Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1874-11-19

men Of 81. Hays Coxsiy.-I adde's
myself primarily 10 the Republican par
ty, because I believe that said party
constitutes the majority Of the laboFing
men Of this county, and notwifhstaud-
ing We have suffered . heavy defeat in
Maryland, - well a. IN the North and
West, can see NO cause 70 be alarmed,
particularly when We take into consid-
Grafton how fuctmting the opinions IL
mankind are when they believe that no
vital issae - in jeopardy. ThersfsU 1
am persuaded to believe that the change
II only temporary, and more reasonable
to conclude, that it il more ON an ex-
perimental order than the result Orwell
matured reflection. But Il il NOT my
purpose to predict which political par
ty viii predomirste-that matter rests
with, and Is shrouded IN, the mysteries
Of the future. But - regards the DEM
ocratic party, il has clearly defined it
self at present to be another name for
aristocTacy, and - such I take issue.-
This is the party to which wemight at
tribute all the horrors Of . civil var
unparalleled in the history Of na*imA
and the privations and other hardd3
which are now borne, snd have been
suffered in the South since Il ended
This NJ the party that kept before the
war nearly four millions Of negroes in
bondage, and nearly six times that num-
Der Of poor white people also, and this
Is the party that Is endeavoring to get
possession Of the Government for the
purpose Of voting themselves compen-
sation for those slaves, or vots them
back into bondage or involve the coun-
try in bloodshed. But we have resolv.
ed to stand unalterably on the side Of
the Union and liberty, which, prophet.
cally speaking, viii again be in issue
But when I speak of liberty. do not
wish to convey the simple idea that all
human rights consist alone in liberty
according to the Bill of rights. IAN
men are born free and equal" but not
till very recently has this sublime pas
50 ;e been realized. Andrew Jack
son also said, that the blessings of the
nation should, like the dews of heaven,
fall on the rich as well as the poor"
But the aristocratic party has ostra-
cised the laboring man from this high
privilege, and as they have been pleased
to ascribe disgrace to the word repub-
lean, they have also ascribed it to US.
But, my friends, they may call us BY
whatever name and by as NAM as the
Evil One may invent for their USE
They shall not deter us from the field
of battle or cause us to swerve from our
path of duty. Names are vague and
their definitions various, but principles
stand immutable, and therefore we claim
that the principles that actuate us in
resisting the gross innovations on our
rights is the same that have animated
the breast of those whom the world has
agreed in styling patriots from the be-
ginning of oppression to the present
moment. The disposition to defend our
freedom and our rights, besides being
nature and ihdisPens.6le to the protec-
ton of ourselves and families, appears
to have been ordained by the hand Of
One who holds alike the fate of the rich
as well as the poor, and "is no rcspec-
ter of persons" This, indeed, is the
only means insured to industry and vir-
tue, and the natural means BY which
the raracity Of tyrants should be pun.
ished 1t constitutes the grand princi-
pies of equality and the basis of all free
governments. This is the foundation of
patriotism which consists in the defence
Of all Justly acquired rights against un-
Just oppression. But in our case the
opinion of the masses may indeed be
various and changeable until our cause
becomes fairly understood, and the dis
advantages under which We labor duly
appreciated. But why should men that
have intelligence to understand and q
spirit to defend their rights stand tame
~ still and see those rights wrested from
them. to be forever placed beyond their
recovery, while hesitating to learn wheth-
er we shall be called republicans or DEM
ocrats It il not the name of demo-
crat that I seek, or the name Of repub-
ican that I fear. But it 10 the condi-
ton of the hboring man that I am en-
deavoring to elevate TO . degree second
to none in this country. And let every
laboring man, irrespective Of party prin-
ciples, take this subject to heart, and
let the flames Of equality, such as is
guaranteed BY the Constitution of this
great and glorious Union, take from boz
som to bosom, until our number is not
nire times nine nor ninety times ninety,
but millions of millions, until our hea-
ven favored cause shall know no bounds
in this broad land, and stand boundless
and innumerable until time shall be no
longer. But as matter of course we
shall have many difficulties to surmount.
Many perhaps may fall by the way in
the defence of this cause, as great men
before Us have already done. A noble
patriot, well known to this nation, and
whose deeds are indeiibly impressed on
tine hearts of all dear lovers of liberty,
headed small, but heroic band, whose
object it was to iberate four millions
of human slaves from the yoke Of bond
age, but the institution Of slavery was
held to be so sacred and inviolate that
it was treason to even sympathize with
the condition of those degraded human
beings. but such was his indomitable
courage that he valued not life, and he
died the death of a martyr. But the
cause still lived and augmented In
strength until it was gloriously trium-
plant. And the pane of that man will
pass into history as that of great and
good one, while those of his crucifers
viii iind . more appropriate place by
the side Of those who prosecuted human
liberty in the most benichted arex of