Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-07-07

lkas announced that III, u m pcr,,;c
Sllsmhcrs Of Congress wrrr gym, TO INV,
= caucus n Law down soma prosr,mp, ~
l111iya s'r tre Democratic party. ". trrn-
bod xtsh Che fear that some new cl.,
wosM be hung On the neck of tina. r,r,v
In the, first r.lscc. all such things a C,n.
.sre~ional iic',';on in party nlNta-,n,
have. simo<s always. resulted ii<ss.rn...
" 10 the interests ~ the country. Con
Jackson denounced snch interference, ON
the part Of m-mhcrs OF C,ngrcss a. m.
democratic and inp.rtinens. The con.
ssitaents If such members are the nus
tcrs. while the members cf Congress ar.
| Only The sssvsnts aud ageais IL the great
constituency, the people. Aua there nc.
yer has been a time when the masses Of
the Democratic party wrrc kiuiling M
| xcalously. 50 actermincd'v, s,i sn in..l-
liscasly withal. n at the present moment.
/, And this revival in the Democratic rsrtv
has not been. in the smallest degree, do,
to anything done hy the Democratic ms,n.
bers nf Congress y, far a. they have
served the party With intellis>uc, AMI
pluck. they might just az wall have hen
at home attending to their private ha.i.
ncss. Nor have they hid tie slightest
cfectia modifying o. mitigating The ,hom-
! Unable Legislation Of @ 'nsrsss. TIC black
and barb,rous IN .jority has not rcsrc"c,i,
because il has not feared. th'm. II IS
no. from Demacrstic speeches in C'n.rcs>
that the psepie have been stirred up with
a fierce horror Of the black rule. Far
from it. II Is the ID 'mocratic press
which. all over the country. has pu, On a
new intelligence and new plu X. and ia
spired the masses With xcal and r,so,.-
ton which they have not manifested be-
FIRE since the great calamity Of Emo Nm.
election. BI. right in the mills. of this
general Democratic rcviv,l c,mcs a mill
! " vet blanket from D-mocr,,ic Con-
gressional caucus, wh;os, IL it W.. NJ,
meant to tone dnwn and em,ssll,te I'll,
rising spirit If tho party. will cert,inly
have that cgcc., unless trs,tal with III r.
tied contempt by the press au@ tho rc,-
pie. 1ftherc ware no more irc and fore:
in the D.mocra,ic press aud in the Dun
/ ocratic masses than appear in this C,n-
gressional address. the ra-ty may jus. ~
| well iisbsni and 'ihr,w up the sponge"
at ancc. In n srmewhat extended pnli,i-
cal experience. We have never seen po-
litieal document so. utterly c,utenpti lie
in point IT both Intelligence anl spirit =
tu force and pith 1t is worse even than
one Of Grants messages. In its gram
mar it is little better. hut in all other
respects i: is weak enough to hav, como
out Of Grants Uranium ltd,cs no, con-
tain a single idea which is not Ear bol,nd
the common sense Of the smallest mel III
borhocd DEMOCRATIC :u,clins. AMI somc OF
its sug ,csiions ara absolutely perniciouS.
For instance. what does it m,sn by '.Ical
issues 2" THIS phrase conveys but ono
idea 10 the m.ssls. # has become tho
vernacu!ar of such t7ait,rou. sheets as the
New York World. and all the M,ngrel
newspapers in the Uni;cd States. To
abandon dead Issues" means simply 10
| give up the struscl' against nagro-epual-
ity, ahnihila.;cn Of States. and in fact,
against MI thu measures Of ''reconstruc-
ton" Tha. is tho popular msauing Of
giving up dead issues" II means .
surrender to Mongrcli'm Of Ill tho ground
it has usurpcd. So far ~ this address is
concerned. i, promise, The people nothing
tina. another triumph o: the negro par. y
will nos bring them. 1, indeed does
speak Of frugal expenditure" of "eco-
nomical aud hoaest government; :" but
those arc all the stcrcotyped, thrcadbaro
and worthless phrases uf the negro party
itself. They src nothing ba. Old. worn
out political hack words. which Ia! like
SO much straw upon tho minds Of tho
masses. This adlrsss has in it n, bat.
tlc-word. no buyle-bla.t. no SOUND OF auy
kind to rouse up the people to throw OF
their shackles. II is simply political!
opiate. to pm. the party to sheep. Why
should the members Of Cvugreso issue
such an address What right have they
to dictate to their constituency what iht
campaign should be? What RICH. have
they To form y COMMITTEES for the Cam
paign p This is little piece of Monerc
ceutralism which they mus, have caught
from their Congressional association with
the negro party. Let th.II first 10 some
thing on the Aoor Of Congress, besides
receiving their S.. 900 a year, before they
attempt TO make platforms for tha,r, con :
ssi:ueuis. Let them give some specimen
Of live Democratic thunder, or ID m ,cra,-
ic lightning IN the midst Of tho black cloui
which has settled iu the halls of Congress.
before they volunteer to take the m,nsse.
ment Of tho party into their timii hands
The advica is gives 10 the Soutaera 'peo-
pie is insulting in the highest .deyrpe.-
The Democratic lca,iers Of The South Arc
better politicians aud men Of souuaer
Judgment everyway than \ majority Of
the Democratic members of this "a. sress
:. They arc better capable ofju!ging, wha.
they ought to do for themselves and the
country than these ornamental fsur,s Of
Congress. II they bal sail To the South
ern people. .'aow. be good boys. and keep
your poses dry.. they could not have moro
grossly insultcd them. We shah have
moro to say on This subject. Bat, in tho
meantime, we shou'd IKE to know who
wrote this address. II was bad epousl,
for men like Bysri. S,ul.bury, Van
Trump, Thurman anl EldriJse 70 amia-
bly, permit their names 70 b. attached Ia
such spiritless aud worthless document,
but the Democratic public ousb. to know
who src'e it. Wheeyer |, was, hes earn
cd =, Place in Grants, Cabinot. for b.
"honess cndes yors, 20 throw . wet blsnk-
st eycr the Desaocraiic party,, 1 80 =.
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