The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-09-26
The Democrat Beats its TambOr
in n Distant Part of the Field.

In commenting on the extravaganza OF the
last rebel legislature, in a former issue, we
took occasion to show what part OF the
plumber of eight millions and upward, ap-
propriated by that legislature, fell to The
Democrat share. We did not intimate that
the doughty editor stole his quld pro quo
from the Treasury, or overcharged for the
work that legislature gave him to do. The
democratic party of Maryland being
partnership concern, somewhat similar to
the " forty thieves" we read of in the Ara
bian knights, and the editor of The Demo-
crat being member, only received his al
lotted portion Straightway he runs off to
distant corner of the field, and hammers
away on his tambor at fearful rate. He
plays up the old familiar tune of Radical
extravaganza" the "Frecdmen's Bureau
and the heavy internal revenue tax; and
how the editor of The Wing used to call up
the halt the lame and the blind of the Dem
ocratic party, when he was assessor, before
him, and tax them without fear, favor or
affection and how he supposes the editor of
The Wing never received cent for publish
ing the laws, or for anything else, out of the
State Treasury. In word, the whole
gamut of rebel music is gone through, but
never note in all this drumming about
those SS,61S,s90 appropriated by the rebel
legislature at one session, and not a word In
reference to that 500, 900 levied by the first
Democratic Board of Commissioners which
has been in power in Cecil county since that
party robbed the county treasury in 1853, of
some So, 800 to fee pet counsel for giving
away the taxes to the Railroad Company
Now these things have direct interest for
the people of this county, and if the "worst
taxed nation that ever existed on the face
s5bs tbs fsssh is hs A%sEGa ns sec6rdn A to
good Democratic authority, is on account of
"Radical misrule," how will The Democrat
excuse the party that has saddled a much
"worse " tax on the people of Maryland?
Let US take Maryland and compare Rebel
rule in 1867 with g Radical misrule u in pre-
vious years in the State. The legislature of
1S678-last Winter Democratic legislature
which had not single Radical in it to dis
turb the delightful harmony of the Democ-
racy, laid debt on the people of this State
Of S8,6lS, s90.32. This enormous sum was
levied. in one, session by the delegates
and senators Of this Democratic party, which
has the brazen impudence to talk of econo-
my, and charge the Republicans with extrav.
agance.
The Republican party had control of the
State in the years 1S612-3-45-6, and the
total. sum of appropriations made by them
amounts in these six years to s12, 1877, 660.G
Of this sum S4,212,470 was for bounties,
leaving SS,575,000 for State purposes. Thus
we see that the Republicans appropriated
less money for State purposes in six years,
than the Rebel Democracy have done in one
year-forty-e thousand sir hundred dol
lars less!
The Democrat has not the hardhood to
repeat its falsehood of a previous issue,
namely, that 81, 900, 5000, or nearly one-half
of the above sum, was. for bounties to sol
diers, in fulGment of law passed by the
Republican legislature. The facts in this
case are that the rebel legislature passed a
law which they called bounty law, but of
which no Federal soldier ever received one
cent. The $4,oo0,0o0 appropriated by that
bounty act went into the pockets of former
slave owners for chattles that went into the
Union armies and helped put down the re-
beilon. This is piece of taxation history
which will interast the ~-vr ever.---
-----cn more than the Democrats inventions
and sweeping assertions, made on the au-
thority of its editor, which is worth but very
little among people who value the truth
Let him publish the statistics of rebel out
lay by the legislature. 1t will interest the
readers of the Democrat Show the people
that the appropriations of a single session of
the rebel legislature of our State amounted
to $3.50 head for every man, woman and
child in the State!
This species of extravaganza extends to
every county in the State. 1t doesn't stop
with the legislature, but every Board of
County Commissioners are given up to the
same reckless expenditure of the peoples
money. In this county, last year, the peo-
pie paid S777,355. 10 in taxes; this year the
taxes amount to nearly 100000.