The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-05-31

dumb as the grave on the horrors now
sweeping over devoted East Tennessee,
the home of martyrs and patriots. 1t
condemns not the barbarity of the rebel
Government towards our gallant pris-
oners. 1t has no condemna ion of the
infamous CONSUMPTION act, nor wi herring
invective to pour out like molten lava
on the heads of the rebels, who are burn
ing the cotton and sugar crops, and
desolating the South. Then it speaks
no cheering word of congratulation for
our gallant and heroic soldiers, who
have left their farms, and shops, and
pleasant fresidcs, to save the Govern
ment, and keep step to the sublime
music Of the Union under the flag of the
Republic. 1t does not even hint what
every intelligent man knows to be the
fac, that the prime and moving cause,
the fountain head and source of this
rebellion, is determination on the part
of Southern office-holdcrs and corrupt
aristocrats to destroy free government
and build up monarchy or aristocracy
on the ruins of Democra institutions.
The man who is ignorant of this, is
ignorant of the speeches, addresses,
resolutions and newspapers of the Cot
ton STATES for the last twenty years.
lie is ignorant of the celebrated speech
Of Hon. l.. w. Spratt, one of the leading
men Of Sou h Carolina, who declared tina;
"SLAvERY CANNOT SHARE A GOVERN
MENT WITH THE DEMOCRACY !" "Sla-
very having achieved one victory to
escape Democracy at the North, must
ach'ere another to escape it at the
South :" He must be ignorant of the
declaration Of Vice President Stephens,
as reported in the Savannah Republican,
that f." SLAvERY"-not Democracy, mark
you, or The right of man to rule himself
but " slarery is the chief cornerstone
of our Government. The ideas of the
trainers of the old Federal Constitution
acere fundamentally wrong." In these
declarations Of the leaders of the rebel
lion, which we are obliged to cut short
for want of space-for they could be
extended indcfnitel we find the true
cause of this hellish rebellion. 1t was
enmity to free Government. 1t was u
de elimination on the part of an aristo-
cratic clique not to submit to the people,
and be controlled by an ignorant ma
jority," as we heard John G.. Breckin.
ridge say, at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in
the summer of 1861. As further
proof of this, the Democratic party was
hopelcssly split at Baltimore year
before Lincoln came into power, and split
by the very men who issue this address.
1t is also to be remarked that on the
advent of Mr.. Lincoln to the Presidency,
he House of Representatives, Senate
and Supreme Court were in the hands of
The Democratic party. Why, then, did
the cotton wing fly off and set up new
Confederacy! The Northern Douglas
Democracy would not be controlled by
the insolcnt Buchanan Democracy, and
so disruption took place. But this
address of the inglorious thirteen goes
on to glorify the Buchanan-Cotton
Democracy in this grandiloquent manner:
I" 1t is the only party capable of car
rying on a war; il is the only party
which has ever conducted a war to
successful issue, and the only party
which has done it without abuse of
power, without moles alton to the rights
of any class of citizens, and with due
regard to economy. A this it has done
all this, if need be, it is able to do again.
If success, then, in military point of
view be required, the Democratic party
alone can command it. -
1t then proceeds to say that its res Or
alton THAT is, of themselves and COM
pany,) to power is demanded by the fol-
lowing considera ion:
Economy and honesty in the public
expenditures, now at the rate of four
millions of dollars a day, demand it,"
Such economy, for instance, as that
of Buchanan's Secretary of War, John
b. Floyd, that paragon of virtue, and
such honesty as that of lsham G. Harris.
"The rapid accumulation of an
enormous and permanent public debt
demand it--a public debt already one
thousand millions of dollars, and equal,
at the present rate, IN three years, to
England's debt of century and half
i'll growth"
1t is dreadful thing to go in debt,
isn't it, to save the nation? The war
should be carried on for little or no hing.
In fact, it would have been better, as
Buchanan thought, to have no war at
all. just let our Southern friends
alone. The thousand millions " story
is big lie.
Reduced wages, low prices, dcpres-
sion of trade, decay of business, scarcity
of work, and impending ruin OIL every
side demand it,"
Every body knows that the " reduced
wages" &C, are all the fault of Lincoln.
The loss of fat salaries by the Southern
friends also " demand it," but the thir-
teen are quite too modest to say SO.
We have our own opinion as to the
real origin Of this damnable attempt
The Southern rebel leaders are at the
bottom of it. Nothing is more certain
than this to our minds. The chiefs of the
rebellion see that their work is about to
prove disastrous failure, and so they
send word to this effect to their Northern
allies: "Giye us two or three free
States to vote for our men, and we will
bring back the Cotton States in sold
phalanx, and hold the Offices together as
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