The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-03-21
UNION LEAGUES,

| he lrUc ana loyal men, those VINO nave Tie
national welfare, and the rerretnation of pupu-
lar government ut heart, are banding Together
in Union Leagues, with the purpose of main
tanning the government by concentrating the
popular strength, morally and politically, and
casting it against those enemies to the rights of
the people, who by every means known to trail
tors or that can be devised by treason are seek
J ing the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the country, and the
final overthrow and destruction of popular insti-
| tutions III order thar moncd aristocracy may
| he established in its stead. In all of the princi-
pal cities Union Leagues are gathering in their
| thousands and organizing the more eirctuully
to uphold the government, and coilltcract the
hane III influence Of that sophistry which is
being 80 industIiously spread abroad, and which
acts aS IL moral malaria TO poison the minds Of
he people Those whom we hear utieling com
plants continually ut the street corners and il
every public place against the administration,
md lrIrping on the blessings of peace ana the
horrors Of war, willie they fail in Il single word
10 expose the de$o!atimg horrors of a triumphant
rebellion, with Its legitimate hcirs--anarchy,
decay of public enterprise, of public intelligence.
If morality, Of national and individual wealth,
and the turning Of the feet into that broad road
Of ruin, Of wotul and untold misery, which has
been thc lot of all nations that have failed to
sustain their integrity and nationality and sue
rumbcd to Tie rebellion OF IN ambitious poli,i-
al ijlctinn
The fate that lfls laid the heavy hand OF
anarchy and aiilicion on other nations, success
fully torn By intestine strife, most surely awais
his nation, with that degree of shame and
tinSlcnliah.r woe which would rs far sllrpass
!hc humiliation Of Other nations as the Iuilcd
states surpasses them in grandeur, in wealth,
u knowledge, i'll power ANA in every riencn,
lat constitutes national greatness. With this
internal purpose III view, the leLcl leaders, who
despo.isln, the resources of the Southern States,
binding the people down beneath military
yoke unsurpassed in calling weight in the annals
of Turkish dcSpotian, and the copperhead poli-
':ans in the loyal States are working with the
industry Of the urch-fcnd when he plotted the
i.!l Of man, to accomplish this diabocal pur-
ln+c.
Tie armed rebels Of the South seize the pro-
"c".y ii Tie government, and violate every law,
human and divine. aud persist by hcrculcan
efforts 10 attempt tlc lin;.l destruction Of the
Union, while their co-ln!orers in our midst,
enjoying the protection of the government, Use
lIlrir utmost cndcayors to bcIiitle that govern
mcnt, and weaken its power to suppress the
rebellion, BY talking of peace, while these arch
enemies OF civil liberty in conclave at Richmond,
declare there shall be no peace but in the
triumph Of their cause. The coppcrhcads prate
of compromise, while their allies in arms declare
there can be no compromise with Yankees!"
In order TO Illustrate the designs of those allies
of the rebellion, the loyal people are every where
forming Union Leagues and drawing together
in closer intercourse, by organizing, III order
that the patriotism of the country may be
brought 10 bear i'll all its crushing weight against
those consorts vi the Southern aristocracy, who
guse Of democracy.
The people feeling the pressing necessity of
farming their organized efforts against those but
family disguised allies of the Cotton oligarchy,
who are striving to work the ruin of the coun-
try through the ballot box, by stealing into
power III a"loyal States are organiGing through
out the country, for the final overthrow of this
domestic movement Of the willy foe by forming
Union Leagues.
In the cities these Leagues arc in full opera
ton, and they should be organized without delay
in every part of the rural districts and thus save
thousands Of credulous, but otherwise patriotic
and loyal men, from being entrapped by the
tasehoods of the copperhead rebels, who APP
proaeh them with the stealth and cunning of
serpents, with professions of "pcace,' of "loy-
atty" Of Union," of compromise " on their
tongues, while in their secret lodges they hold
Intercourse with the Southern traitors, and plot
anarchy in the North, dismemberment of the
national territory, and final ruin to republican
government