The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-08-18
why don't The Democrat answer
Yes or NO?

That delectable journal, The Cecil Demo-.
crdt, has done us the honor to reproduce,
on two or three occasions, some very plain
questions, which draw a comparison between
the loyal black man of the South and the
bloody rebel. The contrast is SO damaging
70 the chvalry whom that street attempts to
Defend that we wonder that the discretion
OF its knavery had not prompted it to con-
ceal, rather than expose its friends to so IN.
favorable contrast.
The following are some of the questions :
Which is the most loyal, the white man
who by words justified and abetted the Re-
bellion; or the black man who by deeds
aided in crushing it?
Well, why don't you answer, sir Demo-
crat? We think there can be but one answer
given by any but false traitor, who alone
would favor his friend in infamy.
Which is the most worthy of belief in a
court of Justice. the white man who has vio-
lated all his oaths for purposes of Treason ;
or the black man whose simple word, alone,
in behalf of the cause of the Union, has
never been broken?
We say the black man as between these
two parties, by odds, and no one who is not
tainted by treason himself, will hesitate to
aver the same.
Which would The Democrat credit, the
perurea traitor, or the black man, whose
truth in the cause of the nation has never
been doubted or questioned by even black.
hearted traitor in the land?
Which is the most deserving of our esteem
and confidence, the white man who murdered
by inches thousands of our brave soldiers in
the vile pens at Andersonville, Milton Sal
isbury, Belle Island, etc, or the black man
who aided and pioted them i'll their escape
from these vile pens?
One of those demons who starved our
prisoners and murdered them in the vile
pens, was Werz and one of those loyal
black men, was Robert Small, who risked
his life in Charleston harbor and piloted a
rebel vessel to our blockading feet Which
of these two men, who are fair types of their
class, sis the most deserving of our esteem
and confidence?'' We think that even the
"wool- gathering Democrat will answer in
favor of Small At least it is afraid to an
swer in favor of Werz.
The comments made upon the above and
other questions by The Democrat, are about
as yillanous and stupid as the stuff that
weekly appears in its columns. 1t says,
speaking of the Union Convention in en-
dorsing the course Of The Whig:
"Here, under their own signatures, they
pronounce the negro better entitled to testify
in court, and better entitled to vote than the
people of the Southern States"
Just here is the stumbling block to Cop
perheads Nothing of the kind is "pro-
nounced" by the Convention, as nothing like
such declaration has ever been published
by The Wing. We draw distinction
broad and clear distinction, between the
loyal men of the Southern States and the
traitors. The Union party insist, as Andy
johnson declared before he turned to be the
''greatest Hessian of them ALL" that the
loyal men of the rebellious States should
govern them, and not their rebels nor their
negroes. The traitors who sought to destroy
the Government have forfeited every claim