The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-10-02
Letter from Brick Meeting House.
b. VI. HOUSE. 9th Dist, Cecil

Is. VI. HOUSE. Jtll lJlSt., NeCll ..
Editor Of The Cecil Wig Living, as
we do, i'll the enjoyment of the peace and
quiet of one of the oldest-settlcd places in
| the county,-a place where the people have
| learned to love and respect each other. and
each others rights, excepting ourselves aloof
! from that class of individuals whose bust
ness it is to lay grievous and heavy burdens
! upon mems shoulders, under the guise of
delivering them from some great trial or
pending calamity, easier to be borne than
the tax they lay on we feel that we have
interests which are identified with the inter
ests Of other portions of the county. Then,
assuming the county to be one entire fam
lily, it is natural and right, now just upon
the eve, doubtless, of hard Winter, for
| us to ask, Have we bread enough for the
family? Well, for the 9th child, we an
swer, so far as our portion of the county is
| concerned, we have been blessed i'll an
abundant yield i'll the crops of wheat, oats,
potatoes, vegetables and fruits of all kinds
and the corn, where it was planted in pro-
per season, upon rich soil, and properly
cultivated, promises a full average yield,
while Others who mss'd it, on the don't
care style, and left it to take care of itself.
have their lack of care and labor rewarded
by great crop of weeds but great lack
in the article of corn. Though comparing
the production with the consumption, there
will be many thousand bushels of wheat,
oats, corn and potatoes, in our District,
over and above the wants of the people :;
and should any of our sister Districts, on
account Of the long drouth, be short of
provisions the coming Winter, they will
find among the people of the 9th,-their
brethren,-and i'll our granaries an alum
dance for all. Then another very proper
with an eye single to the improvement of
the moral and spritualcondition of them
selves and those around them, as becomes
dependent subjects, who look for, and ex-
pect, their meat in dueseason? In answer
to this, the people of the 9th are a church.
going people. The principal religious de-
nominations are Methodists, Presbyterians,
and Friends, with whom there are numer-
Gus places of public and private worship,
all of which are well attended and encour-
aged by the labors of able ministers of the
Gospel, each denomination having charity
for, and living in peace with, its neighbor.
And as another great auxiliary to moral
and spiritual improvement, We care for the
young. We have numerous Sabbath
schools, all of which are crowded with joy
Gus children, that are encouraged thus to
keep and reverence the Sabbath day. by
the presence and example of fond and happy
parents.
Thus we go on. With the advantages
derived from the moral and industrious of
other, and avoiding Courts, the 9th District
is far on in the march of improvement.
Politically, the 9th District, is the banner
District of the county, her majority being
largely Republican. She was thoroughly
loyal during the rebellion, having called
the first District meeting that was called in
the county, in April 1861, to aid the Gov
eminent to put down treason. She is also
a perfect law-abiding District, needing only
one .juryman (at the present Term of Court
to look after the interests of her people
Just at this point, Mr.. Editor, if should
not he DEPRESSING, | must say that there is
an idea strikes me that it is not so with
our sister Districts; for it brings to my
remembrance, that during 4 number of
years in serving on juries, that the repeti-
ton of crimes i. c. larceny, assault and
batteries, negro fights drunkenness, &c,
came more frequently before the jury from
the vicinity of that noted place, the Frog,
than from any other point in the county,
and it Just occurred to me that if any place
in the county needed .iurynien or sheriff
to look after the interests of the people, it
was the Frog.
In this depression I have been led off, and
will close by calling the entire family to-
gether again. CECIL COUNTY-with
her churches, her public schools, her water
powers, her navigable streams, her lands,
her manufactures in iron, WOOL cotton, &C.,
her fisheries, her fruit growing Districts,
her soil and climate, adapted to the culture
and growth of every kind of grain, with
the industry of her people-would have no
need of an alms-house or Jail, jurors or
sheritfs to look after her own people, were
it not for the Intoxicating liquors that are
sold in her borders. NINTH CHILD.