The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-31
Seymour and Blail's Nominal
ton Means Revolution, Re
pEdiation and Slavery.


Private advices from our most strenuou
friends at the North request that We shoul
protest against the imprudent expression
that have escaped some southern speaker
since the adjournment of the National Dem
ocratic Convention.-Ch Charleston Mercury.
WHO BEGAN THE WAR.
81 will tell you another fact, which i
enough for this time, that as the late wa
,cas produced by the defeated Democratic
Party III 1860, so we shall never have peace
till it is restored to power in 1862
Toombs' Speech at atlanta, Ca, July s, '6s
BLAIR ON THE DEMOCRACY.
"The Democratic party of the presen
day is Democratic in name, and nothing else
The old Jefferson and Jackson principle:
have been abandoned. The man uho die
not escape the rope by three hours is the an
thor Of all to ,chich the Democratic party o.
the present day su6scribes. 1t has not one
scintilla of true Democracy to animate its
carcass.-E p Blair.
PRoCLAIMING CIVIL WAR.
The reasonable letter of Frank Blair was
endorsed by the New York Rebel Conven
ton, and is the keynote of the campaign
1t is dated June Both, and contains this
threat of civil war:
If the President elected by the Democ'
racy enforces, or permits others to enforce,
these reconstruction acts, the Radicals, by
the accession of twenty spurious Senators
and fifty Representatives, will control both
branches Of Congress, and his administra.
ton will be as poweress as the present one
of Mr.. johnson.
" There Is but one way to restore the Gov
eminent and the Constitution, and that is
for the President elect to declare these acts
null and roia, compel the army to uado its
usurEdtions at the South Disperse the Car
pet-b0 State Governments, allotr tile icAitt
people to reorganize their orn governments,
and elect Senator's and Representatives.
awe must restore the Constitution before
we can restore the finances, and to do this
we must have President who will execute
the will of the people BY TRAMrLISG INTO
DUST THE INSPIRATIONS OF CONGRESS, KNOWN
AS TIE RECONSTRUCTION ACTS
APPROVED BY THE CONVENTION.
The New York Copperhead Convention,
which did not contain a loyal delegate from
the South, nor one who had not taken an
rt II III,
" Resolved, That we regard the recon.
structioa acts $50 called) Of Congress as
usurpations and unconstitutional, revolu
tionary and void"
WHAT THE AUTHOR SAYS.
Here is General Hampton own construc.
ton of the meaning of this resolution, de.
livercd at mass meeting of the Copperhead
and Rebel Democracy before he left New
York:
8 We can have no relief until the Demo.
cratic party will come ont and pledge itself
that the white people of the South shall
vote. want all to register an oath that,
when they do vote, their votes shall be
counted. And if there is majority OF
white votes, that you will place Seymour and
Blair in the White House in spite of all the
bayonets that shall be brought against them.
TIE PRESIDENT TO BEGIN THE WAR.
The President, after expressing his opin-
ion that the rebel States were legally " or
gained and restored under his policy -
prior to March 4, 1867, says, in his electoral
college veto:
g The only legitimate authority under
which the election for President and Vice
President can be held therein must be de-
rived from the governments instituted before
that period. 1t clearly follows that the
State governments organized IN those States,
nnder act of Congress for that purpose, as
under military control, ARE ILLEGITIMATE
AND OF NO VALIDITY WHATEVER :; and, in that
view, the votes east in those States for Pres.
ident and Vice President, in pursuance of
acts passed since the 4th of March, 1867.
and il obedience to the so-called acts OF
Congress, cannot be legally received and
counted; while the only votes in those
States that can be legally cast and counted
will be those cast in pursuance of the laws
in force in the several States prior to the
legislation by Congress upon the subject Of
reconstruction"
HAMPToN's DEFINITION OF THE PLATFORM.
General Wade Hampton said in his speech
at the first ratification meeting he attended
at Charleston
~ yield to none in devotion to that Lost
Cause for which we fought. Never shall
admi. that the cause itself failed. and that
the principles which gave it life were there.
fore wrong. Never shall Ibrand the men
who upheld it so no5ly as rebels or trai
tors Never shall l ANONYMOUSLY seek
safety or base promotion by dastardy de-
NAL or treacherous betrayal of it,
Agree among yourselves and act firmly
on this agreement, that you will not employ
any one who votes the Radical ticket. Use
all the means that are placed in your hands
to control this element by which the Radica
party seek to degrade US while they secure
success, and we can turn their batteries
against themselves"
REBEL FAITH IN SEYMOUR
" From first to last-from the so-callec
anti slavery amendment Of the Constitution
to the flood of trash for all purposes, mill
tary, civil, financial and commercial-all the
reconstruction laws of the whole peace pc
Rod fall to pieces if the Democracy succeed
in electing Mr.. Seymour as their standard
bearer. We can take part in such conflict
We believe from the depths of our under
standing that these Congressional misdoings
are all, one like the other, perfectly void
Vest and South.
APAIR OF NORTHERN TRAITORS.
son the Sd of November next the Amer
lean people will endeavor to restore those
States to their constitutional rights. Should
this by possibility fail, the white popula
ton of those States may succeed in placing
themselves in possession of their govern
ments otherwise, as sure as the Anglo
Saxon blood runs in the veins of Southern
men, there will be an upheavel of civil war
and then, should Congress sustain the blacks
ashes will cover the ruins of the whole Re
public. Gen. Tom. Ering's Speech