The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-09-26
The Seymour Club.


ment of Elkton, known in their own circles
by the family name Of Democracy, went
through the prcliminaries Of organizing a
Seymour and Blair Club. They met in the
Court House, and the Colonel Of the Six
Maryland (before it became a war reg iment)
took the chair. 1t had been announced that
"Albert Constable, Esq, and others would
address the meeting" and consequently
Albert took the floor. By this time the
Court House was about one-third full, the
half, or well-ngh unto it, being Republicans.
The blowing of horns by the Elkton Band
had succeeded in bringing about fifty per-
sons to the spot to see what was going on
Everything was dull and spiritless. The
news from Maine showed in the counte
nances of the spectators, the Democrats
wore sepulchral faces, and the Republicans
were radiant with satisfaction.
The speaker looked woe be-gonc and dis
tressed, and his speech was lamentation
over the indignities suffered by the harmless
Democrats of Elkton during the melancholy
wears of the rebellion, when the g hirelings'
held the bayonet at the breast of the poor
cowardly secesh, who feared to fight, but
loved to rejoice over any success achieved
by the rebel armies. An hour was consum-
ed in the sad rehearsal Of the wrongs and
outrages heaped upon the doves and lambs
of Maryland, who hoped all things and pro
phesied great things, to be accomplished by
Lee and JEFF Davis, in the freeing of Mary
land, my Maryland" The end of the dole
full narrative being reached, the speaker sat
down. No cheering, no clapping and ap-
plause; scarce foot moved during the de.
livery of the speech. All was stale, fiat
and Improbable No enthusiasm no
whisky! Alas the Democracy is nothing
separated from its jug
Howardr' Howard - was next
called on. not the Howard we read of on
the scroll of fame, but the Colonel of the
Sixth. The Colonel came TO time, and told
| the audience to come forward and sign the
Seymour and Blair pledge-but without max
ing speech, however, as he declared he
would not, the Colonel went on to inform his
! hearers that Grant was an "ignoramus and
butcher" The Colonel being authority
in military matters, no one presumed to
publicly question this criticism on the great
/ est captain of the age, and consequently the
! Colouel continued and informed his audience
! that Grant had lost more men than General
| Lee had in his whole army! The Colone's
statistics were evidently taken from Copper
head newspapers, and not from the muster
| rolls of the two armies, which show very
! different result. Bat to the credit of the
Democrats present be it said, they received
this low, ignorant vulgarity with silence and
evident disgust. Every man with eyes to
see and ears to hear, has made up his mind
as to Grants generalship. The highest mil
| itary critics of this country and Europe have
pronounced General Grant the greatest com
mander of the age, the gallant Colonel of
the Sixth's opinion to the contrary, notwith-
standing.
One of the speakers, the doughty Colonel,
we believe, asserted as piece of Demo
cratic information, that none of the public
debt had been paid since the war closed,
which was intended as another damaging
count in the indictment against the terrible
Radicals,-and so it would be if the state,
ment wasn't like the most of Democratic
stump speeches; but unfortunately the fig
ures tell very different story; and any man
who presumes to speak to the public on po-
litical questions, and shows such gross igno
rance or wilful Misrepresentation, deserves
to be Kissed down.
The following is the true state Of the case,
taken from official tables, furnished by the
Treasury Department:
Debt of the United States
Aponst 1st. 1865...............S3,2S 7 80 asaf
Reduction ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. S02, 1133, 0O(
More than eight hundred and two and hal
millions of the public debt paid off in less
than three years by tie economy and fnan.
cial ability displayed by the Republican par
ty, and in the teeth of these plain facts,
which every man should know who attempts
to teach the public, we find brazen- faced
ignoramuses stand up in Elkton and pro,
claim that not dollar of the public debt
has been paid since the war. But neither
ignorance nor lying will elect Seymour, and
the old, rotten Democratic party of this
State, and of the whole nation, has Icl1abod
written upon it.