Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-01-21

<1ou o. 1noepenQehces came On
TO vs. her relations q Green's Rest
where he died and was buried, in the
family graveyard, situated ON that part
OF Tie state, now known a. the Ware
House. Unfortunately It passed out
OF IL {gnch family, and a. an add
ton violence Of the folly Of burying
= Int consecrated ground, espe-
cially where the law of primogeniture
= ncs d force. the spot has been culti-
vste ~ many years, and hundreds OF
times no doubt, have semi-civilized ne
gro boys caroled corn songs as they
guided the plough share that tore ruth
lsssly though the sod that covered the
mortal-remains of noble woman who
gave birth to and a1Dfully reared one
of the fathers of our great republic
Her distinguished son, I am told. was
seized 9TH consumption Of the lungs
and undertook avoyageto Europefor his
heath, butneither the ship in which he
took passage. nor himself, was ever
seen or heard from afterward. Whilst
on thil + I am rkmipded Of the
fact q ,opas A. q nch of your
Acog6ty Idly spos n -of here,
as the successor in the State Senate, of
the lamented Billingsley, and I think
the old mother couAty would do her.
self great credit If she viii invite so
able and energetic gentleman to rep
resent her in that body. The DIR. has
many warm friends here and through
out the State, and all admit him to be
a live "man," full of intellect, and well
calculated to defend the interest of his
section and State. I think, that far
less able men have represented You in
the last decade or two, andf youexpect
to have influence in the halls of legis-
lation, rest assured, that can only be
exercised by men Of brains and enter
prise. "Ferbum sat sapienti."
AS you will very readily imagine,
there is a very intense feeling here in
regard to the Louisiana trouble, and
the excitement reminds one very much
of that which eliminated in 81 and
brought on the ever to be deplored war
between the States. As rule, the men
who were ardent Union;sts in the late
struggle are violent to day in their de-
nunciations of Southern people, and
breathe war and thunder all the time.
/ for one, have long since eradicated
from my bosom all feelings of luminosity
for the honest Union men of 81, but
how / am to be endowed with charity
enough to forgive any intelligent man,
who sympathises with the barbarous
negroes and Yankee adventures that
are now trampling upon the noble and
generous sons and daughters of poor
oppressed and i'll governed Louisiana,
is problem that I fear 1 shall not
soon be able to solve. If it we're a
mere POLITICAL difference Of opinion, I
should have no hesitancy in believing
that time would dissolve all hard or
uncharitable feeling. but in the present
status of affairs, it seems irreconcilab!e
with my ideas of justice and fair play,
and can't see how any generous and
upright man could hesitate to be in full
accord with the owners of the soil, as
against the horde of miscreants who
usurped authority over them, and could
not maintain it twenty-four hours, but
for the interference Of Federal soldiers.
/ cannot divest myself of the idea that
it is deliberate scheme of Grants to
goad the Southern people to such a
pitch of phrensy, that they will in some
unguarded moment strike down few
poor soldiers. and in that event, he will
sound the tocsin of alarm through the
North and West and rally his old ad-
herents to the rescue of the republic
once more, and by this means, cause
himself to be elevated third time to
the chair Of Washington, which he has
already so thoroughly disgraced Des-
perate diseases require powerful rem
edies, and without some potent stimulant
is speedily injected. all the symptoms de-
note a sure and early demise of the repub-
lican party. AS natural sequence, the
man who saved his country q second time
from disruption, should alone be worthy
to rule it, and grateful people could
not think of being so unthankful, as to
invite any one else to assume the reins
of government. This is the game Mr..
Grant is playing. and if the Southern
people commit any blunder and there
by suffer him to win third term, then
we may look for periodical return OF
trouble in the country, and a life long
infection Of Grantism and corruption
upon il, and requiem upon republican
institutions. l trust that the wise
counsels of Bayard and Gordon and
others will be rigidly observed, and
that Grant will live to learn that '.in
these cases
We still have Judgment here; that we bu. teach