The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-06-07

murderous men of this city, and myself,
will appear in the documents leave
behind and l desire my sons to publish
them, even at the cost of their lives.
desire to bear my testimony, even in a
dying hour, to the pcr6dy, double deal
ing and cowardly course towards me of
that prince of hypocri,cs and great
embodiment Of human deceit, Campbell
Wallace, the president of the railroad,
and one of the great lighs of Secession.
l warn all men present, and all who may
hear of this statement, never to confde
in that man. He is supremely selfish,
VIGOROUSLY insincere, and would sell his
interest in his God-which, fear, is not
a very large one-for money
| must also bear wi ness to the treach-
cry and insincerity of VIM. G. McAdoo,
who, while meeting me with smile and
protesting friendship, stated to John
Black that ought to be kept in prison
during this war. This man was on the
verge of starvation, and without credit,
when | took it upon myself to attend the
sitting of our Legislature, some years
ago, and help make him District Attor-
ney. He since lost one wife and married
second, owning gang of negroes and
rice plantation in Georgia, and has
turned over to Secession. | warn nv
family and friends never to conGde in
him.
Fellow-countrymen, am shortly to
be executed-not for any crime punish
able with death, but for my devotion to
my country, her laws and constitution.
l die for refusing to spouse the cause
of this wicked rebellion and l glory in
it, strange as you may think it. could
have lived If l had taken an oath of
allegiance to this so-called Confederacy.
Rather than stultify myself, and disgrace
my family by such an oath, agree to
die ! never could sane ion this Gov
eminent, and | trust that no child of
mine will ever do it. Look at the past
history of the leaders and originators of
this Rebellion. There is not man of
unstained charace r to be found among
them. Iancey is a convicted murderer,
who killed his uncle (Dr. Earl, of South
Carolina,) and instead of gong to Eng
land to intrigue against this Government
he would have been in prison had he not
been pardoucd by the Governor of that
State.
Wigfall, Confederate Senator and
General fled from his native State of
South Carolina to Texas to escape the
horrors of assassination, became a COL
lecting attorney for large amounts, and
then swlndled his employers out of their
dues, numbering as many as two men in
Texas. Floyd, while Governor of my
native State, was guilty of swindlng
the State out of some thirty thousand
dollars Of the Washington Monument
Fund, entrusted to his care; while in
Buchanan's Cabinet, in violation of his
oa,h he ole, besides large amounts of
bonds, the guns, forts and ammunition
of the Federal Government, to aid in
carrying out this infamous Rebellion
Slidell, another in,rigucr, who never had
an honest emotion of soul in his life,
assisted, while in the United States
Senate, to pass through Congress that
great swindlc Of the age, the "Houman's
Land Grant "a swindle so gigantic,
and cheat so enormous, that the next
Congress revoked the grant. Benjamin,
your Secretary of War, and one of the
men engaged in deceiving me, was ex-
PEELED from New England College for
stealing money and jewelry out Of the
trunks Of his fellow-students he after
wards got mo the Senate from
Louisiana by turning from Wing to a
Democrat, and became the partner of
Slidelli in the Houman's swindle. Thomp-
son, the Mississippi member of Buchan-
ans cabinet, while Secretary of the
Interior, was partner in stealing some
Indian Trust Bonds, and, when about to
be dismissed for the offence, fed from
the Federal capital by night to avoid
prosecution.
Cobb, the Georgia member of Buchan-
ans cabinet, speculated in stocks, using
Government money, and was detected in
it-and all this was at time when he
was acting under oath, as the head of
the Treasury Department. Davis, your
President, after his State had borrowed
millions, led the way in reputation and
in defrauding Mississippi's honest Gre
di'ors. Toombs, the big man of your
Government at Richmond, was the con-
federate of Keitt and Brooks, in their
attempt to assassinate Sumner. Swan,
your Congressman from this District.
and an original Socessionist, is the forger
of the johnson letters to Lawrence, with
a view to swindle the latter out of ten
thousand dollars. These and host of
Others like them, are the men who origi-
mated and are carrying on this Southern
Rebellion. Ought not any honest man
prefer to hang rather than act with such
men in wicked crusade against the mild
sway of the best Government on earth +!
But must close. Solemn thought!
| die with confidence that the United
States Government will crush out this
Rebellion during the coming spring and
summer. Mark my predic ion would
like to be living when that is done, but
l must resign myself to my fate.
l have word to say as it regards my
family. leave a wife and seven child
rem to the mercies of a cold-heartcd
world | hope the Union men of the
country will be kind to them, and seek
to impress their minds with what is true
that they are not disgraccd, but hon