The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-04-06
A PROSPECTIVE FUNERAL.

If, in the course of human events, it
becomes necessary to fold Mont gomery
Blair's hands across bis breast and bury
him, the lamentable event will be marked
by more genuine sorrow than has at
tended the demise of any mortal since
the untimely departure OF Adam The
prop that has supported the tottering
fabric of government will be removed,
reform will lose its most earnest cham
pion, corruption its most stalwart enc
my, and into the open grave the tears
Of the multitude will pour as the cry
goes forth" oh, fraud fraud where
is thy victory" The funeral will be
something to be proud Of If it is not
too long before it takes place, Tilden-
"cold as a d clam will be there
as chief mourner, especially if the reso-
lutions passed by the Maryland Le.is-
lature accomplish their purpose. Hen
bricks astraddle Of the cemetery fence.
will look on with a most lugu6rious
countenance, while Samuel Cox, lever
ready with the oral" delivers the ora
ton. The pall-bearers will be selected
from the most distinguished exnonents
of purity the country can produce men
who are the living embodiment of hos
tilitv to fraud" There will he eight
Of them-William NJ Tweed and Jere-
miah C. Black, John T. Hoffman and
the " Bounding" Banning. Cronin and
Colonel Pelton, Grover and John Lee
Carroll. Off in one corner. William
Alien, on his little fog horn,' will play
The Dead March in Saul, " and mourn
as one who will not lie comtorted
Henry Watterson, with his one hun
dred thousand kentuc kians," will swell!
the conceurse, while, ever and anon,
they drown their sorrow in the cheer
ing juice of Indian corn and "let the
devil loose" From the hills and val
leys, from the cities and towns, from
the crowded marts and the sDarSely-
settled districts, the eternal Democracy
will come to pay the last sad tribute
of respect " 10 him who has stood forth,
pre-eminently, as the great exponent
we mean opponent-of Fraud -
Prominent in the procession, and march
ing arm in arm, three gentlemen-Pat-
terson, of Colorado, Wigginton, of Cali
fornia, and Dean of Massachusetts,
will lie noticed, and as they pass along
it will be whispered among the crowd
that by the votes OF that trio who held
seats in the House of Representatives
of the Forty-fifth Congress-althoug Oh
never eleeied-the bill was passed that
put in motion the machinery that made
the resolution of the dear departed ef1ec-
tive, righted wrong, overthrow fraud, =
and made the will of the people at last
triumphant. "Eph" Holland, of Chi
cago, will drive the hearse, ard Billy
McMullen sprinkle the "earth to earth.
dust to dust, ashes to ashes.''
But during the whole of the cere-
monies, the observed of all observ-
ers' will be the knot of MARYLAND
Democrats who have come to testify
their regard rGf their dead Montgom-
cry, and their Appreciation Of his efforts
to punish " the rayishers of the ballot"
Read the understanding list and, in
fancy. view the spotless raiments of this
latter delegation, every countenance
lighted up by the s,ssiles of an APPROX
ing conscience, every tongue ,442l to
sing the song Of honesty in elections
John Lee Carroll, William Pinknev
Whyte. Michael Bannon, Arthur 2.
German, Ferdinand G. Latrobe, Charles
j. NJ. Gwinn, William Walsh, Jesse X.
Hines, l. Freeman kasin, ~ riia... I.
McKewen, Levin Woolford, the Busev
brothers, and Joe Beard. At the head
of the delegation banner will be car
ried, bearing Oh ~ folds this strange
device" Pudden tickets, 49," J.
Morrison Harris, and S. Teack!e va.
lis, and Edward Wilkins, and Henry
NJ. Warfield, as.,' Louis f. McComas
may smile if they should 49,. the dele
CATION, and curve their lips and pres
their nostriis, bat envy and disappointed
will explain DER actions
And SO the services will be persorpssu.
and as the assemoiage tgrns away with
saddened hearts, no sounds will be heard
to mar the solemnity of the occasion.
save one remark falling from the lips
OF robert NJ. McLane-" Thank God,
as OF Of the way"
We forgot to state that dslG.d will be
there to wipe away all tears Z" as with
a sponge"