The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-09-08
The Cecil Wing.
ELkTON, SEPTEMBER :, 1865.
The Great Convention of SOUTH
eFn LOyalists.

While the Presiden; has been disgracing
! the American people throughout the civilized
world, travelling round the country, making
the lowest and most coarse, vulgar and in
temperate stump speeches that ever were
Illuminated at cross roads or corner grocery
district meeting, the fire-tred lcya!.ts of the
rebel States have been in contention at Phil,
adelphia, this week, where they have receiv.
ed such welcome from the whole loyal
country, through the peoples most distn-
guished representatives, ms no man or body
| of men ever received in this country before.
These prosecuted men have met in the city
Of brotherly love to tell the story of those
wrongs to listening world, and to point out
and condemn Andrew johnson as the be-
trayer Of their hopes, by rendering them
back again into the Jaws of that persecution,
which was not surpassed in cruelty by the
torments suffered by the Christian martyrs.
And the people Of Philadelphia and the
whole North have extended to them that
welcome and encouragement which Ameri.
can patriots alone know how to extend to
those fre.tried subjects of rebel ferocity.--
The grandcst ovation was given those dele.
gates from the rebel States that ever was &C.
corded to any body of men on this cont.
nent, on Wednesday evening last. No eab.
crate effort was made to get up demonstra.
ton in honor of those men. The news went
out the day before that they would meet
their fellow patriots at the Union League
Hall OH that evening, and apparently with
the impulse of one heart the great city poured
out its population to honor the loyal and
true patriots of the South. From clock
till midnight living sea- composed of tens
of thousands of human beings, waved and
surged on Broad street from above Chestnut
extending below Walnut. Procession after
procession swept through Broad street with
music and Banners and transparences, con.
tanning devices expressive of the people )
contempt of the man Andrew J Crimson and
their honor and sympathy for those retired
patriots of the rebel States, which this heart.
less usurper and tyrant has handed over to
the horrors Of second persecution and
death at the hands Of the nations direst
foes. The sky was illuminated for hours
with rockets, Roman candles and other bril-.
liant pyrotecnic inventions, while the torches
Of the moving professions lighted up that
vast multitude Of faces which upturned to-
ward the League building, where the South
crn delegates, the objects of the people S
assembled, were assembled, while shout after
shout from the multitude bore welcome to
those brave men. The contempt expressed
by the people thus assembled in their might
for the Accidental President of this great
nation, and the honor and reverence paid
by that same people to those Southern 10y
alists, the objects of this faithess mans ne.
glect, if not persecution, carries in it a
power that no mortal can long disregard or
defy. Let Andy Johnson persist in his wick,
ed folly and that breath which elevated him
to the position he so outragcs, will as speed,
lily hurl him back whence he came.
The address and resolutions of the Con-
vention we will publish next week.