St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1861-08-22

MORNlNG. AUGUST %
and seep tears Of blool over the hu.
nlll.s'on thss brought upoa The country
Il ehe traitar Presiassf Who has Just re-
ad e Whsaalsnd 10 gloeE ever kis con-
1natcd treason. And ve are assnr, d.
snd de0et daahe NE traGh of the as-
1A.e when Abraham Lincoln vas
~ - Yieli his reluctant consent
- h4nIiliating ooicession to sue
neanoa, he ID ~ attempt 10
s1pfsoss ells s0rrew aud Tears which it
cslled forth. But he had no alternative.
F." Necessity ksors no Ia";;" and to save
the lives Of the gallant men who have 50
long held Fort Sumter against an over
whelming force Of heartless traitors and
wicked and unprincipled rebels. whose
treason has been stecpel in fraud aud
theft, vulgarly known as Southern
chivalry," the Pre- :ident of the United
States. in the discharge Of duty tn
humanity, has signed the order for the
evacuation Of Sumter.
Had war. not peace, been his object
had he desired to raise throughout the
mighty North q feeling of Indignation,
which in ninety days would have emanci-
pated every slave ON the continent aud
driven their masters into the sea, If needs
be-hc had only to have said: "Iet the
garrison of Fort Sumter do their duty and
perish beneath its walls, and ON the heads
OF the traitors ard rebels of the slavery
propagandists be the consequences" s."
Such decision would have carried joy
to the bosoms of Phillips and Garrison
aud their fanatical associates, who 50
justly consider abolitionism and disunion
synonymous; but it would have brought
upon the country such scenes of horror as
the mind shrinks from contemplating
Verify. the blood of the martyrs would
have been the seed of NEGRO emaucipa-
tion." For every patriot soldier thus
sacrificed to the revival of the African
slave trade and the establishment of a
hileoas slavcocracy at the South, ten
thousand negro slaves would have been
enancipated. and as many Of their mas
ters been driven into the ocean to ex-
plate their crimes on earth.
But Mr.. Lincoln desired to rouse no
such feeling of revenge among the peo-
pic Of the Free States. He knew-uo
man knew hetter-fhat he had but to
hold on t. Fort Sumter agrecably to ,h /.
plainly expressed will of the people and
leave its gallant garrison to the fate pre-
pared for them by rebels and traitors,
TO ensure an uprising which would at
once have wiped out slavery from the
face Of the country, and with it, all en-
gagged i'll the atrocious rebellion against
the Government. But his purpose is
Peace, not War. His object is to res
tore. to rebuild, aad to preserve the
Government, and the Constitution which
enacted it; and his great aim is, while
maintaining the Constitution and enf,rc-
ing the laws, to bring back good ,ncn to
their allegiance, and leave the thieves and
rcgues, aud braggarts, who Compose the
great mass Of the rebels, under the cog.
nonlen Of ''Soutl,e. n Chisalry," to the
uninterrupted cnjoyment Of their own pre-
cious socicty aad the reflections which
time msst awake even in them. lie is
miudfdi Of his oath registered in Hea-
ven," to preserve tho Constitution and
enforce the laws; and he feels that his
mission Is to reclaim aud not extinsuish;
v most assurelly he could have left
Fort Sumter to its fate; aud that fate
would have been speedy. certain, and
absolute snnihilation to the traitors now
in rebellion against the Government. aud
to the very existence Of the institution of
slavery on the American cont nent. But
he has been faithful to bin oath Of Office
and to the Constitution; and by yielding
To the necessity Of the case and listen
ing to the cry Of humanity, slavery has
had accorded to it its last victory over
Freedom and the Constitution Of the
United States.
The deed has been accomplished; the
sacrifice has been made; traitors and re-
bels are again triumphant; aud the Stars
and Stripes are again to be dislonored
in the sight Of the nation and of astonish.
cd Europe. The dag of the Union is to
be pulled down. aud the bloody banner
Of pirates. frcebooters, rebels aud traitors.
is to be run up to wave triumphantly
over Sumter and be saluted from hun
dreds Of guns iu the rebel camp, amid
the cheers Of thousands whose seusciess
gasconade aud braggadocio vauntiugs.
have long since disguised brave men aud
honest citizens. And yet, ace approre the
act. A traitor President rendered it
a aecessity;; and humanity demanded that
Abraham Lincoln should sacrifice sl per-
sonal feelings, and gracefully yield to
that necessiiy and the deliberately planned
treason upon which it is based. Ills coun-
trymen will sustain him in this discharge
Of an hun,iliating but an imperative duty;
but with him they feel that the account
is now closed with treason. There is
nothing now to yield to trators--noth-
ing more to sacrifice in order to give to
slavery and the slaSe trade the order Of
nationality. In future, the President of
Che United States has only laws to en-
force and Constitution to sustain; and
woe be to them who &hwart him in the
performance Of his duty, and to himself.
il he dare to shrink fron, the perfor,nsnc.
Of bis whole duty.