Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1868-12-24
Correspondence Of the B.acon.)
WashieSton Dsc. Plat, 1868.


tion b. fore them has been the re-constrsc-
ton Of Haryland Testimony 10 DOW be-
ing taken before The Committee and when
j. ia concluded they viii report bill to
Consrers for the reconstruction of Ken
lucky, Maryland and Delaware. When
This step hs. once been taken every Dem
ocra,ic State in the Union will be obliged
to fal! into line and submit. to the sano
dssradation. No. only viii j. be applied
10 The deuosr.sie States. bu. every dem.
oera., throughout the Union. will be dis
franchised. The party now in power,
we'll knowing that they are in large mi
rority, will leave no trick that kaavery
can devise. or ingenuity execute. uptried
% perpetual. .hc;, power. Il the re.
construction act 70, the border States
should be passed. re may look for state
{: thing. far aore ,errib!e than that which
.,is.ed during the war. We may expect
% gee az act passed dissrming the whites
and placing the arms il the hands of the
negroes with full liberty 70 commit al!
Kind, Of atrocities or he whites Of both
sexes. The court. viii ,. prcsided over
By set 81 .coundre,s Of the Underwood
stripe who will encourage the negroes to
acts Of violence and then declare them no.
guilty. their crimes being committed
.g,inst persons who have no right to pro-
lection under the Reconstruction laws
The condition Of affairs in Maryland. dur
ing the war, was a. bad As il could be,
but when an armed force is sent into the
State. under the direction Of tho Union
League and Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie. With orders 20 encourage the bru-
IA! negroes TO murder, burn. and destroy
at will, i, will be found just ss bad A. the
celebrated order Of Stanton, which order,
happily was not carried out, BY the Inter
vention Of the President and the generos-
ity and bravery Of Gen. Hancock. We
may search tho records of war for the
past ten generations and find no order
comparable in eowardice and bloodiness
to .ha. order Of the brute Stanton COM
nandiug the soldiers in search Of Booth
70 lay waste and r.vsge the three coun-
.ics Of Charles. Prince George ard s..
Mays. The civilized world stood aghass
AZ Buffers orde, allowing the soldiers to
violate any lady in New Orlesn., but
Stanton's order had not even the shadow
of 81 sxcuss. No ose in either Of shose
three counties bad offered the slightest
in.uls 20 she Aag or 10 the soldiers. no.
one woman I'D even held her skirts aside
70 keep from contamination. Booth,
when he had sho. Lincoln, crossed the
Eastern Branch bridge Chat. even, WAS
uncertain when the order VAS issuci) 10
make good his escape. Stanton took il
for granted, and the dirty coward. yea.
we repeat the expression, for he is dir
ty, eowsrdly dog, not only issued an or
der, but request in SO many words, that
the soldiers should murder. burn and vi
ola,s to their hearts content, and the
more Of it that WAS done, the better the
Secretary Of War would be pleased. ard
the tes,t who war then Secretary Of War
was Edward NJ Stantop What had the
people Of the lower counties Of Maryland
done TO bring down on them such cow
arllv and cruel vengeance I,could not
b. their Southern sympathirs, for Mr..
Stanton was not only himselfa Southern
sympsthi1es, and stcessiouist, but one Of
tho first movers and one of the mos. u.-
gent in bringing about tie secession of
South Carolina. Mr.. Stanton cannot deny
that one month before be took the port
folio Of Secretary Of War. he had not cur
.-s deep enough to heap on the stars aud
stripes and the Union soldiers as they
marched up The Avenue from the depot to
the seat Of war. We are at loss to I'M
ders,aud Mr.. Stanton's conversion. The
ink was not dry on his secession Dispatch
IS, nor had the echo Of his hsrangues urg-
ing secession died away, before We End
him hand and glove with Lincoln, Sum-
ner and the whole crew of demagogues
If the truth ever leaks GU. we suspect we
shall find Mr.. Stanton one Of the pocket
patriots whose conversion was greatly ac-
CELEBRATED By good long peep into the
vaults Of the Treasury. To Mr.. Stanton
is mainly due the present deplorable con-
d;,ion OF the South. Il Was ne who urged
on Congress to declare martial law after
r-sce va. concluded. and TO place the
,.onl. nf ~. South in their present stste
If ab,ee. .lavsry
We have lately seen many intelligent
p<r,ops from the South and the account
they give of the condition of things there
j. horrible in tho extreme. No mans
life or property. unlers he be Radical.
is safe. Murder. robbery and the burn
l,s Of property are Of constant recurrence.
ssd -, the less. protection or redress az
iorded. Negroes arc furnished with arms
when they ass for them and are suffered
10 roam over the country committing dep