St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1862-06-05

~ rz tuce uisSaflsfactlon and complaint.
Yet M Us look on the other side of the
Til best Of Governments, in time
Ike Iat We are passing through, woald
b, ayHplaiaed Of, and the complaints
MsVi psllpon every reverse or discomf-
I'll. Sflnf 6,iRlt dtcpr foweyef blameless
! @sasa aa.a = Entan ttat
the mes who compose it are true to the
cause, that they are the constituted au-
thorities under the Constitution; that under
them we must conquer or be conquered,
and that we must give them all the sup
port and confidence we can. trusting that
they will profit by experience and make
every disaster the occasion for improving
their measures for defence.
But with all th. mistakes and tlundors
that may he alleged, what is the ,tate of
the case? The Southern army has not
been defeated anywhere in field fight i'll
which the enemy was not assisted by his
guuboats The disasters We have met
with have been all at isolated posts on
the water, where the enemy could bring
the most approved machinery of his me.
chanical genius to bear upon our imper-
feetly constructed and impcrfectly guarded
defences There, and there only, has
he triumphcd 1t is true, he has gained
important advantages by our disasters at
these points; but they dix not establish for
him any such superiority over US as to
Justify hope that he would conquer us,
| h.l F.,ar
would be suhjugated. They forced US
to draw in eur Ines of dcfeuce and N
C rtratc our troops; and they force him.
Of necessity to follow after US and essay
our defeat by attacking our. army, thus
concentrated, away from the clement
VIII erc his only great advantage over Us Is
apparent. La this new phase Of the galnc
Of the war, if we may Judge from the
pas,-if we may take the result of all the
great contests with the enemy in the
open field :ls Indicative of the suture-we
may not only be hopeful. but confident
Our armies must triumph. We cannot
doubt it. The motives, the men, the sit
uation. all inevitably force the conclusion
that victory, undisputed, clear and deci-
>ive, must finally be on our side.
The summer is at hand. The waters
must fall so as to cu-tail the power Of
the too much dreaded gunboAts The
diseases of ~ climatc mu>t tell upon the
! inyad,r. lIc has more country to guard
i'll the far South and must be severely
harrasscd and weakened by pcstilence
! His large armies i'll various directions, as
| they have penetrated farther from their
homes, must be victualed with immense
| ly Increasing difficulty, (indecd we know
here how they have already suffered in
the Peniusu.a.) Our suiferings in our
own land cannot be so great as his; but
We ought to endure and bear more than
he can, as We struggle for all that is
dear on earth, and he only for power aud
plumber At such a time, and amid
such discon.forts Of the enemy, if VIC
only be sufficiently active and sagacious,
We shall strike blows upon hilA from which
he cannot recover lie is cxpeudins all
his power and means to subjugatc US. We
have but to be constantly pcrscverlug aud
wac chful--nevcr relaxing. never despond-
ing--aud he will inevitably break down
! iu his might crusade. 1t cannot &c long
maintained in such vast proportions. 1t
is rhing impossible.
TIE first great event will likely be the
attempt to take this city. The fight in
this vicinity will be great struggle. Our
soldiers are confident, and our people
rely upon them and their commanders
! Beauregarrs great battle, if it does not
precedc this, will follow soon afterwards
If they are in our favor it will probably
end the war: at all events. the enemy
coul1 not recover two such defeats this
year. Should either or both be against
us, We must only gather up the remains
of battle and prepare for that prolonged
struggle which, with brave people aud
undcgcncrate descendants of the men Of
! the Revolution Of &c. must terminate in
favor Of liberty anu independence.
! Bur we repeat, the battles thus far in
the field prove that our true aud brave
: Southern men can defeat the enemy with
the odds of numbers on his SIDE. The
continuation Of the war will only continue
this Illustration in our favor. There is no
reason for dcspondency. We may regret
blunders and time lost; but We have the
greatest cause for consolation, nay, rcjoic
ing, that We have accomplished SO much
upon such short notice, and should never
fail to remember that in every conteS,
where there was the l"HSt scm!lanee OF
fairness and with the odds always against
rs, We have proved our power to whip
tie enemy, aud lis utter inability to CON
qucr the country.
Let Us, therefore, t,ke couragc-chcer
up-sustaln the Goyernment-strength
aud feed tic army-stand hy the cause to
the bitter end, ana We shall conquer glori-
Gus y, anu ere long enjoy the peace and
independence which it is be hoped we
shall have merited.
! Es Ny boy" exclaimed a dcscon.
''yOG do Very wrong - fi>h IN Sunday"