The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-08-26
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Great efforts are being, or rather the pros
pect is fair of their being made by the cop
perheads by hook and by crook (which
means by lying, making great professions of
loyalty and every other political virtue they
are entire strangers to,-and of taking aid
vantage of the short comings and mistakes
Of the union party, to fost themselves into
power this fall, in the county, and thus get
the old political thieves by whom the cop
perEead party is marsialed and led, back to
their old vocation of feeding at the public
crib and managing things in the old way,
when niger driving was considered a Divine
calling in this land, and the drivers dis
tnct and favored class, supposed by many
weak headed people to be aristocratc
In view of these facts, which stand out so
clearly that even the wayfarcr tho fool
| may sec them, the union men of this, MS of
every other county in the State, have u sol
emn duty to perform. They owe the per-
formancc Of that duty to themselves and
their posterity At this critical hour in the
history of the State and Nation, when the
basis are to be laid, on which institutions
are to be reared reaching far into, and con
trolling the dcstines of the future, it be-
hooves every true lover of his country to
act without passion, or personal bias: to act
solely for the present and future prosperity
of the State, and in thus acting let the
crushing out of the organization. led by the
old political thieves and pickpockets Of the
Democratic party which was formerly a
power in the State, be leading object for
over its corpse is the road that leads to the
freedom and prosperity of the nation and
her religious and political institutions. 1t
is needless perhaps to repeat that which
every man of ordinary political intelligence
so well knows that the present copperhead
party is one of the institutions of the rebel
secession organization to overthrow the
Union and establish in it's stead negro
oligarchy. Look around among the leaders
of that party and sec you can find one who
wasn't willing, and the majority of them,
eager to 60 through that traitor political
legerdemain called "Ordnance ofSecession"
to cheat the masses, preparatory to taking
up arms against the Government, some four
or five years ago. Every "mother's son "
of them preached the doctrine of anticoer-
cion for the Federal Government, and active
warlike measures as a sovereign prerogative
of the States, which reduced to a naked
reality was secession and rebellion--war
upon the National authority. We find the
men active in propagating these views when
secession and treason advanced its bloody
banners in the land, leaders ofthe copperhead
party now, and we find no others as leaders
in that party. They are the men who teach
that oaths are not binding if they conflict
with their own selfish ends, and are Intended
as safeguards to the State against the de-
signs Of traitors. They are the notorious
perjurers who, having violated oaths for the
interest of secession, are now ready and
willing to commit perjury to obtain polti
cal foothold in the control of public affairs,
and whose syren songs, if listened to would
deceive the very elect.
In view of these facts it becomes every
lover of his Country to advance the Union
cause to the complete overthrow and des
truction of this band of political scape- gal
lows, and the up roofing of their pernicious
principles which are but sickly shoots
from the upas tree of slavery and secession.
However earnestly they may labor to conceal
their antccedents, and like Satan assume the
habiliments of angels of light, they are the
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armed rebels, who hoped to see the union
people Of this county in conjunction with
those Of the State, brought under the iron
rule of the rebel military despotism.
To prepare to meet and again defeat, and
we trust forever, demolish this pernicious
party is the duty of the Union party in the
approaching fall canvass. We are in favor
of political parties. They are indispensable
to healthy political sentiment; but let not
one of those parties be organized and led by
the rump of the Shareholders treason-the
guerrllas and mamelukes placed on their
frontiers by the leading rebels of the Cotton
States.
Our first duty, therefore, is to see that
cNoiy uuiou VoteI 10 fcSisteTeu, ana Cnat no
tory, if it were possible, is. The second
most important consideration is to place in
nomination for such Offices as are to be
filed at the approaching election, men of
standing, and integrity, and so far as posi-.
BILE let those men be soldiers who have pro.
we'd their devotion to those principles for
which the Union Organization now contends;
and with sach standard bearers let US 20
forward, confident in the righteousness of
our cause, and in the intelligence, and
innate love ofjustfce, of social and political
advancement, of the people, in preference
to the low political dogmas founded on the
debasing, demoralizing. pernicious insttu,
ton OF slavery with its long black catalogue
of crime unrelieved by single ray of virtue,
which constitutes the political creed of our
adversaries.
Cooley FOR SEPTEMBER.-The September
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