The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-09-09
Tipping Them Blarny,


a vote out of the soldiers if the thing is pos
sible, for its secession candidates this fall,
whoever they may be, and with this object
in view lets no opportunity pass without
trying its powers of blarny upon them
Shows Battery, it seems to think, consti-
tutes the weak point in the line, and hence
it has constantly on hand some honey phrases
for the Battery. Our soldiers may well ask
themselves as the old Greek did, What great
crime have we committed that our enemies
praise us?
Last Saturday the Battery was treated to
very large handful of sugar pumbs.
THE Democrat tells them they stood
by their guns while thousands of bullets
whistled their death tune on every side of
Them
Who fired those whistling bullets? The
southern brethren of this Democrat, and
while the bullets were whistling about the
ears of our Union boys, this Democrat and
its party fought most determinedly to pre-
vent the soldiers in the field from voting
And we heard one of the party's chief
spokesman declare on the stand that there
was no Democrat that did not sympathize
with their southern brethren, who were fight
ing for their rights, Git was natural and
couldn't be helped, he said) while firing
whistlng bullets about the ears of the gal
liant men of the Battery. Now it has the
impudcnce to say that every Democrat is,
for the credit of the county proud of that
Battery This time, year ago, every DEM
ocrat, for the love they owed to their south
ern brethren, hoped the men of Battery B.,
and all other Union soldiers would receive
at the bloody hands of those who fired whist
ling bullets about their ears, "hospitable
graves
The Democrat did little else, while our
soldiers were battling the armed foe, but
''toast its toes' and clip ISLANDERS, lies and
abuse, from the Philadelphia Age, the New
York Day Book and Duty Ne,cs, of our
soldiers, while in every indirect manner pos
sible it praised the "Confederates. No ap-
peals were made to the people for relief to
our suffering soldiers in the field and hospit-
ais. No exhortations to the people to fill
up the ranks of the Union legons that the
rebellion might be crushed speedily were
read in its columns. No: none Of these
things was it engaged in, but a constant
moaning about burdensome public debt,
| heavy taxes, useless waste of blood and
treasure in squelchng the rebellion, and an
interminable whine about conservative trail
| tors in its own ranks being ready to strike
hands with traitors in jeff. Davis ranks and
compromise" by giving the rebels all they
| asked
But now that the war is gloriously ended
and the cause the Union soldiers SO bravely
fought for, and The Wing, all the time,
through sunshine and storm sustained, this
apologist for treason and traitors sneaks af
ter our soldiers, trying to coax their votes
by telling them what brave fellows they are
and how proud every Democrat is of them
for thrashing so Internationally, as they
think, his southern brothers. And wien it
has them pretty well "sott soddered, it will
ask with one of the most benign smiles,
'Wont you vote for us this fall? Wenevcr
said you disgraced yourselves and the coun-
try-for (mentally) we would have got our
heads broken if we had by these-Union
men, who, though at home "toasting thcir
toes" kept us traitors in order, while they
furnished the soldiers in the field and hos,
pitfalls with supplies and deicaces. -