Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1868-07-02
Correspondence Of the Beacon. }
Washington, June 25th, 1868

to with immense interest ami as the time /
draws nearer. the excitomeat OH the sub |
iect begins TO drive the political thermom
eter up to fever heat Outsiders are al /
ready beginning to look about them for !
the needful to convey themselves and car
pet-bags 10 New York, the extra shirt and !
ever present flask by which the tediun OF
the journey is wiled away. We honestly
believe that every man we meet is gong
to New York on the fourth of July and
We should be glad to see the first man,
except ourselves. who intends TO resist the
temptation, made doubly tempting by the
low scale Of prices advertised By the Rail
road Companies What New 1ork will
do with the mass Of human flesh which
will be found within her limits land how
they will be filled with solids and fluids is
question which gives US no little ankle
ty. One thing is certain, al Jrqnches at
trade will certainly have On up'card ten
dency during the four days that the Con
| venton and its thousands of hangers on,
remain in Gotham The question is now
/ beginning to be asked and specialized upon
a. to who is to be the nominee. Each Of
the knowing ones begins to be more GER
tain OF his tayorite. \ Chase man will
tell YOU that, without Chase, the Demo-
Gratis may hang up their ylnAn aud tshurs
/. a. round It Pendleton men will tell
you he has got the nomination, the voting
will be only matter of form. Hancock
men say he is the only human being on
the top ofthe earth that the party can
have ghost Of chance to butt Use
less hard enough in the stomach with
to make him sick And so it goes AS
there is but one of the party to get the
gildcd. pill We don't know what 10 think
but we may be able to give some opinion
in our neat letter. 1t is to be hoped the
Democrats will take warning by the
/ Charleston Convention and not saddle the
people with two live candidates, set them
wool-gathering, and, not knowing which
Democrat To vote for, vote the Woollv
head ticket to make the other two mad.
Things at present certainly are not pleas
ant. The political horizon Is not without
cloud and we are not alone in our fears.
I We hope, however, that the Convention
may'tix on some one man who viii be,
pleasing to all parties interested. \ split
in the Democratic Convention would be
the greatest calamity which could fall
upon the country at the present time
The election of Grant would be the final
blow to civil aud religious liberty in this
nation. WfI such a set Of coHardly ty
rants as Meade, Butler, Forney, Sumner
and Drake to have Grant entirely under
their control would be no better for the
Il H.. a l.
the lowest depths Of he'll. No mans life,
liberty, or property would be safe one mo-
ment longer than some sneah-thlct OF the
party chose to demand them. The threats
uttered BIZ these men are no idle ones
The only pleasure Meade and the like have
! is in inhicting punishment on unarmed meF,
who if they we're face to face with them
on equal terms, would sooner put their
skulls in the fire than make use Of . dis
respectful word We can only hope that
the coming Fall will rid the country for
ever of suck monsters, both civil and mil
itary, and that such punishment Will be
dealt out 10 them for their misdceds as
will be warming to future generations.
The mouth-piece OF the Radical party,
the Chronicle, about the close of the war.
drew on himself some severe structures IN
consequence Of repeated attacks on the
Catholics. OF late, We find my daily"
becoming quite quiet on the subject and
the Catholics vii! not be held up TO pub
, lie contempt as an ignorant and disloyal
, body, until after the election Is over, or
Mr.. Useless is President. Ii the subject
is no, publicly discussed it is only fear of
losing some portion of the vote they hope
to get that keeps them quiet has, of
| late, come to the knowledge of 4 few that
the question Of religion is occupying the
-, minds Of many Of the prominen, Radical
politicians and the doubt is what move to
: make in the matter after the election =
We often heard, during the war, the re-
, mark Let US settle the Rebels first. aud
then we will settle the question of rcli-
zion and the foreigners. Only yester-
dav we heard Radical say, The elec-
ton of a Democrat Is the only hope for
the rebels and Catholics" We regret to
saw that the question of religion is engag-
inc more and more of interest and discus
sion in private Radical circles. An op-
portunity only is wanted and YOU may
depend on it the blow viii be struck or
the attempt made,
The Arkansas carrct-baggers, YOU will
sec, have taken their seats in the House
of REPRESENTATIVES, placed there by a
trick Of rosues, on rogues' platform,
along side Of their brother rogucs. Ii
things 70 on at their present rate, the Con-
grcss of the United States will be COM
posed Of all the prominent roguos IN thu
country; they will legislate only for their
/ brother rogu,s md thus save the expense
: and trouble Of Judges and Police officers.
The Democratic member from Kentucky
was made to take out last week because
earpet-bacgers wanted the place. We
? are astonishei that any Democratic mem-
her holds bis seat in either house for an
Lour. All that is necessary is for his
woolly-hcad opponent TO claim 1t and he
will have it TIE next morning, before
I brea kfa>t. with all the back pav be asks.
? Some time ago we asked Democratic
member how long he expected TO keep
his seat? No longer than my opponent
asks for il" he replied, II shall start for
: horc in the next tsain, without asking =
; question.
: The Corporation muddle still continues,
Boswell, Richards and Bowen are singing
psalms and doing the dirty work. Speaking
u Boswell, II IS worth Writ here tosec him
You never saw sneak more perfectly palu-
= ted in any face. We learn be was born