The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-12-02
representative Political "Tramps."

When the announcement was made in
the columns of that non-partisan journal,
the Baltimore Sun, that Gov John Lee
Carroll had started for New Orleans to
aid in securing, by his respectable pres
ence, fair count of the illegal y
votes cast for his whilom political mas
ter Samuel Jones Tilden, the virtuous
bosom of the average Maryland Demo-
crat sweled with unusual emotions of
pride and relief The act was, in itself,
so pertinent, so timely, and so grace
ful, that the Paris of America must
needs recognize the compliment of such
immaculate presences, by which the Re
publican scallawag" and the Yankee
carpet-ba oyer were to be awed into hon
esty, and be compelled to recognize the
forms at least of law and decency. I'm
partial thinkers, and plain, common, un-
partisan reasoners, however, thought
otherwise, and rather regarded him, bv
virtue of this act, as second Daniel
come to Judgment. Himself the recip-
ent Of questionable honors. The pos
SCISSOR of place won by disreputable
means The elect of an election at least
"tainted with fraud there was moth
ing pleasant or gratifying they thought
in the evident desire upon the part Of
the aristocratic and ambitious Gov
ernor" to make himself conspicuous be-
fore the nation in any question relating
to fraudulent political practices. At
tributing. however, the weakness of the
act to the vanity of "the man" rather
than to the Judgment Of the Governor
charitable people willingly forgot both
the Governor and the man in the more
absorbing and important events of the
hour And so would forgetfulness of
disagreeable things have become habit
ual, did not disgust and contempt rudely
thrust aside more agreeable emotions.
and usurp the seat wherein charity, the
mild-eyed goddess, should continually
preside But unfortunately for the gen
eral peace in this year of centennial
reioicings, the blasts of windy Demo
cratic bugles, blown bv waspish and
hvSterical trumpeters, daily and hourly
herald, not the dawn of the era of ma
tional peace and unity, but of sectional
riot and disorder, contempt of the spirit
as we'll a. the forms of law, and disre-
gard of personal and political rights. To
the three unhappy States in which, at the
recent Presidential election, the sacred
hut il y-secured rights of citizenship were
ruthless V disregarded and trampled un-
der foot, by bullying rioters and bloody
bull-dozers now, the Northern ennis
saries Of frauds and injustice have, un-
fortunately for the peace of the nation,
turned their presence as well as their
attention.
Democratic Maryland, not to be out
done in her contributions to the altar
on which unrepentant rebels have al
ready sacrificed the Niger to propi-
tiate the insatiate Democratic gods, must
needs contribute her quota. She, too,
has laid upon the broad and willing
shoulders of her favorite officiating 20
litical priest St. Michael, the pure and
unstained robes of his "olfice,'' and bid
him exercise his sacerdotal skill and cum
ming, in completing the political sacri-
flee in Southern temples. Hither and
thither in Mephistopheian garb, invisi-
bly, he glided, lighting his unholy fires.
Under his polluting touch, bad men
have grown worse, and hestating poiti-
cal criminals have, under his personal
inspiration, taken fresh courage His
ready pupils proved their proficiency of
requirement under such mastery teach
ing, More courtly and ornamental, the
handsome Governor, the pride of the
tourney,
Went down to New Orleans
And then came back again;
but priestly Michael glides ''incognto "
through the Floridian groves, and does