The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-12-02
The Cecil Wing.
ELKTON, DECEMBER 2, 1865.
Wailimg for Roasting.


Before the election the Coprerhead jour
nails were all in full career on the highway to
success, they protested to believe. Their
cause was just and the people, now that the
war was over, and mems passions had
time to cool, and their minds to grow calm,
would surely vindicate the wisdom and dis
interested patriotism of their oracles and
statesmen, at the polls. The election over,
they find their party worse beaten than ever,
and it were reasonable 20 suppose that they
would acknowledge their error, give over
their love for slavery, and cease offering ex
cuses for the Southern traitors. No such
thing, however, The folly and wrenghead-
cdpess of the people are now bitterly com
planned of for giving final blow to
what their press and speakers term
conservatism - which, in plain Eng
lish means the same old state of affairs,
| by allowing the whipped, but unrepentant
rebels, to organize their State governments
after their own fashion, send delegations Of
the old secession agitators and disturbers Of
the peace, back to Congress, enact and put
| in practice lew slave codes for the freedmen
in the late seeded States, and set up the old
theory Of State rights by inaugurating multi
| fication at the very outset of their recon-
struction. There Northern Democrats, who
nod law lo~s gears of service bccome the
willing slaves o do the bidding of Southern
slave lords, seemed to have really adopted
the belief that the President intended to
grant general p,rdon and allow them to
inaugurate the old state of things under new
names.
The Copperhcads are disguised that the
people have declared against such policy
enmasSe, as it were, and given these white
slaves of Southern masters, the Democratic
politicians Of the North, to understand, in
unmistakable terms, that their conservatism
is indeed dead That conservatism was sla-
very and only slavery. This had grown to
be the only principle Democracy had to
stand upon, ana they express surprise and
sorrow that the people at the late elections
did not vote to establish it anew, after war
of four years to overthrow that aristocratic
system Of government, in favor of Repub-
lican form, such as was aimed at and found
ed by the Statesmen of the Revolution.
Would it not bewell for the Copperhead
party to pause and consider whether the peo-
pie are not right AID they are wrong? That
party fought hard throughout the whole war
for the perpetuatpn Of slavery. That war
overthrow it, and we find them still com
planning bitterly that the people are so de-
cided in their determination to establish
purely Republican form of government
The Democratic party may as well accept
the fact tina, ii is considered by, not only
the great and increasing majority of the
Americal people, but by the world, the slave
party of Christendom, that it has advocated
no other principle since the breaking out of
the rebellion, and long before that it has no
other principle now, and that the masses,
slowly discovering this fact, are deserving it,
and that its final dissolution is not far dis
tant.
Slavery has run its course, and the party
that was first corrupted by it and then re-
modelled by the apostles of that institution,
to subserve its selfish ends, must speedily
disappear from among the political organi
cations of the civilized world.
Democracy formerly inculcated the de-
trne that it promoted the rights of man.
Its history through the last decade has prov
ed it to be the tool of the most disgusting
and degrading system of aristocracy known
to the world, and existing only in the New
World. AS if to contrast beauty with de-
formity, vice with virtue, that system has
grown and prospcred by the side of liberty
till stripped of its masks and DISCUSSES by
the late rebellion, it lies exposed to the gaze
of the world in all its monstrous, hideous
deformity! And yet we find the Democratic
or Copperhead party mourning over it, try
ing to raise itup- resuscitate it and proclaim
it god