Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1868-08-13
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HINTS FOR THE OPPRESSOR.
Cnousque tandem nbutere, Catilina paticntia
nostra
VIRGINIA. August, 1868.

nostrat
VIRGINIA. August, 1868.
You, Mr.. Editor, who havo experienced
sSsue Of the bitterness which has been
forced to the lips OF 20 many dcyotecs to
principle -banishment from the endcar-
ments Of home and kindred. and thrust
suddenly to the land of the stranger, and
for no other political crime than open and
manly avowal Of opinions honestly enter
tained-can now better judge of the deep
and CALLING sufferinss which, with the
hope Of relief through the Democratic
party and those who still desire constitu-
tional government among the more mag
unanimous and sensible Of the Northern
pcople-are stifled in the hearts and souls
of every Southron worthy of the name
The charge that the people Of the South
were fighting, and still desire, to destroy
those principles Of Government which gave
to the American Republic all her chance
. of liability all her greatncss-prospcrity;t
home ane respect abroad-is falschoo1
as black as to the imaginations of the SUI
perstitiouS seem the dungeons of Satan's
domain The fanatics Of the New Eng
land State. are the traitors to this c, n
stitutional Government. 1t is to their
unholy scheming can be traced the mur-
der of every Northern and Southern sol
der whose blood has mingled with their
natal soil, shed by brothers hands They
arc the arch-conspirators who plotted to
degrade people, among other reasons,
for possessing a dignity which loose fanat-
icism could neither understand or acquire.
but secretly envicd They taught their
youth to reverence but one theme in con-
nection with the rerretuity of republican
ism--thc np,ne Of Union This was al
WAYS prated. but Constitution, the
compact which caused that Union, was
seldom if ever referred to as an instru-
ment to be rtvered-as the real chart of
American union and liberty. The South
was always true to the Constitution and
that Union for which it was intended
When the deep-laid scheme of fanatic CON
spirators began to develop itself, by the
raid Of John Brown, and then eliminating
in the election Of the unfortunate Ahra-
ham Lincoln, the Southern States were
true to that Constitution still; and cut
ting themselves loose from the successful
schemcrs, adopted it as their chart, and
fought for it and for the same govern
ment which resulted from the rebellion of
1-76. The fanatics but used the cry of
q Union as dust to blind the eyes of the
people in order to accomplish their ruin
Gus designs
The war is over-thc war for the res
toration of the Union Three years have
passed since the terms Of the contending
Generals guaranteeing peace were ratl
hcd. Is the Union restored Does
peace res, upon the nation? True, Gen
eral Grant cries peace, yet ruined
homcstcads, divided families, and thous-
ands upon thousands of ahject poor, give
curses deep, if not loud upon such q
peace
Peace, peace may be shouted by these
conspiriug Radicals I'll they become
boarse, but millions of Americans can
tell them they lie; for there is no peace,
aud it i, not part of their plot to have it.
Your correspondent has travelled
throughout the North, and has observed
how the late legislation of the Jacobin
Congress regarding the South is mlsun-
derstood by the people. Most of those
who vote to send Radicals to Congress
have not the most faint conception Of the
grinding oppression to which the South
ern people are subjected. They cannot
see how ii is possible. under the Con.tl-
tuition. for an intelligent. respectable
white American to be dcuied the priyl-
! lege of the ballot. box at his native home.
when the most ignorant, lazy and dlshon-
est b.cl IA community IS allowed to
choose VINO shall be the rulers in the
States composing the Southern portion OF
the - greatest government the world ever
saw" they dream that our county
still has Constitution. Alas how long
Will they dream before mighty truth will
cause " change to come DER the spirit
of their dreams God grant that II
NAV be ere tie tyrant', might sinks II
the eternal past the last rag of hope @.
Ebertv-blots from among the nations of
tue cath the haven for the oppressed Of
all nA,ions-shc Anlerican Republic.
TIE peorle OF the North have not yet
been made to understand the melancholy
reasons why Southern papers contala 81
many advertisements of . Homsteads for
sale They little think taat many Of
the descendants of the patriot families OF
10 in many Of the Southern States, thro'
the tyranny of the reconstruction laws,
which cause idle negroes TO be ia at
the public expense, thus encouraging
them no, to .abor, and throwing al mo-
ncy derived from service TO the Govern
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