The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1866-03-17
The Cecil Wing.
The Presidents Policy and the
Peoples Policy.

Every day adds new proofs OF the strength
of the position taken by Congress in their
policy of reconstruction, and tends to show
more and more clearly the deplorabe mis-
take the President fell into by leading will
ing ear to the fattery and fawning of the
rebels. Mass meeting after mass meeting
and Legislature after Legislature of the men
who elected Abraham Lincoln President are
speaking out in unmstakable terms, giving
words of cheer and comfort to the Union
majority in Congress, and reproach to the
Presidential policy. On Tuesday last the
people of New Hampshire spoke at their
State election in voice that was heard
through the land, sweeping the State by
greatly increased majorities for the Republi-
can Governor and Legislative ticket.
The Baltimore american tells in n few
lines, which we quote, Of whom the Pres-
denis new POUNDS are composed
The policy Of President johnson, says
the american, as indicated by his veto mes.
sage, his speech at the Executive Mansion,
and his almost daily utterances to commit
lees who wait upon him, we regard rs dsas-
trous and fatal to the interests of the South,
and is calculated in the end to give strength
to those who are its most bitter opponents.
Had he made an effort to temper the ultra
views of those he terms Radicals in Con-
gress, and to have thus shorn the extreme
Radicals of their bitterness, the result would
have been far more to the immediate and
ultimate advantage of the rebelious States
than the open defiance he has hurled against
the representatives of the people, who are
of the people, and direct from the people,
Those who persistenty assert to him that
the masses of the loyal people of the loyal
States do or will sustain him in the policy
he has adopted are not his true friends, and
they know that they are deceiving him.
They know that the demonstrations gos up in
Maryland for instance, have been composed
mainly of those who. have done all in their
power to defeat the National arms-that the
speakers were surrounded and applauded by
men fresh from the Rebel army-by those
who participated and encouraged the massa-
ere of the Massachusetts troops on the 10Th
of April, and by those who poisoned the air
with their reioicings when the news of the
first defeat of the loyal troops at Bull Run
was received in Baltimore. They have been
mostly assemblages of men dishanchised for
loyalty; block ade-runners Rebel mail
carriers. men who sent list of loyal Balti.
more shipowners to the commanders of the
pirates Alabama and Shenandoah, that they
might know how to discriminate in the work
of destruction; and those who hooted and
insultcd with jibes and jeers the troops pass.
ing through our city to join the Union army.
1t needs no seer to predict the result if the
Presidents policy were carried out, or what
his late Copperhead admirers proclaim as
his policy. The same strife is going on that
has been for the last five years, though in a
milder form. The Rebels beaten in their
appeal to arms, are now endeavoring to enter
the halls of Congress to block legislation,
and harass the loyal millions, in order to
force as favorable terms as possible for a
system Of semi.slavery for the Southern
States, and not only maintain the spurious
representation in Congress of four millions
of people who have no voice in that repre-.
sentation, but still retain in the hands of the
old slave aristocratc class the State Govern.
ments where the President has again placed
them, with their black codes and proscriptive
policy against the masses and in favor of the
ruling few.
The battle as between freedom and slavery
has been fought on the field and won by the
former. The terms of admission to Con.
gress will be made by the conquerors in that
bloody contest, and the local policy of those
States dictated by the victor. That policy
will not be oppressive or unequal, but it will
be on the basis of equal rights to all, and a
| republican form of government not in con.
flict with the federal Government and the
Constitution of the United States. This
| contest has been going on in this nation fol
upwards of thirty years between freedom
and slavery. Slavery breaking through ali
restraint appealed to arms. The armies Of
freedom met and overthrow the latter. Ye,
still the adherents of that defeated system o.
government, struggle to have some remnant
engrafted on the nation, and strange to sa,
the President is found acting with them
but those who headed the strife in many 6
bloody field and the millions that cheered
and supported them, are determined to set
tie the question of government on this con
tinent on a foundation that cannot again be
shaken, and in which no vestige of slavery
under any name or pretext, will have a lodg
ment, to grow like cancer and disturb the
future peace and prosperity of the nation
| Universal freedom, universal education, anc
equality before the law is the basis on which
this question must be settled. The day o
compromising on State right theories anc
class legislation is ended. The last few
months have shown the Presidents attemp
at compromising with Rebels to be disma
failure. Let the peoples representatives b,
encouraged to go forward and settle thi
vexed question on foundation that canno
be shaken.
- The Cecil Democrats attempt to crit
icise the great unanswered and unauswera
| BILE speech of Senator Truubull on the Pres