The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-10-25
For The Cecil Wing.
" THE DOCTOR"


This gentleman who undertook to set up
an intirmary sometime ago where political
obtuseneSs could be healed, seems to be
getting tired of his title. Most probably
he has learned that his attempts to doctor
Republican eyes until they could see back
ward has been failure, SO now in disgust
he wants to quit being a Doctor and be-
come politician. He might try being a
mathematician instead, but figures are as
stubborn things to deal with as eyes that
have been trained to see the hopeless hy-
pocrisy and corruption of his party. The
whole thing is about this: men who dread
ridlcule or who are not able to parry it's
sharpest thrustS, should not subject them
selves to it.
In an age of activity, progress, improve
ment and equal rights there is no friend
of human progress who does not regret
that such men should wed themselves to
the dead issues-the idols of the past. Yet
many of them are not as hopelessly reac-
ZIONIST as they seem-their hearts are after
all better than their heads. After all
Calico was right, " The world does move
and our conservatives must move with it.
We do not believe that the Editor of The
Democrat would to day vote if he had the
chance to re-establish slavery, or make it
criminal to teach negro child to read, the
day for this has gone by.
The second count in his indictment
seems to be the bad laws passed by Repub-
lican Congresses. To listen to some Dem
ocrats one would suppose that the consti-
tuition was in their especial keeping, that
the only mission of the Republicans was to
break it daily. If half the charges made
were true we should think our constitu-
ton was getting quite well battered by
this time, but it seems an equal for the old
legend Of Prometheus. This old fashioned
gentleman is said to have had his vitals
renewed as often as the vultures devoured
them, 40 our constitution seems to come
out of all its breakings as good as new.
There is now little room for doubt that
the Republicans control a majority Of
American voters and still larger majority
of American wealth and reason would sug-
gest that they have at least equal interest
in the laws with the Democrats.
Perhaps the worst breaking the conSti-
tuition has had yet was when eleven States
rebelled against its provision and fought
for four years to destroy it, but in The
Democrats eyes this was small offence
compared with the fact that Congress
passed a bill to enforce the 18th Amend
ment. Then the bill to prevent fraudulent
elections they don't like because it shuts
off one of the chief avenues to Democratic
victories. The difficulty in Louisiana
was that the "Bayonet Law" was not
enforced, or the American public might
have some idea who was elected Governor.
With ballot boxes stuffed and returns
manipulated by Democratic officials, no
one can say who was elected. The only
thing in which the general government
l. 1a1l
election that could have been some test of
the will of the people.
The Democrat is anxious to get back to
old issues. Let us look at few of its
party measures. 1t once passed bill,
called "The Fugitive Slave Law" Under
it an officer of the United States could be
sent into Fanueil Hall; but when it is pro-
posed to send a man to New York, or New
Orleans to see that through fraudulent
votes unfit men are not sent to Congress,
it becomes terrible offence in the eyes of
ballot box suffers and their sympathizers.
Our terrible Congress. The American
people have not forgotten its old fashioned
rascality. Salary grabs are nothing new;
but in this case the bill would have failed
but for Democratic votes. We can give
no reason for the salary steal unless it was
that there were more Democrats in that
DtNOCFut
talks about no "Credit Mobilier dshon-
esty IN Cecil, we will call its attention to
the list it publishes as defaulters to the
State; there he will find 81 ,92l.34 charged
as due the State from Cecil officials, most
of them Democrats. 1t is true this is
small compared with some of the counties,
but had best be paid up before talking
about the purity of county officials.
The simple fact is that the record of the
Democratic party is bad and the American
public is unwilling to trust it. 1t ruined
the South by plunging it into war and
leaving it absolutely bankrupt. In Mary
land it has doubled expenses in every
county. 1t has distinguished itself as the
enemy of all progress and as the friend of
the most shameless corruption. 1t has
depended alone for Success on the strength
of popular prejudice and ignorance, and as
the foe alike of justice and humanity it is
doomed. Its reign in Cecil is evidently
over and there is some room to hope that
Maryland is ready to cast off this "Old
Man of the Sea- that is paralyzing its best
interests, and take its place among the pro-
gressive, Republican States of the Uuion.
JOHN A. CALHOUN.