The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-08-27
An Apology.


ing, for the last three weeks, devoted so
much space to castigation Of the traducer
of character who presides over the columns
of THE Democrat. He has become motor
ious throughout the county as the maligner
of public and private reputation. None,
however pure, have escaped his poisonous
fang. Since he has been established in the
editorial chair of The Democrat, the Oldest
and most respected citizens of our town
and county have been fair game for his ma
licious "fings." They have been sneered
at; nick names have been invented and ap-
piled to them week after week; their mo-
| tives have been impugned, and slurs and re-
proaches cast upon their characters. Their
lives, however spotless, have been assailed
by taunts and gibes, and themselves carl
catured in the most ribald and indecent
manner. Men in church and State, in
public and private life, have all been fair
game for this slanderer. We have been
the subject Of continued personal assaults
for years through the columns of The DEM
ocrat, which has reeked with such virulence
ever since it fell into the hands of it's pres
| ent editor. We, in common with all the
best and most reputable men of the Repub-
lican party, have been the subject of all
the epithets that a scandalmonger could
invent OF pick up; and not content with
this our ancestry has been insulted by
mention in such a publications; not that we
fIo
croscopic that can be applied-into our
own or ancestral record. Such things do
not annoy lis i'll the least; but by cult-
waited public they are denounced as coarse
and ungenteel; and are entirely out of
place in family newspaper. The editor
OF The Democrat has pursued this course
so long that he has earned in this commu-
nifty, among the best society, ,caAont dis
tinction Of party, what is termed a bad repu-
tation, and is now generally acknowledged
to be the common scandal monger and tat
tier of the town. Tattling seems ingrained
in this mans nature, and not content with
his editorial opportunities, he plies has ma
hctous tongue, and is the busy mischset-
achere his presence has been tolerdted.-
This thing has become nuisance, and
complaints are made of it from all quarters.
From no motives of our own, or malice
on our part, we have taken up the scourge
to attempt reform On this social criminal
The public demand it. We believe he is
unconscious of being an outlaw to genaeel
society, and must be scourged into better
behavior, and taught to respect the proprie-
ties of good neighborheod. When age and
experience have ripened the little Judgment
nature has vouchsafed him, he will thank
us, as Ichabod Crane used to assure the
little Dutch urchins that they would thank
him, whose backs snAarted under his peda-
gogue birch. Ho WINGED, last week. like Il
''galled jade from the first application at
the rattan; this week he will probably
squirn,s and next week howl. These are
evidences that the caustic application is
efiecting cnre.
In conclusion, we assure the man of The
Democrat, that ont of the purest motives
of friendship, and in defence of the public,
we have been induced to administer the
present castigation; and we beg sardon of
our readers for having had to eresd whip
ping post in Tile Wig: nothing but Della
ware law seemed to meet his aase Fl hc
will endeavor to be civil, and' in future act
as decently as lie kno,ss Aoso, we will let him
go without a conviet's jacket, and we will
even intercede as friend with his multi
tudc of enemies. But if he manifest re-
luctance to give up his old vices, we will BE
under the painful necessity of Stripping
his back bare and applying the cas-. We
scarce hope for complete reform. however.
believing bad education in morals and
manners, has untitled him Eor respectable
society, and he violates As precepts anwit-
tinUly