The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-04-11
" Constitutional Union League


"ConstituticnaE Union League"
Look out for Hessians. We received
| through the post Office this week, ranked
from New York by an N. c. coppcrhead
| recipe for making traitors The above
named nostrum for the resusctation Of
defunct politicians is compounded by that
| tribe Of Hessians who have done more to
prolons the rebellion, embarrass the Gov
eminent, ana clog the nation with taxation
and debt, than all the rebels in open arms
ever did. Having been marked, repudiated,
and torsaken by the patriotic masses, they
are about to throw their old names and
party machinery overheard, and come out
with an imitation of the Union Leagues
which have been organized by the loyal men
of the country in self defense, against the
| copperhead cmissarics and spies of the
Richmond oligarchy.
This new Hessan organization which has
been gotten up in New York, paradss in
what they are pleased to style an "Address
Of the Constitutional Union Organization TO
the People of the United States,' in which
is given plentiful sprinkling of extracts
from the Constitution; mingled with anathc-
mas on " the Aboltionists of the North and
'nccss'onists of the SOUTH with solemn
declaration of their willingness to accord to
" their Southern brethyenn all the rights
they are Untitled to,-which "Southcr
hratl rop g Al:
either dissolution of the Onion or su' juga-
ton by the constituted authorities of the
Government. But in the face of these
declarations which have been published
from the out break Of the rebellion by the
leading censpirators in the four corners of
the Globe, we still hear these secession
.ympathizers, while they shout for Union
make use of every means to cmbarrass the
only power that can preserve the Union.
and they are always very careful, never to
after the word SECESSION without coup.
ling it with "Abo!ition,' as though they
feared TO insult their " Southern brethren "
NY using the former epithet without the
palliative. One, by listening to these poll
addresses, might suppose they had fallen
asleep before the breaking ont of the war,
and had just walked up, wholly unconscious
of the fact that cabal Of ambitious aspir-
ants for aristocratic power had, through the
connvance of a traitor President seized
upon the resources Of the Slave States. and
declared, in the most emphatic terms, that
they would either sever the territory of the
Union and establish separate government,
II be subducd by force of arms. But in the
face of these facts, which are as public and
apparent to all as the light of day, we find
men making solemn declarations that they
will never entertain q proposition to divide
She onion, and yet talking windiy, if not
sensbly, about " compromise" " Constitu-
ton, " ''conciation Of Southern brcthren;"
and when the legally constituted govern
ment is assailed by powerful armies, which
have broken and violated every provision
of that Constitution, whose name is so con.
stantly and rcvercnty invoked, those great
those enormous, violations of that sacred
instrument, are entirely ignored, while
these Union "restorers' ''reorganizers,"
and "savers'' keep up prolonged howl
about the summary apprehension of few
spies, who are imprisoned for a short time
in place of being shot. The politicians
who pursue the course we have been de-
scribing, and who, albeit, have been chang.
ing their party name every few moaths are
simply treachcrous knaves. They have
and have done their worse to forward that
internal cause and the men who wish well
for their country and yet are guled to fol-
low those false leaders are simply fools.