The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-07-28
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Mr.. Evans and his. Speech.

Fourteen Johnsonites and FIVE Copper
heads met at the courthouse last Monday,
and after passing a long string of resolutions,
in which they either endorsed or denounced
everybody and thing that conld be thought
of-cxccpt the town commissioners-thcy
invited the Hon. Alexander Evans to favor
them with speech. And the Honorable
Alexander, being kindly disposed, came at
their bidding, and delivered desultory har.
angue to the fourteen Johnsonites, the five
Copperhcads, and respectable crowd OF
outsiders, who had gathered in to see what
was going on.
Now, Mr.. Evans is man Of ability, and
if there is anything in subject, he generally
succeeds in bringing it out and making it
apparent to hts audience but if he sue.
cseded, after all his efforts at endorsing and
speaking to the swashy resolutions, w ich
we publish in another column, in bringing
out anything except n very dimnutiyc Cop.
pcrhead mouse, we failed to see it.
The most prominent bugaboo in Mr.. Evans
imagination: is Hon. Thaldcas Stevens
The Hon. Thadleus, according to him, is
the man that commenced the war on the
Prcsdcnt--that has caused all the diff.
ference between the President and the
Union party, and as he is the embodiment
of Radicalism and carries the majority in
Congress, as well as the great National Union
party, in his breechcs pocket, he is the most
dangerous individual in the country; be.
cause, to use the language of Mr. Evans, he
lis man of great ability, with no more
judgment than a cow" And to keep the
country from going as rapidly as possible to
the Bad, we must face about, accept the pol.
icy Of the Accidental, and follow closely in
his footsteps. For, if Mr.. Evans is to be
believed, the hypocrite of Tennessee is one
of the purest patriots and safest political
leaders that ever trod the earth.
After disposing of this part Of the subject
to his satisfaction, Mr.. Evans proceeded to
discuss the Civil Rights bill. the Freedmen s
Bureau, the Constitutional Amendment, ard
the Registry Law, none of which he found
to his taste. Like the loafcr who tried every
thing and concluded that whiskcy was the
only thing that agreed with his stomach, Mr..
Evans has tried all these, and all the other
schemes of the Union party to restore peace
and harmony to the country, and finds that
Andy Johnson's policy is the only thing that
agrees with his stomach-politically. We
pity him, but suppose there is no help for it.
AS Mr.. Evans Informed us that he is only n
private individual now and not an officer,
seeker, we presume that his political diges,
ton is so impaired that even few of the
loaves and fishes at Andys disposal would
be an unsavory mess to him these days.
Several Copperhead speeches have been
published in the newspapers, recently, and
1t struck us as being very singular that such
remarkable similarity should exist between
them and Mr.. Evans. Why is it the speech
of Hon. Alcxanler Evans bears such strk.
ing resemblance TO the speech of Hon Geo.
ii. Pcndleton, a notorious Comprehend .
We ask for information. Take the speech
of Mr.. Evans and of almost any Copper.
head in or out Of Congress- and you will find
them on comparison as much alike as two
peas. Has he been comparing notes with,
or taking lessons from, some of these latter
day saints of Unionism? His objections to
all the leading measures of the Union party
are identical with those advanced against them
by every secession, Copperhead orator and
editor in the land. Whose thunder is it we
hear rafting? That of the Johnsonitcs, or
that of the Copperheads? Either Andy
johnson and his beggarly crowd of satellites
have summoned and taken captive the Cop,
pcrhcad party or they have bascly deserted
their standard and gone over to the enemy.
Which can it be? There is no rubbing out
the fact that one or the other has happened
for wherever you can see two or three John
son men gathered together, there also will
you find two or three Copperheads lending
them aid and comfort and while Mr.. Evans
was making his speech on Monday, the most
edmouthed secessionists and Coppcrheads
present, appauded his disloyal utterances.
while the Union men listened in silent dis
gust.
We are sorry that we had no reporter
present, SO we could publish the speech in
full, that our readers might see what John,
sonism is in Cecil and see also to what mis-,
representation, a man who once stood high
in the estimation of all true Union men,
could and would, resort to bolster up false
and rotten cause. For that Mr.. Evans as.
sertions in regard to the intentions of the
Union majority in Congress, and in regard
to the legitimate results of the measures
adopted by them for the settlement of our
national difficulties, were scandalously ma.
licious misrepresentation, he knew just as
we'll as he knows two and two make four
Would he have dared to make the misrepre.
sensations that he did make if any one could
have been permitted then and there to reply
to and refute them? We venture to assert
not.
But enough. He and his speech are un.
deserving the notice we have given them
For although he could once carry the people
Of the county with him, he has fallen from
his high estate and is now poweress for
harm. Had he, in days gone by, been true
to his convictions and to himself, any posi-