The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-08-07

partisans But we do insist that he and
his party shall be held to the deliberate
utterance of one of the Democratic lead
erS, one who occupies seat i'll the Senate
of the nation, whose advice is highly es-
tccmed in the councils of his party asso-
ciates and who was instrumental i'll Sc
curing the nomination of Hancock. We
refer to Senator Wade Hampton.
At Il Democratic meeting in Staunton,
Va. last week. injecting which was call
ed to promote Democratic harmony in
the Old Dominion. Senator Hampton was
the leading speaker. Two nemoc ATTIC
electoral tickets are in the field in that
State. Senator Hampton appealed to his
auditors that they might not 10y dividing
sacrifice the Democratic party, sacrifice
the South, sacrifice the National govern
ment.' In enforcing these appeals he re-
tcrred to what he called 1.-THE glorious
heritage bcqueathed to Virginia by her
Lee and and her Stonewall jackson and
concluded with these words: . Consider
what Lee aud Jackson would do were
they alive. 7HCSt are tie sane principleS
.tor rAjch hCg t6ugM for foHr gears"
The Democratic party, then, is fighting
for the same principles to-day that it
fought for i'll 1860 and i'll 1861? 1t is the
same old fight between the voice of pa
triotism and'' the rebel yell" Mr. llamp-
ton, it seems, would have it so. He
shall have it to his hearts content. The
Republican party is to be congratulated
that the issue has been SO clearly defined
and by one who has right to speak for
his party.
Back of and behind the Union general
who heads the Democratic ticket we are,
virtually, told are the same principles for
which Lee and jackson fought. We add
mire the candor of the confession while
we detest the confession itself. 1t is a
frank avowal,-a avowal made not by a
/ fire eater, not by one of the Hotspurs of
the party, but by Il man who is regarded
as ore of the coolest and most conserva-
tive i'll the Democratic ranks. 1t is an
avowal that demonstrates that the com
bnation between the Solid South and
Tammany Hall means the restoration by
the ballot of the old regime which was
overthrown by the bullet. 1t means the
re- invigoration Of the antc-bellum prin-
ciples of the Southern oligarchy. 1t
means the slave-driver's whip in another
form. If il succeeds it will be the sue
cess of the same dominating so-called
''chivairy which for twenty years be-
fore the war made its own sweet will the
only guide Of the national life, which
would brook no interference and which
struck down with the bludgcon in the
halls Of Congress, Senators who knew
the right and dared maintain it. That
success. if it comes at @ll, can only come
through the active cooperation of the
subScrvient dough-iaccs of the North.
the coppcrhcads Of 1862. 1t will succeed
. if at all, by virtue of the shotgun and
the rifle, tissue ballots " and Tammany
tricks.
The same principles for which Lee and
Jackson fought. indeed How do the
hundreds of Union men in Cecil county,
who for four long years gave of their
blood and their treasure to preserve the
government of their fathers like the
feast t. which Mr.. Wade Hampton in
yitrs them? What have they to say in
answer to This declaration of that Demo
cratic leader. Will they be satisfied with
the uniform of blue that Gen. Hancock
wears Or will they look beyond the
handsome fgurc-head to the party that
is praying for and will profit by his sue
cess. the whole band of rebels and rebel
! sympathiZers. the party of Tweed and
Jefferson Davis, of Ben Hill and Tillen,
of John Kelly and Wade Hampton:
1.-The same principles. indeed Why.
we thought the war was over. We have
seen blatant demagogues and little and
big Democratic organs paint So beautiful
ly and SO often the picture of peace "
and " reconciliation. that we had almost
come to hope that the new era was about
t. be ushered in. But here comes Mr.
Wade Hampton and Spoils with one fell
/ stroke the picture and the hope. The
same fight he tells us. The war, then,
settled nothing? Mr.. Wade Hampton
will find. to his surprise, that it did set
/ tie something, and, furthermore. that the
loyal men OF the North will settle kim
and the party with which he trains.