The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-02-20
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ELKTON, FEBRUARY 70, 1869.

ELAION, EEBHUA HH 10, 1862
The Democrat never fails to try to
make case when opportunity can be
found, for the defunct cause of slavery,
but it oftener makes "mux" instead.
Its last attempt in this line was an ef-
fort to ride into notice on DR.. McCabe's
lecture; and as usual with youthful
pettifoggers misrepresents the whole
matter. The Wing is again the dis
turber of the organ of the effete, in the
matter of the Dr's lecture The Wing
found no fault with the Doctor or his
lecture, which was pleasant hour
among the poets; but we did arraign
that demon heresy of Calhoun and the
slave oligarchy, State SOVEREIGNTY
The text for the particular article in
question was the Doctors very unctious
profession of love for his DEAR OLD Ma
TIvB STATE OF VIRGINIA, in the intro
ductory remarks to his lecture Our
remarks on this subject in former is
sue, had no special reference to the DR..
or any other individual. A public
speakers words republic property, and
they fall among the people with ten
dency to produce either evil or good
This sentiment we have just referred
to, has we'll defined meaning, under
stood by all, and no one will be allowed
to plead, not even the pettifogger Of
The Democrat, that the natural attach
ment for home, constituting the spot and
neighborhood where one has been
raised, with it's familiar domestic scenes,
remembered from childhood, has any
thing in common with that Boosting SO
patent heretofore in every slave State.
for which Virginians stood pre-emi.
nent.
After leaving the familiar scenes Of
home and childhood, what is there in
any particular State to endear it, anc
cause it to be cherished above all othe.
States in the Union, except its 1NsTITU
T1oNs' Nothing. Now Virginia had
but one institution that her leading mel
in the latter years, cared o baubee for
and that institution was slavery. And
vet there was not State in the Union
whose people vexed the ear of man Sc
with this species of boasting as The
upper class of Virginians. Their re-
frain was ever "proud old Virginia.
"our dear old native State of Virginia.
"the noble old Dominion" AD1NFINI
TUM. This same noble State held th,
die in her hand which she could cast
either for war or peace in 1861, anG
she cast that die secretly, treacherourly
Indignantly for war. And why did
her leading men cast it for war which
not one of them has to this day ever
been able to justify before an impartial
world? Simply and solely that "my
dear old native State of Virginia =
might continue her commerce in human
flesh might continue to monopolise,
what she had long enjoyed, the breed
ing of human beings for the rice, the
cotton and sugar plantation market Of
the Gulf States! The slave pens OF
this proud old Dominion " were worse
than the barracoons of Africa. There
the heather chiefs captured their
enemies and sold them to slave traders
Here the educated and refined men,
living in the full blaze of christian light
of the nineteenth century virtually an
nulled the holy rights of wedlock and
converted their plantations into breed
ing establishments to supply human
beings for this horrid traffic! There
were plenty Of learned Doctors of Di-
vinity who preached Christ to these
men in their churches. Did one of
them rebuke this stupendous crime p
To maintain this sin against man and
heaven, her controlling men, gave the
bloody vote which brought down the
storm of the rebellion. And though
she will doubtless rise purified from
where she has been Frustrated by the
tempest she invoked, we do not wish
to hear the key note of her treason, and
the boast of her reign of iniquity pull
lishcd with brazen effrontery before
the world again. And when we hear
learned Doctor Of Divinity who did
NOT reprove her in the days of her
pride, for her Sodom-like sins-or a
less important parsonage, boast of her
iniquity and haunt the scarlet robes Of
her shame in the face of free nation
and people, We will lift our voice against
the insult. The history of Virginia for
the last quarter of century proceed
ing 1861, is disgrace to the nation,
and it's time this public boasting of the
days of her States rights" slave insti-
tutions were frowncd down by the
community, when public speaker at
tempts to recall, and eulogise them be-
fore the world.
"A couple of old viragos came out
of the sewers of The Democrat lastweek,
with their baskets laden with the fit h
of those localities, and made the gar