The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-03-31
The Cecil Wing.
ELKCON, MARCH 81, 1865.


The President on Wednesday last returned
to the Senate, with his objections, the Civil
Rights Bill. The object Of this Bill was to
protect the Union whites and freedmen in
the Southern States, where the rcconstruc-
ton policy Of the President Is fast bringing
about the old state of things, which in times
before the war were the mobbing and tarrng
and teathering Of northern men who were
suspected of entertaining abolition scnti-
ments. The President contends that the
white Unionists of the Southern States who
are every day being prosecuted and driven
out by the rebel eleme.t for having taken
sides with the Government during the rebel
lion, and the colored people whom the rebel
lion has freed, need no Federal protection,
but may safely be left to the mercy of those
whose malignity for the United States and
everything northern is not one whit less than
it was during the hight of the civil war. In
the meantime evidence is accumulating that
the arrogant and exacting spirit of tie men
who strove for years to destroy the Govern
ment is growing every day more intolerant to
those people which the vetoed Bill was de-
signed to protect. Encouraged by the Presi-
dental policy and patronage the old spirit of
rebellion and treason which was efiectually
crushed by the Union armies is rapidly
growing, and the hope of the secession party
is re-admission to Congress with no pro-
vision against increased representation which
the emancipation of the slaves would give
them, and by joining with northern copper
heads, again take possession Of the Govern
ment and work for its ruin by other means
than open revolt. The Presidents whole
policy tends to this and only this result.
In promotion of this object we find the
President encouraging the Postmaster of
Hartford, Conn, in his opposition to General
Hawley, the Union candidate for Governor
of the State. The Copperheads of the State
are in full sympathy with the President, and
the President with them. Every day shows
more and more concusively that the Presi-
dental path leads straight to the Copperhead
camp Of the North and the Secession rem.
devious Of the South, and that for the Presi-
dental nominee, three years hence, of the
party who Supported Mcclellan and PEN
dleton, on a Peace platform and declared
the war a failure in 1864; and the party who
was led by General Lee at the South and
who chose Jefferson Davis and A. H. Ste
phcns as Chief Magistrates of the SO called
Coniedcracy, and whose platform was the
destruction of the Union and overthrow of
popular government, Andrew johnson is
ahead of all others, and if things result as
they are tending he will stand without a rival
for that position among those enemies of the
United States, in the next Presidential can.
vaas.
In the meantime, let every lover of his
county and hatcr of treason unite on the
policy of Congress and support aud encour.
age those Representatives and Senators who
adhere firmly to the principles on which
Abraham Lincoln and Andy johnson were
elected, and on which alone they could
have been elected, and which the latter is so
shamcfully deserving.