The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1863-07-11
Communicated
Secession and AbOIit OH.

1t is not pleasant to hear n man, profess
ing to be an unconditional Union man,
when he says that he is opposed to sccos'
sion, tell you in the same breath, that he is
also opposed to abolitionism. 1t seems as
if he wished to qualify, in some degree, the
fearful curse Of secession, by Offering an
apology for it. There is no rational apology
that any secessionist can offer for the at.
tempt to divide the Union, and destroy q
good government, by plunging the nation
into all the horrors of civil war; then how
can Union man apologize for the perjured
traitors who have brought about the present
state of things?
There is no doubt but that slavery has
been the great curse of our country. and
that though it might exist under a monarchy
or despotsm, it can never exist long under
free government. Wherever slavery cx
which degradcs White labor, and creates
three classes first. the aristocracy sec
ond. the slaves thirdly. the laboring whites
sailed By the former the "mHd-siHS Of socic
IT," and by the latter, "Mr poor rhtte fresh.
In this country the slave aristocracy has
been the governing class, having always con
troiled the government, and no power has
ever been more persistent, and domlnering
more eXacting. and over reaching, than the
genius of slavery. Its nature and tendency
are to arrogate to itself power, and to tread
down the laboring white 'nan, keep him in
ignorance, and never permit him to rise
In South Carolina. where the slave aristoc
racy has arrived at the greatest perfection
the poor whte man has never had the priv
leee of voting for President, and We learn
from her statesmen, that the aristocracL
want still stronger government. 1t wa,
natural and reasonable, that freemen SCENT
this state of things, should speak and writ;
against it, and hence they drew down o
them the vengeance of the governing class
and as these gave the very tone to societn
man who was in favor Of abolishlIi
slavery, was denounced as a monster D
human shape. until even some well meaG
ing simple folks thought he must be the depI
himself. The aristocracy having the lin
making power shaped everything to sI'
their own purposes. IN
They established a censorship over lin
press, and everything written against the Je
stituton of slavery, was inccndnry, Fne
papers of that character were not above ur
pass through the mails, and persons crcu of
ing them must go to the penetentiary-g
juries summoned post masters to certif
oath what papers passed through ire
Offices, and Judges of courts, were rcqu| ma
at every term, to give the subject IN oh SO
to the grand juries. They nterfered St!
the rights of property and the right of NJ
science. From the first institutio Gt
slavery it had been constantly occurring n,
the owners had from sense of dut tai
from some other cause. been liberating' Ba
slaves by manumission, or by last will hu
testament among this class was CD Fo
Washington himself; but the arstocra
Maryland have seen fit TO change this' tit
ton between master and slave, and to- ioi
fere with the conscience Of the dying no
who wished to liberate his slave, and in so'
him that they will not permit him to I, ito
although his own property. 1t is trut ne
there are many fanatics who are pratiuet he
admitting the negroes to equal pri!s be-
with the whites, a thing so utterly I'M vii
BILE and out of the question that no IN abb
his sober senses has any fears on tho 70
iect 1t is not clear that the condiif bel
the negro will be bettered by being SD the
but it is very clear that the condition e ant
white man will be bettered by the q, tou
aud the great element of sectional strd els
contention being removed, our countl wo
advance to greatness in a ratio unpar;f pri
in the history of the world Let thef ret
ing fabric of slavery fall and crumb 10 los
dust-the decree has gone FORTH an is we
after the manner of the law of the rs WA
and Persians; it altereth not.