fully; but when an enemy is within lev
miles Of the National Capital, threatening il
Win Lire and sword, with more than hun,