Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1872-10-31

REs AND Now--Those co.Orea &dA
Gals Who are now throwing up their
q Go GAp,. Who Dire seOrs sAas
Ls uemsat he became convinced ,hss che
ar wss for the enfraschisesseat of the ne
Wo@ be would lay down his sword. and
Ike fke Baltimore Ansericon for their BIZ
i, may profit by reading or having read
lem the following chapter from their in
pired volume
krrns the Baltic. Amerioan, Asg. s, go.
Tho refusal of the President 10 have
anything to do With aeyro soldiers has
1naed tic segre yTegressienisssl 81 he
Ssmner school to sat dora IN sackclotk
pad ashes and bemcan The short-sightcd-
rs Of their age. In their estimation the
hip OF State is nov spre TO be wrecked ).
pace 'Sonsbo can hare Nothing to do sciih
fhe engiaeer; but how ought every citizen
Gpf the United States. who has any pride
- such. to thank the good sense Of the
Executive for saying rs from the disgrace
|cl IN ac acknowledgement that twenty millions
- white mon cannot hold their own against
ne-f6irt Of their numbers without calling
niokesie% $zae8-hetssrA
= Zlsd that whatever other evil and shame
has befallen US. we have not been con-
strained TO ayow to the world that the An
glo-Saxion race here was indebted to the
transported -4jriean for their political sal
walton. What record to 60 before Eu-
rope With. in any possible collision in the
future; what fact upon which to base
national ascendency in contending for our
own. The bare proposition ought forev-
er to politically condemn every man sug-
costing it. These oyitators ought to ts
torerer regarded as infamous far oeiiag
riuing to put 50 foil blot upon the na-
tionot escutcheon. No matter elo Msy
are, their names ought to b remembered
as only those Of the rilest fanhics, rho
hare forgotten ererythiny that appertains
to national glory, ia Aeir Lesosted anxiety
to gire the negro place he can merer be
entitled to GA this contincnt.
But this incident viii bear good fruits,
it is to be hoped 1t will draw more close
ly together the sensible and loyal of the
land whose best hopes are conferred upon
the frmness and enlightened patriotism Of
the Federal Executive in the straits TO
which the nation has been driven by those
plotiers against ITS honor and surety in
both extremes. We cannot raise the ne
gro up. and We must take good care that
he shall not pub US down. He has no
place, and never can have place. in con-
trolling the destinics of great nationality,
and MIR. Sumner may as well realize the
fact as Governor Hammond, Of South Car
olina. -..
Why, look at it. In she very act Of
pouring out maledictions on the South
Carolina, politicians and their followers
fer making the negro wedge to split the
nation asuuder Msse miserable ptotiers are
seen Juggling forward this same agent the
the ration has sworn to discard from its
politics in the future to endeavor to give
him position, importance, controlling
power; attempting thus to do themselves
what they have loudly condemned in the
extremists-thcir opposites-o guilty and
9ctestaLls> end asor, ,ehich, forWateiy,
has resulted IN their disappointment.
1t is true that the Southern extremists
led of in the game Of making Of the negro
thing Of power. II is true that for
years. by his aid, they succeeded in their
ambitious cndeavors. retaining power. to
which they were not entitled, until now VIC
see the lamentable results. But let every
class of political schemers now take good
heed to the fact that the day when such as
this could be done has forever gone by. In
no sense Noth, or South, by tAstinsethisc con-
test IS ended, riU 0ny Le aL,eso make use
of the negro as q medas Of controlling the
Ehite race on this continent. 1.-THE con-
fict has to 60 on for the twenty years"
spoken Of BY Mr.. Jefferson Davis. this
result must be reached somehow. Uthis
Is not aeAierSd, the nation has acAiessl
aothing. In its presen. attempts. Adolf
sisDism is in the field too 1sts., Indieida-
ais 10 their ranks like Charles Sumner,
may manage to keep "a pesitio ty The aid
Of a diseased putlic Sentiment in 1au,ticn-
Iar localities but the general indications.
those especially which come up from the
Great West, are that the people will no
longer tolerate any ultraism on this score.
otter 'ehat the nation has suffered on ne
count Of tosr mi9ions of an inferior race
risen issslt to ats socd sense to suppose
that By any internal arts Il can be made
TO suffer longer. Mrtters are rapidly as
suDsiMyz that consplerios, a,n' hc rorse It
will be for efete mitrafsns II Il cannot re-
ecgaise facts 90 faR 81 orses. '-'
..4 E.: = 81.