The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-12-20
The Elkt0n Pool.

| Auc Etkton FOOL.
Every community is blessed with one or more Of these
unfrtnnates. spuieare innocent creatures who ari,se
while they claim thesympathy Of charitable public
Others are Inclined to be malicious and arr limited In
this respect only Ivy their cowerdice anil lack Of sense
Eiktun is bnsssd cbrss the case may beat any
rate prosdcd-with Of the latter type This creature
Is flmiarlf termed Bill Grow. many give him the
seBRiQuET {" Bussard from his propensity TO stoop 10
rarricn Th Cur, for long time. has been trying to
bark hihirI into Hoti'e from respectable society 10y
r bid professions IF secession SIN.
The fellow keeps kind Of tailoring establishment
| i'll Elktun which ironically termed on 4 former
occasion merchant tailor. and sine. the late Gov
erhinent reSu! "nf requiring parties take the oath
of allegiance before obtaining goods from Philadelphia
Crow has resorcd to Of til. craS whrl- dstiu
cuisines his sashered nalnt-sate, in smuggling n,er
chandise through in trunks the baggage Onr
notice in The WING that of the .'pom white trash
getting pOnds through in indirect way brought
the Ekton Fool for such is the distinction awarded
the Grow by mutual consent among our citizcns-out
with his name to Card in The Democrat of last week
written by Of those secession patrons he has been
long ndustrusy striving crawl into te notice Of
Since the rebellion began, by all low vulgar
abuse Of the Government and soldiers such dcsgu-
/ ting thon manvr- Er southern soil anil like jccrs
INDUCED in AL occasions and especially when train
of ruups passing These brave fellows who are at
our depot now, with MANNED limbs and broken health
from exposure the battlefield fighting for thu sacred
cause of American freemcn doubtless of those
who, when on their way to the seat of the sub
jccs Of the SCOTS Of this rebel Who could blame
them if they hung the hound on the nearest trccs
| The epet Of poor white trash' which appeared in
III. Wna, is at once appropriated by Crow as It sno.
| that fits.
Now the reader unncquaincd with the creature and
his pr'pcnstrs, would infer from his Card" that he
was very much worried with newspaper notice No
such thing The cur is pleased 10 the life at being
noticed. He informs the reader what he said and did in
the rrcscnc" Of the Editor If The WHO the major rart
of which is imagined for fool ever spoke that didn't
lie" While he WIS talking. he evidently considered
vai!lanty. we Gui2zed and laughed at him. Let no
stranger lie deceived in the Crows valur for Il greater
coward never lived.
The greatest joke in the Crow card his profc of
religion and allegiance to the Constitution secession
hound of the lowest order protesting reverence for the
Constitution, an Article Of which he never read in his
life! A basphemer. prof,nc swcarcr, a black-l.s,
| cird-l laying gambler, smugglcr to avoid the Just
demands of Government and fitch the railroad company
out of the freight, claiming to he religions.
He publishes certificate Of some parties in Ph;lllcl-
rha. claiming to have shipped goods to Elkton in the
nam" If W. C. Grow, in December. No su.h shipment
that came since the date of that certificate were snug
glel through the baggage cars.
We have heard him boastng IF his I" shop" re-
crirng a great deal Of patronage from Union. men,
Their money NIGHT be better employed than in feeding
secession cur to bark at everything npperainnG t" the
government anil Union people, FIR he Is the hound that
| the Ekton socesh keep for that purpose
The nightmare of Abolition rides him terribly The
Crows opinion of this political hobgobhlin is negro
equality AMI his native sphere near that state Of
existence we arc moi surprised at his morbid tcrpidation
He had better coTe his oss efforts in this matter to
his own class and kin for there il really great danger of
his crossing the hardly rcrccptibe hourn betwixt them
Scarce three weeks since, Of his buck-lcg kis,nan
was in the streets Of Eikton with each arm round the
neck of darle, and through the influence Of fllow
bad whiskcy. he making the warmrst protest atoms
OF friendship and fratcrnal regard for his ebony as
GATES The fellows instructive fear, in lieu Of sense
teaches nm his near proximity to negro equality or rs
he terms II Abolition 1Icuce his very natural appr,.
h"nSioh' People Of higher order do not need any
reminders from such trashy source, keep them clear
"f the contamination Of such equality
The inct' in this article would he serious to man of
responsibility. but they will not hurt Crow in the least
and he will be highly pleased ut the notoricty he is
favored with The fool always proud Of the cap that
denotes his weakness. We prove c,erything We have
here wsitirn any hour, respecting the Elkton Fool
ms community needed no such sketch being Perfectly
familiar with Crows character and habits but folks at
distance might mistake the animal seeing his name to
Card in The bcm"crat This is apology for writing
this notice. To hear the creatures blnsrhcmons oath.
and see the dark lines Of vainous pz, terminating
in turf Of hair like hearth usl ON the chin would
a?prasc any observer that the malicious Secession Eknn
Fool wa. before him.