The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-07-14
The Cecil Whig.
EEKTON, JULY IL, 1866.
The EOye-Feast.

Preparations for the great love. feast, to
be held in Philadelphia, on the 1lLh of Au-
gust, are going on. Gov. Orr, of South
! Carolina, declares that there is not a pruci-
pie stated in the cali tor the reuniou of the
Northern and Southern proslavery party that
South Carolina cannot heartily endorse, and
consequently he urges the mother of seccs-
sion to send delegates. All through the
Southern States, the traitors whom the Pres
dent has installed in Office to tramplc upon
the Union men, who fed to the mountain
Businesses to escape the prison pens and the
gbbct, while those enemies of the govern
ment held despotic sway in the South, are
making arrangements to send delegates to
the Philadelphia love. feast.
What is known as the old Democratic
party in all the States North, IS preparing to
send delegates. Governor Swami and W.
II. Purnell are sending their emissarics
through the counties of this State, endcav-
oring to organize the Coppcljohnson or third
party in Maryland, which is ordered by the
n-Purncll State Central Committee to
send delegates to meet the OK rebel dele
gates from South Carolina and other States.
who, beaten with the sword, are trying to
gain by policy what they failed to achieve by
force. The traitor portion of the Demo
cratic party which kept up that organization
through the war for the purpose Of assisting
the rebels, are now having all the aid the
Il Il
break down the Union party, who saved the
country, and who stand together now as
firmly, and fight us courageously against civil
traitors in council, as they did against armed
treason i'll the field.
Such political scoundrcls rs Governor
Swami and his followers, who can be bought
and sold like sheep in the market, with of
flee, are the men who compose the third or
Copperjohnson party, and who have planncd
this great love feast, to be held at Philadcl-
phia, on the Nth of August, at which time
and place the bargain and fusion between
the Southern rebel party, my policy party
and the old Copperhead party, led by Sauls.
bury, of Delaware, Ben. Harris. of Mary.
land, and Nallandigham, Of Ohio, are to
take place.
We would ask any Union man who has
ever thought of adhcri.g to- Andrew John
son, in his reckless and desperate efforts to
force himself into the Presidential chair
second term, if they can for II moment long
err entertain doubt of his treachcry when
they behold those men who upheld the re-
bellion, and who waged the war; clustering
round the President and preparing to receive
into their ranks all that the powerful patron
age of the government, welded by a rcck.
less, ambitious and INSCRIPTIONS Chief Mag
istrate can dctach from the Union party,
and thus combined, strengthened and or
ganized, desperate assault is to be made
upon the tnion organization which is the
only hope of the nation-to break it down.
We conjurc those who entered the contest
from love to their country and its institu,
tons, to look seriously at the plot that is
being concocted for the purpose Of placing
those bad men again in possession of the
government, who shed rivers of blood in at.
tempting to destroy it. Your only hope to
escape another rebellion and civil war; is to
stand by the old Union party and refuse to
be nislcd by such followers of power and
Office as the men who are now plotting with
Swami and his conspirators again to raise to
power the rebel element of Maryland, who
strove to drag her into the vortex of scces-
sion and rebellion. Have nothing to do
with this third party. 1t is marching at a
double quick to the Coppcrhead camp.