St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1862-05-22

stone dead. IT any one will take the vol
nme Of Sria which contains the argu-
meut Of Isaac Bickerstsf upon the parallel
controversy. be will see at once the cogen-
cy Of this reasf'ning. For ourselves, We
are perfectly prepared to admit that Beau
regard 10 dead. The press of Federal
America is now the voice Of the Wsr De-.
psrtmens; the press "obstinately persists"
that Bcaurcgasd first had his arm shot
off and then was killed. News from
America is now an official matter, aud
this is the news, Beauregard may ex-
claim as much AZ hs pleases, but fur all
newspaper purposes be is dead. and there
ought 10 be an end Of him. Ifhe is going
about the lines Of Coriuth and pretending
to be alive. it Is very indecent of him.
There 10 one matter. however, which
We should Ike 10 suggest to the gentle
men at Washington. The true man of
genius never unnecessarily expends power
Now that they can make history with the
pen. what can be the object of their vio-
lent efforts to make it with FIRE and sword?
Beaursgard is as much dead to the people
Of New York ~ If his head had really been
taken Of by cannon ball. Pittsturg is as
much real victory at Boston as il the
prisoners, and the guns had all hecn mp
tured By the Federals. aud not by the
Confedcrates. Possibly by this time a
battle has really taken place at Corinth
Many hundreds of men have probably
been killed on either side. Perhaps the
Fsdersls have stormed the lines and have
driven back the Confederatca Will, infinite
slaughter; p~rhsps. on the other hand.
the unfairly rcsuscitated B"aurrgard may
have suffered another of those defeats which
leave his hands full Of cannon aud prifon-
ers. But what need eau there be Of these
vulgar acts Of lo.dshcj! Mr.: Stanton
now sits, like the author Of three-vol-
umc novel. with life and death. fortan
and ruin. happiness and misery. all at bis
own pens point. Nothing which may be
achieved at Corinlh cal be more glorisu.
aud decisive than what has been already an
nounced in the New York paper:
General Buell. was reported to have
taken Corinth. With all its im,acnsc
stores of arms and ammunition" Or If.
On the "th"r hand, it should happen that
Grncrsl Buell. has to run back to bic gun.
boats, there seems to be no reason why
this announcement should be contradicted,
or Why the terms Of the despatch should
be changed. Mr.. Stanton has it in his
own breast what VIC shall believe
What.ver happens. OF course he will Gre
= hundred guns, aud Mr.. Linc"ln will
order Thanksgiving; and. as it would be
a work Of supcreroga,ion to kill General
Besurcgard over again. he will, p,rhaps.
take Mr.. Jefferson Davis prisoner. With
his trsnsccudeut powers. why should be-
go on wading into inextricablc debt and
rpilling rivulets Of human blood? Why
not Withdraw the fleets and armies alto
gsther. aud make the victories at leisure.
I" meet the days Of publication If the New
York papers! Then, indeed. Mr. Stanton
could cut the gr..und from under General
Bcauregard's feet. lie aud Mr.. Jeffer-
sou Davis. and others of like cal.ous
minds. might. indeed, still continue per-
to assert that they had not
been killed or taken. but they would not
be able to EXHIBIT scores Of captured CAN
non aud thousands Of captured prisoners
to impcrtiDcntIy give colsr to their denisl
Mr.. Lincoln and Mr.. Stanton will tell
US that they would rather have real victo-
ries, ii they can get them. This is weak
ness. "Q"od eredo, III rst." If the New
York papers were to tell US tomorrow
that Buell. had walked over the lines at
Corinth, and that Mcclellan had storued
the lines at Yorktown: that the Monitor
had sunk the Merrimac, aud that the
Southern Congress had sued TO be allowed
to returned to Washington. VIC should all
believe it to be tho Government news Of
the hour. II might be true, or it might
be false, but il would represent no mere
than an exposition Of the Imaginary state
of things which the Government At Wash
ington desired to be believed. This. We
submit. might BE- effected without any
6ghiing vhatevcr. The heroes who lived
before Agamemnon are as if they had not
lived. because they had no bard to sing
their deeds. The happier heroes of these
later days have double advantage over
heir nsmrless predecessors. for. living
under strict monopoly Of hardship. Mr.
Stanton can not only have their triumphs
oudly sung. but can also have their victo-
riea invented