The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-05-05
Hon. j. A. j. CresWenl.

rests awhile and returns to the assault again.
To be sure this exercise of Tile Democrat is
very harmless, and if it serves no other pur-
pose, it keeps Nr. C's constituents appraised
| that their Senator shows no symptoms of
mixing with the rebels. The same party
and paper used to curse Andy johnson in
like manner, but since the 'man at the other
end of the Avenue" has turned his hand to
demonstrating, he has become very pink of
Il President
| The Democrat reminds its readers that the
object of its anathemas is not worthy to oc.
cnpy so much space in sour paper" never.
! theless, week after week, it returns to the
same theme. In last Saturdays issue Mr..
Creswell has the lions share of The Demo-
crat; out of eight columns of reading mat
ter, our noble and patriotic Senator has the
advantage Of more than three all to himself.
A long article is copied from the Balti-
more Gazette-that filthy rebel print, which
had to be suppressed during the war for its
aid in the cause of rebellion-embodying a
series of resolutions that were passed by a
democratic meeting, assembled at Elkton,
in February, 1861, before the war, when
every straw was being grasped at that held
out ghost of "a hope toward preventing the
nevitabe-rebellion and civil war
These resolutions which are so often
quoted for our reconstructed rebels, whom
The Democrat is assigned to minister unto,
were couched in the language of the peace.
maker, for at that day people were afraid OF
anything like civil war, and were ready to
grant almost any terms for the sake of peace.
The following is one Of the resolutions and
they were all in the same strain:
"That the geographical position of Mary
land, as well us her relations, past and pres.
ent, to the Northern and Southern sections
of the country, eminently fit her to act in
the character of mediator in the adjustment
of all our difficulties, and we pledge our.
selves to aid, by every means in our power,
in bringing about happy settlement Of all
our vcXed questions, and in eilecting re.
union Of all the States in the Contcdera,
| tion.'
Other resolutions, placing hope in the
Personal Liberty Bills, the Peace Congress
then assembled at Washington, the Critten,
den Compromise, the call of Kentucky for a
National Convention, etc, make up the
series passed by the meeting, of which Mr..
Creswell was member, and which was pro,
fessedly meeting in the interest of peace
and the looking to the restoration of har.
mony. None but the conspirators who were
in the plot Of the shareholders rebellion un.
dcrstood the true import of such democratic
meetings. The Democrat heartily endorsed
the meeting and the object of it, and so did
the Gazette. They were in the secret. They
knew that it was mere blind to decov
Jealous young men attached to the old dem
ocratic party from their allegiance to the
Government, and hold the rank and file to-
gether, till they were launched in the fiery
gulph Of secession.
But when the veil, so artfully woven by
the consprators, was rent, and rebellion and
civil war famed up before the eyes of all ;
when the hour came that compromises and
peace resolves had to be laid aside, and
sides taken for or against the Government ;
when treason, stripped of its DISCUSSES, stood
forth with bloody brand. and patriotism un.
sheathed the sword of sef-defcnse. then
where do we find tho"e old rats of the dem.
ocratic party, who figured at this peace meet
ing, in February, 1861, and the Cecil Demo.
crat and Baltimore Gazette, the traduccrs
and villifers of Senator Creswell? We find
them in the secession ranks we find them
aiding the rebellion all through the bloody
years of war; we find them now putting
forth every power they possess to get the
leaders of the rebellion back into Congress
and the Government again in their hands.
And where do we find Mr.. Creswel, when
rebel swords were drawn against the hag?-
In the front ranks of the Union party, bat.
fling against secession and treason, on the
stump and in Legislative halls, raising his
voice against the shareholders rebellion anG
its primary cause we find him battling
the monster, showing it no quarter wherever
he chance to meet it; and for thus nobl,
'oing his duty to the country and the Unior
constituency, who chose him as their stand
ard bcqrer, he is slandered week after week
by the rebel pack, through the organs o
treason and secession, which, having for
feited their existence, owe the power the,
use at present to abuse, to the wonderful
magnanimity of the Union party. May
traitors ever continue 20 abuse our Repre-
sentatives and Senators, for their praise il
the poison of death,