The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-09-05
The Road to Peace.


The purpose of the rebels is clearly set
forth in the accounts that daily reach US
from all parts of the Southern States, of
murders and outrages Of Union men and
negroes. The homes of peaceful citizens
are surrounded at the hour of midnight by
bands of armed Ku- Klux Klans, their I'M
offending and unarmed occupants dragged
out and beat, and the house robbed. Prom
inent and influential Republicans are way
laid robbed and murdered by these vii
lains who roam the country, and publicly
proclaim their purpose to drive out or muir
der every Union man in those States. The
following extract of letter written by
Stephen Wheeler, of Arkansas, addressed
to relative, gives fair idea of the doings
of the rebels who are enlisted under the
flag of Seymour and Blair for the new re-
bellion:
"On my way to the steamboat landing,
about fifteen miless distant from Searcy,
my assassination was attempted. When
about half way from Searcy to the landing,
two men suddenly rode upon me with drawn
revolvers, and demanded my surrender. |,
being unarmed, complied with their very
polite request. After robbing me of my
money, watch, &C., they ordered me to go
into the brush with them. ! knew very well
what they meant-they intended that |
should not come out alive. l made up my
mind to make an effort for my life. They
kept cooked revolvers drawn on me all the
time, and after l had taken two or three
steps from the road ] made leap, and
away went for dear life, the assassins fol-
lowing on their horses, and firing at me as I
ran. Fortunately but one shot took effect,
that passing through my right arm near the
shoulder, inficting a very painful though
not dangerous wound. Finally, through
and made my way to house several miles
distant, where | procured a mule and
went on through the woods to Devall's
Bluff. Since this affair, the assassination of
another Republican State Senator has been
attempted in another part of the State. Mr..
Barker, of Crittenden county, was shot in
his own house, through window, by some
unknown person, three buckshots taking eff
feet in his head and one in his arm. He
now lies in very critical condition. One
of the men who attempted my life | had
known for two years; he is considered a
respectable man III the community and is
backed up by the public opinion of that
community
1t is very clear that the lenency of the
conquerors of the rebellion towards men
who are utter strangers to the Christian
spirit of federation and forgiveness, was
great mistake, and has resulted in great
distress and even death to thousands of the
best men whose lot was cast in the States of
the rebellion, and whose offense is loyalty
to the Government and flag of the Union.
Strangers to the humanity that spared their
necks, their impudence, encouraged as it
has been by the rebel Democratic Conven-
ton of New York, knows no bonds These
parolled prisoners of war have the audacity
to pronounce the Government and laws of
Congress unconstitutional, and the
men who uphold and respect them,
traitors and decree hanging as the
punishment which is to be dealt out to all
such after the election of Seymour and
Blair. If they would only wait till this
event comes to pass, there is but little APP.
prehension of any suffering for treason to
the rebel cause, but they have already in
augurated the work of death in advance.
Justice demanded the execution or Danish
ment of the leaders of o causeless rebel.
lion and the conGscation of their property.
The justice which our patriotic sires of the
revolution melted out to the enemies of free
dom, and which secured to this nation in it's
infancy, peace and prosperity, is what every
dom of antiquity and the solemn warnings
of history have been disregarded, by the
crimes of those wicked men who drenched
the land in blood to supplant freedom by
slavery, remaining UNPUBLISHED. The con
sequence is they are again rising and com.
bining, and boldly threaten to again hazard
the chances of battle to establish their
wicked cause. Our ancestors who drew the
sword in the cause of liberty were men of
justice as well as wisdom. They knew if
the rich and proud, who took sides against
freedom, and aided the troops of the King
Of Great Britain to spread devastation and
death over the land, were allowed to re-
main in peaceful possession Of their large
they would commence plotting to revive the
1" lost cause of Great Britain and the
tories, and that no permanent peace could
be achieved unless their large estates were
confscated and appropriated to paying the
expense of the war. There is property in
this town and neighborhond that was con.
fscated, as punishment to the tory own
ers. And hadAhis righteous judgment been
carried out against the rich and leading
rebels, their lands eonfscated and them
selves banished, peace, order and prosper,
ity would have reigned, where now exist
little less than anarchy and organized muir
der.
But having been allowed to escape the
punishment their crimes merited, and dis
play their malignant natures by system of
murder and outrage of Union men, the on.
ly avenue to tranquility to the country,
peace and prosperity to friends of the Gov
eminent in rebel States now left open, is
the election of Grant. These midnight as
sassins have felt the mailed hand of the
hero of Vicksburg and Appomatox, and
when that hand grasps the sceptre they will
know that the day for Frank Blair's second
revolution has passed.
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