The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-05-26
The Party and its Duty.

| On the Justice of its cause and purity of
its principles, alone, must the Union party
rely. 1t has been cursed with ambitious
| demagogucs more than ever fell to the lot
of any other party, in the history of the Re-
public, to suffer. Men, whose loud profess
sions have imposed on the unsuspccting
masses who raised them to rank and power
placing them in positions where, for the hope
of further gain to be purchased from the foes
| ofthe nation, they are prepared now to barter
every interest that the people hold most
dear, to the Republic direst enemies. This
is fearfully true as to Maryland. Cursed
ever by mcrcenary set Of politicians, who
vacillate from the slave driver to the great
laboring masses Of the people, they strive to
trim and shift to catch political favors from
both of these antagonistic elements. That
! rebel element, which trailed the national
flag in the dust, has ever had strong ho..:l.
in this State. Those of that class who did
not join the rebel army outright, restrained
by prudential and other motives, have been
I'submited to the severe ordeal of the present
registry law, and many of them have been
disfranchised, and justly so, for their aid
and encouragement to the rebellion. The
law which meted out to them such meas
IRE of justice, as a matter of course, is
condemned by those guilty of the greatest
folly and wicltedness that ever people SO
favored and blessed with free government
were guilty Of
The repeal or overslawing of that law
which DISTINGUISHES traitors is the only dis
tinct principle that the party calling them
selves respectively, democrats, conserva-
tives, and Andy johnson men, place before
he country. The repeal or evasion of that
law must temporarily raise to place and
power the leaders in the crusade against it,
and hence those political scoundreIs who
hunt for prey alone, and who have been,
through the honest confding of the Union
party, too successful in obtaining Office of
that party, are now preparing to fly to the
front ranks of the party who attack the
measures by Which they have been assisted,
to achieve the dangerous positions which
they now occupy in the Union party. If a
mere change of oiiceholders was all that
the temporary success Of the faction of trea-
son-tor such a success could only be tenn
porary, and effected by disorganizing politi-
cal tricksters like Governor Swami and
Montgomery Blair-weFe likely to produce,
it would be of small account. Bat that pol,
icy which seeks to overthrow the registry
law Of the State, and admit Senators and
Representatives into Congress from the late
seeded States, will-or rather nouli, if
carried out, preci pitate-on the one hand
State, and on the other national, ruin. Such
policy Of utter destruction can never sue
coed in controlling national affairs, but with
out thorough understanding of the subtle
designs of the enemy by the popular mind,
it may gain temporary advantage in this
State-and though temporary, an advantage
that would work untold mischief.
The first and primary object of these dark
plotters, who concocted the carnival of blood
six years ago, is to inhict, if they can ever
get the control of the State Government in
to their hands, debt of two and half mil
lions upon the property Of the State, to pay
for the eighty thousand slaves that were
freed by the war and the State and national
Constitutions. What would the property
holders Of Cecil think of paying one hun
dred thousand dollars, with accommodating
interest, of that loan? Just so sure as the
traitor party, who seek to get control again
Of this State, by war on the registry law, and
every effort of the Union party to carry the
ship of State safely through this secession
storm, succeed i'll their efforts to deceive the
people into trusting them, their first work
will be to pledge the property of the State
for loan of 81, 100000 to pay for enamel
pated slaves. Succeeding in this, and further
encouraged by full treasury, their next
step would be to declare all Offices filed
under the present Constitution, vacant, and
every Union judge would be replaced by "a
creature who would dispense justice after the
dictates of the slave driver. We trust, how.
ever, never to see such a state of affairs as
the party of treason ard slavery are aiming
at. We have an abiding confidence in the
intelligence and patriotism of the Union col
umn, which put down the rebels and kept
them beneath their feet during the rebellion.
We have to hear of the first Andy Johnson
| A. l. L. I'll.