Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1867-12-19
Correspondence ofthe Beaeon.)
WASHINGTON Dec. 10Th. 1867


seek the ease Of private life in times like
these, when their country stands in need
of their services. The Ex-senator has
/ been a shining light in his day The
! last time We heard of this very diain-
/ qmshed statesman, he WIS serving bis
: country in the small town of Elkton, in
our State, in a quiet way organizing ':The
| Colorcd Creswell Literature Association
mot one of its members being able 10 read
or wrtc) for the advancement of the high
or branches Of literature This is, Ger
tainly, doing the thing in quiet way
for an Ex-senator.
We have the most lively remembrance
of Mr. c. at little meeting in Elkton at
the beginning of the late war, at which
he appeared as Chairman of the Commit
tee on Resolutions. We remember the
| tone Of these resolutions we'll. The ex-
Senator did not spare the Yankees, nor
did he utter one of his present day howls
against the people of the South. So fiery
were those resolutions and SO much OF Sc
cesson did they speak that we wer9 s.
tonished the next day to see the cx-S n Dor
! still in the State of Maryland, for We
thought that before another sun would
gid the spires of Elkton, he would cer-
tainly be far away in the land Of Dixie,
astrlde bis war-stccd, diving the Yam
KEGS into the Potomac. The best OF the
whole series Of resolutions offered by Mr..
Creswcr on that memorable day vas the
one in relation to the Hon. Winter Davis.
After several back-handed compliments
he gave the people to understand that MIR.
Davis was demagoguc of the flrstwator.
The resolution was not read, but the gem
tleman who spoke on the resolutions SAID,
1--WE will treat Mr. Davis as we do the
rcsolution-turn him down" But the
best Of all the story is that when Nr. Da-
Wis came to die, Mr.. Crcswell was ap-
pointed by the Senate and House to de-
liver the eulogy to The faithful over the
dead body of the Baltimore Caesar that
all the tears might flow in one common
stream. \ day or two before the grand
Grafton, prince of good fellows, now in
Congress, meeting the Hon. Ex-senator
in the lobby Of the Senate, sad, Ceres
we'll are YOU going to deliver the Grafton
on Davis ~ On being answered IN the
aft MA ivc, the other said. ''Well, |
will send and get those resolutions you Of
fered, particularly the one about Davis,
so that you may have them on hand to
read during 7our Grafton" The Sena-
tors face looked as i: he h@a 33U-t -wal-
lowed fifteen drinks at one time and he
disappeared midss geGorsl sigglo.
MIR. CrcswcH's cover5 on was one OF
those latter-lay poiiticul miracles that we
have so often seen in men whose prihcl-
pies are generally carried in =" tlsc open
hand and daily offered on change. There
was no gradual going over with The cx-
| Senator, but he made one fearful plunge
from the highest pinnacle of secession to
the lowest depth of Radical demagoguc-
ism. With him, it was an eye to the
strongest side from the first What Wis
ions of Governorship hoated through his
saind? Perhaps the White House might
have been dimly seen in thedistanee while
his ferverish dream lasted. But man ap-
points and lives but to be disappointed -
In almost one short hour ali vanished
like the mist of the morning. At one
blow his Provost Narshals and his whole
host of tvrants, by which he and beg
carly handful had ruled the people Of Ma
ryland, were swept from his grasp. The
day was over when we were expected to tawn
and cringe and bless the hand that dashed
US But the people of Maryland have not
vet forgotten the loathsomo dungeons
where her noblcst and most patriotic sons
we're crowded like cattle and made to
starvc or eat food pitched on their prison
floors that furnished dog would have
turned frem Does Mr. Crcswell think
we have torgettcn this Does he think
we have forgchica, ahe hand-cutfs and leg
irons Does he think we have forgotten
the thicving and cowardly Provost Mar
shals. sent in droves all oyer thc State So
plumber and murder our citizens - pleas
urc. almost without word Of rebuke >
Does he think we have forgotten that he
and his party denied to us for long years,
the privileges allowed to slaves Does
he remember the Negro guards placed
over e,.r best and bravcst sons with full
permission to shoot them at pleasure and
encouraged by rewards TO commit every
act II atrocitS that the most base and bar
barMs eulv can do ? If Mr. Crcswell
thinks we can forget those and the thous-
and other wrongs heaped on Us By hm
and his friends, we must be more than an
gels in human firm Thank God, his
san has set, gone down, he hope forever
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