The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1871-11-11
The Lesson of the Hour.

taeir greatest enemy.
The Lesson of the Hour.
Nine States held elections on Tuesday
last-New York, Massachusetts,, Illinois,
Maryland, New Jersey, Mississippi, Wis
consin, Minnesota, and Virginia. The
result in each, as far as heard from, we
give elsewhere; which is signal defeat of
modern Democracy, with its thieves and
rings. In New York the rout was fear
full one which Tammany sustained. In
this State and this county, the result is
gratifying, and promises clear path for
Grant next year. The cohesive element of
the Democracy is success in obtaining office.
Let it be denied that, and it has not prin-
ciple to rally upon. Once completely
defeated in this State, and its hopes for
second lease of power are blasted. The
defeat of that party is the hope of iepubli-
can government. 1t grovels and panders
to the basest passions of the lowest and
most degraded class of mankind; trust
ing to an ancient and an honorable name
to bind the better class of its followers to
it, with blind, unquestioning fanaticism,
the leaders, an artful, designing race of
politicians, give the lower element an unre-
strained license to indulge its brutal in
stincts.
Wherever the Democratic party has pos
sessed power for any length of time, the
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their way to the front. In New York, an
organized band have conspired, and through
the aid of party machinery, have succeeded
in plundering property-hOlder of untold
millions. While the great wealth of that
city and the myriads of the basest wretches
of the human family have enabled the
thieves to organize system of plumber,
the magnitude of which has astonished the
world, lesser operations of the same kind
have, to some extent, been overshadowed.
But wherever we turn our eyes, and dis
cover that party entrenched, we find the
public treasures squandered, and crime and
ignorance organized as political tool by
which it's leaders hold power. The great
battle of Tuesday last, was fought by the
honest and virtuous classes against this
organized villany, and the result is crafty
ing to every lover of order, morality, and
better state of affairs in our politics.
While the corruptions which are bringing
disgrace on our republican form of govern
ment are visible on every hand, the virtu-
GUS indignation of better class, which
has so Enthusiastically shown its strength in
the elections of Tuesday, gives promise of
latent power for good, which will, in the
no distant future, purge our politics of the
vicious element that SO often bears down
and threatens virtue and patriotism with
total subjugation.
In this State the result is most gratifying,
as showing a healthy growth in political
life. The old watchwords used time and
again to excite the envy and jealousy of
the lowest natures were resorted to, and
the charges rung in every conceivable man.
ner on the negro, the foreigner, and what
ever else promised to excite the prejudices
of the uneducated; but these last resorts
of depraved and swindling party, showed
that their force for evil had been spent, and
revealed the better nature of the q eat mass
of thinking and useful men, asserting its
dignity and regarding the principles pro-
mulgated by the Republican party, which
are on the side of morality and intelligence
in government, as opposed to ignorance,
depravity and plumber.
An element which has neither virtue,
patriotism or property at stake; which has
no reputation that it regards, to lose, has
held, and still holds, too great power
in our government, disputing the place
with intelligence, decency and property
The party bigotry which still reigns supreme
in our politics, is foreign to everything else
in our new world economy, and is an off
spring of darker age. That so practical
and business people as the Americans
should prove such egregious fools in one of
the most vitality important concerns of life
their governments, when examined by
the rules Of common sense, one of the most
astonishing anomalies in their history
Our government, in all it's branches, from
National down through State and county,
to municipal, is as purely plain business
transaction, as the management of a bank
or railroad. 1t is cut loose from all reli-
gious or sectarian entanglements. There
are no hereditary honors, estates, or fami-
lies to be kept up; no titles to be preserved,
and classes to be fostered, as superiors
among their fellow men; and yet the jeal-
ousies and pre.udices of party, the crea-
tions which grew out of these modes and
means of government, and belong to past
age, OUTLYING their time, have been handed
down to vex and hinder the workings of
our plain republican institutions. And
this Democratic party has done more to
foster and entail this positive curse upon
our land and nation than all other parties
combined, till, at the present time, it seems
only to have the propagation of this evil
and curse for its mission. The people are
beginning to see this party in its true light,
and are steadily moving to its final over
throw and extinction. The judgment of
Tuesday last has settled the question for
ever against it as national party In
future it can only figure as a guerilla
marauder-by bold and secret dashes
obtaining power here and there to retain
it for brief time.
All the members of the Bonapafte
family are to be interdicted from returning
to France Considerin1 tba oxnlo;+s Of