Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1875-07-22

~ Cnz1 = the primaries because Of
~ ri md I know Of some that
otponc for the same reason lido
ult h. i - ray, = / have insinuated
4fqm I do not. approve Of these
t6nRe = 3 j had the povsR weaA
nit olIo1 - nan tAeelective franchise
vho Wa = nted BY such uspatriotic
AID deba1c motives. / ana frank to
~, that I lave never believed that the
engineers of the dominant
wing Of the party were, in good faith,
STRIVING - usake Mr.. Carroll Governor
Of Maryhnd. and hence hare been an
geIed to ssoco many Of the ignorant or
prejudiced 4 my faith, yea, ofmy faith,
chasing after = gilded butterfly they
we're never intended to overtake. 1t
vas vrsng II principle looking at the
matter from NJ standpoint. and most
vretched poliG1 for . weak sectarian
70 unsfshal itself in hostile ar
ray against > pfedominant majority
There are thousands of iberal-minded
Protestants in Maryland who win vote
most cheerfully for any Catholic if be
has merits and stands squarely on them,
but when his indisereet or foolish friends
urge his claims upon the score Of his reli-
gious proclivities, then they viii rebel
and resist Ia self-rotection, and who
can blame them? This feeling was SO
in Baltimore county, that one
of the States highest and purest func-
tionaries recently proclaimed, that the
contest for Governor was n religious
warfare. Now, who is responsible for
this miserable condition Of affairs? ]
say, with no fear of consequences, that
in q very great degree certain weak,
hide-bound Catholics are, and friends
or foes of mine can make the most Of
the assertion. Mr.. Democrat, you pro-
posed that we should have "a little
friendly talk together"
"Angels and ministers of grace defend usi
BE tiny intents wicked or charitable
Thou com'st ia such a Questionable shape
Tha, viii speak TO thee"
If | am not mistaken in INV man, o
you are, like myself, Cath
Ole, and have the advantage of being
an Irishman. You left your country
many years ago for your country's good,
l suspect, as well as your own, and set
tied and married in st. Mary's County,
where l have often met you. You have
seen fit, not only to attack nv charac-
ter. but have in a very ungentlemanly
manner raised my visor and exposed my
face to public view. Whilst YOU did
not exhibit much beauty Of contour OF
of expression to the gaze of
the multitude, you have not found
aught but an honest countenance and a
face that has no cause to blush with
fear or redden with the hot blood al
for anything its owner ha.
done or said. Doubtless you thought
he would wither away and hide wher
he was shown to the world. l am no,
one Of that kind, as you viii find out
after a while. You have been guilty Of
dragging my poor father from his grave
to testify, as it were, to the wickedness
and venality of his degenerate son. You
have arrogated to yourself the powers
of divinity itself, and have looked dowr
with all the confidence and unerrin2
certainty of an Omniscient being into
the secrets of my heart and exposed the
private workings thereof. You have
become self-constituted modern Ne.
mesis of the male gender, that have un.
dertaken to punish the wicked, but un.
like her, to reward the good and defend
the memory Of the dead from insult
You have set up for defender Of the
Faith, and like your more renowned
prototype, Henry VIII. of England
have proved to be living monumen,
of disgrace to it, and whilst full Of the
glorious faith, like many of your coun.
trymen, have scarcely vestige Of reaI
religion. You have for a large portion
of your misspent existence, led life OF
sinful sloth and Incidence, and had yo,
been in a country where laws are more
rightly enforced than they are here,
doubt not you would long since hav,
been arrested for vagrancy. For many
years past, you have evinced a great
fondness for attacking mems character.
through the press, and l am not muci
surprised at your taste, for it is gam,
at which you have all to gain and it'll,
to lose. You have stated with great We
hemence that the only way in which my
opposition to Mr.. Carroll can be ex
planned is in the fact that he voted fol
the abolition of inspections, and asl
me to put my hand on my heart ant
answer truthfully, if there is no stin.
left by his action. The hand is there
sir, and l answer no, for on the contra
~, have often blessed him and other:
who voted to remove compulsory in
spections, which enabled me to pursu,
it as an independent vocation, by which
l have managed to support large fam
ily comfortably, great deal more thar
you ever did in any five years of you
life. You have berated me for denoun
cling Rings, and yet by way Of damag
ing Mr.. Hamilton you connect him will
the Washington Ring. of which you tel
US Boss Sheppard is Fdeile Princeps.-
This Washington Ring was very naugh
ty affair, and evolved much stencil ant
nauseous effiuvium, and you inform III
that Mr.. Grant is connected with it
Sir, if am not much mistaken, you
Democrat as you are, live upon Gov
eminent pap, and if You can't endors'
Mr.. Grant in all he does, you NIGH
extend to him the charity of your 81
lence. 1 hope do not misstate facts
when assert that you live with mem