The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1876-12-23
BELIGERENT FANATICS.

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moral coward, and a man not possessed Of
the courage of his own professed convic-
tons. No impartial observer of the course
and career of this aspirant to Presidential
honors can have failed to observe the will
ingness on his part to accept any result
favorable to himself and his prospects,
without inquiry as to its questionable char
acter or the means of its accomplishment.
Not only was the recent campaign, con-
Quoted by his friends under his personal
supervision, upon the broadest plan Of mis-
representation, and by the most systematic
appeals to the lowest and worst passions of
those who rallied to his support but even
since the uncertainty of his election has
ripened into the unwelcome fact of defeat,
he has still not hesitated to stoop to con-
quer, and has condescended to such weak
and pitiable shifts as are totally nconsist-
ent, and out of keeping with, the dignity
and character properly expected in an
aspirant to honors as exceptional as those
of the Presidency. And now, having filled
every role in the drama of "The Reform
Politician" so successfully played by him
before Nation as spectators, and having
shown a versatility in his profession unex-
ampled in one of his high moral and pro-
fessedly legitimate school, his mad follow
ers and INSCRIPTIONS advisers seek to
thrust him before the Nation as the cham
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and Mexcanized ideas, are to be realized
Democratic hopes and ambitions. To test
the temper of the people, his faithful lieu
tenant, Clarkson n. Potter. indited in the
sulphurous shades of the Gramercy Park
arsenal, his policy of peaceable " revolu,
ton. But the common sense of the nation
at large, as we'll as the fears of his own fol-
lowers, repudiated it at sight. Not even
the Atlas of "The World " could muster
courage to shoulder it. The warlike lead
ers of the Lower House of Congress, Wood
and Randall, however, screwed their cour-
age to the sticking point and pressed before
the caucus of their party their mad policy.
Again it was repudiated, and its advocates
defeated. To their modification and sur
prise the Southern leaders, in whose breasts
were supposed to burn the unquenchable
fires of 'patriotic revenge" on the North
ern vandals, spurned the idea of war in
Tilden's interest. The idea was too pre-
posterous. The object was too minute;
the enterprise too gigantic. In language
both forcible and convincing, the true cour-
age of the caucus asserted itself, and, to
the credit of Southern Representatives,
whose personal bravery had stood the test
of trial, the blatant leaders of the Democ-
racy learned that their party brethren re
garded them as "invincible in peace and
invisible in war" elf you want fight ,
have it on your own side," said the soldiers
of the South. ''We want no more of it,
We shall accept peaceably the declaration
Of Gov. Hayes as President" and Hill, and
Lamar, and Kehr, ex-Rebels though they
are, lowered as far above the level of the
Woods and Randals of the North as true
courage puts to shame its wordy and worth
less counterfeit. Accustomed to the policy
of pretensc, these pigmy pugilists shout in
the ears of the people their intention to
try the experiment of making Mr.. Tilden
President by force of arms. Possibly that
deluded gentleman thinks they may sue
coed. But neither he nor they ale the stuff
of which revolutonists are made.
Mexico affords more promising field for
military enterprises of such "great pith
and moment" where handful of ragged
militia can besiege a capital and half
dozen guerrilla warriors overturn national
administration. But to inaugurate another
civil war in the interest of a Tammany
Hall politician, is rather a stupendous I'M
dertaking in this Centennial year of grace
If Fernando Wood and Samuel j. Randall
are the best specimens of Northern insur
gents the Democratic party can afford they
may we'll make haste slowly in inaugurating
a Tilden revolution. We believe that the
masses of the American people are order
loving and law obeying citizens, and that
they place the true value upon the brag-
CART boasts of political leaders, who now,
as in 1860, raised the war cry, and when
the clash of arms came "retired " to IA safe
distance. The South, too, in whose sup
posed interest this buster is being made
comprehends accurately and truly the real
situation. Interested more in their local
governments and material prosperity than
i'll the prefelment of either Northern or
Southern politicians, it is unquestionably
opposed to any proceeding anticipative of
another civil war. This prevalent senti-
ment in the Southern States is unmistaka-
bly, indicated in the expressed opinions of
their representative men, SO far as they
have been learned at Washington and at
the North. They betray anything but a
warlike spirit. Men like Hill, of Georgia.
do not hesitate to cast in the face of the
Northern Democratic fire eaters the record
of their cowardice during the rebellion.
They remember their disappointment, when
in 1861 they raised the Macedonian cry to
their Northern allies, "Come over and help
us, The Northern allies heard, but came
not. They were too cowardly to fight IN
support of the issue which they themselves
had been largely instrumental in bringing
to elimination. The sad and desperate
venture of the rebellion was made mainly
upon the part of the South in the hope of
a divided North, which would rally to their
support when the blow was struck. So
their Northdrn allies had assured them, but
only to deceive them. True, they afforded
them moral " support. OF these North
eTn - mora" supporters Of the rebellion,
Mr.. Tiiden is a well-known instance How
Intensely Col. Mosby must have enjoyed
Mr.. Hewtt's lovely dissertation in Con-
gress upon Mr.. Tilden's patriotism in con-
tributing so much money to the equipment
of "The Tammany Regiment" particu-
larry if Mosby had about his person the
letter written him during the rebellion by
Mr.. Iilden, in which he soished him and his
cause SO much success. 1t was SO like Mr.
Tilden and the Northern supporters to
sympdthize with their Southern friends, and