The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-08-29
Political Paragraphs.

III Gas5"a" Post a.,ys Flmli. Elail,o,,,-
i.."tu- Dcc,to-r the lrpublr.ns have l,ut lam
"''trl foot. instead ol putin" him under foot,
they ought 20 PIT il foo; undcr HIM"
- Hr rhtrago Tim,, s.la tl.t Sen. l. Blair
has not drank drop Of Intoxicating liquor Tor
years. This is correct, Blair could'n live on
such scanty ratlons rs that for years, or even for
a day
The Hartford Times says Frank Blair
has drank no Intoxicating liquors for several
monis-and joining, heartily and in good faith
the cause Of temperance, he could, with propri
ETY., if he pleased, deliver temperance lectures
Ills nose aud his hotel bills don't show it.
Blair said, in his INSTRUMENTATION speech.
that the Rebels proved themselves onr peers
Every man has right TO speak for himsct, and
Blair knew what he Was talking abou! when he
confessed himself no better than II Rebel
1t doesn't become Frank Blair to prate
about the carpc'-haggcrs. There has been no
time since the Blair family could crawl that each
member Of it has not been in Washington, car
pet bag in hand, clamoring and begging for of
ice.
The ChicGgo Post has the following Frank
Blair says Revolutions cannot 90 backward ~
No. but revolutions can though Frank finds it
hard to go either backward or forward in
straight line
Wade Hampton, \. Is. Fores, Howell
Cobb. and other parolcd prisoners of war, it is
run o.et!, will be brought North by the Democ-
racy as speakers during the campaign to teach
their captors their political duties.
There is q farmer in Jones County, Iowa
so The Anam0Sa Eureka atfrnis-who will vote
for Seymour and Blair and who supports his
determination by the declaration that " the
meanest, most contemplate thing them fellows
down to Congress have done was TO send lot
of bureaus to them freedmen down South ~
Were evidence wanting of the weakness and
thoroughly unpatriotic stand of the Democratic
party, it would be found in the fact that they
are uniformly choosing their leaders from among
The prisoners of war taken by the boys in blue
from 1851 TO 1865, and now held by the nation
on parole.
When Blair, in 1860 during the campaign
in Indiana branded the Democracy as Il - vile,
miserable party" and abused Douglas so fierce
" Dan. Voorhees, called Blair the =" prince of
black guards" Blair in return branded NoOrocs
as II hellhound" Now the % hell-huund"
supports the prince Of blackguards." A nice
couple, truly.
Gen. Frank Blair, in his speech in Omaho
the other day said there was but one race in
our country who were capable of maintaining a
free Government, and the results of the past few
years had demonstrated the fact that only por-
ton of that one We're thus qualified There
upon some one in the crowd shouted, " sup
pose that is the Blair family" but he was at once
pounccd upon by those near him and most I'M
mercilully pounded. When wearied they let
him up, and then discovered that he was one of
their own members, a genuine Democratic sop,
well saturated. " Bilee - said one, chidingiy,
them was the onfortinous words We ever spoke
And lie seemed to think they were.
One of the best replies we have noticed in
the canvass is that of the Hon. John A. Bing-
ham, of Ohio, who, while .pcaking at Il Repub-
loan meeting in Bangor, Maine, was insutcd
by n Copperhead, who cried out, &" How about
Mr.. Surratt ~ Mr.. Bingham instantly respon-
ded:
.LLe.v about her? Go and consul. me re-
cords of the {, ;, ed. tried ar' .l.lvicted her.
Go and ask General Hancock, who issued the
order for her execution in spite of a writ of ha-
beas corpus which had been served upon him;
and, if you still unsatistied, go and ask that
apostate President, Andrew Johnson why he
refused pardon after petition had been sent
him signed by every member but one of the
court who tried her, and drawn up in the hand
writing of the man you seek to insult
The political prospect in Tennessee is flat
tering, Notwithstanding the efforts of Albert
General George II. Thomas is confident that
peace will be preserved, and Governor Brown
low, in his Knoxville Whig of the 10Th inst,
has an article, with his editorial imprimntur,
which says
Now that the contest has narrowed down to
one between the old rebel leaders from the
South and the loyal masses of the North and
South hundreds that voted with the enemy last
sumner IRE coming over to the Grant and Col
fax ticket. The Radicals carried the State last
August by majority of iifly-two thousand,
whereas Grants majority will not fall below
sixty thousand. From every county in East
Tennessee we hear Of daily accrssions to the
Radical ranks. They are joining the leagues
rapidly. Many intelligent men who acted with
the Conservative party say they can't stand such
speeches as are made by Wade Hampton Bob
Toombs, Ben Hill, Howell Cobb, and others of
the old secession leaders, The letters of Frank
Blair and Ed Ewing, and the incendiary
speeches of \. S Colyar are rapidly doing the
work for the rebel Democratic ticket In
word, the people are everywhere beginning to
realize the fact that this rebelparty are laboring
to bring on another war; and to restore the lost
cause by achieving the independence OF South
prn Cnntpleracy