The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1868-10-17
Plain Truths for Honest People.

Locofocoism is a living falsehood, "known
and read of all men," From its incubation,
it has grown and fattened on deception
The Jesuitical doctrine, the end justifes the
means, has been the motive principle through
the entire record of its false and vicious his
tory-becomng all things to all men, that 1t
might by all means gain some. 1t readily
assumes the garb of piety when it would
wiring an unwilling endorsement from the
Church of God, and easily glides into its
normal habitude, to lead the FalStaffian ar
my of ragged, bloated recruits, to fight into
position and power the
"Mdest mannerd men
That ever scuttled ship, or cut throat
The we'll bred Lambros, who are the brains
of the party, smile at their own smartness,
as they swing the sword of Damocles over
the heads of the duped ranks who yield to
their slightest nod, as in the presence OF
royalty.
Their unfair articles to obscure the truth
have no limit short of their utmost ability
in that direction: They are by turns the ad-
vocates and opponents of every measure OF
general interest upon which the people are
divided. They can naugurate, and prose-
cute till unmeasured blood and treasure are
expended, rebellion to perpetuate vii
famous system of slavery, and i'll the mo-
ment of defeat, absolutely stultify them
selves by professions of anti slaveryism. In
the past years of their proud defiance of
Heavens law" good will toward men -
they could satanically deny even the human
ity of the poor African in bondage but, in
the change Of circumstances, wrought,
through the providence Of God, by the strong
arm of Republcanism, they can fairly lick
the oozing grease from liberated Sambo's
shining face, in testimony of their high ap-
probation of his lately discovered nobility,
merely for The sake Of his rote. Truly " there
is but step from the sublime to the ridicu
lous."
The cohesive principle that holds this glu-
tinous compact together is the love Of power
among its leaders. 1t is therefore appro
priately called the "rule or ruin party
There is hardly a member in its motley
ranks who would not sink every other "com-
rade in Distress to the bottom of the Styx,
rather than fail to rule, with rod of iron,
in the narrow sphere of personal dominion.
This whole political system is sustained
by knavery and ignorance. The Heaven
enunciated ethics, of equality before the
law, have always been ignored by Locofo-
coism. A logical fact of all history is that
the individual or party who could wilfully
Cypress one man, would, in change of cir
cumstances, Cypress all men. The spirit OF
self-superiority which exalts itself above the
humble and the poor of the same species,
would trample upon human hearts and hopes
as high as the stars, if they might but serve
as stepping stones by which to raise itself to
fame or fortune-however hollow and pre-
carious.
From the time Of the defeat of their first
leader, Apollyon, to the canvass before us,
they have kindled and fostered the furious
flames of bitterness, discord and war, by
arts of fraud upon the ignorant masses
Consequently their greatest triumphs have
always been where ignorance prevails ; for
they cannot live where the light of intcll-
gence shines.
Never has this party grown more enthus-
astic in its practices of deception and false
hood, than in the present campaign. Through
the loss of power, they involved US in civil
war, with its train Of terrible consequences ::
and now, with the GOODNESS of Micawber.
they ask the people of this couatry TO re-
store them to power, that they may thereby
accomplish what they failed to do for the
acant of power. In their elastic philosophy.
if we escape ruin by the charybdis of the
sword, we must perish by the ScyIa of the
ballot. Let the country be as brave and
true in the latter danger, as they were in the
former fearful passage, and our ULYSSES
will be as successful in stunning the Wan
dering Rocks of disunion, and escaping the
Sirens of rebellion, as he, of whom Homer
sang in the Odyssey, those of the classic
Straits of Messina.
Centuries since, vain and drunken Eph-
rain laid down the platform of Locofocoisn
-" We have made covenant with DEATH
and with hell are we at agreement for we
have made lies our refuge, and under false
heed have we hid ourselves"