The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-10-18
For The Cecil Wing
For The Cecil WhIl
LOTS WIFE IN POLITICS.

when the angels brought the warning to
Sodom, that their Injunction TO Lot was,
"Flee for your lives stay not in all the
plain, look not behind y0u, but flee to the
mountains" AS a sequel we are told that
"Lot's wife looked back and became pill
lar of SALT
When Christ was warning his disciples to
flee from the troubles to come upon Jeru-
salem he closed with the significant warn
ing, Remember Lots wife," To those
good Conservatives who, though steadily
carried forward by the irresistible tide of
human progress, still see all their hopes,
all their ideas of good in the fast receding
past, we would commend the same
emphatic warning "Rememember Lots
wife," Let the Doctor and his associates
have care lest they too become pillars of
salt left as warnings to all succeeding
times.
He had considerable to say sometime ago
about political blindness. Certainly there
are none SO blind as those whose gaze is 80
firmly riveted upon the past as to be I'M
able to see anything in the present. His
eyes are so firmly fixed upon those good
old times when Webster and Clay bullied
the Senate into support of their schemes;
and Calhoun preached secession with all it's
attendant train of evils, war, taxation, blood
and violence; when fancy sat upon the
bench and confirmed the right of men to
own their fellows; when the fugitive slave
law, perhaps with the exception of the
inquisition, the most complete embodiment
of Satanic malice that ever took the form
of human laws, existed in all its glory, that
he is unable to see the needs of to-day.
His eyes are still fixed on the beauty of
slave pens and auction blocks, of the over
seer's lash and severed families and ali the
myriad beauties of the "peculiar institu-
tion." He is not able to see that America
has had revolution, but like Rip Van
Wrinkle has slept through a decade or
two of the most momentous events, not
alone in our country's, but in our worlds
history, and wakes up thinking America
ought to be where jackson left it.
We think no one will deny that negro
suffrage was violation of the old consti-
tuition. When fancy promulgated the
bred Scott decision, its very worst feature
was that he was deciding according to the
constitution that Seward with equal truth
denounced as 8" a league W it'll the devil and
a covenant with hell" Fortunately the
"people" in adopting the constitution did
not enclose themselves in an iron shell in
capable of expansion. The constitution
provides way in which it can be changed
and if those conditions are complied with
the minority have no chance but to submit
1t was, he says, party measure; will he
tell us what great reform was ever carried
through otherwise than as party measure ?
Any attempt at change will inevitably
array its friends in support and IFS enemies
in opposition, and become for the time the
issue around which parties rally. They
did not place those negroes upon an equali-
ty with the educated and refined, but sim
ply upon political equality with whites as
ignorant and degraded as themselves. 1t
may be said that those ignorant whites are
upon terms of equality with intelligence
and refinement already, but if SO that does
not alter the facts of the case. The Doctor
certainly has poor opinion of his own
color when he says that the liberty and
property of $4,000, 900 whites are placed at
the mercy of 1000, 900 of negroes. If the
blacks of America, ignorant and brutalized
as they have Systematically been made by
slavery, are SO far superior to the whites
as all this, what will they be when those
schools of the Dr.'s have done their work ?
If there is anything in such logic we VIII ties
had best withdraw and leave Sambo fair
field for his tremendous talents for govern
ing. AS far as the bushes of the future
historian are concerned, we think the his
fought, and fought bravely through the
revolution were at its close sent back to
slavery, or the man who records the history
of slavery, cursng alike black and white
wherever it extended, until the war found
the South bankrupt and too proud to own
it, will not have any scruples about record
ing the act that made all men political
equals.
&C Our once prosperous Southern States ~
are now ruined and bankrupt. When
were they ever anything else? Repudia-
ton had its birth in Mississippi before the
war and the first one since the war to dis
cuss the question Of reputation is North
Carolina, governed by the same men who
aimed the first gun at Sumter and trailed
the stars and stripes through the streets of
Richmond. Once prosperous States! when
was it? Not at least since the time of
recorded history. Compare the census
tables. Place Virginia along side of Penn
sylvania. Virginia "mother of States and
statesmen " the great slave breeding State
of the South; compare South Carolina,
birthplace of secession. with Massachusetts,;
Georgia with New York, and on the word
of honest men was not slavery curse and
blight wherever its upas like shadow ex-
tended9 1t was only in hopes of reclaim
ing, the political supremacy they were los
ing that they staked already bankrupt
States upon the cast of arms.
We admit the necessity Of education not
alone in Cecil, but in every county-not
for one race but for all. The men who
placed tue colored schools of Cecil upon
the same basis as the whites, were defying
the wishes of the mass of their party, and
will receive their reward in due season.
The management of Washington city
affairs are no doubt bad enough. They
have been in the same hands that under
took to build the Pacific road on the
strength of deliberated falsehood, through
1000 miles Of storm swept, irreclaimable
desert, but those of Baltimore, if reports
be true are in no better condition. After
the Tammany revelations any Democrat
must be without shame who will say much
about the mismanagement of city govern
ments.
"The negroes are all as one chained
together to vote,' The Democrat says
Can The Democrat not see that the
p,cifiop II iS takinp IF oppos;tiop to.