St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1861-05-30


n absolute % ever. All the powers sf
he earth can ueser permanently separate
Maryland fro,a Virgins. The laws sf
nature assd the stern realities Of iatercHt
have dse;ded tL,t question beyond sr'-
peal. tas ~ as1' ~
What /, the meantime does Abraha,n
Lincoln eontetupIate Is it the defrnc.
Of the Federal ..apitals That was tile
prct.spse by which he iatcl,r
ralli6d ake Narh 10 The supposs ofe Als'
odious Administration. E,nboldened DIV
the success Of this great imposiure, he now
opcnly proclaims his determination b,
c.erce the South into absolute submission
by force Of arms. that is to say, to sub
jugate her to the dominion Of North
ern majority under the prctext Of pre-
serving Union which she detcsss, be-
cause il has been perverted into m engine
Of oppression, insult and degradation.
Therefore he has called out forty thou
sand Northern troops in addition to the
seventy-fve thousand previously enrolled,
and he asked the Northern Governors 10
make their cnlistments for three years.
and that, too, in violation of the plain
mandates Of the Constitution, which re-
serves all such powers to Congress alone.
This aet of military usurpation signifies IA
determination t0 wage ruthless AMI
persistent war "f aggression against fous-
teen Southern States Uor Maryland must
be counted in} and eight millions of high
hearted Southern free,mcn who will new
er, never. never submit to be dragooned
into condition of vassalage. The
Northern organs Of Lincoln's Admins
tration. with the spirit Of the very devils
Of hell, threaten the ravishing Of our WEI.
men, the destruction of our cities and the
slaughter Of our ruen-one Of those mon
stors in human shape says to the brutal
population of Massachusetts that the wo-
men Of Baltimore have ever been cele.
brated for their beauty, that Maryland
and Virginia teen' with wealth, and thaa
therefore ''tooty and beauty" must be the
rallyins cry.!!! That such monstrous
sentiments can be expressed in civilized
without rebukc should pre-.
pare Maryland and the whole South for
that united aud terrific resistance which
will not fail t. drive the ravishing rob.
bers back to their dcns, aud plant th.
c"uquering STANDARD sf Southern rights
aud Southern chivalry upon the banks of
the Hudson river. TIL. South now stands
upon the defensive-she asks NO more
than the recsgnition Of her independence,
she asks for peace-she desires peace
and friendly relations with the Northern.
Confederacy-President Davis says SO ex-
pressly in his late message to the South.
ern Congress il Lincoln should per-
severe in bis resolution to wage war OF
invasion and suojugation. he will as ccs.
tainly be driven into the mountains OF
Pennsylvania and New York AZ that the
sun rises in the East. The South has
seven hundred thousand stand of arms,
and four thousand cannon, with ever,
abundance of munitions of war-she has
Eve hundred thousand Of the bravest fight
ing men that the sun ever shonc upon. ex.
elusive Of smother half million who arr
competent to bear arms for home service
she has tws fifths of all Of the officers Of
the U. ). Army. and BY far the most
talented aud experienced Of them all-she
has an annual income of three hundred
million Of dollars from her cotton, tobac-
co. rice. hemp. &C.. aud she has four mil
lions Of slaves to cultivate these great
sources of her wealth aud power. Ahra-
ham Lincoln may blockade her ports, but
he dare not deprive England Of her cotton;
for England has FIVE millions of people
who eat their daily bread by the manufac-
ture of cotton. 10 starve those fye mil
lions is to resurrect the terrible phantom
of Chartism aud involve England in im-
mediate civil and political revolution. with
disaffected Ireland on one side and invad-
ing France on the other. Besides which
the solvcncy of England depends upon the
prompt and regular payment Of the inter-
est on her national debt of twelve hundred
and that depends upon her man
shipping aud commercial pros
perity; and they depend upon king Cot
tom 1t therefore absolutely follows that
the South will continue to export her two
hundred milliens Of cotton annually. for
Lincoln will not make an issue with Eng
laud, upon which her own salvation de-
pegtuS xuuS tuc ESoutu Will nave Tue FIJI
cws of war. On the other hand, the
boarded wealth Of the Northern cities.
their four or five hundred millions of dol
lars. must be utterly exhausted in two
gears, II Lincoln attempts to keep o hum
dred aud fifty thousand men in the field
and then what has the North to fall back up-
on? Wheat. corn anG pork which never
yet. in the history of nations. brought
wealth into the public Golfers. Wheat,
corn and pork viii comfortably feed a
home population, and the surplus msy be
70 farcigu nations when they are
short Of praxisions. but they
are .a,ot great reliable commercial staples
like cotton. yielling rs It does to tho
South. fixed yearly revenue Of two hun
dred millions Of dollars! European capi.
tslists will lend the Southern Ccnfcderaey
any amount Of money upon the credit Of
cotton. they will be shy to trustthe North