Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-08-22
For the Port Tobacco Times
LET US SEE OURSELVES AS WE ARE
BY MISS P. A. P.

One Of the advocates of Capitalization,
Mr.. 0. P. Morton, who would, we ethink,
see things in a far different light if he
were subjected to regime of ice water
applications to the head, uses the fol-
lowing language: "The national re-
proach has been washed out in rivers
of blood, it is true, but the sins of the
world were atoned for by the blood of
the Saviour, and the expiation of blood
seems to be the grand economy of ma
tare; e.p founded on wisdom to mortals in
How revolving! To hear man with
instincts like Robespierre, uttering
such language and calling it love of his
species! Sickzy patriotism, false phi
lan'thropy, horrible theology! We think
he reads his Bible to but little purpose,
if he thus warps and perverts it's holy
teachings to sanction outrage, robbery
and murder. This bloody-mindedness
is not characteristic of the American
people. Whence then did'it Gomez
Away with it! Teach it not to your
children, lest you call down upon their
innocent heads the anger of God. Our
blessed Saviour's life and teachings
embodied nothing but peace and mer-
cy. He never uttered one word that
would sanction taking life at all, and
finite, sinful man, If he sacrificed mil
lions Of zives, could not atone for a sozi-
t0ry sin, nor could the shedding of blood
save q human s0ul. This is achy Del
ty came doaOn to Cazvary. The dear
Redeemer, by his suffering and death,
forever done away with the ceremonial
law, and laid down the grand fanda-
mental principle, edo unto Others" &c.
If this perfect rule were followed there
would be no more wars, no sorrow, no
tears. The "expiation OF blood" is no
longer "the grand economy of nature" ="
and that cause can never prosper upon
which rests it's deep and inefaceable
stain.
But Mr.. Morton makes further use
of the sacred volume, and quotes al
most literally from the words of Him
''who spake as never man spake," to
enfore his sanguinary oratory. He
says: ''From the tomb of the rebellion
nation has been born again, old things
have passed away and all things have
become new" What does he mean?
That with the new birth, which he
says We have experienced, we are to
forget our great past with it's inspiring
remembrances and stainless independ-
ence? Forget our single-hearted fore
fathers, their noble lives and peaceful
deaths? Forget Washington, and, in
stead, venerate the unhappy, misguid-
ed Lincoln? Forget Allen, Putnam
and Lee; and revere Butler, Meade and
Milroy? Forbid it, shades of the noble
dead! Forget Warren and Jasper, that
the blood of the one enriches the soil
of Bunker Hill, while the verdure over
the lonely grave of the other is kept
green by the warmth Of the southern
sun. Are we to forget the horrors at
Valley Forge, the wintry march thro'
New Jersey, the bravely fought battles
Of Germantown, Monmouth, Princeton,
Brandywine and Trenton-of Kings
Mountain, Cowpens and Sullivan's Is
land, and point the young to the
records of Balls Bluff, Gettysburg
and Malvern Hills-the want, destitu-
ton and sickness without medical aid,
and all the calamities of the late fra
tricidal war? May we not weep when
we draw a parallel between the guer-
rilla warfare which the inveterate poll
cy of Lincoln forced upon the people
Of the South, with the far different a.
chievements of "Marion and his men -