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

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proportions. What now becomes of the
charge OF extravaganza
Blair says: We seek to restore the Con
slitution by executing the will of the people. ~
If he don't look sharp the will of the people will
execute him.
Rock ably Seymour,
On a see-saw
When lection comes
Twill break like a straw.
ara When the votes fall ',..
The people vii. stare,
For down will come Seymour,
His party, and Blair
-General Hancock has given his unulv
lied adherence to the New York nominate
ffe has enlisted in the crusade against
sacred truths for whose vindicat0n he
willing hand. Although he had done
the bidding of Andrew johnson to detract I,
his fame as an officer and his consistency as
man, yet the day Of hope for him did not pess
until yesterday. He alone among all the Off
GERS as high rank has failed to come to the sup
port OF his Great Captain and associate in arms,
Grant. 81.
President johnson, writes the correspondent
OF the New York Times, remarked the other day
10 one OF his visitors that he could not consis-
tently recognize the officers of the reorganized
states as loyal officers, and consequently will
be obliged either not to hold intercourse with
them OF address himself to the officers who, in
Hls opinion, aie legally entitled to recognition;
then, he added, or the officers elected under his
so-called Provisional Government. In other
words, he desires to carry out Blairs idea of
overthrowng the present Governments of the
Southern States.
The Tribune inquiries: " Will not Miles
oReilly apply his valuable poetical and lGrsi-
cal genius to setting the war speech of the rebel
Toombs of Georgia is to music The first
stanza might read thus;
'' Hank, from the Toombs doleful sound,
Come rebs, attend the cry,
ie Copperheads, como view the ground
Where you already lie. "
Not man but was Democrat went into
rebclliolI; not man but WAS a Damna.~A ~.
vas, j" rs conception ana plo.rcss,a Democ,at-
ic measure, inaugulatcd, advocated, conducted,
defended, and supported by none but Dem
ocrats. Its purpose was the establishment of /.
slave empire. Its advocates held that capital
should own labor, that slavery was divine in.
stitutiOn.
The Brooklyn Union says, that among the
ornaments at the Democratic ratification meet.
ing in Louisville, Ky. were Stonewall Jackson,
Lee and jeff Davis. OF the speakers was
Humphrey Marshall, celebrated as one of the
largest generals of the rebellion, who thanked
God that he was in the old Democratic party,
and trusted, with Gods help, never to be any
where else.
On Saturday the President vetoed the bill
providing for the discontinuance of the freed
mems Bureau after the first of January, 1869
off fu
ing General Howard. Both Houses promptly
passed the bill, by the requisite two-thirds vote,
over the veto.
The failure of the Senate to act upon the
nomination of Ex-Governor Cummings as Com
missioner of Internal Revenue is regarded as
leaving Mr.. Rollins in possession of the office
His resignation was to take effect upon the con-
firmation of Il successor, and as the Senate has
taken II recess, with a nomination before them,
it is regarded as dcbarring the President from
making an al interimappointment.
Gov. Brownlow recommends the Legisa-
ture Of Tennessee to declare the Kuklux and
other murderous organizations outlaws. He
says that he cannot recommend the removal of
the political disabilities of tho DISTINGUISHED of
that State rs they have shown no signs of re-
pentance for their msdceds.
ing the number of agents of the Freedmen's
Bureau in the South, particularly in South Car
DINA and Arkansas He will continue to issue
similar orders UNTIL when the bill terminating
the officers of the Bureau goes into force, it will
be virtually forestalled.
The last act of the rebels, before the war,
was to vote the Democratic ticket. The first
act tthe rebels, after the war was to vote the
Democratic ticket. As there was but one step
from Democracy into rebellion, there was but
one step from rebellion back into Democracy.
A scccssionst at Cape May offered to bet
100000 that Ohio would GO for Seymou but
when it was accepted with the addition of
$4,000 that Ohio would give ten thousand for
Grant and twice SIS 200 that the same State
would give him twenty thousand majority, the
gallant buttcrnut turned his gray back and
reiterated.
When Horatio Seymour said he must
" stand upon his convictions of duty and honor
against the world" he did not anticipate VAL
landigham and Pendlctou both coming out for
him. Against the world ne stood it very
well, but 1.-The flesh and the DEVIL were too
much for him.
-Nalandgham used to produce markell
dramatic effect in his speeches by holding up q
gold coin as ' Democratic money" and COM
pairing it with a greenback. which he called a
" Republican rag" oh, why don't he 10 so
now
Secretary Seward has declared by proc
lamation second that the Fourteenth Ar.i
Gle, Amendment to the Constitution is valid
to all intents and purposes, it having been
adopted by "more than three. fourths ofthe
States Of the Uuited States" ....
-Valandigham has written letter denying
that there was any trickery III nominating Sey,'
mOurr and stating as an opinion that if Me-
York had withheld her vote from Mr. Hendric}
Chief Justice Chase would have been nomiy
ted within an hour. -
The Copperhcads are Boosting that ex- Pre-
sidents Pierce and Fillmore are for Seymour;
but they take care to omit the fact that the cx-
tihgnishcd President and Vice President of the
rebellion Davis and Stephens are on the
same side. .Es
The Kokomo (Ind,) Tribune says that Of
the sevcnty-onc persons committed to The How
ard county 0nd. Jail, since September H. 1867
sixty-six were Democrats, and only FIVE Rcpub-
leans. G3'c 21Ea..rl iiss SIR
Everybody can now sce that the Democrat
ic Convention, by beginning in 1868 where it
left off when tho life and brains of the party
went into the rebellion in 1860, committed u
fatal mistake backs County Madagascar
Its rumorcd by the Presidents friends
that he intends to violate the laws Of Congress
by appointing his OK Private Secretary Cooper
us Commissioner Of Internal Revenue.
The orange crop iny Florida is unusually
promising, and has been ge,,crally engaged at
500 n thousand. Other tropical fruits are
growing finely. Y y VI &a'2a.st
Wade Hampton and several ex officers NJ
Confederate army are canvassing the So'
support Of Blair's revolutionary.
blair is going to stump