The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-08-07
Remarkable Ignorance.

the notorious facts that it requires degree
of harlihood, or a state of ignorance, not
usual to be met with among newspaper
readers, much less among newspaper pub
fishers. The following is the assertion i'll
The Democrats own words. After enumer-
ating sundry imaginary outrages commit
ted by the Republican party, it concludes,
"and left the State at least saddled with a
debt for enormous bounties, many of them
voted to the very negroes they had snatched
from their owners cornteldS clad in blue
shoddy and armed with a musket and re-
volver which debt we (the Democracy are
now charged with extravaganza for levying
taxes to pay"
In order to show the utter fallacy of this
statement, VIC will quote from Democratic
authority. When the Democratic Legisla-
ture of 1867 assembled, Gov. Swami con-
graduated it upon the prosperous condi-
ton of the Treasury" as left by the Re-
publicans Of the 1900, 600 Bounty Loan
authorized by the Act of 1865, but $780,
900 had been negotiated. Gov. Swami in
his message says, "The whole liabilities
on account of outstanding bounties not
yet provided for, it is estimated, will not
exceed $3.50, 900, if it reaches that amount,
which is more than balanced by the surplus
remaining in the Treasury at the close of
the fiscal year." viz, at the close of the
Republican administration.
The Republican minority, at the session
of which we write, thought it fitting time
to repeal the 100000 Bounty Bill, and
believed the taxpayers from a special tax
of 10 cents on the hundred dollars, but all
attempts looking to this end were frustrated
for time, by the bounty Jumpers and
treasury thieves who controlled the Demo-
cratic Legislature. The Hon. Jacob Tome
however, was determined to have the Bill
repealed, if possible, and made another eff
fort and during the last week of the ses-
sion, framed and pushed through Bill re-
pealing the Defence Loan, and not dozen
members of the Democratic Legislature
knew what they had voted for, till the Bill
had passed and was ont of their power
Thus we find minority of the out going
Republican Legislature effected the repeal
of the last Bounty Law, and the Democratic
Governor tells the Legislature in his annual
message that the balance i'll the Treasury,
when the Republicans retired from power,
was sufficient to more than meet the liabil-
tiles for bounties, which liabilities did not
exceed $3.50, 900. See how a plain tale puts
the false assertions of The Democrat down.
Having shown that the State was not left
by the Republican party saddled with a
debt for enormous bounties, as is asserted
by the truth-loving Democrat, which never
tires Boosting of its high intelligence and
dignity, we will now endeavor to show who
is responsible for saddling the State "with
a debt for enormous bounties." When the
Legislature of 1863 which had not a single
Republican in it, assembled the bounty
jumpers and thieves were able to count
Gov. Swami as one of their party. He
found that he would need their services in
carrying out his plans for future political
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and he now recommends
the re-enactment Of the &, 900, 900 Bounty
Bill, which we have seen was repealed
through the management of Mr.. Tome
Col. Leonard, the new Democratic Comp
troller, comes to the aid of his chief, Gov.
Swami, in his Report, with the following
argument in favor of the enactment of a
new Bounty Law. The Comptroller says
"The State has gone too far in the set
Element of these claims to recede. would
therefore respectfully recommend to your
favorable consideration (regarding these
claims as a just demand on the generosity
of the State) the full recognition from the
beginning to the close of the war, of all
volunteers, drafted men, those who paid
communication, those who Elrnished substi-
tuteS, drafted or otherwise, and a further
bounty of one hundred dollars to the former
ow ners of cnslisted slaves
Now wien we remember that nine-tenths
of the . former owners of enlisted slaves
were arrant rebels, we see through this lit
tie bit of tinancitring to put money out of
the Treasury into the pockets of the rebel
slave owners of the State
During the rebellion, the Republican
party of the State raised bounties and left
no means unemployed to aid the govern
ment in the suppression of the rebellion
The war ended and peace declared, they
sweep all Bounty Acts from the statute
books and seek by economy to bring pros
perity to the State and relieve the people
of the burthens of war. The Democracy
opposed all bounties and taxation for war
purposes during the war, but as soon as it
closed they set about passing Bounty Bills,
in order to pay rebel slave owners for the
loss of their negroes, and enrich a swarm
of bounty-iumpers and treasury thieves,
the kind Of stuff the Democratic ofice-l,oId-
ers arc principally composed Of.
The Democratic Legislature passed law
In March, 1S6S-with not Ii single Republi-
can in either House-authorizing the Treas
urer, under the direction of the Governor,
to issue bonds or certificates of debt to the
amount of 81, 900, 900, exempt from State,
county and municipal taxation, and bearing
interest ut six per cent, redeemable in ten
to fifteen years !; and a special tax of five
and half cents was ordered for this loan.
and the proceeds of the loan "are to be
ury." They name it a Bounty Loan, to
tickle the ears of the soldiers, and then
enact that the proceeds be applied to any
thing else. Among the items which this
money appropriated for by the economical
Democracy, we find
For relief of the South, 500. OGO 90
For st. Anthony's Orphan Assy-
lum. Catholic Institution, 1,OO7 -
Burial of Confederate dead at
Antietam, 5000
For House of Good Shepherd 1,5OO
st. Ninccnt's Infant ASYLUM, 1,5OO
st. Mary's Female Seminary, $500
West Nottingham Academy, 500
Washington University, 1850
Oyster Squadron, 35,5OO
This Oyster Squadron, the Comptroller
in his last Report, pronounces a humbug
We might pile up indefinitely appropria-
tions similar to the above, which show an
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