The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-10-08
The First Congressional District.

The registered colored vote of the First
Congressional District, composed of the
nine counties on the Eastern Shore, COM
mencing with Cecil and terminating with
Worcester, amounts to 10, 1884, which may,
if the proper exertion is used, be increased
to ~, 900 or upwards The Democracy do
not disguise the fact that they have this
vote to overcome before Col. Hambleton
can hope to be returned to the House of
Representatives. The Democrats whistle
to keep their courage up, and profess to
believe that, because of the fact that they
have failed to win any considerable frac-
ton of the colored vote to their interest,
numbers of Republicans, in sheer disgust,
will abandon their principles and party to
take the places in the Democratic party
which were offered to the negroes. This
indicates very low standard for the men
whom they expect to act SO foolishly.-
We think that any man who has been wise
enough to choose between Republican pro-
gress and Democratic retrogression, cannot
be caught by SO shallow a device, or SO
humiliating an offer.
1t seems fair to conccde that, with any
thing like vigorous canvass, which will
cause turn out of the Republican voters,
that the District may be counted on for
Republican victory and the election of Mr..
Torbert From the most reliable infor-
nation we can gain, our candidate is very
popular with the masses of the Republican
party in all the lower counties. And it
would be nothing disparaging if, like the
prophets, he found honor abroad in excess
of in his own county. Such is not unfre-
quently the case with the very best men,
But we confidently expect Cecil to do her
whole duty this Fall by rolling up Re
publican majority that will make Democ-
racy hang its dishonest head! We have
the votes to overwhelmingly beat the best
poll the Democrats can possibly make. All
that is required is for them to go out to
the election. Last Fall more than a hun
dred Republicans in the Fifth District
alone absented themselves from the polls.
We trust such apathy will not again con-
tribute to the interest of the party which
did all in its power but a few years ago to
ruin our whole system of Republican gov
eminent; and who in a few short years
have plundered the treasury of Maryland
and overborn the State with debt.
Mr.. Torbert is now making a spirited
canvass in the lower counties, speaking to
public meetings almost every day and
evening. He will be in this county about
the last of this, and first of next month,
and address meetings at several of the
most prominent points. He is not the
man to stand idle and hope for success,
but to command success by efforts deserv-
ing it. We know that he has some per-
sonal enemies in the Republican party, but
where is the man, of any party, fearless
and independent, who has not? We trust
that every Republican will remember the
maxim of the talented Henry Winter
Davis, that our worst man is better than
an enemy's best. And when we have
standard bearer superior to the enemy's
best, we should stick to him and make his
cause our own. Mr. Torbelt is not fight
ing personal battle with the Democratic
party, but as the candidate of the Republi-
can party, he is battling for the future
success of that party. And every man,
having the future success of Republican
principles at heart, should see that he
leaves nothing undone that can be accom-
plished this Fall for the defeat of that
party of dead weight upon the industry
and enterprise of Maryland. If it is de-
feated this Fall our victory will be an easy
one next.
Not only our State needs the fructifying
influence of Republican measures and
credit to start it on the highway of pro-
gress, but the national administration
requires a working Congress to assist it in
completing the financial measures of the
country, and paying the debt; in tightening
the burthens of taxation and establishing
the business Of the country on the solid
foundation OF. specie payments. The adj
ministration that has paid $4,000, 600 of
the public debt in the last month, and over
one hundred and fifty millions in year
and half, deserves the confidence and
support of every true, independent man.
1t is not time for Republicans to falter,
but stand shoulder to shoulder as one man
in the cause of human rights.
NJ