The Cecil Whig., 1880-09-11

| 1He murdercrS OF Judge ClllSOlm ano
his daughter are still at large, and viii
vote for Hancock.
Alexander II. Stephens, late Vice-Presi
dent of the so-called Southern Confeder
eracy, says he was the "original Han
cock man," and will vote for him.
Wade Hampton, who, in 1868, publicly
and repeatedly urged the social ostracisn
of Republicans, and advised from the
platform that no Democrat should give d
Republican employment or trade at a
store kept by a Republican, has taker
the field for Hancock.
General Butler, of South Carolina, the
Hamburg butcher. will vote for Han.
Hancock.
William II. Barnum, of Connecticut,
the well-known "mule dealer' will vote
for Hancock.
The sentinels who stood guard around
the Union prisoners at Andersonville,
and shot dead the starving soldier of the
Union, your neighbor, your friend, youl
oloGiSl thC tllC uCtlei
line, will vote for Hancock.
The man who shot General Mcpherson
will vote for Hancock.
Barksdale, the Yazoo county murderer
who killed Dixon because he wanted to
run for the same office, has declared fol
| Hancock.
Currie, the Texas assassin, who shot
an unarmed actor just because it was his
day to kill somebody, has been acquitted
by a Texas jury, and will vote for Han
| cock.
jeff Davis says if he had vote he
would cast it for Hancock.
Beauregard, who fired the first gun at
the flag of his country at Fort Sumter,
and now writes to a New Orleans paper
that he 9 does not repent it because his
conscience does not reproach him for it, -
will vote for Hancock.
Samuel J. Tilden, politician so infa-
mously and notoriously corrupt and un-
prncipled that even his own party dared
not, could not, and would not renomi-
nate him, will vote for Hancock.
Now, there they are, young man just a
few of them. If you Like the crowd go
into it. If you want the friends who
now respect you and the people whose
respect you wish to retain; if you want
your old father who is proud Of you, and
looks to you to perpetuate the family
name and honor; if you want your moth
er, who sees in you the best and dearest
and manifest Of sons; if you want your
sweetheart OF wife, who has made you
her ideal of all that is noble and true, the
very soul of honor, the perfection of
honest manhood and spotless integrity;
if you want all these friends who think
and believe you to be pure and exalted
in life and sentiment; if you want them
to see you marching up to the polls with
that mob, thinking rs this motley array
of Union haters and negro shooters think
vote rs they vote, applauding what they
endorse and making your sentiments,
your aspirations, your hopes and wishes,
your plans and your ambitions. your mo-
tives and your actions, identical with
theirs, why, it's a free country, go up
with them and be one of them. and
then come back and hate yourself to
death.
Go with that crowd if you will, but
take warm bath before you come back
to your family. Fumigate yourself be-
fore you come into the house. For de-
ceucy's sake, i'll the name of manly puri-
ty, have the virtue to be ashamed of
yourself. But if you don't like the crowd
and we earnestly hope and believe you
don't keep out Of it and keep away frcm
it. Be stalwart. Be radical in every
thing. March up to the polls under the
ragged battle flag your fathers and
brothers carried for the Union when these
other fellows were shooting at them.
Go to the polls in company with the
son of Abraham Lincoln, rather than
arm in arm with Barksdale of Yazoo.
Walk beside the son of Stephen \.
Douglas, rather than Currie of Texas.
Go to the polls with Grant, rather than
Pemberton, both for the honor of the
thing and the certainty of victory. Walk
besides such men as John G.. Whittier,
rather than the masked night rider who
helps to hang and shoot Republicanism
out of Mississippi.
Go to the polls with decent, honest
men. 1t is for you to make your own
choice. And let us implore you to so
choose that you will never have reason
to be ashamed of the company with
which you cast your first vote.