The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-06-27
ty," is more than our philosophy can de-
termine. This absurdity is only equaled by
the following.


the following;
Shall we cut ourselves off from all association with
the outer worldf is every public improvement out
rage that crosses the border of IA county, Shall rail
roads and canals well highways opposed IL moi
kept entirely within the county,
The outer world" we should think,
would be considered that part of the world
traversed by railroads and canals, leading
to the principal seaports and cities of the
| country, and not the peninsula and Chester
town, which seems to be the purpose of this
bridge to open to the first district. All OF
these important thoroughfares in the great
business world are in directly opposite d.
rection from the Sassairas bridge, that is to
be, and said bridge will have no part in
opening the first district to either the Della
ware Railroad, the Chesapeake and Della
ware Canal, or the P.W. & B. Railroad
Neither have we ever heard of county
building railroads or digging canals, or even
opening " highways" except such high
ways " were kept entirely within the coun.
ty' 1t is not customary, we believe, for
one county to construct " highways" within
the territory OF another county.
The writer of this remarkable article is
either quiz2ing his readers, or it is intended
to grace that solemn Humorist, soon to issue
from the Democrat Office, the advanced
sheets of which we noticed last week.
AS Il further specimen of the remarkable
arguments used by the Democrat in support
Of this "monstrous outrage" as we desig.
mated it, and which the Democrats defence
of, has more clearly established, we give the
following:
In the first district there is not bridge that has COS,
three hundred dollars yet thai district has paid without
nrmurlng its proportion of tax to build bridge after
bridge creeks and ravnas in other sections of The
county, that in truth person in five hundred
OF the citizens of the first district have seen o,
ever will See
Having no streams to bridge, forsooth, ii
must expend its proportion of bridge money
in erecting one over Sassafras River, in Or
der to shorten the stage route to Chester
town and to open Sassatras Neck to the
" outer world,' namely, the Jungles and
morasses Of the peninsula from where it
proposes to receive daily mail by daily
line Of stages across the bridge at Frederick
town.
The bridges built within the county are in
most instances to facilitate business and &C.
commodate the people of the county, and
between the erection of such bridges and
that over Sassafras River, there is no rele-
vancy, whatever.
Three or four bridges have been built at
Conowingo across the Susquehanna, between
Cecil and Hartford countless and two at Port
Deposit, the most Of them costing over
100000. These bridges were on the main
thoroughfares of trade and travel between
the largest cities of the country, and at that
day, they were the great mail routes North
and South, and yet the tax payers of the
county were never taxed one cent to erect
those bridges, although of the most vital
importance to the people of nearly all parts
Of this county, and especially of the upper
districts. These bridges were erected by
Joint stock companies; and yet we are to
have a bridge built at the expense of the
taxpayers OF the county, across Sassafras
River, which, by the showing of the Demo-
crdf, is to convenience, rather than benefit,
only Il few persons in the immed date vicinity
Of the bridge.
The Democrat has utterly failed to show
that the farmers of the first district require
such bridge to transport II single pound OF
produce to market, the boats taking it from
la al hn q. 1a11 l,.l. I
Baltimore, and landing freights on the
wharves on the Cecil side.
There are great many more such trining
ahsurdities as those we have noticed, in this
very foolish article Of the Democrats Of last
week, attempting to screen the outrage by
the County Commissioners, in levying So, 900
to build the Sassairas River bridge, which
would serve to amuse our readers, but we
have not space for more. As for the bridge
" enhancing the value of most property in the
FIRST district" the hypothesis is too absurd
for contradiction.
In conclusion, we acknowledge our obi,
cations to the Democrat in assisting to prove
that this scheme Of taxing the county to
bridge Sassatras River is monstrous out,
rage as we pronounced it in our first
notice, and close this article, already too
long, by quotation from the Democrat,
which those who have read this discussion
will not fail to see is admirably suited to
that papers dilemma. In the quotation we
substitute Democrat Tor Wing:
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INDUCED in statements which he had no
reason to suppose true, or he has stated what
he knew to be false. Certainly one or the
other, and perhaps both. If he inclines to
escape one charge, the other must stick to
him. The dilemma is before him.
The ATLANTIC FOR JULT.-The Dole OF
Jarl Thorkell, by j. 6. Whittier; Minor
EliZabethian Poets by f. p Winnie an