The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-12-06
The Democratic Party.

calls itself the Democratic party driving at I?
What are its principl es-what is its policy :?
Is it party for Union, or party for dis
union? These be questions that arise in
the minds Of thinking men as they hear the
blatant boasts of the recent successes of the
Democratic party, coupled with the impu.
dent assertions that the present Admins.
tration can never put down the Rebellion.
The old-time issues have passed away
with the organizations that gave them vital
ity, and the questions of governmental
policy that then cngrossed tie attention of
the nation have been settled or outgrown.
We are now engaged in bloody struggle
which is to decide our future destiny we
are endeavoring to solve the problem of our
national existence to determine by the
terrible arlitramcnt of the sword whether or
no popular government shall prove
miserable delusion that can not withstand
the violence of Rebellion whether or no
the system of government bequcathcd US by
our fathers is failure and an abortion.
There is no other issue before the Ameri-
and breath IT. it-than the simple issue Of
Union and disunion. Every other question
fades away into insignifcance before this
vitality important one, and all minor con-
siderations are thrust aside or ovcrlooked
by men who have the good of their country
at heart.
That the Administration is using every
means to suppress the Rebellion and save
the Union, no loyal man doubts, no matter
how much he may differ in some respects in
regard to the wisdom or unwisdom of the
course it has pursued and that it should
be sustained in its efforts he is equally will
ing to concede. But not SO with the bogus.
butternut organization which assumes the
title OF the Democratic party. Guided and
led by such creatures as Ben and Fernando
Wood and Glen Valandigham it seeks to
deprive the Administration of all power,
and thus virtually to encourage and streng-
then the Rebellion. That this party, as
party, is notoriously dsloyal - although
some of It's members are loyal--no one who
has watched its tortuous course since the
breaking out of the Rebellion can deny, and
that its success will prove the downfall of
the Union, is as certain as that effect fol-
lows cause.
1t will not answer in these troublous
times to rely upon the country being saved
and restored to peace and happiness by the
Democratic party. 1t was the Democratic
party that placed us where We now are--it
was the Democratic party that brought all
the curses upon us with which we are now
afflicted. 1t was the Democratic party,
while it had some rightful claim to the
name, that sapped the pillars of our gov
eminent by its concessions, It's cancellations
and its compromises and what now can we
expect from the corrupt. bogus concern
which covers its loathsome form with that
defunct party's stolen mantle?
Will the masses suffer themselves to be
deluded by this sham Democratic party p
Will they blindly follow, to their own de-
structon, its treacherous and traitorous
leaders? Will they not rather, before it is
too late, ask themselves, What is the policy
of this spurious Democratic party, and what
are its leaders driving at? And will they
not see to it that the war is prosecuted with
renewed earnestness and vigor, until the
rebels have been subjugated or extermina-
ted7 We trust Congress will go to work in
earnest to concoct and perfect measures for
the speedy crushing out of the Rebellion
for the very day it is suppressed, the Dem
ocratic party will collapse, and its putrid
carcass will cause such stencil in the
nostrls Of the people that they will forever
remember it-and remember it only to turn
aside from, and curse it.