St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1862-07-31

If III it, creaturcs-legislative. judicial and
executive. !, ..l.
H.. are further informed. that ',thc
Tn; ~ vote D He'd in the 9th Con gress'"n-
al district 1;f Justify the cSp"cfa'r'n '''a'
So men would he recruited in It's lower
counties" All that is necessary 70 say ~
re,lv tn this declaration IL this-'h' %
men or even the cightlcih part OF 'n'"'
wcro never recruited Sur'ly. thrh.
something must be rotten III the Stale "'
Denmark.
In his next paragraph. he cnligltens the
world a. to the proper place for certain
Federal Generals -cnnsigns them ny
species of snap judgment to 1.-The ii'sp'-
tai wounded OF weiD. and then jumps
from crushing the South in 9ONays to Napo-
leoui. History in Spain for 6 years--thrn
he starts off to give the fanatic'l fools III
Congress a slap. and winds up with s"nic-
thing about .brigh, and happy days for the
c,un,ry"-all Of which is very logically
and Systematically arranged and very ed'-
flying indeed. ,:..
Capt. Jones next propounis this 4ues-
tion--had Maryland seeded. how man. OF
the ..arden, you'll" Of St. Marys county
would have joined her military organ'zaa:,,
,ions to reap CORY harvest OF glory :!
aud answers by saying. just exactly those
who became soldiers of Virginia and no
mere. suppose he means soldiers OF the
Southern Confectionery. but he evidently
has lost sight of his previous declaration
that he himself would follow any lead she
might makc-ccrtairly that would be one
lie goes on thus: IF smugglcrs can
carry their con,raband wares across the
Potomac in open day without the least at
fctation Of concealncnt OF disguise. surely
the Trouba lors of the Southern Cross can
DO so too" Can surcl y Il" what, Capt..
Joncs--carry their ''contraband wares
ACROSS the Potomac - \ Troubador OF
the Southern Cross carry contraband
wares oh no you can't mean that, but
such is the only import VIC can extract from
your language We require another com
mcntary on this passage at lca<t-cvcn
those anonymous seribblers you mention
might be more logically precise, and male
sinplctons" are sometimes, pcrchance,
strict corlstructioni>ts.
Now. Capt. Jones has given us this eff.
fusion. as he tells, III explanation of It's
predecessor, which was somewhat poly
glot-an article III which We lina quota
lions about as thick As blackbcrrits. but
less judicious:y arranged. In it he tells
us in plain English that secession is not
revolution and that no sophistry can make
it So am not disposed t" contend that
sophistry, however ihscniously managed:
can make secession revolution, nor do |
believe it can make or unmakc any thing.
but will Capt. Jones or any other man say
that the secession of the States composing
the Southern Confederacy has not wrought
a revolution in this country? y rcvou-
ton in It's domestic and foreign policy-of
it's financial, commercial and industrial in
tcrcsts-ayc, of its entire system OF gov
ernmcnt. of its political integrity. Of its
very organic law: If such accomplished
facts do not constitute Revolution, what
do S? If the independence cf the Conied-
crate States were recognized by the FEEDER
al Government would that not be y Rcvo-
luton effected in the Republic woull il
not be secession accomplished When
the thirteen colonies declared themselves
free from Great Britain. was it secession
or adhesion: Was it Revolution or not ::
Sophistry is silent in face of stubborn facts,
nor can its mort expert patron convince
sensible men that the thr.rs and convul
sions under which our once happy and
united country is now luboring. Is less u
Revolution than our .orcfathcrs encounter
cd in l7.G. OF than that through which
France wept aud hlcd littl" NOR" than
half century ago. Even Capt. jones
could scarcely rivct such an impression
upon the public mind, unless he makes yet
more desperate efforts.
ClvIs.