Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-02-25
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News AND OTHER Nocrsos.-Sever-
ii contributions, prose and otherwise,
which were entitled in point of time to
publication in our columns this week,
have been crowded out owing to our
inability to get them in type. They
viii make their appearance in our next
paper. We can assure the author of
the Royal Epigrum" and our old friend.
"Rss in Urbe," that we ''postpone"
them, even temporarily, with sincere re.
greet.
The letter, to be found in another
column, from Hon. Jefferson Davis, and
which is in response to an inquiry of
WIN. +. Perry, Esqr., 'of this county, in
regard to the correctness Of certain ut
terances, alleged to have been made by
Mr.. Davis in a speech delivered at Steven.
son. Alabama, in Feb. 81, is settler
Of the issue recently debated in our col
uunns. Indeed, the imputation against
Mr.. Davis never rested upon any high
CT authority than that of the late Post
master General, and, unhappily for Cres-
well, the fraud attempted in this case
is not the only one with which in our time
his name has been disreputably assecia-
ted. Be this as it may, those at least of
our readers, who served on the losing
side in the late "onpleasantness," will
read with pride the present letter of
their old chieftain, which but confirms
their deep-seated conviction, that what
ever truth shall be brought to light, he
never will he shamed." Partly for the
purpose of keeping up the scare about
"reviving the rebellion" and partly be-
cause it is pertinent to the issue in hand,
but chiefly to plague Mr.. Creswell and
bis friends, we shall publish the Mont
ss,nery Inaugural of Mr.. Davis in our
next.
The solemn and repeated protesta-
tons Of Republican leaders to the con-
trary Notwithstanding, we have never
once doubted, that whenever the ext
geucies of republican interest or ambi-
ton required a backward step in the
business of guarding and protecting the
Nations Wards" it would be taken
without a moments hesitation. This
has been notably exemplifed by the re-
cent bill Of Mr.. Morrill, republican
Of the purest water-abolishing suf.
fraee in the District of Columbia
Though the bill in question is Of uni.
form application, still it is VIGOROUSLY
on account of black suffrage that the abo-
lition has been proposed. TIE aishon-
est rings, lifted mainly by this dark
agency from their natural gutter to po-
sitions of important Legislative and exc
sutivc trusts, have so befouied and
blackened the republican name, so
shocked the general decency, by the ex-
tent and grossness Of their venality, as
to make it n grave necessity Of the dom.
inant party to abolish entirely the cleo.
sive basis for Office within the District.
This the Morrill, Bill accomplishes and
even this is not enough. 1t substitutes
for the old basis new one which is iii.
rectly in conflict with representative or
local self-government. In brief, Mr.
Morrill, prefers despotism itself to ne.
gro suffrage. He has discovered that
the rings which manipulate the blacks
in the District are becoming expensive
Injuries and that republican Senators
who own palatial residences in Wash.
ton have to pay for these Injuries ike
other sinners. Hence negro suffrage is
in conflict with the Washington interest
Of Republican nabobs, and hence again
negro suffrage goes under. Again. The
Civil Rights belues. of Mr.. Summer to
the Republican leaders is first carefully
amputated by these gentlemen fits en-.
tire school provisions is some.
thing akin to putting the play of Ham,
let on the stage with Hamlet's part left
out-and then the game of show not to do
it" commences. Caucuses are convened.
parliamentary rules of ancient prescrip-
ton are overridden, entire night ses-
sions are held. the republican cohorts,
with Butler in the lead, are duly mar
shalled for the fray and infamed to
the whitest possible heat. all in behalf
Of emaseulated Civil Rights, but alas
Some how or other, the bill never
passes. and, moreover. it begins to look
now very much like it never would pass.
The case of Mr.. Pinchback is another
Illustration in point. He had been
elected IN some sort of fashion many
times and was much crowded with Gre
dentials. The honor of the republican
party was pledged 10 his admission. Nor
can it be shown thas he has any worse
claim to be a Senator than Kellogg has
TO be Governor, whatever that NAV
come TO. The one thing that is GER
tain, however. is that Pirchback has
been OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, in fact,
for more credentials. We catch our