The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-09-03
COlOred Democratic Mass Meeting!


Ye uncasAed hold your noses-your
Caucasian smellers-your rum-blossom
"snutes.''
On Tuesday night ''colored Democratic
meeting was held in Zion Church, Balti-
more we were informed by the papers of
that city on Wednesday morning. What
will the Cecil county Democracy-we beg
pardon, the democratic Conservative
Voters Of Cecil county," that party's last
name-think? What will they sag when
they hear of this insult to the Democratic
we beg pardon again,-the democratic
Conservative Voters of Cecil county," who
are called to meet to-day in Primary Meet
ings? Will every District in the County
not resound with resolutions, denouncing
such presumption on the part of Baltimore
"niggers?" Will the presumptive igno-
rant machines" as the organ of this
county denominates them, not be warned
off, and forbid approaching that time hon
ored party-hallowed by the traditions of
Slavery? If they are not, then the preach
ing of The Cecil Democrat amounts to
arrant hypocrisy and humbug.
The american says Of the meeting:
"From the fact that no white men took
an active part in the meeting last night, it
was evident that they feared to be seen
upon the platform lest their names should
appear in the papers. They manGuvred
the holding of the meeting, and relied upon
few deluded colored men to prick their
political bubble, so that it might burst
upon the world in a grand flare, and gall
well-thinking minds into the belief that
the colored men of Baltimore are power
full in their love for the Democratic party,
and will not affiliate with the Republican
party. Well, the bubble was bursted as
per arrangement, and the troubled Waters
which oozed from out of that meeting fail
ed to sprinkle the audience with any of
their promised balm. The Waters spoken
of were Jonathan and Willamette former
the self-constituted President of the colored
Democratic Association of Baltimore, and
the latter his brother and man. of-all-work.
In fact, they appear to be the head, front,
body and extremity of the Democratic COL
ored voters of this city,
Mr.. Jonathan Waters, who keeps res
taurant or grog shop, was organizer, Pres
ident and principal speaker at the meeting.
In common parlance Jonathan "run the
machine" In the course Of his speech he
spoke Of a visit he paid to Hon. Thomas
Swami, the Democratic "white bird of
Maryland"
"But continued Jonathan, when call
ed upon Mr.. Swami, the most honorable
man in Maryland, a Democrat soul and
body, he invited me into his parlor and
conversed with me like a gentleman, as he
is. l brought up the subject of colorcd
persons riding in the cars, when Mr. Swami
replied that he would ride in the same car
with them, and if he had his say in the
matter he would tear the sign boards from
off the cars allotted to colored per sons"
From the fact that Mr.. Swami stood the
highest of all human beings in the estima-
ton of the speaker, and that the Ferry
Bar Ronters,'' a set of Swann's "Plugs"
represented the white element of the meet
ing, it is fair to presume that the White
Bird was at the bottom of the " Colored
Democratic meeting.
But how will the I" Conservatives who
have been keeping their heads for years
thrust deep into the Democratic bag to
escape the horrid smell of the "nigger,"
and the terrible fate of "negro equal
ity," survive the news that "Colored
Democratic Mass Meetings" are being
patronized by the Baltimore Democracy,
and not a paper in their party utters a
word of condemnation, or note of warn
ing?
The Cecil Organ will surely protest
against this piece Of unparalleled impudence
on the part of the machines who do not
know their own namcs,' these "darkies y
daring to hold democratic meetingn'
Oh, We conservatives Of Cecil, the
"winter of your desolation is at hand. y
There will soon remain no green spot on
which to place your weary feet. The
"White Mans Party" holding " Co!ored
Democratic Meetings --courting the "negro
vote" your end approaches. Even that
city of refuge is about to be invaded
the democratic Conservative " party, is
about to be polluted by the presence of the
irrepressible "culled pusson," and by the
pressing invitations of the "leaders of the
Democratic party
That Proposed Purchase Of The Democrat.
A statement has been paradcd in The
Democrat again and again, and last week
repeated for something less than the hun
drcdth time, that we, at some former
period, the date of which is not given,
made desperate efforts to obtain possession
of The Cecil Democrat from its proprietor.
We only notice the statement now to show
the animus of it's present gossip loving
editor. Some fifteen years ago-not less
wo feel sure, and we think longer ago than
that-being called to Elkton on business,
entirely foreign to newspaper enterprises,
at the suggestion of John L. Rowen, we
called on the proprietor of that paper and
inquicrd whether it was for sale. His an
swer was that it was not. That was the
whole of the transaction. Rowcn wished
to get the control of the paper out of the
hands it was in; for what motive we did
not inquire. Had it been for sale, and
changed hands, into whose hands it would
have fallen, or who would have become
editor in whose interest or what interest
it would have been conducted, are ques-