Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-10-28

TIE DRHocRATIc PAHrr.-In the
speech Of James Hodges. Esq.. else
where referred to. occurs Che following
vell- deserved encomium upon the dem.
6craiit party Of our State. Said Mr..
Hodges:
"What has the tafiy dops. for the
people Of the State that the anti-demo-
efniie alliance d seeking 10 destroy p
N-99ss ~ tus hrUua cd munil Int
ConStituss5ii unaes wkich we i've, In
peace and security. 1t gave US the best
judicial system in the country, admin
istered BY learned and experienced
judges. It gave No the best police or
ganisation ON this continent, embracing
. body of men Of whom the people Of
any community nigh! Justly be proud.
It gave us the best public schoo! sys-
tenn that has ever been devised perhaps
BY the minds Of men. Besides it is in
full sympathy with the South, the ira
ding ground Of our merchants, and has
always favored the commercial inter.
course Of or people with those sections
Of country whose merchants trade with
us to the extent of many millions every
year. / ask il it be desirable to place
ourselves IN q false position towards the
Democratic South 70 crafty mere polit-
ical whims? Our commercial welfare
shudders at the thought. Such step
would make us false to old friendships
and old trade. The South regards Ma.
ryland and Kentucky as the t@o sJes o.
democracy to which she should always
turn in the darkest hours of her afflic-
ton, into which she still steadily gazes
looking for hope and deliverance. IL
one of those great aud noble eyes,
whose magnetic power has drawn the
people Of the South into close friendly
and commercial relations with Us, to be
extinguished by a radical triumph in
the State I hope not. But that
would be the fesnit ~ 4 dem Hocfafic de-
feat In Maryland. The Ohio imitation
lists have dealt the democracy heavy
blow in the recent election, rebouadiug
with depressing effect upon the pros.
trate form Of the South. Let ns not
still further crush its hopes and iiEssr-
il our trade by Substituting ia Mary
land a radical for q democratic eve.
"ln view Of What have said about
our family troubles, il is hard ~ uSder-
stand why there should be any material
disorder IA she body polite Of the Dem
ocrxtiIcc PARTY. A witty physicistT sisys
there il disorder and describes IL as a
swelling of the cutarp7f cutaneous,
caused by the Sox populi pressing on the
ad vai5rem, inflaming the pericardium
of the e Pluribus Unum. Now we may
not be able to understand the DOCTOR s
abstruse medical description, but !
am sure that many of Tire, ASsaSs:e4i
Democrats could not better explain
their symptoms. But whether We conn.,
piehend it or not, one thing is certain,
it has provoked copious fux Of words
and painful constipation Of ideas.
These literary discharges have been
analyzed and divided into thousand
parts, with the following result Ten
grains of fact, one hundred and ten
Of misrepfsesn satSin, tTo hahdrfd And
Fifty grains of bitter tongue, and siz
hundred and thirty grains Of rank bal.
derdash. Now, that is the honest analy.
sis Of this political distemper. produced
bI the. vox populi pressing upon the nd
salorem. Coming down to plain yer.
nacular, it is q case in which shere is
great cry aud little WOOL and where
some, who have gone for wool, will come
back shorn.
"Now what are ne going 10 d. abou,
the matter? Weare going to take uE
our line of march to the two grea,
battle6elds of this campaign with the
Confidence aud courage Of the older
time, still conscious Of our fpser 20 ie.
feat the enemy. The sober second
thought will drive many malcontent'
back into our ranks, and when the NOR
ming light breaks upon the 9th da,
Of October, our vast army of voters
will rise up, like giant refreshed wifi
ains, and move forward 20 engage ant
defeat ths ENEMY and whs1 tne sur
sets upon the November field, we vii
have captured his forces, horse, foo
and dragoon, and then, BY the power o
these tao mighty triumphs, with tb'
names Of Carroll and Iatrobe embla
soned upon them, We will teach th'
coalition that the Democracy of Mary
And is terrible to eneodhfer add :mpos
sible to destroy"