The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-10-18
The Traitors Last Card.


time to be understood perfectly well by
every American citizen who can read. for
fthe speeches and declarations of Flic feap,lers
Of the rebellion have continually declared
it. That object is, and ever has been to
found an aristocratic form of government
based upon their slaves. The wealthy slave
owners to be the governing class, filling all
offices, civil and military, in the State, while
the poor white trash as they are termed,
who are unable, in their present debascd
and ignorant condition. with few rare
exceptions; to read or write, are to compose
the rank and file of the army, as at present
The negroes are to compose the third class,
whose labor shall support this triangular
government This Is the dream Of the
leaders in the hell born conspiracy which Is
drcnching the country with blood, and fast
turning the South into n land Of savages and
Il wilderness.
Such Is the object which this s,upcnloua
rebellion aims ut, and that object can be
effected only by wrestling from the most
ontcrprising, the most cultivated and cour,
ageous people in Christendom, a portion OF
territory, in geographical extent comprising
a large empire. That people from whom
they attempt to wiring this territory by force
of arms, are one Of the first naval powers in
the world, whose constantly augmentiug
fleets completely command all the coasts of
the American continent, with their bays,
inlcts and rivers. Their resources in manu-
features, III commerce. in agriculture and
minerals are uneqnalcd in the world.
This people are thoroughly republican in
their ideas and habits Of government. Can
Il pamrered esm, whose pride and arrogance
have beer fostered and Inflated bv having
lived from the labor Of miserable, brntalized
negroes q eew generations, establish sstotaly
different form Of government in the very
heart of a country inhabited by race like
that who inhabit the northern free. and bor-
der slave States? The man is a lunatic
who dreams of such thing A foreig on
government and an aristocracy within the
very doors of our republic, holding juris-
dinlon over the mouths Of our rivers . The
result is plain to those who will view the
case, and use bat grain Of common sense
III forming an opinion.
The rebel leaders, mad and desperate as
pirates and highwaymcn, have seized every
thing the South possesses and converted il
to war purposes, and their only reserves lie
in the productive labor of the negroes. The
people ofthe northern and border States are
wise and clcar-sighted. They have made
up their minds to allow no foreign form of
government to impede the growth of popular
! institutions on this continent, and as they
become maddencd and taxed by the pcrsis-
tent wickcdncss of the rebellion, they will
use still other and more vital means to con
Iucr. If the rebels persist in holding out
with unexpected tenacity, the Government,
which fights for the propagation Of popular
institutions against the attempted usurpation
of an aristocracy, will eventually seize and
destroy the source of supply of the rebels, or
=" the corner-st stone of their proposed gov
crnmcntal structure, as the rebel Vice
President Stephens terms it--their negroes.
They will either be transported to- foreign
countries, mustered INTO bsrttalions or used
in hatcvcr manner the hour of necessity
dictates. No man or set of men can dam
the rivers at their source. or stay the pro-
grcss of events as they develop from the
womb of time.
The Emancipation Proclamation of the
President is the r-cry of the enemy at
The last gate Of the belcagucrcd citadel. H.
The crushing Of that gate and the conquest
Of the citadel is the last sharp and bloody
contest that closes the tragedy. That such
will be the final result If the rebellion has
resolved to die rather tl'an yield, no discreet
man can doubt. negro aristocracy can
never become the controlling power on this
continent.
| Those who prefer to be toad eaters to the
Congo nahobs Of the cotton plantation,
WREN the ring Oh the comba.tsn.s narruws,
and the issue is, shall the Republic live and
reign, or shall the black aristocracy, with
its sole dependence for nourishment-its
slaves-bc left to live or doomed to perish
for its countless crimes? let them be toad
| 'dtclA SUN. HOSc WHO rove negroes ana
reverence the owners of negroes more than
the institutions Of popular government for
themselves and their postcriiy those who
arc traitors to the last hope of civil liberty :;
those who, although with their lips, per-
>aps have been strong Union men and
patriots, but in their hearts have been
traitors. wtll be traitors still! Those in the
horde, States who, having nothing to lose
by IT, but cry out against the President $
| Proclamation, that strikes at the life and
substance Of the murderers who are filling
the land with weeping for the light and life
of every household, stand before high
heaven more dcpraved, and greater traitors
than those whose heads are forfeited By the
downfall of the rebellion.
The rebels have ii in their power, by lay
ing down their arms, of having every bless
ing CT government Il free people can desire,
and if they persist in their war on the gov
ernmept no misery is too great for their
reward, and no odirpn and condemnation
for the man who says single wopd, directly
or indirectly, in their behalf.
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