The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-08-15
Political Paragraphs.

fOAlticah paragraphs.
General Steadman has avowed deter
mination to support Grant and Collax.
Grant will he whipped, says the World
And so it said all through the war. But 1t
always turned out that instead of Grant, 1t
was "the other fellow" who was whipped.
And so it will be now.
The Irish Republic says with eminent
good sense: "Irishmen, in American pol.
itics, must work from the American stand.
point, and remember that il is their citizen.
ship that entities them to vote and shout,
and not the fact of their being born in Ire.
land" .,-
"A prominent Democrat of Burlington,
Iowa, and recently member of the Common
Council of that city, but now in California,
writes to his friends in Burlington that Califor-
MIA will 60 for Grant by $4,000 majority The
Hack Eye says that other letters received from
old residents, now on the Pacific coast, say that
both California and Oregon are sure for Grant
The Terre Haute Express of the goth ult
says that Frank Blair in speech made in Gil.
mans cooper-shop in that city, declared he
" aoouH rather sleep nith niger than a Des
0crat" The Express adds that I" hundreds Of
our citizens of both political parties will swear
that they heard Frank use the exact language
ubave quoted"
The proposition to divide Texas into twoor
more States has given rise to much discussion
within its borders. Thus far malioIty selli-
ment seems to favor division. The warnlet
debates are as to the boundaries of the nov
parts. These once settled to suit the different
elements, II partition will take place naturally
and readily.
CHANCE OF SALvATION.-Tle Boston P.st
is put in an anxious qnandary by the question
of a religious paper ut Chicago" Can Demo-
crat be saved I The New York Tribune comes
to its rescue in the following not very cns,la-
tory style 1T is a difficult problem, indeed;
but fa Democrat will cschew the sins of his
leaders, and neither drink like Blair nor lie ike
Seymour, there may be some hope for him.
- The Toronto Gbole looking on the cdAdi-
ton of American politics from the standpoint
of Il DISTINGUISHED observer, says:
The infatuation Of the Democrats in putting
forward such ncnus Hampton as their rpre
scntatives in the South in the Presidential con-
test, seems almost to amount TO lunacy. These
men accept the situation " simply wheth
cannot do better, and not un hour longer
Congress has passed Il bill creating th new
Territory of Wyoming 1t is the western Ellf of
the very extensive Territory of Dacotah, Trough
which the Pacific Railroad runs after it ha pass
ed over the State of Nebraska. Dacotah is so
large that the capital( Yankton) is some seven
hundred miles distant from that section where
the main part of the population is situated; and
the reversing of such distances for purposes If
legislation and justice is Il very difictt and
costly business.
Tenement Houses have already bcclicased
/ lnl ali I,-,, al,
prominent Democrats. who believe in co le-col-
ored naturalization apers and Luzcruc county
tactics. Under the guiSe of boarding buses,
thcss lens will he cowdrd Nth electors Dem
ocraic morals and social tastes, herdd and
conalicd like mules, to be tro,ted out onlc sec
ond Tuesday i'll October. This is practical De-
mocracy
Wade Hampton has become dsglted at
! the extravaganza of his own assertions, and is
out with denials and notifications. 1t Use
less, however. lie has said enough tolcvcal
/ Democratic intentions, and that is Wit the
people wished for. The admonitons of nc pro-
rebel press came too ate to stay the ete, of lis
oratory. His party must suffer the lighting
consequences of having put Il man on llStump
who was not afraid to talk the tleusa con-
coced at New York.
Ten ycare since there came to Nclaska IL
party of one hundred Ir>hmcn' all pf them
without dolarn the world They VIE worth
only their spades and Il Democrat votapiccc.
They took up land in Douglas county, around
the then unknown town of Omaha, nd now
all of them are enjoying ntiucnce, andmny of
them wealth With clean shirts and tmfnrta-
bic homes, and their cattle covering aPundred
bluffs, n political as well is social ch,gc has
come over these "A mercan citizens of Gric de-
scent, and every one Of them votes II Grant
and Colrax. So it goes all our countrj over
Lift Il man out Of the gutter and you Use him
from Democracy.
The diaboism that cut off Lilpln and
Dostie now threatens every officer in Il South
ern States. Read as evidence the flowing
letter addres scd to Governor Scott, South
Carolina:
You know, Scott, you have no riglto Gov
ern or to act as Governor of our dear SITE, and,
by the grace and blessing of Almisy God,
you and your party in the whole utkhall be
discounted, dcspised, and, trust, dcioycd.-
Your career will be rs short lived as ", could
wish it, and much shorter. Rcccil these
warnings in time. Your negro militia ill not
keep our people from killing them fast nough
"PEACEruI. INDUSTRY" 1.-The flowing
local item, from a Lexington, Ky papcntfords
II fair sample of the q" occupations of ,acclul
industry" to which tile late leaders ofe Re-
bells are now devoting themselves accofng to
Governor Scymour's letter:
MURDER AND OUTRAGE,-On Ionday
night last, in the vicinity of Kecne, Ja,mine,
party of disguised men spent the tip from
~ o'clock NJ. to 6 o'clock p. NJ. in Hpping
and killing negroes. Mary Smith and II faith
or, Silas Woodal a man more than sly years
of age, were whipped with sticks; CTS and
Margaret Mosby beaten with pistols, al Cabe
Fields shot and instantly killed"
Attorney General Evarts has madpubc
his opinion relative to the resignEon of
Commissioner Rollins. 1t is a len3y doc.
ment and very able paper. Mr}Ivarts
takes the ground that the resigna,id of Mr..
Rollins was qualified one, that II Pres
ident cannot accept it and appoint success
sor unless the conditions on who it was
made are fulfilled, which were the omina.
ton by the President and confrmpn by
the Senate of new Commission. He
concludes by stating that =" must Insider
that the Office of Commissioner of hternal
Revenue and Mr.. Rollins hold up it re.
main the same rs if his letter had 1t been
written or the Presidents endorsntt made
thereon, and that the office is not lcant."
There is not much doubt that the esident
will act in accordance with this Onion of
Mr.. Evarts, so that the question ole Com
missionership may be now regardeas set.