The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-03-21
address TO the Legislature of Alabama,

| the northern Democracy"
a declaration which will not surprise
| gentlemen who met hun in the Charleston
! convention.
Davis, their eI,ieftain, in late speech
in Richmond, asks:
Z" For what are they waging war -
They say to preserve the Union. Can
they preserve the Union BY destroying
the social existence of port on of the
South' DO they hope to reconstruct
the Union by striking at everything
which is dear o men BY showing
themselves so utter y disgraccd that il
the question WAS proposed to you whe h.
er you would combine with hycnas or
Yankees. | trust every Nirginiau would
say, 'give me the hycnes.' -
This, bear in mind, is said of your
brothers and sous. whom he ciliracizes
rs ofscourings Of the earth" and
whose career, especially in northern
Mississippi, he asserts has been marked
by :" every crime conceivable, from he
burning Of defensclcss owns to the steal
ing of silver forks and spoons"
In this spirit are spurncl all your APP
rroaches, which serve oniy to degrade
your manhood in the eyes of the very
men you are so auxiou, to pacii'v. They
hate You already. Take care, pray,
chat you do no cause them to de pise
you.
Away, then, with all though If
peace by compromise of cunclialion
with the leading spirits of his parrici-
ia' war. 1t is utterly impossible, as
you will fnd nat in the end During
T the las' session they served in tongrcss
they probes Scd to b. in favor of VIVA
was known as thr Sri, rnaen coulnro-
mise. WIS rn!y because they believed
would be rejected BY northern men,
and thus give them anothcr them, upon
| which to fire the southern hear and
''s'rnc' the >on hcrn mind preparatory
i" preclp''atlng the country into rcvoIu-
ION. l!ad 1t received the support of
northern Senators and members, they
would have derdcd as many OF the
same men did the compromise measures
II 1880. 4 little more saguri and
'"~> nnrrt du!i'y in some quarters would
flvr r>po>rl on their part the ba,r>t
'.op.!c",. Bu' the adoption Of these
~ a'nr"> wound no. have appcased the
'tr,ua, o: he Government, huuch
wo'id, nnqu.'>rionabIy, have strengthens
ed / friends.
l. is impossible no . be amused at he
,'lnrl'rl'y OF New York poll ,clan,
writing to one "f the CHIEF cou,piru nrs,
rs early as January, 1861. He says:
Il think Sout! Carolina CONAN ed
grave error when she raised the Pufuct
70 lag, to t;lc exclusion If he s.ars and
stripes. And she erred, too, when size
fired on the latter from bcnca h the folds
of the former. ! his was very ilnpolitc.
For G"d's sake, let the seeding States
cling TO the Consri'u ion, cling to the
national flag, aud declare to the world
| shat It is Tor the intcgri of the former
and the holr'r of the latter that the,
are found wi h arms in their hands
BY doing this they will divide the North
against itself, and succeed with tcntold
ease. And so, whcnvcr they seize tori
ar arsenal, let the old flag still float
from its sulnu,i ---lc be asserted tina,
these forts, &c, were erected for the
lctcnseof the Sta cs in which they stand,
aud hat upon he citizens of these
states, whose interests and lives are
| inpcrilcd, should devovc the post OF
honor in the hour of danger and that
| Is to save the honor OF the flag, and
secure the rights Of the people, from til"
reasonable assertions of ab"litionisls,
possession has been taken Of the Federal
fnrti6cations
let the South be discreet, and she
has nothing to fear. Let it be rung on,
through the land, however, that she
asks her constitu ionaI rights only-,se.
curity in the possession Of property,
equal and exact rights in all 0 her re.
spccts Let her sons nat j,op Wiis, IT,
stefy Of their northern mi.es by com.
mfi1ng Wrongs or ercssseS."
There are hundreds through the
Nor h who, like his Jealous partisan and
ally of "lhe Sonth," imagined that the
rebellion originated in some RICH dc.
MED or endangered, or some wron. sui.
feIed "r apprehendcd, and who, ike him.
depr~ca'e the ''inp"litic' course of then
"southern brethren 1t is difficult 10
resist the conviction tina, such persons
have far none sympathy with rebels in
! arms aGains the naslon'> life, than with
those southern men who f ON the begin
ning have wi H. ood hem, exp. e.. their
ncfariuu, schemes. Ii NOT, whenc" their
greater s".ci ude Tor lie constitutional
rights ot rebels, their adcls and abe:-
tors, han for the lives, even, vi Iowa,
southern men for he traitors III Fort
Warren than tor the niuni>t, IN castle
Thunder or the inlna c. OF the PRISON at
bury where, according t" Gn> eruur
Vanc,, "'hc racks IF the accused all
tcnd III one direction, and the ligh Of
Okla English ibcrty Is never seen -
| Whether hey are actnatcl By love for a
cause headed by fo.incr political friends,
| or BY hatred of the Government admin
is cred for the time being by their poit-
lcaI enemies, IS point tha possibly
hey wonid lind difficult to decide -
One thing appears NANTES that they
have accepted the of repeated as~er-
lions OF The rebel leaders, that there is
in The South no considerable clenien
hos lie to tres, movement.
Are they c"Irec then, in this esti-
l. Il