The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-01-16
THE DENOCRkT's YANKEEIsM.

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ELKTON, JANUARY le, 1869.
THE DENOCRkT'S YANKEEISM.
The Democrat having been driven
fairly and squarely from its position on
Yankee-ism and Americanism," at
tempts to divert its readers from the
question by belaboring The Wing with
a volume of hard words in the last issue
In this laudable enterprise, some super
serviceable Sancho Panza volunteers his
services to the Knight, but the Squire,
after being delivered of few whop-
pers and talking loudly, as is this class
wont when they have neither plain
facts or arguments to advance, about
vulgarity," decency," stupidity"
with other cant phrases, most commonly
in use by that school, the fellow, like
the Yankees stick, "whittle's down to
the little end of nothing" The "doc-
trines advocated by The Wing disgust
UNNECESSARILY democratic Chesterfelds
These same doctrines generally have
disguised rebels, and the measure of
their disgust is a pretty fair criterion of
Republican success. 1t must be q
source of vast amusement to the read
ers of The Democrat to witness the
pompous airs which that paper takes
on in the lectures it reads to The Wing
ON dccency! We have an exchange
with pretty nearly all the papers pub
lished in Maryland, and without one
exception, The Cecil Democrat uses the
most foul and coarse language of any
paper in the State, and yet its only re-
sort when taken up, and its ranking
rebel treason exposed by The Wing, is
to assume the airs of great turkey
gobbler, and strut and talk about DECENT
LANGUAGE, IGNORANCE, STUPIDITY, &c.
Verify this is the cry of "stop thief"
by the guilty party. The following is
fair specimen of the manner in which
The Democrat attempts to wriggle out
of its foolish position:
eve expressed few weeks since we'll
grounded fear that the intolerance Of YAM
keeism would ere long stab to the death the
large-hearted iberality Of Americanism.-
Others may not share our fears, but any
one with an idea above an oyster could have
understood their nature and apprehended
the striking distinction between the Yam
kee as type Of American progress, 50 re-
cognized abroad, and the Yankee as the
embodiment of New England fanaticism,
cant and disaffectiou, familiar to the rest Of
America"
Now we confess we couldn't see this
point" here spoken of; and have
well-grounded fears of The Democrat
being able to show it. What is this
Yankee intolerance" and this "large-
hearted Americanism?" Is that found in
the immortal principle advocated by
the Republican party, which declares
all men are created equal, and have
a right to the enjoyment Of life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happinessY That
has always been favorite principle
with the men of New England, and
met with the most formidable opposition
only from the slave pens of South Car
DINA, where The Democrat invariably
takes up its position. Capital shall
own labor, is the doctrine of the section
where The Democrat intimates large
hearted Americanism is found in its
greatest perfection. Labor shall own
capital,-at least the laborer shall own
his limbs and body, has always been
the doctrine of New England.
"The effort to laud one part of
common country at the expense Of
another is SO essentially Yankeeish,"
says The Democrat. Now if the rebels
had speciality amongst their sins, this
thing of boasting Of everything south
ern being superior to oil else beside, was
their leading characteristic. But it ap-
pears The Democrat didn't mean
Yankee as type of American pro-
gress SO recognized abroad; )" but that
other Yankee Of comic almanac and
wooden nutmeg, clock pedler and horn
gun-fint manufacturer-the stage Yam
kee of the present day, whose type can
not be found embodied in flesh and
blood anywhere on the continent. A
mere creation Of the poets brain. And
this is the veritable Yankee, the Yankee
which disturbs the democratic slumber.
Now it is Of little consequence whether
The Democrat meant this, or whether
it meant anything, except to mouth
over for the thousandth time, the old
rebel abuse Of the Republican party,
which it learned during the war. VIZ
meant, and the world means, by Yam
kee, that type of American progress,
so recognized abroad" and other Yam
keeism than this, exists only in the wild
brain of the Brick Pomeroy press of
the country.
In order to get as far away from the
question as possible this imitator of the
La Crosse Democrat, treats its readers
to chapter on the aims houses Of Mas
sachusetts. This State having poor,
insane and criminals within its borders,
as every State and country must inevita-
bly, have, erects aims houses, asylums
and penitcntiaries for them and makes
report annually of those institutions {;
but the paupers, and insane were left to
perish, or to be cared for almost exclu-
sively by friends in those States where
the chivalry held away, and the world
never knew what was their fate. The