St. Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1845-1863, 1862-05-22
(From the Easton STAR.
"REBELS AND TRAITORS"

(From the Easaoo Starr
"REBELS AND TRAITORS"
The fashion the Abolition press has
lately adopted. Of stigms tizing and do
nouucing ali who oppose their ncfarious
schenses. .as :, Rebcls" md Traitors, /" rem
ders II not Improper for US to dcscant awhile
apon these opprobious terms. To Ameri-
can ears. the cpithet .'RebeF' is not SO un-
familiar. infamous aud repulsive as it may
appear to Europeans. 1t is the name our
fathers bore in the frst r,volation they
sancti6ed it. and bap:ized it in blood ; aud
in the c"nsunmstion of the independence
of these States, they made it honored and
respec ed at homc aud a!:oai. H'lsh:ng-
TN cns tie ehief # ReLels:: a whole Ia
tion Of Rebels declared hiu, first in peace,
6rst in var. anJ Grst in the hearts of his
countryEtn; anJ history proclailns him
the greatest aud most apotless Of modern
characters.
The dictionaries define the term rebel.
to be one ''who revolts against lawful
authority" but when the Rulers of
States couine their actions within con-
s,itutional bounds. and legislate for the
good Of the whole, and the oppression
Of none, rebellion AMI rebels have tecn
seldom known. 1t is when Rulers tfans-
ccnd the limits of the Constitution, and
reckl. ssly legi.late to the injury and
ruin Of : large portion of the people of
the State, that rebellion is begotten, and
the word Rebel becomes the rallying
cry of the brave for the delivcrance Of
the p Q. le. Th. opprcssor never fill,
to avail himself of the odium that once
attached to the character. and invariably
deuounces 10 rebels, all those who refuse
to submit to tyrannical outrage and 20
.:t:cal degradation. and bis dirty minious
throughout the State repeat and echo tie
epithet with an air Of sanctity implying
that they are the miljest Of the mild,
and the most virtuous Of the virtuous.
It is wonderful. indeed, what incffable
assurance invariably possesses the bar
pies that fawn ut the fe,t of despots.
whether the tyrant be King G .orge III.
or King Majority--ihe more edsous of the
two
Rebels may he divided into two clas.
ses those who openly resist the opprss-
sor by force Of arms. and those who c.'ntine
their resistance to constitutional aud legal
methods.
Our revolutionary fathers were Of the
first kind. as are the people of the Con-
fcdcrate States. now in arms against the
unconstitutional, despotic. aud dcstruc-
tive measures of Lincoln and his Aboli.
ton party. Asking no favors or rro-
tec,iun from the government from which
they have .ecedcd. they rely upon the
Almighty and their own brave spirits, to
defend upon their own soil, the great
principles of Constitutional LbeItv, men
.nccd by the Abolitionists, determined
t. preserve their fair land aud home frsm
scrvile i,surrection and desolation, threat
rned to be let loose upon th. IN BY the
Spirit of Evil which rcigne triupphantly
at Washington. A war wagcd in self
and for such q purpose. cannot
he other than . holy war and although
it may be conducted by Rebels" i'm
partial history will award to them the pur-
est motives. and the luftisst patriotism.
Those who con6ne their resistance of
governmental oppression to constitutional
and legal methods, rather than to a re-
sort to arms. during the time ola revolu-
ton. may be denominascd Constitutional
Rebels. Of this class. are all those no.
bic spirits in the United States at the
present time. vino have opposed. and are
now opposing. and Who are determined
always to oppose. the illegal, unconsti-
tutional. unjust. oppressive. revolutionary
and destructive measures of the Lincoln
Administration, in declaring and waging
an unholy war for the overthrow and
ruin o: the Southern States, the aboli-
ton Of slavery in the South, aud The
Of personal liberty. and the
liberty Of the press, at the North. They
zee in the success Of the schemes Of tic
abolitionists who control the government.
the end in this country. Of all coustitu-
tioual liberty-the end Of justice and
humanity-the end Of all wise legislation
the end Of peace and fraternal relations
between the States, and between parties
and individuals-th end of the liberty
Df the press-the end Of prosperisy-and
The end Of national honor. They see in
Ihem nothing but civil war, blood-shed
mud rain-States desolatel-iui::siJua!!s
made bankrupt-the rights of property
rights of white men
made secondary to those conferred upon
the negro-commercc ruined-the nation
Union sevcrsd-these
unee happy States separated and belig-
ereut-an enormous national debt-grind-
ing taxaaion-a large standing army, to
sat up the substance of the people aud
upon the summit Of this great mouu-
ment of evils. they see the Abolition.
Puritan. Unscrupulous, Luere-L"ving
Yankee enthroned in power. waving his
iespotic seepsre over the ruin his folly
bas made. Agains, all this. the very
umost soul Of the constitutional Rebel
revolts, aud he spares no means to rid
n. couutr, of ths rnls Of those who