The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1872-09-14
THE SWINDLE.

oAN
Elkton Democracy forming Greeley Clubs?
If some of the faithful" whom we
have in our minds eye-Bailey Biles, and
others of that class, for instance-who
have been gathered to their fathers before
this great scandle settled on their party,
could only pay the Court House visit, like
Rip Van Wrinkle, after his twenty years
nap, OH the Catskill mountains, when the
Greeley Club is in full blast and behold
their old associates proclaiming the glory,
wisdom and purity of the great Abolition
devil of their day, what would the old fell
lows think? Words would be powerless to
vent their establishment. Swearing would
prove of no avail in expressing their dis
gust.
When the old Wing party broke down,
it broke up at the same time. When its
principles were condemned by failure to
elect their candidates, the party went to
pieces right, and the individual members
scattered.
And some went over the crows nest,"
as the old colony song described the scat
tering Of the French after the conquest of
Canada.
The Democratic wreck didn't drift SO
widely, but halted at the nest of that bird
and endeavored to appease an angry peo-
pie by feasting on the boiled fowl
When judgment has been pronounced
against that party, which no persuasion or
promises will induce the country to reverse,
they brave fate and resist dissolution, by
seizing their greatest prosecutor, who has
devoted the entire strength of his manhood
to their destruction; and falling at his feet
solemnly proclaim their conversion to that
which has been their ruin.
In the history of the world no party
before has ever attempted SO bold piece
of rascality. Individuals change their
principles or their parties, but an entire
face-about by party which conres out in
advocacy of the principles of it's conquer
ing antagonist, while preserving its old
name and organization, was never witness
ed till the Democrats attempted this Won
derful feat. The measure of success such
an audacious swindle is meeting with, one
might suppose would readily have been
foreseen from the first; but as strange as
it may seem, few Republicans were even
deceived by the transparent cheat into co.
operating with these INSCRIPTIONS plotters.
Will such consent to still drift with the
fragments of this broken party and emu
lated the foolish surety, who with eyes
open sinks his fortune in bankrupt's ruin ?
These old Elkton Democrats who are
shouting for Greeley are carefully preserv-
ing their county organization for next Falls
work. They do not care bawbee for
Greeley now more than they ever did,
They would trade you dozen Greeley
for next Falls Sheriff, Register, Clerk or
Commissioner. Their object is to feed
another term, their old Democratic stock
at the county crib. Is there one Republl-
can who can't see it. They know Greeley
will be beaten out of sight as we'll as they
know the sun will rise tomorrow; but the
Republicans who act with them till this
final catastrophe is contaminated will feel
that they have deserted their party, while
the Democrats will claim them as fellow
sufferers in common ruin. The first step
in wrong direction is fought with many
dangers, and the sooner it is retraced the
less difficult it will be. 1t is no disgrace
or reproach to be deceived or mistaken,
but it is both to persist in the wrong after
our eyes have been opened.