The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-08-30
THE WRONG FLAG.


THE WRONG FLAG.
The Democrat rears the star spangled
banner over its State Rights and Slavery
Ticket. Taking Jeff Davis recent fulmina-
ton for its cue, it deliberately goes back to
the old secession doctrine of the slave pen
and whip, and places the candidates on the
"corner stone of the Southern Confeder-
acy." We had been led to believe that
the late war had settled this question of
slavery, and what was loosely termed
estates Rights" The late war, we are
told, twas most damaging to the princi-
Piles on which civil liberty is founded ~
The only damage that can be shown that
it worked to "civil liberty" was to that
species of liberty which gave every slave
owner right to wallop his negroes; and as
an off set to this encroachment on "civil
liberty" that war burst the bonds of four
million people. The Doctor would "relay
this stone in its old foundation" which is
gravely pronounced "the very corner stone
of the great Republic" Only the "great
Republic that was to be, Doctor, over
which Jeff presided. But it would be folly
to treat seriously these re-affirmations of
the old slave time theories. The war
which their champions inaugurated with
SO much boasting and savage defiance,
against the moral sentiment of the age,
and the flag, which is hoisted, as if in dsri-
sion and mockery over ticket, pledged to
the declarations of the Montgomery con-
spirators of 1861, swept every vestige OF
them with a bosom Of destruction; the
wave of progress has rolled over them, and
naught but their remembrance remains in
the fossil minds of past era. This cry
from the Democrat for the things that have
been, is but a gurgle from beneath the vast
deep.
But "principle," slavery, Secession
States Rights, and inevitable rebellion and
civil war; we are told in the most solemn
mockery of the living present, is prin-
ciple represented by the names on ON
ticket" Then why the deuce don't you
place the Stars and Bars over it ? and those
of your Democratic Conservative party
who are unable to read will have no diff
Guilty in understanding the ticket, and the
principle it represents.
The Democracy of Virginia, Ohio and
other places have turned their faces from
"new departure and Greeleyism to look
back again on that fat Democratic land OF
slavery, but the Doctor calls in sepulchral
voice from amidst the very tombs that
people that land of a silent, dead past. II
the Democratic party, or Conservative >
party or both, stand the representatives Of
these dead issues, then the natural infer
ence is that the war is again to lie fought
over.
But lest this blowing of the war bugle,
should alarm his partizans, the Doctor has
tens to declare that he has no guns for the
fray, that he is entirely opposed to the use
of guns and pistols in "cvil affairs. y
Well, we recken so. There was time,
however, within the recollection of others
than the Oldest inhabitants, when guns
and pistols were valued above ballots by
the Democrats representative party; but
one Grant gave the Democratic party Of
that day, such a dose of guns and pistols
that it has had no relish for them since
unless disguised as Ku-klux. But it is &
waste of words for merchant to advertise
what he hasn't got. If you determine te
start "shop" of any kind, let it be a
whisky shop. Your party will appreciate
you, and you will! have more calls for the
"critter than for the Democrat, notwith-
standing the numerous demands that daily
occur for the latter. Guns, new depart
ures and Greeleyism have all been tried by
your party, Doctor, and played ont, anG
the times seem propitious for falling back
on the Secession flag and grog shop
While the ticket is pledged to the former,
the party will never tire pledging the ticket
in the latter, till the good people of Cecil
in November next brush both aside to in.
augurate measures in unison with the
spirit of the age, lighter taxes, less official
stealing, and moro hopeful future.
We appeal to the good people of the
county to vote thoughtfully this Fall, and
for their oun interests. They have been
liberal to fault, with the office hunters
long enough, and too long. When the
Republican party lost control of the State
and county affairs, taxes were low and