Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1870-11-24

IL Sses sucf@ "as NfS't o&A sAsS s~ss
earth doubIy and srebly cured with that
animal Cor bea<t) called the carpet-bag-
ger. this unfortunate city is certainly that
spot. The sins Of the forefaihcrs Of this
unfortunate people must have been great
beyond repentance. The Departments
swarm with them, both male and female
(fcr the animal is not confined TO the
sterner sex.) They GIL the Corporation
Offices. from the highest down to that Of
the lowest laborer on the streets. They
have taken complete possession Of Wash
ingtOn, and the only visible means Of sup
port they have. il cheating the property
holders and Government out Of the last
cent they can squeeze from them. The
Western people talk of the removal Of the
Seat Of Government to one of the Western
cities. but they little dream Of the blight
ing curse they are bringing upon them
selves. II the property holders Of St.
Louis OF Cincinnati could realize the state
Of slavery and degradation in which the
citizens of this city are held they would
lynca the first man who dared to make
any proposition looking to the removal Of
the Seat of Government. The people of
this City, under the present Radical rule.
are in a worse case than slaves in the old
times. The slave had the law to protect
him but now the people here. We may
say, are denied the right Of trial BY jury.
The only inquiries made by the Courts
are into political opinions. jury of ignor-
ant negroes tries him and the Judge or
ders his conviction or acquttal according
TO his political standing. Some ignorant,
broken-down political hack finds his own
State too hot to hold him he is sent to
Washington and made Judge and in all
his ruling he looks to the benefit Of the
carpet-bagging thief who comes before
him without the slightest shadow of a
cause either in law or Justice. The foul
est and most cold-blooded murders are
committed every day and the Court makes
the jury Of carpet-baggers pronounce the
criminal insane, or acquiis him in viola
ton of every principle of justice. Some
worthless loafer drops down in Washing
ton from Yankee land during the session
Of Congress, without the first cent to pay
his board. All he has to do is to call on
his member of Congress and if he is not
made Judge, law is passed allowing
him to park the streets, or pave the ave-
nues with green pine blocks that will not
last two years and cause a pestilence to
devastate the city, or some such swindle,
so his pockets may be filed at the expense
of the property-holders of the city. Yet
the people have no redress. If these cor
morants would only come and present
revolver to your head and ask for your
pocketbook and watch with some courage
and decency, one might feel some respect
for them, but to have Grants bayoncts
crowding a set of loafing, dirty, Yankee
thieves down your throat. the dose is
enough to make azy man wish there were
no stars and stripes. We earnestly wish
some one would take the condition of this
city as a specimen Of radical rule and let
the people Of the country know what Rad
ical rule is in its full meaning, and our
word for it, the talk Of cursing any people
with the Seat Of Government will be heard
only in whispers faint and few. We're the
Scat of Government at Cincinnati, Con-
gress would no more dare pass the
laws they pass here giving up the
property Of the people to be plumber
cd BY Yankees and negroes than they
would run their heads into the fire.
No people on earth but the people of Wash
ington would ever submit as they have
done to the ignominy they have had heap
ed on them by the corrupt gangs who in
fest the halls Of Congress. We hope
1.-THE bottom rail will soon be on top and
when it does come some one had better
stand from under, for when the stone does
fall. those upon whom it falls will be
ground to powder.
Our friends the Congressman are COM
ing by twos and threes. Each day we
see the name Of some scallawag heralded
as coming or come. but. thank Heaven,
the trumpet is blowing its last blast for
them. The people must be sickened with
the sight Of them for few short months.
which they must bear patiently as the ag-
ony will soon be over; then they will de-
part. carrying with them the loathing and
coutemps Of every righs-minded man,
woman and child. May such q curse
never visit this fair land again. We see
the plan is on foot to put Carey in Mr..
Merrick's place. As the Washington cor
respondent Of the Baltimore Sun says,
we think Congress had better state what
majority Democrats are required to get
before they can take seat in Congress.
As to using intimidation, We fancy the
shoe is on the other foot The negroes
had all the advantage Of Grants bayonets