The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-10-07
The Devil an Angel of Light.
when the Devil was sick
The Devil q Monk would he

The Devil Monk would be
But when the Devil was well
Devil a Monk was he"
This old satire on hypocrtes is forcibly
brought to mind i'll the Cecil Democrats
abuse of Mr.. Tome, where he charges him
with trafficking in human flesh," and
appeals in an underhanded way to the col
ored men to vote for Mr.. Whyte. the can
didate Of that party, without inquiring how
many slaves Mr.. Whyte owned Or sold
before the Republican party emancipated
them in this State, against the most siren
uous opposition on the part of the Demo-
Gratis. The Democrat never even hints at
the cause of the Punishment and sale of the
particular colored individual over whom
"The Devil a Monk" is shedding crocodile
tears. This criminal was guilty of a most
fiendish piece of arson. Taking some Of
Tense at one of the lady members of Mr..
Tones family, he watched favorable
opportunity to fire the house while attend
ing to the furnace in the cellar, and by this
deliberate act of fiendishness, sought, for
dering ruin the finest building in the town,
but for aught he cared roast alive the fam
lily. For such crime he received lighter
punishment than he deserved, as all will
admit.
The way the slave party of the State
dealt, when negroes committed such crimes,
was to give them the longest torn in the
penitentiary the law would allow, and then
assess the value of the criminal on the
taxpayers of the county, and pay over the
amount out of the taxes to the master of
the criminal.
We witnessed case in point at the Court
of this county, few years before emanci-
patton. A half witted colored girl, about
12 or IA years old, had been hired to n
neighboring farmer, and taking oHense at
some member of the family, she sought
revenge by firing her masters barn. She
was convicted at Court and sent to the PEN
itentiary. Three men were appointed,
however, after sentence had been pronounce
ed against her, to appraise her value, and
have been willing to purchase at any price,
was appraised at $500, and pant of the
Judge sentence was an order on the County
Commissioners to pay the owner of the
girl-not the man whose barn had been
bnrned-but the owner of this girl who
had hired her to him-S7O0, because the
State was about to deprive him of his pro-
perty.
This state of affairs is what the Demo-
crat and its party mean when they pledge
themselves to return if possible to the
Constitution of our fathers as it was"
The whole Democratic party from the
Pennsylvania line to the Rio Grande,
mourn for their lost privilege, and a restor-
alton of the laws which enabled them to
sell into perpetual slavery in distant States,
the most virtuous and pious colored people,
and for the qualification of avarice, rend
asunder the most sacred family ties.
The Devil being sick now would fain
play the role of Monk, but let prospect
appear for the restoration of tho old slave
Democratic regime, and this canting Cecil
member of the satanic priesthood would be
among the first to drop the Monks cowl.
Out upon such hypocrisy and sneaking
villainy as the Cecil Democrat makes use of
to blacken the character of an honorable
man.