The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-08-22
The Spirit Of DenOcacy.


to the breeze, and, if needs be, to the God
of battles, and strike one more honest blow
for constitutional liberty. 4 K The
doors are wide open-wide enough, broad
enough 10 receive every white man in Geor-
gia, unless you should discover him coming
to you creeping and crawling under the Chi.
cago Platform. Upon them there should be
no mercy. They have dishonored themsel-
yes and sought to dishonor you. Anathe-
Matte them. Drive them from the pale of
social and political society. Oh, Heaven
for some blstering words, that | may write
infamy upon the forehead of these men, that
they may travel through earth despised of
all Nen and rejected of heaven, scorned by
the Devil himself They may seek their
final congenial resting place under the mud
stills OF that ancient institution.
The following is an extract from the
speech OF one Ramsey, at the Democratic
State Convention of Georgia.
/" We have aroused in our might once
more, under the leadership of Seymour and
Blair, TO raise the Constitution from the
dust, Georgia has passed through fiery Or
deal. Some of her children, during the war
she was compelled to wage, deserted her and
Joined her enemies. Let them be like dr.
nold, jorerer accMsed. We have seen our
soldiers fall, our cities in flames, our citi-
zens torn from their peaceful homes. But
we can bear it no longer. We ariW naac, at
all hazards, fecorer our lost liberties and
restore the State. We are in the midst of
great revolution, which may end peacefully
at the ballot box; but if not, then the true
men of the South will rally once more
around their now folded banner, and uiU
try the issue at the cartridge boa. Loud
ON ont I Al.
ancestors from whom you sprung. There
are men in the North ,cho are no,o truth
aoih you, and ,eho ,ciu, in such conflict,
If necessary, lead your battalions.
A Mr.. Williamson, of Shreveport, La,
said at a New Orleans Democratic meeting
few nights since:
believe we will carry our candidates as
firmly as l. believe there is throne OIL God.
But even if defeat should fall upon us, do
not be discouraged; the time will come
when we shall redeem the country. Let no
man leave his native State-let US lay orr
bones in Louisiana, and if these scallawags
and carpet baggers remain, teky hunt them
from the country.
The. Meridian (INiss.) Mercury, with the
Seymour and Blair colors at the head of its
columns, in flaming article in their behalf,
exclaims:
''With the skull and cross bones of the
lost cause before us, we will swear that
this is a White Mans Government. We
must make the negro understand we are the
men VIC were when we had him in abect
bondage, and made him feel that when for
bearance ceases to be virtue, he has
aroused a power that will control him or
destroy him."
Albert Pike, of The Memphis appeal,
counsels thus:
Young men. it is for you to bring back
those golden days. The South is our land
the North is foreign aud hostile realm
Stand at the alter otyour country. Swear
eternal hatred of its opprcssors. Swear that
the day shall come, if these oppressors shall
continue, when the Susquehanna and Ohio
shall be like rivers of fire, as they are now
rivers of blood, between your native land
and that of the Northern Huns, which no
man shall attempt to cross, and live \ 4
We do not love, and will not pretend to
love that Union, though we have agreed to
obey the laws of the conqueror. If the old
Union cannot be restored, we will hope to
see the South Independent before we die;
and It Jacobinism IS to become supreme in
the North, we wish there could be an i'm.
our Southern States. The day will come
when the South will be independent
John Forsythe, of The Mobile Adre,tiser.
writes thus:
Now, if civil war comes ont of this con-
llict OF political forces, the white men of the
South cannot be worsted; for war and its
terrors, in their deadliest form, are not
to the evils they will have to en-
Igt-ftI
carpet-bag rule. And here we may as well
say that the people Of the South do not in
tend to submit to that permanent rule. re-
suit as the Presidential election may And
they have only submitted to its indignties
and insults SO far because they have been
waiting for the good sense and justice of the
American people to relieve them from it,
and restore them to their civil rights in the
November elections"
The Iicksburg Times adds:
Objection is made down this wav to the
Endorsement Of the Blair letter by few tim
i'd people on the score of prudence, and vet
it was this identical letter of Frank Blair to
his friend, Col. Broadhead, that secured the
Missouri hero the nomination for Vice Pres
!dcnt. We ,cant Just such ammunition as
Frank Blair uses
The Petersburg (Jd.) Index asserts:
Under our laws Virginia has right to
vote in the next Presidential election
Traitors would deny US that right and &C.
company that denial with threats. Tirgiu-
ians are not to be frightened. Virginia has
IN unquestionable right to vote, and Virgin
"a Will vote. We owe it to ourselvesSto
.ruth-to the national Democracy. The law
S clear. Virginia must vote. TO the count
ing Of our rotes the national Democracv
stands soten,nly pledged. Let us do our
1uty-and vote. Let us leave to the people
ot the North their duty-counting our vote.
The President of tie South Carolina Dem
ocratic State Convention, held on the 9Th
nst, at Columbia, on taking the chair,
said:
Your State has been despoiled of her SOW
sreignty your people have been deprived
,ftheir liberty. You are now entering on
he great work of restoration. We must re-
ormer days. [Cheers. The crumbling
walls and solitary, smokeless chimneys Of
1our noble State house are typical of our
present political condition. Thank God,
hat noble, brave building lies in ruins
Applause. Thank God, it is not desecra-
ed by those beings who assume to legislate
or us. Let us resolve before High Heaven
hat the land which was once the home of
he Haguenot and the Cavalier, shall never
De ruled by the Puritan and African. APP
clause.
AT Seymour and Blair ratification meet
ng at Atlanta, Ga, one of the speakers de-
iounced the constitutional amendment as
6 prepared" principly for the purpose of
keeping out Of office such gentlemen and
rue patriots as Howell Cobb, A. II. Ste
,hens, Robert Toombs, B. II. Hill, John C.
and Jefferson Davis - As
he speaker named each of the patriots in
he above list there was storm of cheers;
out when he mentioned the name of jeff
Davis, the hall was at once the scene of a
Wild and tumultuous uproar. Both delega-
es and spectators jumped to their feet as if
n excitement uncomfortable. Hats and
were waved and shaken fierce.
y above their heads, and yells and shouts
md cheers and wild stamping for the space
If several minutes shook the hall. 1t was
he " old rebel YELL
Nothing further is needed to show the
emper of the leaders of Democracy. True
y the country needs such 4 man as Grant
Gb,of