The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-03-01
Correspondence.
Correspondence of The Cecil Whig.l
LETTER FROM 4TH DISTRICT

| LIE LEX FROM 4IH DISTRICT.
FOURTH DIsTRIcT, Feb. 25th, '62.
Mr.. EDITOR :-Seccsh, in this Dis
trict, is rather down in the mouth, and
is only recognized, in the subdued and
stifled howls and yelps about the taxes
and debts, and hypocritical longings for
peace, now that the armies of the Repub-
lie are victorious on every side; (they
had nothing to say in favor of peace in
Bull Run times) and in the black and
scowling looks which designate them as
plainly as the mark ON the brow of Cain,
which neither time nor repentance can
ever Grace, but which will follow them
to their graves, and faint the reputa-
tl9Rs of their posterity for generations
totomc. No more talk of one rebel
whipping ten loyal troops. Mill Spring,
Roanoke, Forts Henry and Donelson,
have SO tied that question. You can
tell the Union men and secessionists
apart as soon as you see them the for
mer by their beaming, joyous faces, and
by the cagerness with which they hear
or tell the news and the latter by their
sad, averted look aud the haste they
make to get away from loyal company.
Poor fellows they are in bad way;
they have been plotting and schcming
and lying for months, to involve Mary
land in this Hell-born rebellion with,
at one time, fair and fondly cherished
hope of success. But g the best laid
schemes of mice and men gang aft agly,"
and the cherished hope of the secession
lists have been cruell y dashed to ear. h.
There will be no more threats. as of late,
to rise and throw off the yoke of OPP
preston. They will wisely conclude to
" bear the ills they have" rather than
rush to those they know not off,
What is to be done with those pistols
and sharp knives which were procured
to resist the officers of the Government
in their attempt to make arrests which
never were contempla cd, by any, in the
interests of the Government, but had
THEM origin, in the guilty hears of those
who, knowing their own guilt, had not
sense enough to know that their insic-
niicance was their shield But most of
all is to be deplored the fac of him who,
to aid the rebellion, neglected his own
affairs and .ef, his children on the char
lty of his ncigb bors, who travelled about
day after day to instil the poison of seccs-
sion into the the minds of old and Young,
who sent his little son on Sunday
morning to a neighbours house with the
cheering news that Lincoln had run
away, and who in the full flush of hope
that Union mems property was to be
confscated, af er the State Election,
went riding round to look out desira-
BILE location, and passing by u corn field,
beng charmed by the big ears of corn
railing from the farm hands of Unionists
he ventured the assertion that the Union
men would soon have to leave here, as
Davis was marching his army across the
Potomac. o fatal dclusion o shad.
dow of a shade ! The State Election
came, but Davis did not; and PTS OILS
and knives and high hopes of confsca,ed
farms and rich rewards, for those who
had labored for the good time-the
reign of King Jctf-have all been lost,
while the Government--the best on
carh-hated for its goodness is growing
stronger day by day, while the rebellion
grows "snall by degrees and beautifully
less !" but It's useless to write when the
whole loyal country is aglow with
delight and cannons and bells min-
gle their loud tunes with the Joyous
shouts Of 6 lad and grateful people.
HICKORY,