The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-09-26

free labor of the State
1t is to be expected that the power
possessed Of the Government of the
s ate will not yield without a struggle.
The evil spirit will not come forth with
out tearing the victim it has so long
possessed. The incarnation of dema-
goguism, it will display all its arts in
defense of its power; and they who wish
to assert against it the principles of
Republican liber,y ard sound political
economy must not be slow to recognize
the Proteus in bis DISCUSSES.
These views preside over the political
domination whose organization is now the
Constitution Of the Sta'c.
Their principles inspire the sympathy
with the rebellion which disgrace and
discredit the State, deflcd it with the
blood of the 18th of April, so nearly
plunged US into the gulf where Virginia
now writhes, and even made the Legis-
lature, elected by the loyal men Of
Mary land, dumb. Before the rebellion
it was charged to brand and punish, yet
prompt TO menace the Government if it
exerted its undoubtod plerogatve to
remove slavery from the Dis riot, and
bold to proiong the power of the oligar-
ohy by defeating the bill for Constitu-
tional Convention.
The slaveholding interest, if consulted
and left free. would not have rcbcllcd but
it was inhucd with the principles incuIcatcd
by their political leaders, and when they
"cted the Shareholders had no ground Of re-
! sstance.
They yieldcdrcluctantIy, and then covered
their reluctance 10y zeal, and sought to
strengthen their interests by devotion to a
course which has been their ruin.
1t was made in their name, against their
will. but they accepted the struggle as the
result of principles common to all,
1t became an idol before which inidcls
tremblcd. for its friends were powerful and
prosecuting. Thatpartypf traitors sung its
praises. preached its principles, administered
its offerings and pursued with malice and
terocty all who refuse to bow with them
before its shrine. till every protest sank into
Il mental reservation; silence confessed the
unity of the faith, and prudent Skepics did
1t reverence as they passed as ntidcls in
Spain devoptly bow with the faithful before
the "a"c;ua"y or the cross.
The minds of men thus suhugated. the
great party watched the hour when fear. and
hate, and accident should enable them to
force the people into revolution.
These views, long repealed by many. yet
seduIously iuculcalcd, made the condition
and passport to political advancement and
everything consistent with them stigm.tized
rs abolition fanaticism, gradually sank in
the Southern mind, pervaded southern re-
| lgion, governed Southern politics, rang
through the Southern press, till finally ac.
cepted by most, acqrcsced in by all.
Our fathers, i'll the presence OF n great
evil aud great anomaly, honestly confessed
| both, avowcd the desire to end both, but
confessed their inability to see their way
| to its accomplishment.
The men of the new light derile their
sensltiv cness, impeach their humanity. pro,
claim ignorance of morals, politics and
religion, and solve the anomaly Of slavery
amid liberty and religion, by denying the
humanity of the negro, and invoking the
providence Of God which enabled him 10 be
a slave and unfit for anything better.
Inc new southern cthnolOgy severed IL
negro from the human race.
| The new Southern morality made the
holding negro the highest of moral dutes.
The new Southern religion made the
African slave trade missionary enterprise.
The new Southern theodicy elevated the
subjccting of the negro TO the white into the
| highest manifestation Of divine bcnevolcnce.
The new Southern political economy de-
monStrated that a slave works better than u
free man, and boosted itself the organization
| of labor which socialists valnly strove for in
Europe.
The new Southern political philosophy
added to jefferson enumeration OF inalicn-
able rights that of the negro to master.
| l. Il.
ology, n new ethnology We're invented for
the new empire.
X power could not be permanent whose
! foundations We're admitted to be temporary;
nor safe whose principles were admitted to
| be wrong nor comfortable when confessed
| to be immortal nor source OF pride when
the object of moral opproblum nor a source
OF strength when admitted to be a Source
Of weakness. With the aspirations for
power came therefore these changes, and
we of Maryland have been brought to turn
our back on every prlnclpte our ioretalhers
| protested.
We propose to the people of Maryland a
return to the opinions and practices of our
| fathers. Every step removed from their
position has led us astray until we have
reached the scene of confusion distress and
desoation in which. the nation now is.
We have watched the course of the " Con
sentative " menwho now support Mr.. Maft.
They have, at least, the merit Of consis
| tency; at the beginning OF the war their
action was characterized Ivy timldiy, heslta
ion and dread Of responsibility, when they
should have shown tirmness, resolution and
courage. They talked Of opposition to
coercion, and proposed to cham Maryland
to the chariot OF Virginia, guided by Rebel
hands. When the President $ first call for
troops was heard in Mary land timidity pre-
vented its being echoed by cur authorities,
when it would have been responded to by
the shouts of Maryland's full quota of
troops.
They saw in Gen. Butler $ troops at An
! napols enemies and not friends, and for
babe their landing; and now these same
men, in view of the ruin which awaits the
agricultural interest of IL large part Of our
territory, hesitate to accept IL nation $
bounty.
We believe the men of Maryland are
capable Of directing the energies and con.
trolling the destiny of Maryland We be-
lieve they are vastly more firm, decided,
and truly loyal than these timid men have
supposed, and we will call upon them in
this contest to decide, by the election Of Mr..
Goldsborough, between us and our oppo
| nents
We do not doubt the result, and expect
! freed from the traMmels which now bind
her, to see Maryland, at no distant day.