The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-01-02
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BETTER EXPLAIN YOUR explain ALTON

Byron once gave contemporary this
bit Of wholesome advice, and it was
forcibly recalled by reading THE DEMO
oCRAT's attempt, in the last issue, at
explaining the difference between Amer
icau:sm and Yankeeism." THE WIG
exposed the Stiffness of that monstrous
Ounce, when it attempts to dabble with
such a subject, in a previous issue, and,
as is THE DEMOCRATS custom when its
malice and ignorance are exposed, it re-
sorted to its old system of Defense by
throwing dirt. THE WING is charged
with being puzzled to know the differ
ence between 'Amcricanism and Yam
kecism,'" says our doughty adversary.
THE WIG is not "puzzlcd" in the
least, because there is no difference to
know" and THE DEMOCRAT is the
only puzzled party in being challenged
to point out difference, which it is
unable to do. The following is that
papers mode of explaining the differ
ence:
But then, it (Ths Whg) is equally puz-
zled to know the difference between right
and wrong, between decency and vulgarity,
between courtesy and crustiness, between
honesty and knavery."
We ought at least to know what
WRONG. vULGARITY, CRUsTINEsS and
KNAvERY are, seeing that we have THE
DEMOCRAT, the very embodiment of
them all, to look at every week. No
one will easily forget what these mon
stcrs are like, who sees that sheet weekly.
After giving vent to the above morsel
of wisdom, THE DEMOCRAT strikes an
attitude Chat sheet is great on atti-
tudcs) and it folds its cloak, lifts up its
eyes and hands, and like the Pharisee
excla;ms, " Lord, thank Thee that l
am not as Others" and goes on not I'M
like that sclf.sufficient and selfrighteous
disciple, not exactly to enumerate its
own virtues, but to ascribe the crimes
and vices of lis own school to others.
Hear the hypocrite:
elf Tile Wing does not know the differ
cnce between Yankeeism-an amalgam of
cant, pharisaism and INSCRIPTIONS selfish
hess, the spirit of which is conceived in
assumed infallibility, and which, running
counter to right, patriotism and the fixed
order of things, contents itself with the
declaration-' SO much the worse for
right" etc.-if The Wing discerns no
difference between such spirit, carping,
crlsading and dictatorial, and true Ameri-
canism founded in love of country -
We will just stop here at country"
Has that sheet contained line for the
last eight years in favor of country p
Not one! Every echo-for it is moth
ing but an echo-has been plea, d.
rect or indirect, in harmony and SYM
pathy with the rebellion, which was q
blow aimed at the heart of the country
and liberty! Was there ever more
crusading and dictatorial spirit man.
ifested than that of the slave lords while
they were preparing their plot of trea-
son? No mans life was safe whose
opinion differed with the dictators of
the whip. TO this sect or party has
THE DEMOCRAT been ever so subservi-
ent as one of their manacled slaves 1t
has never dared express an opinion that
wasn't endorsed by the plantation
Was ever victim tarred and feathered,
shot or hung in Yankee-land, for ex-
pressing an opinion? Never. But
thousands have been in the South. This
spirit in that region was "the fixed Or
der of things" which no free people
could stand, and which eliminated in
war. The same party still holds sway
in this State, cursing its prosperity and
dragging it down under an incubus of
debt, and such Observation-Disclosures
because positive injury to the pros
perity of the State-as THE CECIL
DEMOCRAT still keep alive the Mahom-
cdan spirit Of slavery, repelling and
expclling emigration, enterprise and
capital from the State Every thinking
man, of whatever party he may have
been, is becoming disguised with the
stupid, ignorant abuse of people who
happen to have been reared in the
Northern States, and there have learned
to combine mind and matter in the crea-
ton of wealth and comfort for the hu.
man family to a degree, which has not
at any time before, since the creation Of
the world, been achieved.
In place of rafting on like mad
house tenant, about THE WHIG's blind
ness " and "errors," it would be better
for THE DEMOCRAT to point them out
When we assert, aye, and PROVE, that
Americanism and Yankeeism are one
and the same, and are the representa-
tive names for civilization, enterprise
and productive skill in the New World
we assert it on the authority of the sta
tistics laid down in the history and re
cords Of the country. Take a single
instance in the civilization of the South
After the battle of Bull Run, while the
rebels lay encampcd through the winter
of '61-2, at Manassas, it was theil
boast that they manufactured drinking
cups, finger-rings, bracelets and Other
ornaments, out of the skulls of the sol
diers of the army of the republic who
fell in that battle. The same spirit anG
customs which taught such civilization
as this-but one remove from the saw
AGES the hideous ghoul which, though
condemned by the decree of arms, is
being constantly paraded in the columns
of THE DEMOCRAT. by q persistent hos