The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-09-26
FOR The Cecil Whis.
IS Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy They
First Make Mad"

places of honor in Church and State. A
God of justice cannot be mocked-upon
every wrong waits an avenging Nemesis
and it is not unfrequently through the fol-
lies of her own victims that she inflicts her
punishments.
The same shout of triumph that pro-
claimed Sumter fallen and the great cot
ton empire established with slavery as its
corner stone, to the more thoughtful friend
of freedom meant the overthrow of the
slave power and the recognition of human
ity Slavery died as consequence of the
folly of it's supporters. The declaration
that the nation could not exist half free
half slave, had been verified when the
Southern cross faded from view and with
it slavery fell to rise no more.
From that memorable day to the present
the Southern element and its Northern
sympathizers have labored to regain the
national conGdence-but in every instance
the proverb of the Pagan philosopher has
asserted its truth. Just at the moment
when victory seemed in their grasp, some
incomprehensible folly has destroyed their
hopes. 1t is useless just now to repeat
the stories of Johnson's apostacy, the 6ey-
mour-Blair candidacy, the Kuklux out
RACES and the Greeley folly, although each
alike have served as warning to Republi-
canism that it's mission is not complete.
The latest illustration of this principle is
seen in the outrages in the South and the
Louisiana rebellion. For year past it
has seemed as though the Republican par
ty was on the verge of dissolution-its
work done, it seemed about to pass away
to give place to new combinations with
new issues. Few politicians cared to pre-
dict majority for them in the next Con-
gress. Oregon, North Carolina and Ten
nessee went against them, and it was not
until from Tennessee, from Georgia, from
Kentucky came the cry of prosecuted Re-
publicans, whipped or murdered in cold
blood, only because they dared have opin-
ions of their own, that the men who struck
down slavery began to arouse to the fact
that the old Hydra was not dead. Faster,
thicker came the reports from the South,
citizens murdered, officials murdered or
driven from the State, until at last, it has
eliminated in the rebellion in New Orleans.
The men who carried the banners of free
dom through the wilderness are aroused,
and already the verdict of Maine indicates
the end. The war must be kept up until
the South accepts its verdict, and to this
end the next Congress will be Republican.
Once more Democratic madness has de-
stroyed Democratic hopes.
No State of the 81 has grander resources
than Louisiana has improved them
to less advantage. 1t is country "where
every prospect pleases and only man is
vile." From the day that Farragut's fleet
lay at the wharves of New Orleans to the
present, its history has been a series of
political murders, until every city, street
and country by-road has been stained with
the blood of men, guilty of the worst
crime known to Southern chivalry-Repub-
licanism. The massacre of Dostie and the
Republican convention begun series of
outrages that would disgrace the widest
savages on the globe.
Democrats are notorious for short men,
cries, but there are people who recollect
the election of 1868, when such was the
terrorism of the klans and leagues that but
5000 Republicans voted in the State. Yet
the roushs of New Orleans had hardihood
enough to 60 to Washington and demand
that the vote of the State should be count
ed for Seymour and Blair, and their North
ern sympathizers endorsed the demand.
The history of the last year of War
mouths administration has no equal for
villainy in the history of the American
continent, if in that of the world. First,
the split of the Legislature under Carter,
to destroy its Republican ascendancy, then
the placing of the whole election machine
ry of the State in the hands of the MUIR
derers of 1856 and 1868, and at last, when
his defeat became evident, the deposition
of the legal canvassing officers and the
substitution Of men ready to hesitate at
nothing to secure their masters selfish
aims. These make up a chapter in history
of which any Mexican would be ashamed.
Declared elected by the legal authority,
Kellogg assumed the chair disgraced by
Yarmouth. He was Northern man,
in the free atmosphere of New
England, but man who in the Senate had
labored faithfully for the interests of his
adopted State, while Yarmouth was schem-
ing only for his own advancement. The
courts of the State declared him the legal
Governor and the general Government adj
mitted his claims. Next followed the Col
fax murders, no one of the perpetrators of
which has ever been brought to justice.
Nearly two years have passed, taxation
has been reduced, the State debt decreased,
an earnest effort made for peace, but peace
was not what the Democrats of the State
wanted. The Kuklux gave place to the
" White Leagues" and the old style of
was begun again. The murders
of Coushatta eliminated in the rebellion in
New Orleans, and the end is not yet. At
last the National Government is aroused,
and it is possible the rutfians of Louisiana
may get lesson that will cure them of
their taste for blood. Grant gave five days
to disperse, but the men who had so much
taste for shooting unarmed negroes do not
SO much fancy facing national bayonets,
and SO twenty. four hours was sufficient.
Kellogg is, again in his place, and the pop
ular FIRE azy of a week ago now vents itself
in threat Of murder. Unlike Wells, they
have not frightened him into submission,
and he cannot be bought as Yarmouth
v as, SO it is very probable that the end will
lIe the assassin's bullet.
If these facts prove anything, they prove
that the people of Louisiana are unfit for
self government. 1t is all very we'll for
them to talk about usurpations and fraud
ulent elections, but their chief aim seems
now, a. in the past, to be the prevention
Of fair one. There is no doubt that with
a fair election and full vote the State is