The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1877-09-08
AT HIM AGAIN.

The Democrat party always was and
still is proscriptive and intolerant with
reference to independence of opinion and
action towards both its leaders and fol-
lowers. 1t makes no allowance for d.
versites of conviction or the free eXer-
else of honest opinion. The man who
sets up his judgment against its DEGREES,
either as to candidates or measures, seals
his doom as to party confidence, which
no subsequent good behavior ever
can restore to him. Violation Of party
obligations is equivalent to political sui
eide or harikar, a sort of disembowel-
ing of ones body political, and which
no life-giving breath of Bourbon can
ever restore to party usefulness and
responsibility.
Mr.. Latrobe, of Baltimore, the pres
ent alleged Mayor of that politically
peaceful city, is enjoying at present the
happy experience Of that blissful politi-
cal condition. Not only did his party
take its revenge upon him for doing
the respectable AFTER his supposed cleo
ton to the Mayoraltv, by ignomini-
ouslv defeating him for second nomi-
nation, but as if grown hungrier upon
the sweet feast of vengeance, its organs
still keep up the attack, determined by
every available means to mortify and
belittle him. He has rendered himself
obnoxious to the party" managers
and must needs pay the penalty of his
oflense. When he repudiated "the
boys who had so faithfully served
him by the methods so skillfully prac-
ticed by the Baltimore roughs, he COM
mitted the objectionable party sin and
was banished from the presence of the
faithful. History will repeat itself and
Democracy will assert its proscriptive
rights Rome itself is not more exact
ing in the terms it imposes upon its
devotees than is the Democratic party
in its dealings with its allies and adher-
ents. They joined it for better or for
worse, and when they betray it they
are banished into outer darkness. The
latest castigation given this unfortu-
nate gentleman by the accredited party
slasher, 1.-The Gazette. does seem petty
and spiteful, but no less natural on that
account. Now Democratic taxation is
driving out of Baltimore the unfortu-
nate mechanic and laborer, whose local
ills are aggravated by the general press
ure of hard times, everywhere prevalent
A little company of fortune and
bread seekers determined to risk the
uncertainties of Western life, and to
seek more hospi.able home in the dis
tant wilds of Kansas With character
istic enterprise, the local papers took
the Kansas movement up and pictured
in roseate language the beauties of Ban
mons lands in the arid plains of Anne
Arundel. The attractions of southern
Maryland and the blooming fertility of
the lower Eastern Shore were duly ex-
patiated upon. Even North Carolina,
from its swamps of pitch and pine,
lifted up its voice to hail the pilgrims
welcome, and through its eloquent
mouthpiece, the vigilant Vance, bid
them hther come, buy lands-and
starve, 1t SO happened that one of the
perplexed would-be emigrants inter-
viewed Mr.. Latrobe, the prescribed
Mayor. In an evil hour he spoke the
truth and advised the hungry bread
seekers to beware of North Carolina or
any other State that did not pay its
honest debts. Admirable as was the
advice, and which Mr.. Latrobe's un-
happy experience as the holder and
owner of worthless North Carolina
bonds amply qualified him to give, yet
so sensitive is Democratic public opin-
ion in Baltimore that at once arose the
hue and cry that the Mayor of the city
was injuring the trade of Baltimore
by his injudicious truth telling, which
the columns of the "Gazette " echoed
and re-echoed with the dstressful wall
of the worsted traders. Lombard street
fairly groaned aloud. and the magma
tive picture painter of :" Ye Gazette :"
gave back the sound of mournful mer-
chants, minus orders from-North
Carolina. 1t was indeed veritable
tempest in tea pot But Latrobe is
under the ban of his party, and the
future political Jordon will be hard
road for him to travel.