The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-08-16
Fer The Cc:il Wing.
Summer Letters. No. 2.

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Know all men by these presents. that
whoever goes North to find cool weather,
goes to - goats house for WOOL | don't
know how high the th'r ometer was. but
never felt the heat more intense than on
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday last.
This has been great day here in Middle.
town, the result of ten days drumming.
tsoftrs of loun'y, &c, marched to the
depot this morling-onc hundred and ten
young. active men, full of fire, which ! pray
t;od may not be qucnched out in their own
sweat as they dig di chcs on tie way to
Richmond. In the ten days since it was
nsccrtaincd what was Middletown's quota
under the first three hundred thousand, the
town has voted ten thnus md dollars bounty.
this full company is recruited, and they are
now ut work to fill up, with volunteers.
their quota under the order for drafted men.
All this. too, in II town which had sent pre-
tiously four hundred ont of her fifteen hun
drcd voters. And why is it? because the
people are more loyal than others? No.
On the contrary believe. that, under the
same circumstances. our own people would
come up to the work with aS much alacrity,
and, know. with more enthusiasm. The
difference is. that here the leaders are in
advance and never behind the people. The
leaders are practical men, who realize the
uccnsion and its demands. They do not
waste their energies in useless discussions
at the street corners of the thousand phases
of the slavery question. They know that
men must be raised or else the effort to
rrn,h rebellion is a failure. and that this
means the failure of every thing. On this
knowledge they act, and the people respond.
The State gives a bounty of fifty dollars, the
town gives one hundred more, and there is
scarcely u man in the company, which left
to-day, who did not receive from twenty to
fifty dollars from private individuals. This
Is the way men are made patriotic.
AS see all this | wonder what you are
doing Mt home. | saw in the .amprican that
the Citizens Committee met and adopted
the Baltimore resolutions. Has no meeting
been held Are the Commissioners to make
no appropriations Are our brave men to
made for their families? see in some of
the papers that the order of Secretary Stan
ton for draft is well received ut the North.
tell you it is false. 1t is received with the
utmost rcpusnance. The people loath and
despise it. and if it is ever enforced here
there will he trouble. ! don't think there
will be draft here. They will raise their
quota. if they have to pay five hundred dol
lars bounty. Why is not our county at
work? II II draft is rcsorted o. it will not
be earlier than September. Before that
tiitic WIN DOullS oI one nunuTcu collars
from the county, besides the private cuntr-
buttons, Cecil can raise six hundred men,
which will be her full quota of the six hun
drcd thousand.
While people. are thus sacrificing life and
money, the Democratic paper here says
this is not holy war" | asked a gen.
tleman. why the people allowed such utter.
ances WALL" said he, "that's true they
hadn't ought to. hut he's such darn'd poor
GIss that he's not worth shucks.'
Passing along the street, few evenings
ago, we saw a larg. national flag suspended
over the pavement, with the motto " Lib
erty now and forever to all the world. -
The old man who owned the fla. stood on
his porch, and as one of us read the motto
aGcuA, he said: THAT all means Indi
ans But it did not. But in the face of
very strong nti-slavery sentiment, have
heard Fcss talk about slavery during The
week have been here than | would hear
in AMY one day at home.
But whew it is too hoi to write politics.
The scenery along the Connecticut is in
many placca, almost equal to that of the
Hudson A new road has been made along
the river bank, and Il drive upon it in the
evcning affords many very beautiful views.
An old grave yard ri ght on the river bank,
whose rough Toss-covcred tombstones and
quaint spelling date back more than Il cen
fury, contains the grave Of Com. MELON
ongh, who WAS a citizen of Middletown, and
at,er whom the principal hotel is named
yentured to intimate to a gentleman the
other day, that Tatnnl, who married and
has passed much time here, might find n
final resting place beside McDonough.
You may be sure the negative was very
emphatic. Gen. Mansfield has his resi-
dence here, large but plain home on Main
street. The Wesleyan University located
here, wns once the scene of our friend }. W.
Clny:ons literary labors. wonder how
you all get along in Elkton? ] wish some
times could get peep at you, but I'll be
home in time for the draft. 'Oh yes!"
you will say. "of course you WILL. since
Stanton's order, has slapped your further
progress Nurth Well. it may he there is
some truth in that. But wouldn't it be
funny if the same order stopped my move.
ment toward home? MARYLAND.