The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-10-05
POLITICAL.

The meeting of the Grant and Wilson
Club of the Sd District was held in the
Odd Fellows Hall, on Wednesday night
last, the Court House being occupied to a
late hour by night session of the Court.
Although no special effort was made to
drum ont an audience the house was well
filled to hear the claims of the Republican
party by Baltus II. Kennard, Esq, of Bal
tmore; and nobly did he perform the task
he undertook. No ranting, no obscene
abuse, no profane adjectives were used by
the speaker in denunciation of Mr.. Gree
ley and his coalition of odds and ends,
which make up the combination at present
warning on President Grant and the Re-
publican party. Neither did the speaker
resort to fulsome flattery of General Grant
and his record, as presented by the fruits
of his administration; but in a calm and
concise, yet, sharp and clear manner, Mr..
kennard proceed to lay before his audience
an "unvarnished tale" of the work of the
administration of General Grant, and the
living principles of the Republican party.
which have captured the hearts of the pco-
pie, carrying them up to nobler and
higher plane of moral, social and political
existence than has ever been exhibited
before in the annals of government. This
record of the Republican party CHALLENGES
successfully the contradiction of all it's
enemies, defying the utmost efforts of their
ablest men to find aught that can weigh
successfully for moment against it.
What contrast is here presented by the
two parties-the played-out politicians of
the old Democrat party, who retain nothing
but its prejudice and hate; and the living,
evangelzing spirit Of the Republican par
ty. When these Bourbon orators of the
faded glories of other days rise to speak,
their language is a disgrace to the times.
1t is one turbid stream of abuse and false
assertions from beginning to the end
They have no living issues to present to
their hearers, and in default they ply the
stale stories, invented by such venal pa
pers as the New York Sum Stories like
the Chorpenning libel, that have been re-
futed by overwhelming evidence. On Sat
urday night last this Radical, Greeley,
nameless combination of malignants held
one of their periodical meetings at the
Court House. Mr.. Archer, their nominee
for Congress, had been invited with other
strange gentlemen, to address the meeting.
The consequence was that people expected,
as they had right to, to hear important
issues discussed and the claims of the
coalitionists set forth in an able manner.
But alas! the same chapter of abuse that
every whipper- snapper deals out consti-
tuted the staple of Mr.. Archer's speech. as
we'll as the remarks of his colleagues. Had
there been any principle to discuss or any
argument that could be made, Mr.. Archer
would certainly have presented it in pre-
ference to the muddy stream of abuse he
and his friends INDUCED in, which no man
knows better than they, is disgusting and
repulsive to all but the most depraved and
filthy natures.
The contrast between the character of
the speeches made by the orators of the
two parties is the measure of the difference
between the parties, which is as great as
that between virtue and vice, or day and
night-or to put it still more clearly, false
hood and truth. The madness of their
railing is born of the presen,iment of their
hopeless defeat and dissolution.