St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1862-09-04
RATHER LATE.

Mr. Lincoln has given audience to, and
held consultation with d. Cation Of
negroes at the White House. What a
strange and It .rtling spectacle. to be sure
What would be the wond, r, the horror
and the o,erpowering dig ST of the
great Eirginians of other days, Washing
ton, Jctfers"n. Madison, &c, were they
permitted to look upon this thing, this
discourse of an American President
to score Of darkirs in tie Mansion House
of the people. Above all, perhaps, what
Il significant symptom Of the great free
negro, retrogradiny and degrading re vo.
luton We are in the midst of! Washing
ton and his contemporaries founded a sys-
tenn as well as organized government
"a System with the fundamental idea of
"qnallty-a government on a white basis
and if they had expressed this ia literal
terms. and declared that white men alone
were citizens. and negroes. Indians, &c.
no pat or portion of our political socic-
ty, then all the calami,ics now upon US
would have been avoided, not one life
sacrificed or one dollar wasted, for then
no party in our midst, pledged to secure
impartial freedom for these negroes,
&C., could ever have existed among us.
What sad and indeed terrible truth this
is "a truth that the maddcst antis.avery-
ite in this broad land cannot question
Bat the amazing thing of this affair is.
the admission of the President that these
negr Jcs cam OF live here on equal terms
or on a basis of "impartial freedom" and
therefore the two hundred thousand lives
lost and the fifteen hundred millions Of
debt expended. arc all lost. wasted and
thrown away on lying abstraction or
illusion that never can be reduced to
practice! Heavens and earth what an
admission for the chief of the 'anti-
slavery" party Mr.. Lincoln tells the ne
gro delegation that God has made diff
ference in races, which hc regards as very
unfortunate, but it cannot be helped: i'm
partial Freedom" is impossible here. and
though he is willing to thy to defeat the
design uf the Creator ris"rhere, aud help
them to Impartial freedom" in Central
America. he advises them to give it up
here Alas. alas. II Mr.. Lincoln had
given up this Idea" year ago, and sat
ishcd the people Of the South that no cx-
pertinent of that kind should be made at
their expense. then all the frightful calan:i-
ties now up"n US mught have been
avoided. And even now, if he will, in
good faith, act up tc it. and declare that
the social order Of the South is right and
shall be protected. and the Union restored
to the condition in which he found it two
years ago. he may lead the nation out Of
! all its troubles.-:-N Y. Caucasian.
! BIZ TRUE TO YOUR CoxyICrIoSs.-When
the future historian shall sum up the causes
of the present difficulties that now over
whelm cur beloved country in sorrow,
anguish aud dcsolaton, not the least Of
the reasons for them will be found in the
fact that men have not been true to their
convictions of right There is no posi-
ble excuse that men can give for such
faithlessncss as this. There is no valid
reason why any man should support what
he believes to be wrong He may not al
ways be able to do all the good he wish
es to, for even tho Sacred Scriptures tell