The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-09-26
NOMINATION FOR CONGRESS.

Havre de Grace ON Friday last, when JOHN
I. ENsoR, ESQ.,, of Baltimore county, was
nominated.
The convention was organized by elect
ing Mr.. Tome, President; Col. Frieze, of
Hartford, and VIM. p. Cole, of Baltimore
counties, Vice. Presidents; and DR.. w. H.
Rippard, of Carroll, Secretary. James T.
Mccullough, Esq, of this town, and John
T. Ensor, were placed in nomination. The
District is composed of Cecil, Carroll. Har-
ford and Baltimore counties, except the
First and Thirteenth Districts of the latter
county. The last Congressional election
was quite close in the Second District,
Archer being elected by less than 800 votes
over Hancock, the Republican candidate;
while Grant carried the District by a small
majority. 1t will be seen that the District
is a close one, and with that effort which an
able man can exert in the present slack con-
dition Of party lines, may be carried by eth
er party. The following resolutions were
adopted by the convention:
WHEREAS, The attack of the Democratic
Poi0y uPOu tAC AeCpuUuCdu party Is pTluCl-
pally made up of charges against us of
fraud and corruption, and calls attention
to Investigations made by the Republican
party by the investigating committees
created by itself to expose fraud and
punish the criminals; therefore
Resol0ed, That we hold it to be an evil
dence, not only of strength, but of honesty
and integrity in the Republican party that
it never hesitates to ferret out and punish
its own wrongdoers; while, on the other
hand, it is notorious that in our State the
only exposure that we have of existing and
increasing frauds in the government Of the
State by the Democratic party is principally
made manifest by increased taxation and
burdens upon the people.
Resolued, That we hold it to be the first
duty of the Government in dealing with
its citizens, to mete out equal and exact
justice to all, giving ample protection to
their lives, their property, and the peaceful
pursuit of their lawful occupations; that
the Government should adopt such meas
ures as shall gradually and certainly restore
our country to specie basis without a
shock to the business interests of the
country.
Resolued, That the responsibility for the
anarchy, violence, bloodshed, and the wan
ton disregard for the most sacred rights of
American citizens in the lately recon-
structed States, is upon those people who
perpetrate and that party which excuses
and encourages them; that the home of the
citizen, Of whatever race or creed-whether
it be hut or a mansion-is his castle; that
the mission of the Republican party will
not be completed until every home is secure
against invasion, and every citizen, ire.
spective of his station in life, is as free
from molestation for the expression of his
opinions, by voice or ballot, in Louisiana
as in Maine; to this end it is the duty of
the National Administration to use the
strong arm of the nations power to furnish
full and ample protection to every citizen.
ResoIpsd, That the economical and states
manlike administration of the national
affairs by President Grant, and the reduc-
ton of the annual expenses of the Govern
ment twenty. seven millions of dollars by
the Republican party in Congress, justly
entities both to the sincere thanks of the
whole American people.
BT The following from the Philadelphia
Press comes so near up to our idea of the
subject under discussion, that we adopt it
in preference to anything we might write:
"THE SoUTH's GR1EvANcEs.-We re-
produced on Saturday, from the Louisville
Courier Journalof Thursday, remarkable
and startling article on the Southern crisis.
1t is written from Southern, but liberal,
standpoint, and by man who, while always
Democrat, or an opponent Of Republican
ism, has steadily advocated Cancellation as
the best policy for the South. But his
sympathies are with his section, and as it
was fourteen years ago, when the question
was between the Union and the State, as it
now is between liberty and law, and the
dominance of one party and race and vio-
lence, he is willing-nay, ready-to side
with his section and to fight.
But Mr.. Watterson makes one mistake
common to the whole people of the South
fair minded men and fire. eaters included
when he charges that any party, or even
a fraction of the people of the North, per-
secute them. We are neither negro-wor-
shippers nor haters of the white men, but
the overwhelming majority of the intelli-
gent, law abiding, and Christian people of
this nation-we are all one-desire, nay,
demand, that the logical results of the war
shall be abided, and that the negro shall be
left in the undisturbed enjoyment of the
political privileges we purchased the right
with our blood to confer upon him. The
legislation that followed the war is sealed,
and it shall not be reopened save by the
hands that stamped it. No onerous terms
were imposed upon the South-it has no
grievances except the disappointed ambi-
tions and baffled prejudices of its refractory
spirits. Had it cordially accepted the situa-
ton it would have forgotten these long ago.
But no! 1t has refused and spurned the
proffered hand of friendship, and nurtured
and fed its passions until they threaten to
consume it. Not six years ago jeff Davis
boastingly proclaimed that tho Lost Cause
was not lost" In secret, and at night, it
has plotted treason and executed murder.
The advice of journals like the Courier
Journal has been rejected, and the ban of
outlawry laid upon men like Orr of South
Carolina and Parsons of Alabama, and a
dozen others, once its trusted sons, and of
irreproachable character, who believed that
the way to peace Was peace, and that the
salvation of the negro, by treating him
fairly and teaching him his political duty,
was the salvation of the South. 1t even
turned its back on Horace Greeley, who
wanted to bridge the bloody chasm it had
itself dug, and on Charles Sumner, who
made " Reconciliation and Equal Rights to
all :" the shibboleth of his dying days. 1t
has resisted the will of the majority, for
Louisiana is Republican State by many
thousands of votes, and made NAL. admins.
tration pretext for murder.
Now the North desires peace, and what
is more, it will have it. Reconciliation
and the Equal Rights of all it will adopt
as its motto, and act upon it, but it will
insist on a return. Men must cease to be
murdered for their politics and their color,
and the idea of the nationality, the all-per-
vading power and privileges of citizenship,
must be respected. The South will either
concede these things, or they will be
secured even if it be necessary to plant an
army of policemen clothed in Federal blue
in the disaffected districts.
WNo paper did more, if as much to
nominate and elect Grant for second term
by Misrepresentation and abuse, az the
New York Tribune. That paper is now
industriously preparing the country to the
best of its ability, to have him nominated
for third term, by the same course which
proved such success in 1872. That paper
is very unfortunate in its art of misrepre-
sentation and insinuating abuse; so much