The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-07-07
The Cecil Wing,
ELKTON, JULY z, 1865.


The boilers fromthe Union party, whose
ambition want ny a,fvshte of their Judgment,
day by day are drawing nearer to that cop
pcrhead organization, composed of the frag-
ments of the old democratic party which had
not patriotism enough when the effort was
made by the conspirators in the interest of
slavery, to divide 1t from those leaders in
that great plot for the overthrow of Repubi.
can government, from whom it had been its
want to receive commands for long series
Of years. That party is composed of those
who upheld the rebels in every act against
the government of those who voted and
acted persistently against the soldiers, styl,
ing them ''hounds," "buh-dogs," "Lincoln
hlreimgs" and "thieves;n who declared that
coercion of armed rebellion was unconstitu-
tional. They are the party who declared
United States troops should not pass through
Maryland, and who raised Il mob in Balti-
more, that fired on and destroyed the lives
of Massachusetts soldiers en- route to Wash
ington. They declared that the Union
cause should not have q man or dollar if
they could help it. OF such, strengthened
by deserters and those dishonorably dis
charged from the Union armies, with re.
turned traitors from the rebel armies and
rebel States, rs the present party composed
that opposes the great Union party that saved
and preserved us a nation. To this organiza.
t3on we find n raw ohm san n Il hi >, al; 10, ~ ,
gravitating. Their insignificant nwnabers as
a third party are held in derieion by both
the unconditional Union party and the cop.
perhead party.
The attempt has been made thus far to
form and control third party by the power
Of Administration patronage, bat this has
utterly tailcd. Those who are charactcrless
and mcrcepayy enough to be lured from the
Union party by such means are not capable
Of conducting the business of government
offices, and the coppcrleads have persisted
in sticking to their organization while they
tattcr the Presidential Fulicy of recon.
structon, well knowing that they hold the
relation to this johnson party that the noun
tain did to Mahomet, and, like the prophet,
the President and his party will in the end
be compelled to go to them.
To this end we find "National Conven.
tion,' purporting to be of the copper John
son persuasion, advertised to assemble in
Philadelphia ON the 18th Of August. To
this National Convention! our renegade
johnson party leaders in Maryland CIV. H.
Purncll and his cohorts) have called on their
partizans to send delegates. In that call
there is but one qualification of delegates
required, Shat is, supporters Of Andrew
} Johnson.
Tie democratic members of Congress
have also issued a circular call to their con-
stitucnts throughout the country, inviting
them to send delegates 10 that proposed con.
vcnton.
Here we perceive the union of the Gcggarly
elements of the third or johnson party, with
the coppcrhead, rebel party of the country
is to be effected. That nominal party, born
of Administration patronage, must either be
absorbed by the party which has supported
the rebellion throughout, and of which Benz.
G. Harris, of Maryland, is a representative
man, or it must vanish into thin air.
This result must come to pass as surely as
the greater controls the less. TO this goal,
then, we find Governor Swami, Postmaster
Purnell, Blair and Co.'S followers tending
with accelerated speed. The President, it
will be remembered, set out with the decla.
ration that the offices within his gift should
be conferred upon his friends IN the Onion
party. The copperheads have denounced
this policy as lame, and have insisted that
they, as advocates of his restoration rebels
topowcr- policy, are entitled to the offices.
When the great marriage ceremony be-
tween Andrew johnson and hi, followers
and the democratic party on the 18th Of
August, comes of, the fruits of that unholy
alliance must be the dismissal from Office of
all Union men and the appointment of rebel
partizans. This result is inevitable. From
that day Andrew Johnson's partizans will
proclaim him the leader of the only party
that has existed in opposition to the Union
party and the interests of the government,
since the Shareholders conspiracy broke out
into civil war. To this point we find the
Swami Purnell party of Maryland steering
Their hope is to get enough returned rebel
votes, by tampering with the registry law,
into the ballot-boxes Of this State, to send
a Legislature to Annapolis to elect Mr.
Swami U. S. Senator, and defeat, in this
State, the constitutional amendment.
We say to the Union men of this county
that you have the party Of slavery and trea
son, with some official acccssions from the
Union party, and encouraged and strength
ened by administration patronage, to fight
this fall. Strip for the contest, and with the
light of past victories in the cause of right
blazing in your countenance, meet them
hand to hand and foot to foot, and the God
of battles, who fights on the side of freedom
and life, will again give you the victory.
Attorney General Ramdall's Opin