The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-03-23
Crying for Split Milk.

The members Of the Legislature from this
county have, like Joe Snecks pups, certainly
covered themselves all over with glory in
their eighty days session. Considering the
amount of noise they made last fall in the
county, and the large sums of money that
were spent in whisky, flags, and "sich, as
Nasty would say, to get there, compared
with the weight and quality of clip they have
yielded, the product is very similar to the
devils enterprise in hog shearing. Mr..
Whitaker, on Tuesday last, threw in the leg
wool and hip locks of this golden fleece in
in the form Of the following protest"
THE Boom BrIL.-Mr Whitaker offered the following
protest, signed by eighteen members of the House,
against the law Incorporating tho Cecil and Hartford
County Boom Company:
The undersigned members Of the House Of Dele
gates of Maryland offer their protest to the House,
which protest they respectfully ask may he entered
upon the Journal against the enactment Of the Cecil
and Hartford county boom BILL evident misnomer,
when is known that 1t finally opposed by every
member Of this House from each Of sail counties, and
they upon request by vote Of this House. that said
bill b. returned from the Senate for the purpose Of
amendment and correction and they enter their pro-
test with leave Of this House. for the that power
ia, by the said bill, given to this corporaton which is
one merely and entirely private, to condemn the land
OF citizens along the shores of the Susquekanna river
and the head waters Of tho chesapeake bay hestuwing
upon the powor to occupy possess and tho real
estate of said citizens to their entire exclusion from the
waters Of the Chesapeake and ths Snsquehanna aud to
exclude them from all their rights and privileges under
the laws from water rights and privileges, while it be-
slows the said corporation TO erect mills and
other mills and other manufacturing establishments
land, Of which the have thus been deprived u-
justly and without precedent the benefit Of wealthy
private corporations and they further protest inst
tho said bill be cause the booms to be erected will be
obstruction to commerce ami navigation and because it
will destroy the rights of fishing and cunning and be-
cause 1t is private monopoly extending for distance
If twenty miles on the waters Of said river and bay,
which are and ought to be the common property Of all
and because it Is in many other respects unjust and
hurtfu and because the usual and ordinary appeal to
jury Of the country Is taken away from tho citizen and
audhol1er and given II mere jury Of inqlis;on pre-
sided over by no Judge learned In tho law and they
their protest thus sign, this 18th Of March, 1857 Sign
ed by Messls Whitaker. Evan Colbert, Lindsey, Nell
SOD, Whitcford Wilson, Clark, Ford Shipcy, Cameron,
Brydon, Davis, Kerr Coleman, Parsons, Gory and Don
his.
This is what Jack Downing used to call
cry for split milk. The boom bill ha9ing
passed both Houses and become law, a
message was sent o the Senate by the House,
at the instance of an honorable member
from this county, requesting the return of
the law to the House that they might re.
consider it; but the Senate, actuated by
an impulse Of common sense, very naturally
concluded that it had no power to return n
bill after it had become enacted into Law,
refused to be party to this novel species OF
legislation, and hence this climax Of absurd.
ity by Mr.. Whitaker which will serve to
complete the Immortality of the foar from
Cecil.
The only act of the present Legislature
promoting the interest of TIE State and
particularly the interest of Hartford and
Cecil counties, if We except the incorporat.
ing of the Principle Manufacturing Com
pany, and the hog law of the second district,
these brilliant legislators set up y loud lam.
entation because they arc not permitted to
destroy. Oh, yc law giyers Of Cecil, let
lchabod be inscribed on your banners, in
future The glory has departed, surely -
With what care the delegates from this coun-
ty were selected. To begin with the Hon.
Alexander Evans, long and Familiarity known
and classed among the ahlest men of the
country, and the greatest mind in the State ;
and Mr.. Whitaker, ranking among the great.
est iron masters Of the State and Mr..
Lindscy-well, we'll look up the biography
| of his public life-but evidently great from
present associations; and Mr.. Colbert,
great as a patriot and statesman, as will
more fully appear by reference TO the records
of 1861, where his name appears among
that band Of patriots who said to Virginia
and the seeding States of tho sow, an.
urea! go W ,eave you or cease from fol-
lowing after you, for whither you go we will
carry Maryland your people shall be her
people, and your gods her gods and where
you die, we will die, and there will we be
buried-even in the last ditch.
Notwithstanding this noble record of the
Cecil delegation, by referring to the above
protest we are startled to find them acting
the part of slavering idiots.
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