The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-06-07
Correspondence.
For The Ceci! Wing
The Address OF the Democratic @
Members of Congress-.
PoRr DEposIr, May 2Sth, 'G2.


above named address is receiving. From
almost every locality comes up the voice
of indignation against the hypocrtical
pretensions of the authors of this paper.
And this is as it should be. For surely
Il more contemplate effort was never
made to resusitate dcfunct jack ass,
than is now put forth by these fourteen
Democrats.Cj But the con emptibility
of their effort is no greater than the
wickedness Of their designs. Their
immediate designs are to create disscn-
sion and rife in our national councils
and throughout the country, so that they
may, in the midst Of the consequent con-
fusion, seize the rcins of authori y and
es ablish themselves in the control of
State aud National affairs. To produce
this result, they have put forth paper
which is made up, chiefly, Of arrogance,
fasehood, and treachcry. Arrogant,
because it is he work of sell consf,tuted
authority; false, because it is lies; and
trcachcrous, because it is intended TO
deceive.
In the first place, these Democrats ~
quoc FROM democratic platforms, and
from Thomas Jefferson, to show 1Chy the
Democratic party should not be dis
banded. With the cnunciation of these
principles, say they, why should the
Democratic party be lisbandel 20 This
interrosatory is simply foolish, because
it has no meaning. For, considered in
il national point of view, the Democratic
party has already been disbaldcd. It
more Convention, since which time it
has no national exis ancc. Indeed, this
grca; rebellion seems to have virtually
disbauded :" all parties. For we find,
in the administration of the government,
| from cabinet officer down to country
post master, thai all parties are repre-
scnted So, also, in the army and navy,
Democrats, Republicans and Bell and
Everett men are fighting shoulder to
shoulder for the defcuse of our common
country, against the traitors who have
taken up arms against US. But these
Democrats ~ 10 not quo these articles
for the purpose of supper ing the gov
ernmcnt, as they say Democrats "always
do" but rather to oppose it in its
efforts to crush this most accurscd rebel
lion, for which Democratic men $50 pre-
tended) are alone responsible. In fact,
1t is easy to see that the sympathies of
these "fourtcen arc all with them
selves and their co-laborcrs in "Dxie."
Judg Douglas, who used to be thought
good Democratic authority, said, during
his last days, that during this war, there
could be but two parties One for the
govcrnment-thc other against it,
These " tourtccn," however, do no.
heed the great Douglas, but would
inaugurate policy that would stop the
wheels of government, and re~install
i'll authority those traitors who helped
to put hm III an uutimely grave. The
g fourteen say, to restore the Union,
is to kill abolitionism through the ballot
box. But what We shall do viii the
hellish fcnds who commenced actual
hostilities against the supremacy aud
sanctity of the ballot box, they tell US
not Abraham Lincoln was made Pres
ident through the medium of the 6 ballot
box" and according TO Democracy, he
must be sus tanned but there are men
in the North as well as the South, who,
calting themselves Democrats, would
have rejoiced to see Mr. Lincoln assas-
sinaied, and the arbitrator Breckih-
ridge, placed at the head of the Nation.
And this address tells us that the "biter
wa ers of secession first flowed from the
! fountain of abolitionism." This Is false.
Secession flowed first from the "foun-
tain " of notification. John G. Calhoun
opened that fountain" long before
s'aboli lonism" was dreamed of. These
"fourtcen" gentlemen might have said
with more truth, that secessionists, with
their slavery propagandist creed, caused
the "bitter watcrs'' of "aboli ionism'
to flow. They mistake cause for effect.
But they say " sectiona! parties dc MOI
achieve Union Victories" To this we
may say, no party achieved such VIC
tory in 1862. Surely the "democracy
did not. But they say, &C for forty
eight years out of sixty, democra ic men
ruled the country, and for ffty-four
years, &C., Democratic policy prevailed"
and, "while it 1.-THE democra ic partly
was In power, it PRESCRIBED the govern
ment in all ITS uigor md integrity, &c.
Now, we find that the " forty-eight
years." and the eff, y-four years, an
ciudes the term Of James Buchanan, and
if he was one of the " democratic men "
that " ruled the country" and if has
"policy was democratic," and if. during
his term of office, the government was
preserved in all ITS uigor md integ-
rdN &c." then may heaven deliver us
from such a "rulc,' from such
"policy," aud from such preservation
And they say, " 1t is the duty of every
patriot to sustain the government in the
exercise of all constitutional powers
which may be necessary for the preserva-
ton of the government in its principles
and in its vigor and integrity, and to
stand By and defend to the utmost, the
fug which represent the government, the
Union, and the country" Did James
Buchanan, Howell Cobb, John B. Floyd,
Thompson, Toucey, g. Co., conform to
this requirement They were among
those " democratic men, who "ruled
the country and who "preserved the
government, &C." But they say, "why
abandon the democratic party, which,