The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-06-04
CECILTON. Innc 1St. 1870.


Mr.. EDIToR:-In The Democrat of Satur-
day last, is communication from VIM. IL.
Pearce, making an attack upon me for
some charges made against him in the an
swer to the ''Clerk of the Election i'll
The Democrat of the 14th ult., signed
"Justice," thereby showing that one of
the sneaks have been unkenneled, his de-
NAL to the contrary, notwithstanding; the
imprint of his low, cunning and sneaking
trail being too perceptible to be mistaken.
Why the "Clerk of the Election - or
VIM H. Pearce should have made the at
tack upon me they did through The Demo-
crat, after their acknowledging the facts
in the items from Cecilton," as published
i'll The Wig of the 18th ult., if | had been
the writer of them-which | was not-is
hard to conceive, unless it was actuated by
personal malice. This VIM. H. Pearce,
about the year 1866, (prior to that ''netice'
they put SO much stress on, was appointed
Collector of the First District He came
to me and besought me to go on his bond,
using many reasons why l should do SO;
one was, he did not want to ask one of the
other party to go on his bond. l did
not What party was he with that fall?-
Can any one wonder at his malice towards
me, knowing the man as l do? HIS
sneaking maliSnity and unforgiying dispo-
sition shows it is personal malice against
me. | know no other cause.
This Mr. Pearce says: 81 will, there
fore, only netice what he intends directly
for me-" He then quotes from "Clerk' IS y
first letter: ''Let his pro-slavsry record,
his arder to enlist the slaves Of his neigh
bors while he restrained his own, his eager
ness to follow certain squad of negroes,
ameng whom was 4 slave of his own, until
he obtained certificate for the one he had
lost" These insinuations were pronoun-
ced false in The Wing of the 21st ult., and
"Clerk - and Pearce were defied to prove
them true Hew does Pearce meet this
charge of falsehood? Does he bring any
proof of the truthfulness of these charges?
After his quoting the charge, lie says:
CHOW, member Of the Convention ia 1864,
your word should be relied upon, but per-
sons who know that you did yourself so
much honor, in your estimation, while
member of the Convention by that vote you
seem so well pleased to remind us OF,
would be at loss to decide between your
claim as a member of the Convention and
member of the NJ. E. Church, and one of
the Trustees. Now, let me ask you, Mem
Der, if you de not presume that honor and
position gives you a decided advantage over
Mr. Clerk Is this any proof? and yet
this is all he has said in proof of his false
assertions. And again, renewing some
other charge about this sldue, which | pro-
He cannot prove it by this Stare, for he, who
is now free man, says Pearce cannot
prove any such thing by him.
This VIM. II. Pearce again says: 81
would ask who went and hunted negroes
to sell them?'' l cannot tell him but
would refer him to George Bordley, Ike
Kane and others, whose mysterious disap-
pearance from this neighborhood, in times
past, as being very likely able to give him
the desired information, or if he is very
anxious, there can be other evidence equally
as convincing afforded him.
Now, the excuse of VIM. II. Pearce g. for
not resigaing his office before he would
take negro evidence against a white man,,
after having given it as reason for chang
ing his party, is as absurd and as false as
anything he has written.
Would any one have believed, or now
believe that Gov. Swami would have ap
pointed me, or any ether Republican, in
Pearce's place? Was he afraid to trust a
Democrat for fear they "would give the
negro's testimony, when against white
man, more credit than it was entitled to %
VIM. H. Pearce continues 81 have one
other reason, so far as he is interested, and
he forces me to tell him and that is, that
would believe negro on oath in any mat
ter where dollars and cents are concerned,
as soon as l would him, especially where
he was interested OF likely to be benefited
by the ISSUE" What under the sun, has
his believing a negro's evidence before he
would mine, to do with his resigning his
office? He must certainly have just received
fron, one of his faithful satellites, a fresh
potation from outside Of Cecilton. This is
in keeping with this model Justice of the
Peace. l wonder if he would as soon be-
lieve the negro of the "softer sex who, it
was reported, carried butchers knife for
him that Fall? Who can wonder at his
fears of negro evidence?
Again VIM. II. Pearce says SIN regard
to your insinuations, they are very mean,
low, contemplate, and unfit for publication
in any paper that has any regard for de-
cency or truth" My insinuations are true,
and can, and will be proven, if necessary.
They never would have been made, had he
not aided the Clerk " in his uniustifiable
attack upon me they have, both of them,
made assertions which have been pronounced
false, and they have been defied to prove
them, but have retorted by making others
equally base and false.
Now, the wise man says: "Though thou
shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among
wheat with psstle, yet will not his foolish
ness depart from him. Is not the appli-
cation to them apparent?
Yours, &C., THos. p. JONES.