The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-09-13
THE REBEL YELL.

The Democrat continues to cheer and
encourage the old rebel spirit rampant in
1860, and fan its expiring embers. AL
ready those embers of hate are kindling
into something like a blaze, and the old
threats and bitter denunciations against
all who uphold "the banner of the stars"
are freely INDUCED in. These men who
complain so loudly of oppression and wrong
done to them by wholesome restraint
placed upon their actions during the dark
hours of the country's sorest trial, seem to
entirely overlook the guilty part they act
ed. Suppose they had been allowed to
organize resistance to the government and
make what diversion they pleased in favor
of the rebel army and rebel control in this
State, (which they certainly would have
done had they not been withheld from SO
doing,) how long would it have been till
riot and bloodshed would have reigned,
and hundreds of the very men who are SO
ready now, when all is over, to blow the
old sparks into flame again, would have
met violent deaths, and been placed out of
the way of disturbing the peace anew.
They owe their lives to the very severity
they complain of, for had they been al
lowed to precipitate strife and bloodshed,
as they certainly would have. done, they
must know that, located as they were,
with a strong, overwhelming union element
around them, and the army between them
and succor, that their doom would have
been sealed. 1t would have been the hight
Of folly and madness for a legislature Of
Maryland to have assembled, hostile to the
government and the army, and for these
symplthizers to have been permitted to
make demonstrations in favor of, and ex-
press, in public manner, sympathy for
Jeff Davis and the "Southern Confeder-
acy so-called." No government while in
state of war, will permit open enemies to
act within its lines against it.
The Union men Of this country did not
shrink from the fray in those days, nor
will they turn out of their course to avoid
it now, if the Doctor with his hot blood
and old slave master bigotry succeeds in
arousing the old rebel hate, which is rap
idly dying out, and giving place to bet
ter spirit and better hope for the future
of the State and county. The men who
are SO ready to join the Doctor in his cry
to dig up the Ratchet and hoist anew the
Stars and Bars, did little else than heap
excavations on the soldiers who went to
meet and drive blood thirsty, vindictive
enemy back from our homes and firesides,
and pray that the bones of those brave SOL
diers might whiten on the fields of the
South. The war was not one of Union
mems seeking. 1t was forced upon the
nation by just such fire-eating, mischief
making politicians as the present Editor of
The Democrat 1t was fought out, how
ever, to successful issue, and the begin
ners of the strife vanquished beyond per
adventure. But again, after years have
rolled by, not more silly than wicked
effort is being made through The Demo-
crat to revive the cid strife. If the senti-
ments put forth by that sheet in its recent
issues are endorsed by the party and the
ticket it processes to speak for, let us know
it. The men of Cecil will not shrink from
the contest, or be frightened by the old
"rebel yell" If Greeleyism, and Conser-
vatism, and all the new departures, and
pretences at reform and progress were but
DISCUSSES, to deceive the honest people, and
they are to be thrown off now, and the
party, again take its stand on the old rebel
platform and offer battle for the "lost
cause" why be it so, and let us under
stand the question fairly. The Democrat
pledges the party to the old issues, and old
hates of the past which went down in blood
on the battle field. Do the peaceful, the
industrious, the enterprising people of
Cecil feel like endorsing these principles
promulgated recently by The Democrat,
and supporting ticket placed on such
platform? The eyes of the country are on
you. BY sustaining the party SO long,
though under multitude of DISCUSSES
loss and depreciation has fallen heavily
upon the business and property of the
county; but the past is as nothing in CON-
parison to what awaits US in the near
future, if the hellish sentiments propo-
gated by The Democrat find endorsement
by the voters at the coming election
Where property has deprecated in cents
heretofore, its decrease in value would be
counted by dollars. The capitalist would
gather up his property and flee as from
the robber, and the stranger and man of
enterprise would hasten to get beyond our
borders. The miseries of some of the
Southern States so groaned our weekly by
The Democrat are all of their own making
The same Internal spirit preached weekly
by THE Democrat prevailed in these States,
and disguised and drove away honest men
of capital and enterprise, and the carpet
baggers filled their places. 1t was the
innate rottenness of the social and politi-
cal element of the old rebel remains that
brought the vultures who devoured every
thing they found. Here the Maryland
camp followers of Jeff Davis and General
Lee, succeeded to power, and they have
nobly sustained the reputation of the car
pet Dagger " and filled his place in every
particular.
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