The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-01-27
THE MEDDLESOME WING.
CowANTowN, Jan. 2o3d, 1872.


Mr.. EDIroR:-I want word with YOU
and your readers, about the Debates at the
Jackson Hall, near this place. Our Club
is very humble affair, and never author
lied the publication of one word about its
proceedings, lest, as was said by member,
it might become ridcuously conspicu-
ous;" nevertheless, its existence, and some
Of its doings, have got to the public, mainly
through the medium of The Wig and it's
correspondent in the Fourth.
Whereupon, you take it upon yourself to
read us a lecture about our 0lcn BUSINESS
and find fault with us for not combining our
investigations and discussions to more prac-
teal subjects,-or such as we comprehend,
| presume. You mean you appear to
assume) that farmers have no right to med
die with anything out of ther own calling;
in other words, that corn and potatoes, pig
pens and COW stables are the only things
within range of their comprehension, and
that metaphysics, and the higher walks
generally, are the peculiar provinces of
those who are privileged to live in the
county seat.
Now, be it known to all whom it may
concern, that the Jackson Debating Club
is not a Farmers Club; nor is it composed
entirely of farmers: it comprises among its
numbers mechanics, merchants, manufac-
turers and professional men, as we'll as
farmers; and that they claim the right to
consider such subjects as they please, and
deny the right of any one, not excepting
those whose business it seems to be to
attend to the business of other people, to
interfere.
1t might be proper to say, that we have
argued questions of practical Importance
to farmers, and that nearly all our ques-
tons are practical in their nature. The
idea of the editor of The Wig Directing
that such institutions promote, what he
calls "gab," is rich, when he has stand
ing premium for busybodies and Paul Prys,
in every District in the county, Il make no
complaint of his correspondents to mouse
around peoples back-doors and to listen
at their key holes, and furnish The Wig
with the latest manufacture in the news
| market! "Gab.' well, do tell.
In the very column in which these often
sive structures appear, are two notices of
exhibitions, at the Odd Fellows Hall, in
Elkton, one of which is all the way to
dance, and without censure from the editor;
the other is Willis, ventriloquist and magi-
clan, whose feats he magnities and approves
one of which was the drinking of glass
of water! Well, that was wonderful, to
drink water instead of whisky, in Elkton.
Scarcely a week passes, without some stray
Cling mountebank, playing the "fool or
| the devil or both, in the same place,
without one word of rehuke from The Wig:
but let Club of countrymen indulge in a
| little discussion outside of their own pecu-
liar calling, and The Wing breaks in upon
them with his whip, to lash them back to
their proper sphere-like the Spartan mas
tiers who deigned not to meet their revolted
slaves with arms, but whipped them back
into servilty.
| When the Jackson Debating Club take
up the question, "Does The Cecil Wig
exercise more influence, or better intlu-
ence, in the community, than the Jackson
| Debating Club?" l will send the editor due
notice; and advise him, when he comes
to the defence of his paper, to leave his
whip behind, and come armed with his best
Damascus blade; for the farmers of the
of the lash. A. JACKSON.