The Cecil Whig., 1865-11-04
ELKTON, NOVEMBER 4, 1865.
Union Nominations.


Rare Extracts.
We clip the following from last week s
Democrat as specimens of rare logic and
brilliant wit of that organ of the secession
party of Cecil, gnder its new management,
referring to The Wing Of the previous week
ale merely denies that The whg has editorily advo
Gated negro suffrage he stuiously avoids denying that
The Wing and Imperial party are in favor of it,"
If the Union party-which is here styled
Imperial i'-is in favor of "negro suffrage"
why don't they inaugurate it? They, by The
Democrats own showing, have power to do
it, They are vastly in the majority they
disfranchise, at will, good Democrats by the
thousand, so our neighbor affrms, because
they committed the trilng offense of aiding
the shareholders rebellion. If the Union
party raised to the right of the elective fran
chise the coored man, they would be adding
the strength of numbers to their party; for
The Democrat concludes that the negroes
thus invested with the rights of franchise,
would vote against the adherents and apollo
gists of secession and the shareholders war.
as they to man fought in support of the
which The Democrat has lately taken to
quoting, since its theory of anti coercion
and its party under jeff. Davis have so sig.
naly failed
This patent slander of the Cecil organ of
the secession party like its former ant-co-
ercion theory, won't stand the test of inves.
tigation. If the Union party desired to en-.
franchise the negro, they could do so, and
The Democrat, with its traitor crew. could
not prevent it. So that story refutes itself
The next quotation reads
J SLOW long has it been since The Whig denied that
| either II or its party were abotlonistsi ~
| We answer: long time before The
Democrat ceased to deny the Federal Gov
ernment the right to coerce those in armed
hostility to its authority. A long time before
it ceased to oppose emancipation to save the
Union. long time before it ceased to ac-
knowledge the right of a State to secede. -
| docs it not still acknowledge secession to
be Slate rightO A long time before it
ceased to quote all the out-givings of lead
ing disunion journals, as good democratic
doctrine. A long time before its whole
party ceased to curse Andy johnson for de-
claring that traitors ought to be executed
"RorTEN CORN"
| The Democrat assumes very innocentlv
that the Union cause and Union party are
the 'rotten corn' referred to by The Whig,
and that it, modest Journal with its brace of
editorial milers, were grinding the aforesaid
party to powder. If the Union party has
nothing more formidable to grind it down
than the little cofl'ee-mll of The Cecil Dem.
ocrat, it will retain its present colossal pro-
| portions for long time. On the contrary.
that little mill is trying what will prove an
impossibity- manufacture of something
out of the rotten secession principles of its
party, that will "take" with the masses.
The next very important question is,
"Why do you wish to exclude the majority of think
ing men from the polls "ni entrust the ballot him
who has thought an has given evidence of his
| capacity To think--the ycritabe negroY"
The Union party wishes to exclude those
from the polls who have aided the rebellion.
1t is known that they have sought only to
exclude such, and The Democrat true to its
old instincts, awards them the highest place
in the temple Of knowledge. Any man who
preferred his country's welfare to the slave
holders cause, is by it classed low in knowl-
edge. Now, the thinking men of South
Carolina were all crazy secessionists A me-
gro secessionist was unknown. Two hun
dred thousand colored men volunteered in
the armies of the United States to fight
against disunion. Which class of men show
ed the most wisdom in their thoughts, the
majority of thinking men, $50 styled by
The DemOcraO of the Southern States, and
of Cecil county, who aided the rebellion,
and whom the Union party affirm have for
teited their right to participate in administer.
ing the government they attempted 20 de-
stroy, or the two hundred thousand black
men who pledged their lives to support the
government? Tell your readers, Mr.. DEM
ocrat, which of those two classes thought and
acted the wiser, and which is most deserving
| from their country.
LARGE CLAIM.
The Democrat claims that $500 demo-
cratic voters, as good men and true as ever
cast a ballot" have been disfranchised in
this county by the registering officers, whom
it calls ''fanatical tools of partizan hate -
That organ has changed its tune somewhat