The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1880-09-04
THEY REFUSED TO GO ON THE RECORD.

1t is easy enough for partisan Demo
Gratis to say: 1.-THE Southern people ac-
cept the constitutional amendments The
war issues are all settled 1t is as easy
as lying. For the past thirty years it has
been the function of the Northern Dem
ocrats to do the lying. while the brains,
will and power of the party, in the South
We're carrying out it's reckless and wicked
schemes. That is what Northern Demo-
Gratis are for. But the exigencies of the
present campaign are very severe on them.
The Southern leaders are either too
honest OF too impulsive. They have be-
trayed the real purposes of their desper-
ate war for power. Wade IIampton's
ludicrous and Intellectual squirmings only
serve to advertise the utterances which
disclose the open secret of the Southern
campaign. Read even the portions of
his Staunton speech which he does not
disown, and it will be seen that it is his
burning ambition to establish the princi-
pies for which Lee and jackson fought.
That is what the Southern leaders mean
to do. We might ill columns with cum
ulative and trustworthy evidence of the
fact, openly uvowed i'll all the Southern
States, that the war is to be fought over
at the polls and all its work reversed.
But one proof is sufficient to convince
any reasonable man.
On the It'll of January, 1919, that great
statesman and jurist, senator Edmunds,
determined to put on the record the
names of those Senators who do not be-
lieve that the constitutional amendments
are accepted as final and abiding author
ity. lie pressed u vote ON the following
resolutions:
Resoleed, az tic judgment Of tie !Senate,
That the Thirteenth, Fou .teenth and Fiji
teenth Amendments to the Constitution
of the United States have been legally
ratified, and are us valid and of the same
paramount authority as any other part of
the Constitution: that the people of each
| State have common interest in the en-
forosment of the whole Constitution in
every State of tho Union, and that it is
alike the right and duty of Congress to
enforce said amendments and to protect
every citizen i'll the exercise of all the
rights thereby secured by laws of the
general character already passed for that
purpose, and by further appropriate legis-
latiun, SO far as such enforcement and
protection are not secured by existing
laws; and that il is the duty Of the exec
] MI n,stt Of ha
| faithfully and with diligence to carry all
such laws into impartial execution, and
| of Congress to appropriate all moneys
| ncedlul to that end.
The Democratic srnatorG fought this
| plain and reasonable test of their Sinceri-
! ty and good faith. They tried, by every
| possible cXpcdicnt, to dodge IL vote on it,
and succeeded for several weeks. But
/ Edmnnds was persistent, memorable and
their superior iii parliamentary tactics.
He finally got them in ii corner, and they
| had to vote. Sixteen Senators refused
to say officially what some of them are
now saying us campaign orators. They
| knew that the real Democratic campaign
| would have ali the HE taken out of 1t.
We're it to be understood that tho amend
ments are to stand. Here are the names
of those Senators who voted to keep the
Confederate plan open, viz: Messrs
Bailey. Bayard, Beck. Cockrell, Coke
Davis, Of West Va; t:atol., Garland
Gordon, Harris, Hereford Hill, Herman
| Lamar, Morgan, Voorhees,.
We ask intelligent Democrats to con-
slider this vote, which is part of the
| records Of the United States Senate
What docs il ,heHn" tan il DO reruuoiled
with the campaign statements Of their
orators? Can it be explained in any man.
ner, except as Il proof that the Constitu-
! tional amendment are not regarded either
as accepted settlement or Us tinalities9s
There is time enough between now and
the real opening of the campaign for
! thoughtful Northern Democrats to look
into these vitality important matters,
coolly, deliberately and with the sole de
sire Of getting at the truth.