The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1867-11-23
The Cecil Whig.
ELKTON, NOVEMBER 23, 1867
For President
GENERAL ULYSSES 8. GRANT.
Subject to the Decision of the Republican National
Convention.
Advance.

Immediately after the results of the cleo.
ton of the present month were known, many
honest people of weak faith were heard
speaking in responding tones. expressing
fears for the stability Of the Republican
party, unless negro suffrage was abandoned
by the party. Oh ye of little iaith In
place Of going back in fright it is the duty,
as well as the policy of the party to emu.
late Sheridan at the battle of Winchester,
and in place of rctreating, advance with a
holder and more determined effort. The
party that opposes manhood suffrage at this
day, is doomed to destruction. Least of all
can the Republican party 90 back upon the
negro. They are pledged to his enfranchise
ment, and to forfeit their honor ms party,
IN the face OF temporary defeat, and III
the fear Of losing power, would be tho sur,
est road to sudden destruction. Every con
scicntious man would abandon party which
showed such weakness, cowardicc and utter
scltishncss.
No, the Republican party cannot 20 back
Oh the coorcd man. in fact, no honestly
contentious man can deny that he has earned
the right to be II voter and eujoy equal po
litical privileges with his more favored white
noighbor, In every position he has been
tested, the colored man has come up to the
fullest expectation Of his friends. There is
nothing in the aspect Of political affairs to
discourage or alarm any truly loyal man. -
Tho t'onnnrha,l rurt,, have ,,,odo ,>on,,l,r
gains by the aid Of side issues in some OF
the States that have held elections, but they
have achieved nothing substantial in reality
The Republican party still hold the control
Of all those States. Kentucky, Maryland
and Delaware are he only States that the
Copperhead party can lay claim to, and these
90 to prove, if other evidence was wanting,
the necessity Of Congressional action on the
question of suffrage. In these States we
have presented the spectacle Of rebels, who
served during the war in the Confederate
armies, and who in the Rebel States are, by
their acts Of armed rebellion, distran.
chised, occupying the highest offices, and
and controlling the men who aided the Fed.
eral Government to put down the rebellion.
While open, defiant rebels are thus reward,
cd, the loyal negroes who fought for the flag
are denied the right to vote, and they, with
the white Union people, although constitut
ing majority, are virtually placed under
the heel of the nation bittcrcst and most
dangerous enemies.
This thing cannot last. Congress is bound
to be consistent. While the rcyoltcd slave
States arc redeemed by the Acknowledgement
Of their rebels and the acknowledgements of
their loyal colored men, those slave States
that were in semi-reyot, and only kept in
their places in the Union by the Federal
arm. cannot be allowed to remain under
rebel rule, presenting such an anomaly and
monstrcus injustice. No party can permit
such injustice and survive, when it has the
power to remedy the evil. The Republican
party cannot permit the cause of treason to
be made honorable in those States, at the
expense of prescription of its truest friends,
while in all the other States it is crushed with
q strong hand.
AS we have said in the beginning, the Re
publican party cannot be unjust to the black
man and survive. We have choice of two
thiugs-either to go forward like men, fear
less in the right to the enfranchisement of
the colored men, or retreat, with defeat and
utter annihilation, to overtake us but little
way in the future. We may have hard
battle before us, made so by the Oily daily
policy of Congress, but we must gain while
we advance, as every honest Republican
proposes to do, and eventually achieve a
complete and annihilating victory over the
enemy to human freedom.