The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-08-03
SUMNER TAKES COMMAND OF THE
GREELEY FORCES.

DEMOCRATS-AS MEN OF HONOR AN
PRINCIPAL THEY CAN'T GO BACK o,
THEIR SOLEMN OBLIGATIONS.
Senator Summers long expected lette
to the colored men pronouncing in favor G
Greeley made its appearance this week.
Like all of Mr.. Summers public expires
sions it is lengthy and elegant in Ihetorica
finish. His bitter personal spite agains
Grant is the Alpha and Omega of the let
ter. In stating the situation of the Creole
party to which he attaches himself, h
claims for it an advanced position on thos
extreme Radical measure which the entir
Democratic party so violently and scorn
fully condemned to the very day of tn
meeting of the Baltimore Convention
But we will let Mr.. Sumner state in hi
own elegant and incisive language, wha
he considers all Democrats as party, a
we'll as individually, bound to by thei
public acceptance of the Cincinnati pll
form and it's candidate. The followi! :,
the part of Mr.. Summers letter in
he states the nature of the contract
Greeley and the Democratic part
"It is idle to say that or;nated him
and the Republicans that nSuse Demo
are any less Republicans q snnnort of
Gratis unite with them iFhe Candidate
cherishee principles anonversions are
who represents them. the less So because
always welcome, and 4ude rather than an
the change is in Mi party can not, if it
individual. A poljnotp if # could. shut
would, and shoH whether convert
the door against the hundred or the
cd by 1he go we find that the sup
tnousahu, 9nlident Grant announce with
por!efs Oh mph the adhesion of single
Partisah PARTISAN or single Democrat
Dehocia For equal reason and with
hewspa!ide may the supporters of Horace
nisheE announce the adhesion of the Dem
greg party, which, turning from the
ocls that are behind, presses on to those
W are before.
Ut is also idle to say that the election of
FORAGE Greeley as President, with Gratz
Brown as Vice President, both unchange-
Ible Republicans, will be the return of
he Democratic party to power. On the
contrary, it will be the Inauguration Of
Republican principles under the safeguard
If Republican President and Republican
Vice President, with the Democrats as
vowed supporters.
In the organization of his Administration
md in the conduct of affairs, Horace Gree
ey will naturally lean upon those who rep
'esent best the great promises made OF
equal rights and reconciliation at Cincin-
lati. If Democrats are taken it will be as
at heart, recognizing the asso-
,iate terms of the settlement as an ire
'ersible tinality."
Again he says
"The Democrats cannot turn back. who
vt the Convention adopting this platform
sang Greeley songs to the tune of cold
John Brown-his soul is marching on
Near the close of his letter the Great
Senator, who was Away pronounced an
oracle and authority on all great questions
his party, by the Democrats, uses
,he following clear and emphatic express
sion, as though he was determined to i'm
press the nature of the obligation the con-
yerts at this great political Penticost had
"And now turning to the Democratic
party" the Senator adds, " l hold it to all
The covenants solemnly given in the adop
ton of a Republican platform. With Hor-
ace Greeley as candidate. There can be
no backward STEP"
In all candor and honesty Senator Sum-
ner is right in his statement of the case,
and the solemn pledge made to call the
world and the rest of mankind" At Bal
timore Mr.. Doolittle president Of the Con-
vention opened the business of that body
by placing every tenet, creed, dogma and
principle under his feet which had been
for by his party through good
and through evil report, which in any man
ner differed from the Republican principles
in the Cincinnati platform. Mr.
Sumner insists that this announcement of
Democratic hersies was done in voluntary
and public manner and is forever binding
on the party as party, which in conse-
quence dropped it's organization as dis
tinct party, and its members became
and followers of the most
ultra Republican doctrines and belief
Mr. Summers faith here is as beautiful as
that of little child S; we confess that ours
is not so strong. We have asked many
Democrats if they so understand the bond;
and every one has shaken his head. They
every one understand the arrangement to
be to provide means by which the leaders
of the old Democrat party may get into
the majority Of government offices, and
Republicans be turned out; the men who
controlled the Southern States before the
rebellion, regain their lost political power;
and then effect 4 reorganization of their
party which will exclude every Republican
doctrine and principle, and include every
old Democratic theory and tenet that it is
possible, without positive rebellion against
the Constitution and Federal power as
established through the war aud its results.
The history of the Democratic party is a
chronicle of knavery and falsehood for the
last thirty years, and now that the old
party has been laid in the grave by its
members at Baltimore, the object of its
deciples is to resuscitate as many of its
baneful doctrines and pernicious teachings
as possible under the new and changed
order of things. and exclude and fore
down every public measure put forward 0y
the Republican party, under whose benign
influence the country has in few years
became so great and prosperous.
Mr. Sumner does not see those things.
His passion against Grant completely
blinds him; but in case his mad desires of
overturning the Republican party and
placing Greeley end his swarm of Demo
cratic office hunters in power e successful,
he will then see how those miraculous con-
vcrts in an hour to his theories of govern
ment and civil rights, will laugh him to
scorn, and when shorn of their strength,
point at himself and Greeley as the Philis.
tians did at poor blind Samson, and mock
them from the temple of the nation.
The following communication is suffi
GENTLY clear in itself to pass without COM
ment from us. 1t was accompanied by
another letter containing subscription to
the Times: