St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1862-05-15

in pecuniary sense, comparatively trif-
f, ing. has nothing to do with the matter -
Good faith is the great thing to consider.
command the confidence of the people"
1t is hoped that the President will lin
terpose his veto in this case and so remand
ulsrai'm: inpolicy, uldua zeal, o.i's old
And the article seseS with the following
most decided terins; s.
"One thing ,nore---and as we have had
occasion to say hithcrto--a mere faction
cannot either destroy or save the nation :;
and nothing is mere evident than that tha
late movement at Washington is the work
of the mere engineers Of il faction, taking
advantage of circumstances to force meas
| urcs they would not have ventured upon a
year ago Let the President frown upon
them, and with his Cabinet r, tain thereby
that place in the confidence Of the nation
he and they have achieved by noble spir-
il "f conservatism rs rare as ii is honora-
BE"
Now afte, all this. what rational friend
or reader Of lhc 4nrcricun could have
expected that from the very day the
President approved the District Bill that
journal has. by seif-addresscd c"mnuni-
cations, fulsomtiy besprinkled with fat
tcrics, with encomiums on its intclli-
gence, conservatism and rare consistrn-
cy been daily iaburing to show that the
District of Columbia bill was pot only
rxprditnt aud Constitutional, hut Of dc
cid,d advantage to the State of Mary
land in an economical and industrial
roiht Of view, thus paving the way for
the sweeping editorial which appeared in
its issue of Saturday In that article it
advises that
Now that bone of contention has
disappeared which has been the cause
of manifold strife for more than a third
=: century, the only way is to acqui-
"scc in what seemed inevitable under
the circumstances"
The Imrriran Inost contemptibiy un-
drr'akcs to give a Southern sanction to
| this view by quoting from what it Is
pleased to style that r"', ytic and able
Virr'''::.. p.r.r, the nartinsburg Gazette
a print lat"ly resusc:atcd 10y the rcsto-
ration of the power of the Government
TO that portion Of the Old Dominion so
sadly dcsvlated by the horrible and re-
voting excuses of The men who started
out on crusade to make slavery domi-
nate the continent"
Now, We do not. know who is the
editor of this "resuscita,eI' journal. but
We will venture upon the most probable
grounds to assert that, like the Amcri-
Can itself. he is both IN Abo,iticnst and
Yankee.
But the American, which only twelve
days prior. as shown by the quotations
sb"vc. most positively affirmed that il,
was the Abo'iiioni>!s in Congress who
w,rc responsible for this 'inrnad uIon
slavery" this violation Of pliehtel fai;L
this "blundcr worse than a crime, lead
ing to other crimes, such as now ap-
pals the world" now finds quite other
shoulders upon which to place the per
pctra.ion of this fatal stab at the in
-titutinn" II is now the 'Sccessionists'
who did the decd For them and tleir
.yn. patl,izers in this State We arc cool
" assured that. $50 far as this par,icu-
lsr class is concerned. no lover of th"
! Union need care one j"t what befalls their
interest any further than 50 far as rjury
to the h involves the sacrifice f The inno-
, cent"
Bat i-~e' ycut to ihi. view of the casl
, and illustrative. Of the rank Abolition
sentiments Of the leaders of the Ameri-
can, comes the foli"wing. in which it Is
declared. that the institution Of slavery i'll
the border States is to melt like SHOW
wrcsths before the "A,r breath oft!c ,coriiS
Indignation"
irresponsible ia the sigh. Of God and
man for what has happyn-d-dcfying
madly every prosu"stlc. every warming
uttered to beware of IA fight in which
slavery must, of necessity come off wors-
'ted-they have provoked ASSAULT
cannot stand. and AS it mclts away like
snow-wreath. in the border States, be-
fere the hot breath of the worlds iniig-
nation. it il likely now to need no di-
rect blows to soon put it amongst the
things that were"
But still worse and full equal to
anything the sentimental Sumner or
the fanatical Philiip>es and Greely>
could get off are the concluding para
graphs.
10 the loyal men of the State in
tcrested in the Institution we would ten
der the warning which is their due
For the .thcrs, as they have all along
secuted advice. and even TIE logic of
events. let them cling with the pertinan-
ey or stupidity which is their VOL, to
the di>solying taLieau which in every
line be,rays its fragile character from the
hurts i. has received With the time
gone BY forever whrn it seemed some
thing awful to arproac.,-when only pol
iticians we're privileged to deal. for
their own purposes, with what seemed
moie than Eleusinian mysteries-the
question has lost its almost sacred char
acter. and it is at last dragged down to
the dust, to be scanned. carpci 1t cuutem