Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-29

NJ. Eaaof The anguish ana -aNic-
tions which deatA carries into IL doors
of poverty - 81 swealth--of til Low q
Of the high bern, are clothed vish such
sacredness and solemnity that few in
deed. no matter how depraved their
minds and morals may be, will readily
tear away the.xail in order to mark the
tbrobbings or quicken the pulsations of
sorrowing hearts. On such occasions
enmity stands rebuked and silent, and
feels how contemplate are the baubles
thatawaken strife and cxnsention among
men. There is an indemnity too due
and extended to the house. of mourning
that shields its inmates from even Just
censure. not to say harsh and acrilno-
NOUS criticism.
To strike man when he il down II
unfair and dastardly-to' strike at .
man mourning under the e.
hand, Of God is, to my mind ~,
Of ssefileGe. Impressed ~
witIA JneaS Meetings. i xnl u
lingly and gladly have declin 81 fuf< a.
er discussion with your correspondent,
'tRus in Urbe." But he viii not per-
NIT me to do so. Clad in the habili-
ments of woe, he draws on the buskin,
stalks on the stage, and in sepulchral and
tragic tone gives himself what he knows
he most sadly stands in, need Of" a
high character for honor" He tells us
that "he loves the name of honor more
than he fears death" Indeed! If such
were the fact, he would have availed
himself of the earliest opportunity to
make the "amende honorable" to those
he has sowrongfully and falsely accused,
and would have washed his hands at
once and forever Of the slauderous alle-
cations which the card "Who for Gov.
ernor: gave such wide circulation to
and which subsequent events have proved
to be utterly and desigaedty false. OPP
pressed with the gravity of the charges
which Democrat has brought against
him, and yielding to the inspirations
which some old trees and a distant
graveyard filed him with, Rus in Urbe
descends into himself ("Faciles decensus
arernT) begins to doubt his own iden-
tity and asks himself, like Rip Van
Wrinkle, am I Rus in Urbe or some
body else Am I a great saint or a
great sinner! Am 1 what have been
or what am described to be? AMI,
in word, guilty or not guilty of these
charges? In order to obtain a solu.
ton of his more than doubts on these sew
eral heads, he forthwith calls Court of
Inquiry, of which he constitutes him
self presiding officer-calls for panel
of 'Two,"-a deceased father, who it
seems did not appear or "reprove," and
his own scared and dead conscience,
which was equally and wisely reticent,
and from this panel of two he claims to
have received, God knows how or where,
a verdict, unanimous rerdict of mot
guilty." and flirting it in the face of the
counters he asks it to be entered as of
Record in the Court of public opin-
ion. 1t iciH hardly be admitted to any
such distinction, and the Defendant
stands just where he stood at first. 1t
is curious and instructive to mark the
wrigglinss, the mean evasions, the ralss
try excuses and substitutes he offers in
place of manly retraction of words
wrongfully and maliciously uttered and
circulated BY him.
In lieu of honorable PREPARATION, he of
fers-what? An expression of a wish,
a half made resolve to invest a splendid
shilling or dollar towards getting up
and publishing biographical sketches Of
the Delegates SO designedly slandered
by him, or in case of his heart failing to
make any such magnificent venture
and investment, lie proposes that he
himself shall give us ''pen and ink" por.
traits or memoirs of the Baltimore del
egation. Pending these promised and
nerer TO be published memoirs, events hare
prored, have demonstrated, the fidelity
of the Baltimore delegates in discharg-
ing the high trust imposed in them, and
that the card "Who for Governor 7"
,cds and is erery inch a lie, and its au-
thors and indorsers stand convicted be-
fore the public of having written and
published, ''toith malice prepense," de-
sisnedly false and caumnious allega-
tons. If mere accusations are to be
received as conclusive in matters of pub
lie controversy, where will Rus in Urbe
stand in the premises? Why should
he not bear the stigma Of "Cuprit,"
too, and as such be shut out from any
advantages which his lugubrious and
melodramatic protestations of injured
innocence may carry with them! In
his card Of the 2lst ult (mild and nom
aggressive man that he claims to bel
he attacks in coarse and vituperative
slang the hungry and hide-bound
the Governor, the State Treasurer and
the High Sheriff with his host of dep
uties). The latter he charges with the
crime of dragging Ibis high office down
into the filth of street politics" and of
misdemeanors of saloon.
keepers, cigar vendors and other Sabbath
breakers, in order to defeat (inter alias) the
very distinguished Rus in Urbe in his par
donable, though very futile ambition, to
represent ''the city of mobs and monu-
ments" in the next General Assembly
of Maryland. While thus fierce and
in his wild raid on men
much better and in higher social posi-.
tons than himself, be exclaims against
Democrat as doing him gross wrong
and injustice, because he has branded
his card of the 2lst June as calculated
and inteHded to fire up-to blow into a
flame the smouldering embers of anti.
Catholic and sectarian preiudices."
Every charge made by Democrat in
your issue of the 9Th inst. against Rus
in Crbe he now reiterates. He takes
nothing back. He softens down moth
ing. He retracts nothing. Heaccuses
him now, as he accused him then, of
having in The ,cOrss spirit Of Knor NotA-
iEgism written a Vulgar and vi.upera-
tive attack on the Catholics of Balti-