The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-03-03
The Cecil Wing.
ELKTON, MARCH 8, 1859.
The Traitors and the Veto.

There has not been such rejoicing in the
camp of treason since the news Of Bull
Run, as there was on the reception of the
veto message of the President. The veto
as an objection to the amendment to the
Freedmen's Bureau is but of compare
lively little importance. The message travels
out of the way to sketch policy for the ad
ministration which no Union man can ac
cept, and which is all the Rebels and north
ern Copperheads have asked for since they
were compelled to lay down their arms and
surrender.
The President claims that the unrepentant
Rebels who, as Representatives and Sena-
tors, have been chosen by the men, and
from among the men, lately in Lees and
johnson armies, and who filled the offices
of the Rebel civil government, and who are
standing at the doors of Congress seeking
admission, should be admitted without furth-
err delay. The Presidents policy declares
that those who have been disarmed and
compelled to yield to the power of the Gov
ernment-at what fearful price no tongue
may tell or mind conceive! shall immedi-
ately again be put in full possession of the
governments of those States, which they
dragged away from the Union for time,
and set in deadly rebellion against it. This
the President has done as far as in his power
lay, and he now says to the Senators and
Representatives of the loyal millions, that
such Representatives and Senators as those
scarcely disarmcd traitors have chosen,
ought to be admitted to the halls of Con-
gress, and there be allowed to participate
freely in the affairs of the nation which but
few months ago they were striving with
conscripted armies to utterly destroy.
Could treason ask for more, after being
overpowered and annihilated on the battle.
field? Who ever conceived the American
people crazy enough to make such an ar
rangement?
The Union party, which is the people, the
great mass Of intelligent men of the north.
ern, eastern and Western States, who in the
four dark years Of war and bloodshcd, held
up President Lincoln's hands, and checred
on to the work of redemption, both Execu.
tive and Legislators, do not mean to admit
those unrepentant traitors whom our Presi
dent has raised up to govern the late revolted
States, into the halls of the national legisla
ture, there again to embarrass and defeat
legislation, and if possible accomplish by
diplomacy what they failed to achieve by
the sword. They mean to reorganize or re-
construct those States on the basis of loyalty
and freedom, and then admit them to fellow
ship in the Union; and not build them up
out of fragments of treason and rebellion
which Grant and Sherman scattered with
their cannon, and which President johnson
has been so earnestly engaged in again draw
ing together, and which he seems to think
he has formed into such model of beauty
and perfection, that to finish this great work
it alone remains to open the doors of Con.
gress and admit Representatives and Sena
tors from these Johnsonian constructed
States, with the best blood of the Union un.
dried upon their garments. Did any Union
man ever dream of such reconstruction as
this? Will any other than traitor ever
name such policy?
We ask the honest Union men in the
country to calmly look around and take heed
of the signs; read the Presidents maudlin
speech delivered at the White House on the
22d of February, to an assemblage of Cop
perhcads, Southern sympathzers and return.
ed Rebel soldiers. Those men rent the wei.
kin with shouts equaled only by those which
went up for the Rebel victory of Bull Run
from the same threats. Will the policy
which pleases those people please your
Will you follow the lead of an Executive
who is taken possession Of by such menu
Is such course. safe? Or will you not
rather trust the advice, and adhere to the
brave men in Congress- who are not aspiring
| for presidential votes from late rebellious
States? who are the collective wisdom of
! the great north, east and west. We must
support the national Union Representatives
in Congress. We must let Andy johnson
go with his new found friends. He is hope.
lcssly lost. That party has never achieved
anything but ruin. We have had enough
of compromising. The Union party has but
one straight, undertaking path to travel,
which is evenhanded justice to all. The
loyal whites and freedmen of the Southern
States are not to be left to the mercy of
those whom the President has again installed
in those States with governing power. The
same strong arms and brave hearts that over
threw the rebellion are competent to protect
those people. Treason as a controlling pow
err must not again be allowed to rear itself
in those States, but true men with loyal
principles shall again establish governments
there. Till this be accomplished, better to
hold them as we wrested them from the bro.
ken chains of the rebellion, if need be, un.
til the present generation passes away and a
new generation is born that has not treason
and rebellion in its heart. This were better
for US as nation, better for the cause Of
| liberty, and better for the Southern States
themselves.
The Grafton of Senator CreswelI