The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1879-04-12


Presidential campaign.
AL the election news this week is fav-
oGallc to the Republicans.
REPUBLICAN Victories and gains in
Chic and Michigan show that the revolu-
ZIONIST have gone too far
FEAR not. brethren. I'll pull through.
We've counted noses-the red. the
(Whyte) white As well as blue.
ANDREW jackson, the boosted father
of Democracy. gave President Hayes Il
precedent for vetoing appropriation bills.
AZ extra session and solid South
united make Republican votes rs fast as
Il South Carolina buli-do2cr can stuff in
tissue ballots.
WE are indebted to Senator Groome
for 4 copy CT the Congressional Record,
containing his speech upon the seating of
Senator Bell of New Hampshire.
Tie only officials the Democrats elect
ed i'll Columbus. Ohio, We're the trustees
"f the cemeteries. The event proves that
here the Democrats voted better than
they knew.
Ex-senator Barnum. Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee says
that the extra session of Congress will
cost that party one million Votes at the
next Presidential election.
iHE Vanderbilt family litigation is fin
sily settled and wound up. 1t has been
4 big thing for the lawyers. bad thing
for the oTiginators of the rlnsecmly strife.
and Il tedious nuisance for the public.
SENATOR Chandler has written to one
u: his friends in Michigan that all the re-
ward he desires for his poor efforts is to
see u North once more united in loyalty
10 the party which preserved the Union."
EX-HOV. Hoffman does not want to
have anything more to do wit h the New
York Democracy, because he wishes to
pass the rest OF his life comfortably and
respectfully" Are comfort and rcSpecta-
iility unknown in the Democratic party?
FROM the fact that Col. Ingersoll offers
20 give 81, 600 toward helping the exodus
OF the Southern negroes. we conclude that
he does not consider it one of the mis-
takes Of Moses that he led the children
of Israel out of the land of bondage.
inE Press makes this little hit The
Democrats who have been telling us how
kindly the negroes were treated in the
South. ard how much they loved their
old masters. find it rather difficult mat
ter to explain away the present alarming
exodus of blacks to the west
y charter for the Middletown and Elk
ton railroad has been granted to Il Balti-
lti''lt IliSti Wv liz l'tldNdtt Legislature.
II Baltimore men We're half as energetic
aC building railroads as they are at getting
,IarterS. the Middletown branch would
have been built long ago-heu Ntrs.
THE late Mrs Jerome Bonapartc has
received more extensive bo@raphiZing
than any other old lady who has died in
many years. and will be forgotten in two
weeks, although her pluck. persistence
and romantic career ought tn give her a
more enduring memory.
THE news from Mr. Thurman own
town of CoiuinbuS. Ohio, must be rather
dis"unraging TO that statesman. For the
first time the Republicans on Monday
carried Columbus. although the Democrat
ii. candidate for Mayor. a son of ex Gov.
DenisGi, had the support of his Republi-
rln father.
The Grccnhackers in the House are
again satisfied of the trcacilery of the
Democrats. The former expected to hs
paid for their support of the Army bill b.
having = chance on Monday to offer their
own bills. but were cheated. They may
get mad enough to make themselves USE
tll by defeating the revolutionary meas
treS Of the Democrats.
BEFORE the Senate debates on the Army
bill are concluded a general enighten-
ment Of public opinion will be attained
Under the rules of that body there is no
such thing possible as choking OFF de
bate, and by the time that Carpenter
Edmunds. Conl.ling, Blaine IIoar, Chan
der Dawes and Morrill, have had thcil
@eyeral opportunities for speaking, thu
schemes Of the consprators will be SO eli
lcctually exposed that their defeat will be
rendered certain.
THE Democratic party is like the knife
whose owner had provided for it first a
new blade and then a new handle. lie
still insisted that it was the same knife
,hat he had bought years before. In like
manner the Democrats are not ashamed
10 claim that their party is the same that
>sas founded by jefferson, although it
.jclIcrsonian principles had largely disap-
reared before jackson $ time, and al
though Calhounism Gisintegrated the
.'JacElsonian Democracy whose great
leader came near hanging Calhoun.
FRED. Douglass is undoubtedly right
in itttributing the migration of the blacks
10 their love of the freedom ~ II len the
south denies them. He is not as sangline
of tie prosperity of the colored people
who settle i'll the West as might be OK
pacted, although he has faith that the
future Of the American negro is to grow
brighter. What these people need is a
leader If one Of their own race could
speak for them, and win their confidence
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