The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-10-19
A "LIBERAL" EXPLANATION.

A "LIBERAL" EXPLANATION.
l.. NJ. Haines, ESD, gave his reasons in
an elaborate and well considered speech,
before the Black Republican, Greeley Sum
ner Club, of Elkton, on Saturday night
last, for the faith that was in him, and
which led and binds him still, to the fam
tasticism of the Cincinnati movement
Being one of the honest Republicans who
may be met within weeks journey, who
has not yet discovered tho jugglery of that
movement, and it being generally known,
that Mr.. H. would "define his position
that evening, tho house filled up with all
sorts of curious listeners. Marshall thrash
ed over tho old straw that had been win
moved effectually on tho Tuesday before
and was consequently very light. He
seems to have been, and still is, living in a
voluptusus dream of Greeleyism which has
kept him utterly unconcious of the stern
truths Of the campaign which has nearly
glided into history. But the pleasant fic-
tions that have been invented by the ro-
nance writer's of the "Liberal" canvass,
are vastly preferable to the heavy sodden
repasts which all the imported speakers
have served up here, and hence Marshalrs
summer curds and whey where decidedly
relished by his audience, who had been
crammed with such coarse Democratic
food, that they keenly appreciated the
:junket dessert served by the dreamy ora
tor. Mr.. H. seems to have placed real
faith in the utopian dreams of Greeleyism
which the shrewd managers of the Cincin-
natl nomination contrived and published
at the out set of the campaign, but which
being brought to the searching rays of
truth and crucial examination have prov
ed to be the merest vapor, filled with rosy
tints in the distance, but all mirage or
fog when approached. But as we have
said, this light fiction of the campaign is
preferable to the stolid abuse of the heavy
draft-horse of the old Democracy. The
speech showed that there is no middle
ground at present between the Republican
party, and tho beaten and used up Demo-
cratic party; but only murky mist which
the orator floated about in like Will o
the Wisp, touching first one side and then
the other. These navigators of Liberal
ism" have mistaken fog bank for a con-
tinent, and though the country was placed
on tip toe with excitement by the great
wealth which was promised in the new
found Ell Dorado of Liberalism" none
of it has ever been exhibited to the eyes of
practical common sense people; and the
late elections have too plainly shown their
appreciation of the inventions of knavss
and the dreams of Missionaries. Alas when
one young friend has grown older, and
long before that imaginary, new and puri-
fed party, which he hopes to lead has an
existence, he will find that politics has no
utopia; but that it is sturdy battle be-
tween knaves and fools, in which the
knaves, though greatly in the minority, in
nine cases out of ten get the advantage.
Our friendly advice is that he leave the
company of the Elkton Ring which is in
grained with political knavery and jobbery,
and who will tiatter him while they hope
to make use Of him, and 60 back to Black
stone, the Waverly novels and new Tesla
ment, and four years hence he will acknowl-
edge that Liberalism - was snare and
delusion; and that Republican principles,
as utilized and carried out in the admins
trations of U. S. Grant, are the real and
efficient panacea for the ills which the war
inevitably entailed upon the country. The
best "policy" that can be devised will
never "restore the South and raise those
slave exhausted States up to the power,
wealth and grandeur of the old free States,
and those new western commonwealth,
which are the beauty and pride of the con-
tinent, without the slow fructifying influ-
ence of time and education. The scrip
ture axiom that "Paul may plant and
Apollos may water, but God giveth the
increase" is not more true, than that no
measures of reconstruction " or fostering
care can restore those war and slave wasted
provinces without these two healing and
recuperating agencies. All that is not a
dream is fraud in so-called "Liberalism.''