The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-06-19
The Ueril Mhin
ELkTON, JUNE IS, 1869.
Proving too Much.

Proving too Much.
As we anticipated the squabble and in
cipient riot at the recent municipal election
in one of the wards of Washington City
among the culored voters, proved pro-
life theme for the display of Tile Democrat
most highfalutin spread-eagle rhetoric
That sapient sheet, for the hundreth time,
again proved the colored man gorillo, or
something worse, for his initiating the white
man, in feeble manner, in some of his
worst features Riots of all kinds, and es-
pecially election riots, can not be too Sc
verely condemned. They do not bespeak a
type of citizenship, which insures the
strength and pcrpetuity of republican gov
eminent. What we started out to say,
however, is that if 4 fight, or riot, if you
please, at an election poll, is proof conclu-
sive that the men who commit the otfense,
condemn the whole race or class to which
they belong, as utterly unfit to enjoy the
elective franchise, how is the white race,
the pure ''Caucasians, y to escape this great
condemnation The rioting which was
committed at the Washington election the
other day. on the part of some inconsider-
ate colored men, who attempted to intiict
summary punishment on some of their
own race for voting the Copperhead ticket,
when contrasted with the riots which oc-
Cured in Philadelphia last Fall, or the ri
OTIS that used to be chronicled in Baltimore
City, when Thomas Swami ruled the ballot
boxes of the Monumental City, with bands
of Plug Uglies and avis, sinks into moth
ingness. In Philadelphia, police officers
were beaten. several private citizens muir
dered, the ballot boxes in some wards,
stuffed, and the legal voters driven Off
In some of the wards in Democratic New
York, the vote often exceeds by a hundred
per cent the number of legal voters, and
rioting is the rule-not the exception. We
might enumerate cases, adinfnitum of cleo
ton riots, conducted principally in strong
Democratic localities, which clearly prove,
if we apply The Democrats theory, that
the Democratic party are not fit to enjoy
the elective franchise. This may be much
higher the truth than that sheet would like
to admit. But if an election riot proves
disqualification on the part of the colored
man to be a voter, the same vice must con-
denim the white man, who is equally guilty,
in fact much more guilty, if the magnitude
of the crimes is considered.
The public, however, don't seem to have
the same clear perception of the inevitable
ruin which awaits those parts of the coun-
try where the colored man uses the ballot.
Since lie has been enfranchiSed in the Dis
trict of Columbia, real estate has advanced
hundred per cent. The increase of capt.
tai, of population and wealth in the city
of Washington, within the last three years,
has been unprecedented. This is the first
spot which experienced the blessings of
emancipation, was predicted as sure
ruin to the city,-as also the experiment of
the ballot in the hands of the black man.
The experiment - has not proved disas-
trous to good government or detrimental
to the pecuniary interests of the District.
But pure republican government has been
productive of good results far beyond the
expections of its most sanguine advocates.
Our Maryland Democracy, notwithstanding,
condemn the colored man, utterly, as
voter, and Tile Cecil Democrat, the most
foolhardy of the tribe, assigns him a place
among the beasts. We do not pause to
contained in the article referred to, but
merely the theory the Copperhead party
attempt to establish If the present un-
parallcled prosperity of the District of Co
lmbia did not eifectually refute the SIAN
der, the white voters i'll every large city of
the Union are condemned us utterly unfit to
use the ballot or take part in the govern
ment.
A year hence, it is more than likely, the
colored man will be called to exercise the
same right and complete the same work in
Maryland that he has been called upon to
perform in the District, which will be to
help put down rebel rule, stop the reckless
and unparalleled squandering of tie public
money, and restore the State again to Re-
publican government and prosperity. Then
will we behold these Copperkead sheets
like TAs Democrat, change their curses to
kisses. We will then hear no more from
them of fetish worship; of the thick-skull-
cd, narrow Drained, stolid negro but one
remove from the ourangoutang.