The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1883-11-03
Vote for Warning, Hartenstine
& Knorr for House of Delegates.
THAT SPEECH,

We publish below, the salient portion
of the celebrated address of Robert NJ.
McLane, present Democratic candidate
for Governor of Maryland, delivered at
Baltimore, in the winter of 1860 and 81,
Just previous to the Inauguration of
Abraham Lincoln as President of the
United States:
REMARKS or HON. ROBERT NJ. McCLANE,
Hon. Robert NJ. McLane was then intro
duced to the meeting and received with
demonstrations of welcome. He said:
Fellow citizens, your manifestations OF
feeling suggest to me, upon the reading OF
the resolutions, that but little argument is
necessary to call from you an affirmative
response l will nevertheless, present to
Won such points as | deem saliant and
proper for the occasion.
Never be fore was there crisis which de-
manded more earnestly the action of the
people of Baltimore, and never have wit
messed such reluctance to'speak out what
is the will of the people of Baltimore and
y
if not disgust, at the officials Of the State
who have opposed the expression of the
public voice, and especially disgust for
them when the motive that has prompted
this course has been neither patriotic nor
honorable. They pretend \ regard TO: the
interest of Maryland which is dishonorable
and hypocritical. If they did but deal in
diligently there would be some palliation,
but the hypocrisy was patent on its face.
Will any man Of Maryland who remains
with the federal government be willing that
the government with which he remains
should become a despotism? While in the
Union we should speak plainly Of the prob
able results ut any attempt at coercion.
Perhaps the dignity of the occasion suggests
another reason. The administration of Lin
coin is about to be inaugurated, and that
administration must administer the govern
ment.
That administration will be as odious in
Maryland as it would be in South Carolina.
Are we to sit patiently under the double
wrongo To be in a conspiracy to dishonor
our State by identifying it with the Repub-
lcan party? Are the people of Baltimore
to be behind the patriotic people OF New
York? The principal of the secretaries OF
the Republican administration will sing i'll
dulcet songs the story OF the Union, and say
we know it as our common country, and
love it as such. Only yesterday he said
he would pray for the Union, petition
for that Union, and fight for that Union.
Fight with whom The people.
By the living God, fellow countryInen,
the Susquehanna must be the boundary.
They had spoken of the Potomac, but the
Susquehanna shall run red with blood be-
fore it shall be crossed. Shall it be said in
Boston, in New York, the broad West, for
our children are there, that the Potomac
shall be the line? Cries of "No. | will
pledge my life and heart TO march with you
TO the Susquehanna. Cheers For what l?
To prevent single human being from cross
ing into Maryland to execute the laws of
the United States against seeding State
We ask no concession from the NORTH, and
will accept none: but when the good people
of the North say it is only possible to COM
promise by a division, l would concede, and
divide the whole territory which belongs to
us. am willing to make concession to the
North and give them Il part.
1t will be remembered. that after all
this bombast, Mr.. McLane hurried to
New York and took ship for France,
where in the gay capital, Paris, he whiled
away the four years of the war, living in
luxury while the poor men delueed by
him were suffering on the field of battle.
Is this a fit man to be Governor of Mary
land.