The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-04-30
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ELKTON, APRIL 80, 1870.
Apologizing for the Crime of the Century.

Meeting, which assembled in the Court
House in the winter of 1861. 1t is known
to every one who has taken the trouble to
investigate, that Judge Chambers drew up,
and by his peronal influence, got that same
secession resolution passed. Mr.. Creswell
strenuously opposed the passage of the OBJ
noxious resolution, but it was carried by
the good secession Democrats who COM
posed the majority of the meeting, and who
afterward advocated anti-coercien very
strenuously.
But for the sake of the argument sup
pose Mr.. Creswell had been the author ofthat
resolution. on what grounds could The
Democrat, or any of the anti-coercion party
condemn him, while they approve the SEN
timents of the resolution even to this day !?
This bright journal never condemns Mr..
Cresswell for his Union Sentiments, but in
variably manufactures some falsehood
charging him with secession proclivities
and then assails him with wholesale denun-
citation. How can you reconcile this con-
demning public man for having
preached and practiced what you preach
and practice still q? 1t is the old story of
Satan reproving sin. 1t is manifest to
every worker of secession, that the crime is
so odieus to the civilized world, that those
they hate they conceive the most certain
mode to injure is to fasten the crime
of having affiliated with traitors to their
country upon them. 1t is a notable fact,
ponent, he leaves no stone unturned to
make him appear co-laberer in his ewn
iniquity.
In the same article we have a petty, dis
graceful laudation of the foul treachery and
its authors, who ridged the land with
graves in the effort to pull Down liberty
that slavery might be exalted in the New
World. Sentiments like the following any
man ought to be ashamed to utter:
History will preserve in imperishable
honor, those brave men (meaning jeff.
Davis & Co.. who dared all, who risked
not that they failed. 1t was not the rebel
Washington success, which crowned his
brow with imperishable glory, nor did
Koscusco's fall before the northern hordes
of Russia dim one ray of that renown which
has filled the world with his fame
The immortal names of Washington and
Kosciusco are desecrated by comparison
with such selfish traitors as Lee and Davis,
who, in all their bloody struggle, had not
single aspiration for liberty or the rights
of man; but their devilish efforts were all
on the side of slavery, oppression and
wrong.
In place of trying to borrow lustre from
such names as Washington, Kosciusco and
Leonidas, to illumine the champions of
human bondage, chains, oppression and
wreng, better select such characters as
Tamerlane, Barbarosa, Charles MI, and
other butchers who fought in the same
cause that Lee Davis & Co. did? Or to
come higher home, Benedict Arnold, would
make very proper companion. His fame,
gathered in the same State. will go down
to posterity linked with that Of those heroes
Of the "lost cause" who fought that liber-
ty might be checked in her conquest of the
world and the banners Of tyrany and OPP
preston advanced.
We are told by this modern commenta-
tor Of Tie Democrat, that " the hero is in
the man, and not in the result which may
follow his Deeds This is an old principle
revived in modern history which has not
been acknowledged since the days when
mailed and helmetted ruifians covered the
land with carnage, and devastated cities by
pilage and fire. What would the world
care for the memory of Washington, Kos
ciusco and their followers had they fought
as Robert E. Lee did, for the sole purpose
Of enslaving men?
Again, with characteristic or reckless ig-
norance, this champion of the hand-cuff
and slave-whip cause pounces down upon
the irrepressible Yankee and upbrades him
with continuing the slave trade till 1908 in
order to pocket the proceeds Of the traffic
ANY one who can read should knew that
South Carolina, the Matching place Of the
rebellion, was the State which held out for
the slave trade, and it was compromise
with the slave owners of that State to
reconcile them to union with the other
States, which prolonged the slave trade till
1903. There are doubtless not few Dem
ocrat Yankees now who would delight to
cooperate with ex-slave owners i'll the
Palmetto State to open the slave trade as
there were at the close of the last century,
and The Cecil Democrat would be the last
to condemn such an alliance; for it is safe
to advance as fundamental priciple in
politics, that any man who would fit out
SLAYER would vote without scratch the
Democratic, or White Man ticket.
Where military control is exercised in
the South, it is soley for the purpose Of
maintaining order, where class of semi
barbarians, trained under the baleful in
situations which the traitor Lee strove so
hard to perpetuate, defyall civil power, and
who make pillage and murder their bust
ness. 1t is the duty of the Federal Govern
ment to protect the peaceful citizen from
the lawless marauder, where the arm eft
civil power is too weak or disloyal to do it.
And the GROWERS. who growl because Of
defeat and of the condemnation of the civ
ilized world, will be classed in history with
the tories who were left by the revolution,
in place Of filling the proud places occupied
by Washington, Lincoln and Grant.
A correspondent sends us communi-
cation strongly recommending Judge
Goldsborough as very suitable candidate
for Congress, for the first district All the
encomiums which our correspondent be-
slows upon Judge Goldsborough as an able
and fearless advocate of Republican princi-
pies, are deserving, doubtless; but Will,
according the Judge all due merit in this
direction, it should not be forgotten thai
when the very destines of the Union party
rested in his hands, the temptation of a
quiet place for fifteen years on the bench
lured him from the field of contest when
his presence and popular name, at period
above all others were most important and