The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-12-21
The COpperhead Pregra .alHne
and johnson Policy.

and johnson Policy.
The following account, taken from the
Washington correspondence of the PhiIn.
delphia Fress, in its tale of horror, gives
the fatal definition Of the "whtemans
party Of the rebel States. 1t is but a new
name for the secession party. Southern Con.
federacy, etc. These crimes are directly
traceable to the demagogucry Of Andy John,
son which has been allowed to exist through
the corruption and decentralization Of the
Fortieth Congress. BY allowing the patron.
age at the disposal of johnson to tempt
them from their duty year ago, all this
calamity has been brought upon the coun.
Try. Nor is the end yet. The party Of
treason is every day strengthening by the
weakness of Congress, while the consttu.
ents Of that Congress despair and faint in
their faith in mans competency for com.
plete fgovernment johnson, by the re,
peated rebuff aud the whitening scorn which
have heretofore met his blatant warfare on
the Republican party, has become at length
willing to submit to the direction of ADLER
message Identifies himself with the Copper
head party. His chances are now better for
Il nomination for President by that party
than they ever were, and few months nrc
likely to develop the fact that Andy John
son is the only candidate that party will be
able to select as leader that they can have
a glimmcr Of hope to succeed with.
Finding that the Copperhead Democracy
would not go to him, he has made virtue
of necessity by going to them. The assist.
ance he has rendered that party, and the
license he has permitted their malignty to
indulge as shown by such histories as the
following, is n bride that no other candidate
can offer. If Johnson can bring his des-
potic notions of being leader and master of
the old rebel party. down to submitting to
that party, and consent to be its slave rs
well as its tool. which latter he has been
since the assassins bullet placed him in the
Presidential chair. then he will receive the
nomination of the rebel party for President,
and enter the canvass under the black
banner of prejudice, with "white man S
government inscribed upon it, strength
ened by administration patronage against
the Republican masses, whose leaders be
has TO large extent corrupted. The people
must learn to estimate those false leaders at
their proper value, and once more closing
round the indomitable Grant move forward
in their incorruptible patriotism to victory.
The following is the extract from the cor.
respondencc above spoken Of:
San intelligent Pennsylvania who re.
sided eight years in Texas before the rebel.
lion, who voted against secession, and left
the State for his old home in 1863 to save
life, and returned to Texas after the war,
has been in Washington for several days, to
obtain the restoration of his property, taken
from him by force by the rebels since An.
drew johnson revived alike their hopes and
malignities. He gives q fearful account Of
the state of society in Texas. Acting for a
short time as one of the registers under the
rrecdmen's Bureau, with two other Union
ionists, the latter were shot down in cold
blood and he only escaped by being out OF
range of the rebel rifles but he saw his
companions fall. He says that not rebel
has been punished for murder, and of course
not for treason, while list of orer tWenty
t,co hundred murdered Union men is on file
ut dustin. When Governor Hamilton was
sent cut there after the surrender of Lee,
the whole rebel population were not only
submissive, but ready to yield everything to
saue their property aud hces; and when the
accepted with favor. Now al has changed
Hardly n day passes without some rebel out
rage, and it is always permitted to go unpun-
shcd. Our informant, who left for Texas on
Sunday, fears that Gen. Hancock's order re.
storing the civil courts of Louisiana may be
extended to Texas in which case, he says,
all his hopes of recovering his property are
gone. The gentleman from whom we get
this information is we'll known in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, where hs relatives
occupy high social position"