The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-06-17
The Cecil Wing.
ELKTON, JUNE ~, 1865.
4 Fearful Looking for Judgment.
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forfeit. Davis party of this county. has been
much exercised since the collapse of the re-
bellion over the future prospects of its chief
| supporters. AT present it has very bad
opinion of the Registry Law, and its gyra.
tons remind us very forcibly of the old ad
age,
"No rougue e'er felt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law
The Wing comes in for a share of the
blame, Of bounding on those men of ''known
loyalty to inquire diligently into the acts of
this secession conspiracy aiding party during
the last four years. As usual the bugaboo
Abolition gets the first notice, and we are
told ''that the deep scars inflicted by abol-
ton hands, upon the breast of the republic,
remain !" and with an air of injured inno-
cence that would do honor to the most ex-
pert confidence man, these abolitionists are
charged with, after hsving destroyed our
constitution to its foundations, beggared our
nation with taxes are seeking to force us to
an equality with the freed negro" Still
harping on my daughter. When will those
abolition ? Or is it, that having no excuse
for their crimes, they cry abolition abol-
ton!
Now these charges in the first place are
every one false; for abolition hands never
inflicted single oscar on the breast of the
republic" Neither is the CONSTITUTION de-
stroyed to its foundations. or the nation
''beggared with taxes" But what this dis.
engenious sheet, with Falstafian disregard
of the most notorious facts attempts to foist
on to the ''abolitionists' was attempted,
though not accomplished, by the armed
rebels Of the Southern States, and their
aiders abettors and sympathzers in the
loyal States, among the latter this same
Democrat and its party were number
ed. ''The decent men of the community
are hcnceforth to be banshcd beyond the
range of legal vision" and negroes made
equal to them in the eye of the law. The
men who are here called "dccent' are those
who owned fcalty 10 the most horrd treach-
cry that everwas concocted and carried on
| by spawn of the most dcvilish miscrcants
that ever prowlcd outside of the Internal
regions. These are the men who, having
forfeited their very lives by conspiring
against the liberties of millions, against or
der and good government, against the
peace, prosperity and happiness, of the
community, are now to be proclaimed
unfit for exercising the rights of cleo
tive franchise. They have bartered this
right to the demon of secession and discord,
and have debased themselves below the me-
gro who came forward and pledged, with
musket in hand, his life to the preservation
of the republic. You traitors have weighed
your patriotism, morality, love of liberty,
of justice, social order and law, against
those qualities in the negro, and are found
wanting. You stepped voluntarily into the
scales with the black man, and thus tried you
have kicked the beam. You have debased
yourselves, you ''decent,' men, with your
souls and hands covered with the blood of
American citizens, below the negro-not on
an equality with him-and to evade the self.
wrought odum you whine against "aboi,
tionism" persecution.
ave believe that the returning reason of
the people of Maryland will do even handed
justice among us all" says the Democrat.-'
We have not doubt of that. And justice
to traitors is that they shall not participate
in the government which they tried to de-
stroy.
'Can any chastsement be mild to those
who have committed no offense" No of.
Tense, forsooth! Does the Registry Law
propose to distranchise those who have com.
mitted no ofense? Those who have aided
the enemies of the government in the vari-
Gus ways pointed out by the law are to be
punished" and those alone. And does
this sheet, that has copied from the Daily
Nevs--now edited by Mitchell, who, during
the rebellion, edited the Richmond Erami-
ner, and who, on Tuesday last, was put
under arrest to be tried for treason-and
the World, and Age, and every other news
paper that was found in the interest of the
rebels, account it "no crime to conspire''
to aid and abet armies of treason and sla-
very to fight against the government Of the
United States?
"Oaths bind us to support of the law"
says this special pleader for the overthrown
followers of rebellion. When did the most
solemn and voluntarily taken oaths ever
bind Maryland sympathizer with the re-
bellion, blockade runner or spy2 Did
they not take oatlss of allegiance to the Uni
ted States, and to preserve the peace, order
and good government of the State, and in
the same hour make their boasts that they
would "spew them up?" Behind me, Sa
tan, with your hypocracy and cant Do we
not all know how we'll Maryland traitors
kept their oaths? How they gloried in Sc
cession badges, TRADES and curses against
everything belonging to the Union2 But
the day of their fear has at last come, and
every true man will mock, and rejoice at
their calamity.
We are told also that "arts of chicane are
to be resorted to to secure a sentence against
US, whose only crime is the exercise of free
thought; who have been loyal to the Con-
stitusion loyal to the eternal principles of
human liberty; to ourselves, to our poster.
ity, and to the glorious memories of the re.
public" Gree thought and lcentious