The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-10-26
The Prospect.

Never was the prospect 50 cheering for
tkc Republican party in Cecil as at the pres,
ent time. The Copperhcad party having
been entrusted with power after the most
solemn assurances on their part, OF desire
solely to promote the public good, the pco-
pie behold with indignation, the most de:
termined efforts on the part of that party to
prescribe every man who has been patriotic
enough to rejoice in the defeat of the slave.
holders rebellion, and the steady and de-
termined purpose to elevate to power the
bitterest enemies of the nation, when it
grappled in the death.struggle with armed
treason.
Not only this, but system of wholesale
extravaganza by the last Copperhead Legis-
lature bankrupted the State Treasury. The
revenues Of the State were perverted from
proper use and waited in benefits heaped
upon favorites and insignificant private in
stitutions. An expensive and useless mill
tia law was passed by that Legislature which
has been the means of robbing the people
of the counties of thousands of dollars to
be used in equipping and uniforming an army
of rebel militia in the city of Baltimore,
whose purpose is known to be the raising of
the standard of rebellion second time, if
opportunity seems favorable, and Andy
johnson, in his drunken insanity, should
have courage to attempt the crime be medi-
tates.
Our cherished Public School system has
been torn up by the roots, and the labor of
years in the cause of education, with all of
its attendant expenses, lost to the poor and
laboring class of the State. nothing is
so feared and hated by the slave aristocracy
which now rules with a tyrant's rod in Mary.
land, as public education. These, and
thousand other abuses and outrages, are
rousng the thinking men of this county to a
realization of the infamous designs of the
rebel party of Maryland, and deciding those
who momentarily faltered, to again resume
their places in the Republican party, which
is the party of equal laws and equal rights
to all men. The rich and poor, the white
and the black man, enjoying what properly
DtlOUSS W caCHS "ilhput tiCHCHilIS vi the
rights of the other. These lofty and emo.
bling principles Of the Republican party
when set, rs they have been, in contrast to
the low, greyeing measures which have been
so recently uncovered in all their hideous
responsiveness by the Swami and johnson re.
gime in Maryland, are fast turning the lovers
Ct pure liberty, public schools, just laws,
and economy in the expenses of the State,
to the Republican party. SO marked is the
accessons of strength to the Republican
ranks in this county, and so cheering the
prospect for the entire ticket, that those of
our party who entered on the canvass as duty
more than with a hope of success, express
themselves Us now confident of q complete
triumph on the 9Th Of November Let our
friends in all parts of the county take cour.
age, if they may have heretofore despaired,
and ~nrk industriously to bring out the Re.
publican vote. Remember that more than
a thousand votes in the coGnty remained un.
poled at the last election. Work to t1;r;;ng
out that vote, for it is mainly Republican.