St. Mary's beacon., 1862-07-03
COMMUNICATED.
\ NEW VERSION OF AN OLD CASE
Washington, June 24rh. 1862.

n NEW ERSlON OF AN OLD CASE
Washington, June 2lrh. 1862
Gentlemen :--lf you aud your reader,
are not too much bored by the frequent
appearance i'll your sheet Of the under
sigued, he would be glad to have the fol
lowing scrap Of philosophy" put in pro.
Cess Of digestion BY those who choose t.
take the troubl. " try the experiment
1t may DO sone good-c.ltainly, it:
pcrusal will do no harm aud consume bu
little time. Thus read aud commented
MoKDAx.
! IL Georgc Alexander Stevens Lecture
on Heads, is the following which | pro.
pose to apply to - the Times and Men"
Now, in Broushton's Reports, Slack
VS.. Smallw"od." Uhis is from Mr. Ser
gcanl Sn files oi.eo.iAg argument in Dan.
iel vs.. D'shcl"uD 1T is said that pri"."s
stror"s sine j'~as. "bs""t"s est i,r'orocus
Now. who gave the primus s,rocus! Who
gave the frs, otfcncc! Why. the cook
she brought the dripping pan here; for,
my Lord. though We will allow if We had
not been there, We could not have been
thrown down there. Yet. my Lord, il
the dripping pan had not been there for us
to have tumblcd down into, We could not
have tun.tlci into the dripping pan"
Again-"As every head here says
Lecturer Lewes. lis intended to convey =
moral, the moral of this head is as follows:
This head" (Fla,tery's) was the occasion
of the first duel that was ever fought, it
then standing on pillar in the centre
where four roads met. Two knights Err
rant, one from the North and one from the
South. arrived at the same instant at the
pillar whereon this head was placed. One
of the knights Errant, who only saw this
side Of the head by the road side, called
OUT is a shame to trust a silver head
by TIE road side. \ silver head. replied
the Knight wh, ON y saw this side Of the
head. it is black head. Flat con,radic-
ton produced fatal demonstration. Their
swords flew out, and they backed one an
other SO long. that at last, fain,ing viii,
loss of blood, they fell to the ground
Then. lifting up their eyes, they discover
ed their mistake concerning This image
4 venerable Hermit, coming by, bound
up their wounds, placed them again Oh
horse back, and gave them this piece OF
advicc-that they never hereafter should
engage in any parties or take part in any
dispute without having examined both
sides Of the question:
Now. suppose We follow out and apply
omiffle's line of argument and illustration
"a Ia Lcwcs' "mutatis mutanlis" to men
and things near at home. In the present
unhappy sectional struggle, who gave the
''primus strocus:" DID the North? Did
she bring tho dripping pan or ucgro-pho-
bia there! For, if negro-p hrbia had no,
been there. the South could not have been
thrown down there. Whilst, per contra,
if the South had not been there, nor run
mack against phohia. she could
not have tumblcd into the dripping pan or
Secession there.
The moral whereof is. that had both
parties, been originally in the right,
there need not have been any suit or
sYuabble between our Dane and Dish
clout-North and South. Quod erat
demonstrandum.
And again-had the present Don Quiz
Otes, Yankee .doodle.lum" aid COTTON
DOM" one from the North and one from
the South. where they met aud l,ob-nobbed.
looked from the same point Of view. and
on the same side of the head, and not as i.
now and has SO long been the case. each
squinted at or seen the white Or black side,
their swords would not have flown out, nor
would they have hacked each other SO long
SO that at last. faiuting with loss Of blood
and opening their eyes, they will have dis
covered their mistake concerning the im-
age: that is, the unjusti6aLe cause of quar-
rel which. in its origin. may be termed a
quastio de lana caprins, the real merit or
dement's If which, not one man in thou
sand understands or cares for at heart
The real question now is, not with whom
was the original sin, but simply the prac-
teal one Of cui bono?
| But should these Don Qnixotes still con-
tinue to hammer aud bruze one another.
to the damage Of each others brains (if
there be any Of the article left between
tbea), it may. perchanee. turn out that no
venerable Hermit will turn up to bind up
their wounds aud give them a good piece
Of advice, which neither disturber Of the
public peace, am sore afraid, will ston,-
ach or put in practice. But rather, when
! 10Th Of the belligerents have pummelled
and punished each other to their hearts
content, and added what little brains there
may remain to either, some cunning and
powerful outsider will pop in, make bis
'.entree" on the scene, aad quietly grab up
the spolia opilna Of negro phobia and Sc
cession, and make of, like hungry and
sneaking cur, with the bone of contention.
Then will the aforesaid Yankee.ioodledum
and Cottcndom acknowledge. that lie Jcu
lie vaut pas Ia chandclle." AID that each
las sold his birth right for mess of pot
tage"
As a philosopher and non-comtatant.
like Mahomet's cotfin, l occupy and hail
from state of suspense, not Yet admitted
into the Union, though the issue of the war
is suspended, and deplurin. from nv heart