Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1871-09-14

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I ragsst. Nr. Edissr. that ny Too. q.
vorable nsties Of Cd. Dents card Of shs
9Th ultima. should have drawn him u
the 81 neosaisy Of iayokiag The unhal.
lowed aid sd advics q "spirin Of health.
or soSliss damned but whether " The
spirits o1eyed his call. or whether they
we're "uhiss. rcd or grey" 10 iumaserial
to the public. If the only information they
impaired b him. Was 10 the effect. ''tha'
oil and water win not mix" and that bott
bediss. not bs;ag ahls to occupy one and
the same place. that one win Be nccessa,
riiy eat the top and the other At the bot.
ton. be night. I think. Aasc spared him.
self The iaesstatioos. seeing thatit requires
no ghost. not 70 say whole platoon O
ghoss. % asssre us Of % important fact
or hets. n natural philosophy. But il
has been ssggssted 10 me that possibly
The gallant coloners incintation was pro.
noueecd oysr his side-board only. and tha
he merely evoked those old familiar friend,
-0ld PsatA Juniper and Barley-eorn
If the supposition be as correct Is il i
charitable. Il ID easy to understand and ap
preciate the motive ofthe Coils action and
the meaning ofthe accompanying. words
Mingls- mingis--uaingie
i~s .Spirita you that mingis may" E
To whaticzfent the spirits responded Il
the cali and In what proportions, it would
be ha.ardors to assert, but judging from
The intensity Of his feelings, as mirrored
in has card We may conjecture tha. pin,
Of Old Peach to drop Of water (power.
fully weak9 with dash of Bourbon. made
DIP the "heavenly draught. /" and if under
its inspirations the Colonel. Beacon in
hand. saw double or treble. will not be q
subject ofcsnsure or surprise-not although
1.-THE fellows" swarmed around his enlarg.
ed vision as plenty as blackberries. 1t is
iilibeF.l, not to say unkind, in the ''dear''
Col. to taunt a with seasoning our cup
with the" venom" Not being blessed
Is he is with superabundance of the ear
ticle, ve are obliged to economic the
very sattlethat re can call our own, in order
that We may occasionally give an aroma,
q '.piquant flavor" to our mixtures. Were
we blessed With ,pereunial fount. As is Col.
Dent, we should do otherwise-he can At.
ford something new and bitter every day
no danger Of his stream failing. La
bttar ct labetrr In omne rolubilis xrum.-
On late occasion, the Col. expressed a
sense Of weariness, consequent on the num-
Der Of bubbles that he had encountered
and destroyed, and he announced at the
same time his resolve to sheathe his sword
and would no more draw it until some bub-
bic worthy Of his steel should arise for
execution. In view of this declaration,
we had our fears that the Colonel, forget
full "of the canon fixed against self-slaugh-
ter" would play the Roman fool and fall
upon his pen. exclaiming. what Cato did
and Addison approved" could not be
wrong. The apology which the Colo
mel has felt himself constrained to make
for being vulgar" was uncalled for and
unnecessary. A man is vulgar when he
Affects in words-manner-a and address
what 10 foreign to his nature and habit, of
thought and action. Col. Dent has not
done 30 in bis card-he was vulgar to be
sure-but be had no need to apologize for
it. He was Denf-Dcntior-- Dentissin,us
ali through and no mistake. He is what
he would fain appear to be, political and
literary Melchisedeck without fellow or
fellows. ".Solus est" Col. Dent is very
indignant that I should cali in question his
fcalty to Democratic principles in the Fall
Of SO, and denies the truthfulness of my
accusation as to his having been inclined
to Know-Nothingism and to his having
voted for Hagner, &c. Now l will ad-
nit that I cannot demonstrate how the
Col. voted on that occasion. indeed, it
would Be impossible (short Of q special
revelation to do so) but my assumption
and belief were predicated on the general
neighborhood impressions, on the inaction
Of Col. Dent pending the Know-Nothing
coutroversy-and on the language he dis
played-language made use Of BY Col.
Dent when speaking Of Col. Hughes on
the eve I've may say) Of the election Of
so. When legislation adverse to oyster
privileges and tide-water franchises was
attempted in go, Col. Dent sprang for
ward to arrest il. and evinced publicly,
both in print and on the stump. . COM
mendable and some thought an intemper-
ate seal on the occasion. In the war
against Know-Nothingism his record is
open TO no such imputations. A man of
his prominence and public life might have
been expected to appear. both in print and
on the stump. as solicitous and belicosc for
the political and religious franchise of his
fellow citisens ~ be vas Of their tide-wa-
ter and oyster property privileges. But
such was not and Is not the fact, and GER
tsinly the friend Of Col. Hughes snd .
champion Of Democracy iE 80 would have
abssained. on the eve Of 50 important IN
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