The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-08-27
The 4" Inarticulate."
So he mouths n sentence

As dog mouths II bone OLD Pdp.
We were familiar with the forensic efforts
of the editor of Tile Democrut, and under
stood how judges, jurors, witnesses and
spectators pitied the inarticulate number
Had such an effort therefore, as appeared
in last weeks Democrat, under its many
lcttered caption, been the report Of one of
his speeches to court or jury, Or on the po-
litical stand, as understood by some short
hand reporter, we could have well conceived
how the thing happened. But, in labored
articles for a newspaper, when his pen, not
his tongue, attempted to give the world the
benefit of his genius, we were not prepared
to find the same intirmity. Indeed, or
deepest sympathies are moved by seeing
him thus an object of melancholy pity to
his friends and derision to his enemies.
Will not his friends qcithdrd,c him .
Writing is not his forte and since they
have had the good sense to recognize the
farce of putting up such a man to address
court or jury, we may trust the same
diScernment to recognize in this instance,
fact so patent to the public.
The article to which we allude, is as Gu
rious rs it is malicious. 1t opens with
little story about as Ineligible as his po-
litical and jury spceches) of child getting
drunk and then follows such medley of
"panting to cuss SO cuss words -" Ed
itor of Tile Whw''-" prating by proxy"
GO blunderbuss borrowed 1.-THE press
subsidized ''-'' hireling blackguard and
g ambitious outsiders as makes one ex-
claim that perhaps he will equal the Cruik-
shank, after all, with this slight difference,
that the famous Cruiksllank immortalized
his name by caricaturing other people, while
this modern editor, if he reaches to fame,
will do it by caricaturing himself. His is
the melancholy madness, without the inspi-
ration.
Tile Democrat should have taken lessons
from his immediate predecessor. Perhaps
he might have been made to understand
how man may edit a Democratic paper,
and preserve his reputation as a gentleman.
We believe, however, when he came to Elk
ton he had reached an age too advanced to
be taught many of the habits which set so
naturally on men accustomed, like Judge
Stump, to cultivated circles. Imagine the
provocation, tthe language and the IDEAS
which finally compelled MI. Creswell, pub
licly, to stigmatize him as-"Me puppy that
kenneled IN Tie Democrat obice'' Judge
Stump, on the other hand, of whom he
might have taken some useful lessons, was
always gentlemanly the paper under his
management was as respectable rs its pol
itics permitted. But then this is not sur
prising, when we reco4Tect the Judges |
antecedents were so different.
There is, however, something more than
the want of different education-a dis
temper deeper than the "inarticulate in
this mans character. Something is radi-
cally wrong in his moral nature-a COM
pound of envy, overweening vanity and |
malice!
What was the cause for his Billingsgateo
We had ridiculed the weakness of the mans |
character. lie was ashamed of his name |
He had done what the poet considers worse |
than theft of his "purse.' He had stolen
a 'good NAME He had ensconced him
self in a dead lions skin. Far from re-
tracing what we formerly said of this, we
say again that there is something wanting |
to the dignity of the mans character in |
thus denying his respectable paternal name |
and appropriating that of celebrity, to
which he had no more claim than he had |
to julius CAESARS. 1t is infinitely mean ::
besides it will never make lin great, and |
it is best to leave unsullied the name of the
honered dead
Tile DensocrW pays us compliment in |
believing that if we wanted to "cliss'' we
would have to do it by "proxy.' A style |
to him so familiar, and withal so congenial, |
is foreign and distasteful to us: but little |
plain speaking on the 'Crookshanks, ~ for
eign and domestic, is not beyond our pow
erS.
When an article appears in The DensocSm
which is weckiy-of the "cussy' kind. |
We never dream of ''hireling black
guard inditing it, but are satisfied of its
paternity and charmed with the versatility |
of the Crookshanls talent. 1t is a crying |
shame that such man should receive cour-
tenance from any political party. But that |
Cecil county, (as the County Commission
ers' statement shows should be taxed to |
the tune of 81 ,422 S9-this year, to "sub-
si,lize' this chastc and refined "proxy" of |
the Democratic party, is sufficient to fire |
the blood of honest men who pay the taxes
of the county.
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