The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-05-16

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of their personal improvement. National
progress is the result of individual in
dustry, energy and uprightness. as ma
tional decay is of individual idleness and
vice.
The Rebels are Sighting for the negro.
All over the South Caesar and Pompey
and Dinah are living III as much comfort
and quie;ude as the blockade permits,
while million white men are staying
each other. On the bloody fields of
battle noble hearts lie blceding-hearts
of Vhite men, who have left loving wives
and sisters and little children at home
weeping for the absen', whose faces they
never again shall see. Are they not
worth a thought And yet some of our
friends think their chief duty is to watch
that the car of State, in its onward
increment, does not run over the negro
| say The preservation of tuy own free
dom is of more Importance to me than
the protec ion of Rebels rights in pro-
perty, for the sake of which he has tried
to rob Inc of my freedom, and has delu
ged the land wi, blood and filled 1t with
mourning The lives and happiness of
twenty millions Of freemen are more
important than the perpetuaton of il
monopoly of labor in the hands of three
hundred thousand Rebels. The Union,
with all its precious freight of human
hopes and human freedom, must be pre-
served
The existence of sectional policy in
the South, latent and unorganzed, but
still represented in the councils Of the
nation, was distinctly asserted as far
back as 1872 by John G. Calhoun TO
Commodore Stewart. He then stated
hat it was true the South was aristo-
cratic in its social organization, but that
it conceded much to Democracy in
order that it might, through that party,
control the Governmen but if, for any
reason, the Democratic party SHOULD.
cease to control the Government, nothing
would remain for the South but to dis
solve the Union"
From that time to the present the
main duty of a certain school of polti-
clans seems to have been to watch and
assali the Government at all vulnerable
points. The failure of the tariff ques-
ton o nhame the minds of the people with
sufficient venom, indicated the necessity
Of falling back upon the real and only
reason forfectional difference. Jackson
Ioretoid thai this would be the CASE
Madison foresaw it, and wrote of it.
In 1888 it took the form of slavery agi-
tation, wi h which Mr.. Calhoun and his
friends tried to - force the issue Z" up TO
the breaking out Of the rebellion.
The various steps by which that agi-
ia ion approached the rebellion are trace
able through party platforms aud Con-
gresslonal reso ut Of and debates.
We find tergiversations innumerable
"a want Of all policy but that of divi-
ding the country. Alternately insisting
on he Missouri Compromise and its re-
peal--on Congressional Intervention and
nonintervention with slavery in the Ter
ritorics ; we find that VIC have been in
turn threatened with revolution for ac-
Iulesconce in any one of their demands.
The objects of hose who acted as the
immediate agents i'll establishing the
Southern Contederacy seem to have been
the getting rid of populnr sovereignty
aud the establishment Of more arsto-
cratic form of government. Even here,
amongst US, they have discarded the
doctrine of universal suffrage. | have
heard repeatedly people of that pcrsua.
sion advocate u monarchy on the British
model, and threa ened that if MARYLAND
did not 60 with the South they would
leave the State.
The false promises Of traitors to the
blind fold masses whom they have Sc
duced and dragged into rebellion against
the best government earth ever knew
have been kept as traitors keep their
pronlises--kept like their oaths to the
Constitution. The history of the world
presents no such revolving record as the
TWO years history Of this rebellion
Perjury, fraud and robbery, the familiar
demons Of foul treason, having done
their worst with US have turned upon
themselves. We find the monster
Saturn-like-devouring its own offspring
All the men (save and except the owners
of twenty negroes, who, as usual are
exempt,) have been dragged FROM their.
homes by most ruthless CONSUMPTION
and thrust into the army Their wives
and children, lief; at home, are in rags,
aud in many places starving for the food
Of which they are robbed by the Rebel
soldiery. We are told that at Jackson
vile, Florida, the other day the people
had nothing to eat but little corn and
some rice. The men were gone the
women and children were in rags. In
Louisiana, poor women, whose hus bands
are conscripts, beg from plantation to
plantation of the rich erempts, with
children clinging to their skirts, only to
be thurst away starving. 1t is pitia-
BILE tale, and calls aloud upon us for
redemption.
1t was but little while ago when
this, our land, was prosperous aud hap
py, aud over its hills and in its quiet
wales sweet "peace went tinkling on
the sheperd's bell and singing with the
reapers.' In the reno est corners of
the earth the star spangled emblem of
our nationalality and freedom was
greeted with respect. The proud title
of American citizen was everywhere the
guarantee Of respectful consideration
These things have been changed. Now