The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-11-29
The Forthcoming Message.


emancipation policy will be treated clabor-
atcly by the President, so those journals
tells US, and the subject as it effects the
Border Slave States Will be taken up again
and urged upon the people OF those States,
more earnestly, if possible, than heretofore
Tina, the "pcculiar institution" has al
ready received its death wound throughout
the entire length and breadth Of our coun-
try, the majority OF thinking people are well
satisfied that it must become speedily ex.
tine, in the Border States is 50 plnin that
any man possessing common sense and
making a judcous use fit must admit the
fact so sclf-cvidcnt, 10 himself, however he
may affect to deny it publicly. And while
perhaps denying the belief vchcmcnuy, how
many thousands in those States, would cast
their folded ballots against it tomorrow, il
called to the polls to decide the question for
their States. There is nothing the Amcr-
can people seem to fear so much as a mig
ger. They would about rs leave have the
devil CHARTERED upon them as to give .
minion of jeff DAVIS an opportunity of
reporting them an abolitionst-no matter
how groundcss the charge might be-
1t required forty years in the wilderness
to wcan the children of Israel from the
idolatry and flesh pots Of Egypt, and it has
required about the same length of time to
educate the American people in awe of the
Secession lords and their niggers. A negro
alone has no show of reverence, for the war
has developed the fact-and given politicians
the lie, who stated the reverse-that the
further North We GO the more cordially the
negro is hated, the Yankee soldiers using
cuffy a hundred times more harshly than
those of the Middle and Southern Statcs.-
A white man has simple justice melted ont
to him. But combine the two-give the
white man small drove of contrabands,
and he becomes demi.god in the eyes of
oar negro worshipers, who term their
groyel.ng idoatry for negro and his mas
ter southern sympethy.' These people
South, and less, if possible. for q negro ;
but place before them a uhte man and a
negro, and instantly they fall down and wor
ship This dcmi-god. For forty years, have
the enemies to popular government been
educating the American people in this spc-
cies Of half idolatry to themselves and their
negroes, and it is amazing how well they
have succeeded. Why should we estimate
tho IL, Ill. 81,
their horses and cattle? They make use of
all three as Il means to successfully resist
and finally overthrow the government. We
take from the rebels the two latter without
scruple, and use them in the service of the
government. Their negroes, the rebels use
to a far greater advantage against the gov
eminent, and common sense dictates that
they should be taken and used in the
manner that is best calculated to weaken
the hands of the rebellion. The negroes
raise the bread that sustains the rebellion.
Destroy its source of supply and you destroy
the rebellion. The thing has been forced
upon us. We must destroy the rebellion by
destroying the source Of the rebellion, or
our institutions must perish.
What advantage are the rebels negroes to
Maryland? The question is not what shall
be done with contrabands. When we have
separated them from the men who are using
them against the government it will be time
enough to settle that question. We can
dispose Of the rebels and their negroes after
they are separated much easier than when
the two are combined, besides those attri-
bucs Of the Deity the " sympnthizcrs " sup
pose the combination possesses, would be
dispelled, and the reckenrdgers being left
without an idol, might Think of dedcating
their prayers and efforts to the preservation
Of their country.
But the high priests Of secession have
sworn before heaven and earth that our
republican form of government, and the
style suited to their pampered arstocratic,
or rather nabobish tastes, could not exist
together Then the alternative is victory
or death. We have no choice. The seces-
sonists in the Border States are Just as
virulcnt as those in the Cotton States The
difference is they haven't the power, be-
cause they don't own so many negroes, and
there are more intelligent white men in the
former than the latter who earn, by honest
industry, a livelihood. This influence works
against the naughty aristocrat while his
slaves run away, and as he becomes poorer
and shorn Of his political power he turns
his thoughts southwark. The President
will renew his suggestions to the slave
holders of the Border States in favor of
emancipation and compensation, for the
last time. AS for Maryland, her slavery
is already girded. Pennsylvania, West
ern Virginia aud the District of Colum.
bia, all having abjured slayery-how can
it long exist in this State? And further
than this, would the free States suffer
slave State to intervene between the
National Capital and themselves? If they
decide not-and surely they will decide so
with the majority of the people of Mary
land constantly increasing against the rebel.
lion and its causes--how can the opposition
resist or avoid their fate? Those of our
citizens who answer they will resist, and will
never give up to Maryland being enamel
paed, Gun try the issue in any way they
please. IF they wish to 60 over and help
left, they can go. If they feel disposed to
take up arms at home they cup try this
dcrucr resort. The Institution j.