The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-03-31
The Presidents Cecil Cha mDi ion,

The Cecil Democrat has taken upon itself
the championship Of the President, and is
vigorously calling The Wig to account fnr
quoting Andy Johnson against the President
1t is the hardest kind of a sentence, we
know, to be condemned out of ones own
mouth. The Democrafs thoughts, like Mas.
by's, are continually running on office, and
we doubt not the conductors of that journa
secretly lament the hardness that character.
ICES the President in the matter Of resfarI
ing his friends.
The Democrats charges against The Villa
are not very logical. That sheet first de.
clares the Wig has been filled for weeks
past with insulting abuse of the President 3;
and, secondly, ''the fact has recently leaked
out that whatever professions of Unionism
and Loyalty he (the Editor may have made
in the past were prompted solely by the lust
of office" These two declarations don't
dove. tail very well together, but they are
about as bright as any Of the Democrat
conceptions.
The Democrat. no doubt. is getting impa.
tient at the long delay in that little matter of
the "spiles." 1t has done mighty sight"
of shouting for Andy, and never stopped to
sort the columns of lies it has published
against the Union party. Now, we suggest
that the Editors of that hopeful journal re.
sort to pettioning. Those 1850 names sent
down to the Legislature for the repeal Of the
Registry Law will do as well as any. Tran.
scribe them on a petition addressed to the
President, setting forth that the Editor of
Tie Wing has charged that all the traitors
and copperheads in the land are shouting
the praises of Andrew johnson. And in
order to make the Editor Of The Whiq's
ohense more heinous in his eyes, state in
the petition that he also charges that there
is not returned scapegrace from the rebel
army in this or any other county who is not
heart and soul in favor of the Presidents
policy. And if further search through the
graveyards Of the county will discover the
names of some copperheads who have been
gathered home to their final resting place,
that have been missed in the former canvass
against the Registry Law, add them also to
your petition. And to make the charm
'thick and slab' like the hell. broth in Mac.
beth, forward files of The Democat for the
last six years, with marked passages from
the New York Neps, Daybook, Philadelphia
Age, Baltimore Gazette, &C., together with
the tearing editorials against coored sol.
diers, soldiers voting, the draft, the moan.
ings for peace, the impossibility of conquer.
ing the "Confederacy" ~ together with the
thousand and one plans to obstruct the pro.
gress of the war and prevent the overthrow
of the rebellion.
The petition may be still further strenath
ened by stating that The Democrat has two
Editors, who, to use common saying in re.
gard to idle folk, have nothing to do but
suck their paws, after having strung together
the weekly chautsr Of falsehoods about the
loyal men and party Sho fought the battles
Of the country and crushed ont the rebellion,
and which are generally so shallow aSd film
sy that history six months old viii suffice to
refute them.
II this sffor, don't secure an Assistant