The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-10-16
The Elections and their Lesson.

The elections of Tuesday last were the
last real contest which retrograding Dem
ocracy will ever attempt against the pro-
gress of the age. When another twelve-
month has rolled away, the last hope OF the
Democratic party, so-called, Of the present
day, will have been extinguished. The
Pennsylvania election has resulted in the
utter defeat of the party which has lived
on the preiudices and worst passions of the
rabble for four years. The defeat OF
Packer, the election Of Geary and Williams,
and wrestling of the city of Philadelphia by
majority of 1000, from the Democratic
rings which had fastened upon it, is the
signal of general defeat to the party of re-
pudiation, and the enemy of every princi-
pie in the interest of liberty and the rights
of man, which was won by the sword in the
overthrow of the slave power.
By this result the administration of Gen.
Grant is endorsed, and final success guar
anteed the Fifteenth Amendment.
The first year of new administration
always meets the most formidable opposi-
administration and plainly defined policy,
have boldly met this "springtide" Of opposi-
ton, which is periodically looked for, and
have rode it triumphantly. Henceforth
tie lifelong dogmas of the Democratic par
ty, which have long since lived out their
day of usefulness, will be known only in
history. Opposition to the principles of
the Republican party must wane in the
future, and that party move irresistibly on
to the fulfi1ment of its grand mission. The
present decade will lay firmly the founda-
ton of impartial liberty and public educa-
ton, and the human family will find itself
elevated to higher plain that it ever be-
fore enjoyed since the foundation of the
world.
With these lessons in political wisdom all
around u.s. will the people ofthis State still
blindly oppose their puny might in vain ef-
forts to thrust back the inevitable? or will
that large body of the thinking men who
have sustained and supported the rotten
elements of the Copperhead party in the
past, still blindly follow the false and i'm
possible teachings of the party which has
no higher motives than public plumber, and
which uses in its warfare, almost exclusive
ly, the base and cowardly weapons of preju-
dice and hate?
1t is high time that men Of intelligence
and understanding, who are at heart
true to the country and its best interests,
should see, and properly estimate the miscr-
able policy and doctrines preached to them
by the leaders of the old party of falsehood
and error and resolve to cast their lot with
the young party Of morality, refinement,
education and advancement. Shall Mary
land remain still chained to this body of
political death? Shall this county especial
ly, of which better things have been ex-
pectcd by the world, remain clogged in her
enterprise, crippled in her resources and
plundered by rulers whose management
and political history are but a chapter from
the middle ages? Look and behold the adj
vance that is making toward a higher and
| better condition, on every hand, save only
here in our midst. Can you see these
things and continue to support the decrepid
party of political heresies, void of a single
| living idea?