The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-06-30
The Cecil Who.
ELKT0N, JUNE 80, 1866.
Swann.s. Hid for the u. 8. Senate.

In our last issue we stated that the hope
was entertained by the rebel democratic
| party of this State, that the Governor would
| appoint such tools for registers, the approach
ing fall, as they might select, and by that
means they hoped to get all the rebels, who
left the State to assist in the destruction of
the Government, as well as those who re-
manned during the rebellion to assist in that
work at home, again enfrarchised We then
| quoted from Governor Swanu's message of
| the 10th Of january last, showing the decided
ground he then took in favor of the registry
and expressed doubt that he could so soon
turn round and, as it were, eat his words.
What is Familiarity known as the breoi and
| butter party, who are trying to persuade the
| people that they are about to establish
third party, between the copperhead- rebel
party and the Union party, called johnson
party, held meeting in Baltimore, on
| Thursday evening of last week, at which
Governor Swami made the leading speech.
In that speech he pretty plainly tells the
coppers that if they will pledge him their
| support in the Legislature for United States
Senator in place of Mr.. Creswel, that he'll
endeavor to appoint such registering officers
as will admit their DISTINGUISHED friends to
| the ballot at the coming fall election. This
is the plain English all of our Governors
speechifying. He, and Webster, and Pur-
nell, and Montgomery Blair, have conceived
the idea of making use of both the Union
and the Rebel parties of the State to boost
| them into power. There never was SO trans
parent political swindle attempted as the
one now aimed at by these worthless in the
State of Maryland.
With Andrew Johnson using Adminstra.
tive patronage to build himself up party
for his nomination for President the next
term, and Swami and Blair both intent on
the U. S. Senatorship, and Webster, Pur-
nell & Co. ready for any bone that may be
thrown i'll their way by these mastifs in their
struggle, the people of the State, they have
taught themselves to believe, can be manag-
cd at will by these politicians to accomplish
their own ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
| But never was set of unprincipled Office
hunters so egregiously mistaken. Governor
Swami may appoint rebel registers, if he
| choose, who are fresh from Lees army, but
| it cannot change the result in the State
| The County Commissioners have the APP
pointment Of the judges of election and the
| law authorizes them to refuse all votes offer
ed by men, who have given aid and comfort
to the enemies Of the government, whether
they be registered or not
1t is evidently the fate of the Union party
to have State Executive, of their own
choice too, to contend against in the APP
p"oaching campaign, and the sooner they,
the honest masses, realize this fact the bet
ter. The Union party must prepare to fight
the battle against the influence of the AID
uinistration, the Governor of the State,
with all Of his vanity and ambition, and the
re encouraged rebel-democratc party. They
! have surmounted greater obstacles in their
victorious career during the last five years,
and they will prove themselves able for the
work before them in the approaching con.
test. Let the Union party lay it to heart
| that these trading politicians, like Governor
Swami, are striving to divert their attention
by crying out ''negro suffrage" and ''negro
equality" while they trade whatever power
and nfaence they possess, by virtue of the
positions they hold, to the rebel party for
their aid. Let the Union party trace this
| cry of ''negro suffrage to the mouths of
the traitors who sought to destroy the Gov
hat - I
echo in the mouths of Swami, Pumell,
Blair u Co., and be prepared to meet it as
they have treason in the past.