The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1865-09-30
kicking I'M q Dust.

ened, wind broken secesh party OF Cecil
slashing round indiscriminatcly each one
apparently on his own hook buttng here
and there, against the formidable obstacles
that environ them on all sides. They have
the negro up again, and the whole pack APP
pear to be in full cry. The ground they are
at present on has been well beaten by the
great organizers of the shareholders rebel
lion, their theories long since exploded, and
the original promulgators, whose opinions
being overthrown by the advance of liberal
ideas, appealed to the sword, and beaten in
this last arbitration, are now sneaking back
with dirt on their heads, suing for PARDON
Those youngsters appear to think they are
astonishing the natives by making resume
for the people of Cecil, out of the old polt-
ical fables invented by the ringleaders of
secession.
We are told again, for perhaps the ten.
thousandth time, by one of these jolly green
teachers that the NEGRO is distinct spe-
cies.' A second, more adventurous still,
takes up the cudgcls for the soldiers, and as.
sures them that the Union party disgraced
the "boys in blue' by mastering negro
troops into the army, that said sable troops
would mt fight, and did MT fight, and great
deal more of the same kind of exploded
rebel nonsense; the object of which is not
very apparent, as no one who has sense
enough to write paragraph on political af:
fairs, can be fool enough to think that our
people are gullable and ignorant to the de.
gree of entertaining such groundless asser,
tons. The only object our Cecil hum drum
writers appear to have in view, is to "kick
up DUST" in hope that few Union men
may get befogged therein, and stray into the
| secession camp.
We trust, however, that the soldiers have
not so soon. forgotten their old despisers
and there is certainly not Union man in
the county who has forgotten the deport-
ment of these wolves in sleeps clothing,
when they placed their hopes in the armies
Of jeff. Davis.
Negro equality is a leading theme for this
class of politicians, and as they have the
field all to themselves, we have been watch.
ing their progress in this direction with some
interest. None of these savans, however,
appear to give any definite idea of what they
wish to be understood by "negro equality"
and we have about arrived at the conclusion,
from reading their numerous articles, that
the writer's themselves have very indistinct
notion of what they are driving at. Our Ce.
Gil Copperhead theorists not having, thus
far, succeeded in originating anything or
presenting political principle, except some
tattered remnants bequeathed to them by the
late secession rebellion, we will present the
reader with some of the fruits of the labors
of the same party in other parts of the coun-
try.
The n. Y. Post by close examination of
the expressions of the malignant Copper
head press concerning the Freedmen of the
South, has been enabled to arrive at the fol.
lowing clear and consistent conclusions:
First-That the free negro will not work
at all, but
Second-That he will work so much bet.
ter than the white laborer, that the latter
will be injured by the pressure of negro
competition"
Third-That the country will be ruined by
the idleness of the free blacks, but
Fourth-That the negroes are so eager for
work as to leave none for white workmen.
Fifth-That the negroes are curse to the
country, but
SiXth-That the slave system, which made
negro breeding regular and profitable bus
mess, and thus increased their numbers at
an abnormal rate, was q divine institution
and blessing to the land.
Seventh-That the negro is naturally an
AFFECT coward, but
Eighth-That he is a most dangerous crea.
ture, capable of rising and numbering a com.
munity double his numbers and with hun.
dred times his strength in arms and all pre-.
parations for defense.
Ninth-That the negro can only live in a
warm climate, like that of the Southern
States, but
Tenth-That now he is set free there he
will Immediately rush North, and take the
bread out Of the mouths Of the white work.
| ing men here.
Eleventh-That white men cannot work
in the Southern fields, which can be cult
waited only by negroes, but
Twelfh-That the negroes ought all to be
colonized in Africa or driven off to some
remote corner of this continent.
Thirteenth-That the freedmen are so stu
pid and ignorant as to be dangerous to the
Republic, but
fourteenth-That they ought not to be
instructed, or permitted to acquire knowl-
edge.
Fifteenth-That it would be curse to
Northern working men to have the negroes
| flock into these States but
Sixteenth-That Northern working men
ought not to favor policy which would make
| the negroes contented to remain in the
South.
Seventeenth-Th the working men of the
| Northern States are the most intelligent, the
most capable, the most Industrious and the
most virtuous in the world, but
Eighteenth-That they will inevitably be
ruined and deprived of work by the compe-
tition of ignorant and idle negroes
Nineteenth-That the presence of the
blacks amongst US will always be q source
Of difficulty and trouble, but
Twentieth-That the Emancipation act is
wrong, chiefly because, under its operation,
the negro race is likely to die out, like the
Indians.
ATLANTIC MoyTHLY.-The contents of
The atlantic for October, are Saints who
have had Bodies, No Time like the Old