The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-03-24
The Cecil Wing.
ELKTON, MARCH II, 1860.
Universal Suffrage.

| q plan OF reconstruction into the U. >. Sen
ate, based upon universal suffrage and uni
versal amnesty, which was referred to the
Committee on Reconstruction. The propo.
sition contains the following on this head:
That each of said States whose people
were lately in instruction as aforesaid. shall
be recognized us having fully and validity re-
sumed its former relations with this Govern
ment, and its chosen representatives shall
be admit ed into the two Houses of the Ma
| tional Legislature whenever said State shall
| have so amended its constitution as to do
away all existing distinctions, as to civil
| rights and disabilities, among the various
classes of its population, by reason either of
race or color, or previous condition of SER
vitude.
TO provide for the extension OF the cleo
tive franchise to all persons upon the same
terrls and conditions, making no discrimi-
! nation on account of race, color or previous
condition of servitude: Porided, That
those who were qualified to vote in the year
| 1861, by the laws of their respective States,
shall not be DISTINGUISHED by reason of any
new test or conditions which have been or
may be prescribed since that year.
Mr.. Stewart is sonin law of Henry S.
Foot, of Mississippi, and was one of the
Senators who sustained the President veto,
so that he may reasonably be supposed to
stand fair among our Democratic friends,
who have always claimed as their special
prerogative, the care of the colored race.
1t is proposed that the conditions presented
by Mr. Stewart be referred to the people of
the rebel States, who are to vote upon their
adoption, and, if accepted, general am
nesty to be declared and the States admitted
as perfectly restored to the Union. 1t is also
resolved
That in view of the Importance of the
thorough assimilation of the basis of suffrage
in the various States Of the Union, all other
States not above specified shall be respect
fully requested to incorporate an amendment
in their State constitutions respectively, cor.
responding with the one specified.
1t will be seen that this plan does not med.
tate any coercion, but simply leaves it to
the free will of the white population of those
States to adopt it, and at once be admitted
to all the privileges of States as enjoyed by
the loyal States OF the Union, or to reject it
and take the consequences. The loyal States
are requested to incorporate similar provi-
sions in regard to suffrage in their constitu-
tons.
Surprising this plan adopted, and ''the
man. who is said to 60 round at stated pc.
RODS and instruct our Democratic friends in
their duties, makes his appearance, pro.
claiming to the circles the new command
ment he was about to give unto them that
hencetorth niggers were as good as anybody
they could vote now, and must be taken un
der that great Democratic wing which has so
long been stretched out to overshadow all for
eigners- especially the more ignorant part of
them. We can imagine the ground and lofty
tumbling that would be seen in the ranks of
the unterrited. There would be summersets
backwards and summersets forwards, reck-
less, headlong leaps and hand.springs, and,
altogether, such political acrobatic feats as
would astonish the world. The "Union
Victories that have been run up recently
where the secession flag used to hutter at the
head of Copperhead newspapers wouldn't
be circumstance to this new dispcnsation
Of Democracy.
We can see in Imagination the bell wealth
ers Of our little flock of Democratic lambs
innocent souls-in Cecil, advancing their
many claims to the confidence and support
of their new brethren Of African descent,
assuring them that the Democrats had always
been their true friends, that they had ex-
pended whole hurricanes of breath and riv.
ers of ink, proving that slavery was divine
institution, ordained of God, and also that
the "normal condition Of the negro" was
slavery, that his master was always solicit.
GUS of his welfare, providing him with plenty
of hog and hominy, and laruping him for
his own benefit; and now through the inscru-
table mysteries of Providence he had become
free, the Democratic fold was his natural
abiding place, in fact his new normal condi-
ton, as their politicians preach it is the
foreigners. And then above all and beyond
all, to see our neighbors of The Democrat
on the eve Of an election cuddling and hob.
nobing with Intelligent contrabands," the
blarney with which they covered the soldiers
when they returned with victory on their
banners, after clubbing them Lincoln's hire.
lings and Northern scum, would be nothing
to this new fountain of love springing up in
the great Democratic heart threatening to
absorb the whole colored race. Oh, it is
worth something to have lived in this nine.
teenth century. To see the electric telegraph
the tightening of heaven carrying the mes.
sages of men the steam car plunging under
the mountains, laundering over rivers and
skimming across the plains amid fire and
smoke and the iron monitors, defying the
navics of the world, and spreading havoc
and destruction with their monster guns for
miles around them and the great American
rebellion with its thousands of battle fields
and half million of graves But if Mr..
Stewards plan of reconstruction is adopted,
these phenomena of the nineteenth century
will fade into nothing before the grand chef
d oeurre of the Democracy counting the me-
gro vote.
gEay- Farmers will now be shipping to
market the residue of their crops, and to
those who would employ commission mer.
chant to dispose of their produce in the Bal