Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1868-07-09
Correspondence Of the Beaeon.)
Xashinzton. July 9th. 1868.

lo,-toxes are to be sealed up. sent here.
and here counted by such patriotic cierk7
as the present honorable Congress may
select. in presence Of q committee OF the
said Congress. appointed. we suppose, ~
Mr.. Speaker Coifax, 10 consTt OF hr-
Bingham (Mrs. Surratt's MURDERER Ben
Butler (of spoon -thieving notorlety. } and
Logan (of dollar jewelry celcbrity-) The
thing is cool. 70 say the least, and can
boast Of some smartness. The Radicals
are determined to carry the election tbs
Fall or deluge the country in blood The
people need not dream that such men as
now rule the party will submit to de-
feat of Grant and have the power wrested
from them, without struggle more fierce
than we bave ever yet Witnessed. The
chief aim seems to be to throw the cleo
ton into the House Of Representatives..
and If i, can once be carried there. fare
WILL to every hope for the Democratic
party. States will be thrown out OF the
count and as they DC now cs!l them dis
loyal, and every vote cast for Democrats,
they will say are the votes OF rebels and
cepper-heads who have been in sympathy
with the rebellion and should be thrown
out as illegal. Such has been the game
in every contested election since the Rad
ical Congress has been in session and such
its decision in every case Of the kind
The intention is perfectly clear. Their
aim ia to had possession of both Army
and NarySwith those in their hands all
other matters will fall into line The
last farce of Presidential election is still
fresh in cur memories no one dreamed
that Lincoln would have left the White
House, even if Mcclellan had been cleo
ted. Every one perfectly understood
Lincoln when he said "He would try and
turn over the government to Mcclellan,
if elected" Had MClellan come to
Washington president elect. the next
breath be drew would have been in cell
in the old OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES would
have had him snug enough there, with
ten thousand armed rogues around it, and
would have laughed at it as good joke.
The men who now compose the Radical
party are thousand times worse than
the men of those days, and will stop at
nothing short of absolute power. The
military bill, introduced by Wilson in the
Senate last week, had n clause, looking,
We think. to the Fall election. 1t was,
that martial Law and military commits
s;ons, should be established in times Of
danger. When it shall suit Bingham or
Holt to proclaim it time of danger "a
Democratic president elected, toElnstance)
they will but have to call on a drunken
loater, who may happen to be IN com
mand Of the army, aud down goes civil
law and up goes martial. Arrest any one
YOU please and put him out OF the way by
hanging or imprisonment, in haitian hour 5
notice quick sails, and small profits, all
customers served at the shortest notice,
Fortunately the dodge vas seen through,
aud the Objectionable clause SO modified as
to read instruction instead of danger,
which, Heaven knows, is bad enough,
and of which We shall have ataste. if the
construction of the law is left to the
loafers We have on hand here. The
screw is being turned tighter and tighter
rs the time draws near. The effort to
get law passed. last week to set aside
the Presidential election should the vote
not suit Congress, is but another turn.
Still another will come in few days, W.
suppose, declaring all men who did not
vote the Radical ticket disloyal and not
entitled to vote. and the next turn Will
make any democrats Offering to vote
penitentlary offence to be tried by militia
~ commission. Strange as these things
may appear it would astonish but few
were they 4, any time to pass such laws
By over two-thirds vote Of both houses
of that thing called a Congress now spend
ing their time at the capital. How much
more will the people of the United States
bear Z is question asked here every day
that handful Of men representing small
minority of the white people are allowed
Gay after day to cit in their places in the
Capitol and pass laws depriving the white
voter Of every right granted him BY the
laws of his country and giving them to
the negro, isenough to strike any one
specchlcss with astonishment. The PEG
pie of the country must be in state of
le.hargy from which nothing will rouse
them. They seem to have lost every
feeling Of manliness and to have become
so cowed that they are content to suffer
the negro and his power to be lords and
masters of the land Such despotifnl
the world never saw The Gar of Rus
sia. with all bis power dare not attempt
to carry into effect a 1.-THE of the acts OF
tyranny and oppression this Congress has
forced on the people. Were Alexander
30 attempt one Of the acts that telon
Meade has carried out. month you'd
not pass over his head before he would
find his armies in state of mutlay sad
his empire lettering to It's foundation
The character of the American people has
undergone most remarkable change
Had any man, eight years ago, vcntured
70 predict that We should ever De IN
state Of such ahject slavishness he would
have been tared and feathered for his I'M
pudence, or the cell of lunatic would
have been his resting place.
Mr.. Be wen (the Mayor made by Con-
sressl now that be has got the place, don't
intend 10 let che lager and ali that sort Of
thing. fov On Sunday. IS he promised be-
fore the voting began. We learn thu: he
has turned out to be s most. radical Sun
day-law man, and he gives the people to
understand that the man he catches drink
! ins lager. or kissing bis wife or sweet
heart on Sunday, will, by the time, Bow
en- has done with bin, have an attsck OF
deadly nausea. when he secs larger-beer
saloon, OF his wife or his ladyleve. Mr.
Bowen will have the people Of this city 70
know that they are 10 be subject 10 the
rules and regulations of his native State
/ Massachusetts We do not think he