The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1864-04-02
The Death Struggle.

The death struggle is proverbial for being
q severe one. We have had, recently, very
striking manifestations of this maxim on the
part of the slave.ocracy in this county. A.
the day Of their doom draws near their piteous
wailings, or savage charges upon the Union
party and its prominent men become longer,
louder, and more desperate.
The following long breath We clip from
last weeks Democrat, the writer protesting
to hail from Port Deposit. Speaking of two
of their candidates who are renegade Tn.
ionists, he says:
Then they joined hands with the Demo.
cratic party, always as now, the true friend
to stay the rapid career of Abolition fanati.
cism before it had eliminated in the whole.
sale robbery of their fellow citizens, by de.
prving them of their property in slaves
without making compensation therefor to
stop the further increase of taxes which
must soon become too grevous to be borne
TO force the Administration to carry on the
war for the restoration Of the Union with
all its glorious memories, if possible, or iii
the hand of Abolition fanaticism has 80 un,
dcrnined its foundations as to render il
now impossible to restore it in its grandeur,
Mt least to save from the general wreck our
dearly bought liberties.
We ask the reader if he ever before heard
Gs much nonsense uttered in one breath.
AL of the above respiration that is not alb.
surdty is rank treason. Every man tina,
has any sense left in his Uranium knows tina,
the war was carried on under the Mcclellan
regime of protecting slavery, for year,
without having any effect towards bringing
the rebels to terms. They laughed a, us for
throwing grass at them.
The people becoming tired of this rose.
water system of warfare, determined, like
the man in the fable, to throw stones. They
demanded that slavery-the main support
the cornerstone of the rebellion-bc smit
ten. Then it was that those piteous yells Of
rage and pain began to ascend from the cot.
ton States traitors and their friends in
Maryland.
The writer Of the above hints pretty
broadly to his readers that if the people are
weak and base enough to give the secession.
lists the power, they will stop the war, by
giving up to the rebels all they ask. This is
about the plain Engliah--if he means any.
thing-of the writer.
In the above quoted article, Is in al the
dolorous and lugubrious chapters Of lies
which the rebs concoct for a-as they sup.
pose--credulous public, they always promise
if they are trusted to reduce or stop the tax.
es. In the same breath they tell US We are
robbers if We don't pay about $40, COO, OOG
to the shareholders of this State.
These two theories are quite irreconcilable
to the public, but no explanation is given.
How the destruction of slavery is to en-
danger the liberties of the people we have
always been at loss to divine, and these
alarmists in the rebe! cause never vouchsafe
to enlighten US.
With such senseless jargon as the above
quotation, the traitors to the people and their
institutions, try to mislead and still retain
them in the slaveholders leech.
The same writer, in refeaencc to freed
negroes, says!
They are totally unfit for liberty, who
are now made a source of profit BY the
Wholesale restraint exercised over them BY
the masters authority, but who must when
freed evidently become burden on our
State; to increase our taxes for their sup
port to greatly diminish the amount Of our
taxable property, and to lower the value OF
Our land one half. Yes-~e speak II ad
ysedly, to lessen the value Of our lands
For We care not how much the advocates OF
Abolition may assert that the price Of land
will be doubled if the negroes be freed-the
direct contrary Is the toc:."
Half Of the colored population az. now
free, and have been in this deplorable con.
dition for quite number Of years, yet we
have not had any Of these direful results,
80 confidently predicted by the writer
Now the advocates Of Abolition " do
not "xssert," but they prone by the statistics
of our own State that the lands in the fres
counties Of Maryland are worth $4s while
in the slave counties they are worth but $25
per acre; and by the Comptroller's report
Of 80, the assessed property OF the fee ra,t