The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-09-21
The Cecil Whig.
ELKTON, SEPTEMBER ii, 1861,
Democracy Redivivus !

In spite of the semi occasional appeals of
| some of our friends of the opposition (Mr.
j. s. Rossell in his red, green and white
| card, for instance,) to their Democratic and
Conservative friends, for support in the ap.
preaching nominating convention, there are
| abundant and significant indications abroad
| that the Conservative (" is soon to be drop.
ped from the party nomenclature, the tad.
pole is to lose his tail, and the frog to APP.
pear under the single, but euphonious, old
| cognomen-Democratic. This will not, of
course, occur till after the nomination shall
have been made; probably not, in Cecil,
until after the fall election, but in the mean.
time, as all the indications show, good care
will be taken by the Democratic majority of
the Democratic Conservative folks, that such
distribution of official rewards shall be
made, as that all the fat, cosy places and in.
tiuential positions shall be held by those
ever faithful ones whose garments have
nerer been defled by contact with the hated
loyalist party. This being accomplished
the good old Democratic ship may be trusted
without Conservative" ballast, in the
hands Of the tried and trusted commanders
and crew of former halcyon days.
The meeting of the antedluvians held in
Baltimore on Tuesday night week, and pre-
sided over by Thos G. Pratt, shows that
the wind is shifting in this direction. The
speakers there ventilated themselves in good
old democratic style, Boosting of their strict
adhesion to Democracy during the war, (Mr.
r. G. Reese, in his card in The Democrat
recently, gives his Democratic friends a SIM
liar hnt) their support of the rebellion and
UNMARRIED hostility to the Government, &c.,
and one Of the speakers was at some pains
to inform his hearers that when he was asked
by Judge of Election, whom he called
Yankee scalliwag, which army he wished to
win during the war, he replied, boldly, no
doubt, " the Rebel army" whereupon, SAYS
he, this Yankee scalliwag wouldn't let me
vote.'
In the torchlight procession incidental to
this meeting, number of transparencies
appeared with notices indicative of the ap.
preaching negation of everything but de-
mocracy pure and simple. This style of adj.
dress and sentiment is, OF course, somewhat
novel. Indeed, we haven't heard much of
1t since 1861. 1t came to be regarded about
that time as equivalent to an admission of
treason, and since then, in these latter DAYS
ofthe Swann-Johnson party, the Democratic
portion of the opposition have carefully CON
cealed from the Conservative element their
hatred of the Government, and sympathy
with the Rebels during the war. Their
speeches in the last falls campaign made it
questionable, indeed whether or not such
thing as Rebel sympathizer ever existed in
the country.
But the good old times are returning
There is to be no morakreticence on this sub
ject. johnson is President, and Federal
bayonets are invisible. The Democratic
stomach is getting strong upon Johnsonian
pabulum, and the Democracy is waxing fat,
and doesn't care the toss of copper for the
sensbilities of the Conservative ".Union-
Johnson element. Their ladder has helped
them up, they can soon dispense with it and
will kick it down. The "ladder" thinks it
is the g balance of power" party, but after
4 little they will think so "not muchy."