The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-10-01
OF CECIL COUNTY.

The Wilmington Commercial of Mon
day last does what lies in its power to cor
rect the false impression its article of a pre-
vious issue tended to create in regard to
the condition and differences of the Repub-
lican party of the First Congressional Dis
trict of Maryland. The statements in the
first article were drawn wholly from the
biased representations put forth by some Of
those dissatisfied with the choice of the
nominating convention. In referring to
The Democrat and The Wig the CONNER
cial says:
'Both our neighbors permit their heat
or their imaginations to betray them
Truth bushes at these little quotations.
We did refer to the fact that there was
some dissatisfaction at the nomination OF
Mr. Torbert. But we did not design to
show 'demoralized condition, ora wide
spread disatfection,' nor did we pronounce
against his claims"
"Truth," if blushing maiden, had
much greater cause to blush for the I'M
qualified endorsement which the CONNER
cial gave to reports and newspaper articles
preiudicial to the Republican nominee, with
out seeming to entertain even suspicion
of their truthfulness. The following is a
quotation from the article which drew forth
the paragraph that caused the face of that
modest maiden of the Blue Hons Chicken
to suffuse with bushes.
eve regret exceedingly" says the Conn.,
zaerctal, in the article first published, "the
state of affairs in the ranks of the Repub-
lican party in the First Congressional Dis
trict of Maryland, which embraces all the
Eastern Shore counties. By harmonious
and vigorous efforts Republican might
have been elected to Congress, but at pres
cnt we see no reasonable prospect OF such
a result. There has been considerable diff
ference between two wings OF the party for
some time, but these differences would not
have been carried further than the nomi-
mating convention but for the feeling engen-
dered bu the manner in achicb the nomination
aoas effected"
The italics are our own. We do not at
tribute "design" on the part of our Della
ware neighbor, but would suggest that any
ore unacquainted with the facts in the
case, on reading the above quotation, would
very naturally arrive at conclusions which
the Commercial has since discovered were
not correct viz, that the nomination of
Mr.. Torbert was unfair, and that tide
moralized condition among the Republi-
cans of the Eastern Shore, did exist.
In statement in last Mondays Comneer-
cia1 designed to correct the false impression
its first article might have engendered, that
paper says:
SIN the First District Mr.. Torbert has
been regularly nominated by majority of
the Convention met at the proper time and
place to choose candidate. AS between
him and Col. Hambleton, no Republican
can have room to hesitate, and we are glad
to know, from our own correspondents, as
we'll as The Cecil Wings assurances, that
few or none will"
In view of the acknowledged laundering
on the part of the Commercial in our affairs,
the following patronizing graciousness to-
ward us, with which its counter statement
closes, is refreshingly cool:
"We excuse to its (IAe WAtg's) zeal the
otherwise offensive character of its criti-
cisms upon u.s.