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

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Democrat hes not expect. norindeed
desire, ths4 Rns in Urbe should speak
OF him in ~ vile, vituperative and ca
luminous tom than be has spoken Of
30 many % -. To many Of his pet
~. spifef1 }nnd dirty s.insinuations."
sfsupposes and inuendoes be offers
therefore : &Dntemptuous silence. DEM
oerat's relie1un or no religion has moth
ing to DO y - the question in hand
He may haNp been, and still may be.
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lbpt 1eN r. baye no religion and
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- prototype 4 = pd!p1sxi1g rs It IS
amusing. The trouble With Henry VIII.
was, that be had too mseA religion, and
was rather prone to enforce its tenets
by the gentle and unanswerable argu-
ments Of ''axe, halter, fagot and rack"
But Democrat, on the whole, is rather
tickled than panied by the magnificent
prototype presented to him by Rms in
Urbe, and feels bound in all gratitude
to make return, however inadequate.
for so splendid gift, and will endeavor
before he concludes this card to make
some slight provision for Rus in Urbe
ia the line Of prototypes.
Rus in Urbe's idea ofreligion is some
what akin to that of the clowns in the
play, who avowed that he was very re-
ligious, indeed, for "he hated the Pope
and loved pot of beer" and his no.
tions of "vagrancy," or what the law
terms such, are as enlightened and as
correct as are his notions of honor,
truth and gentlemanly propriety. How
any one who brought considerable M eans
to this county, married in it, has re-
manned in it and resided in one neigh
borhood and one house for nearly forty
years can be considered a vagraEt will
puzzle Philadelphia lawyer toexplain.
To the most mendaclous Rus in Urbe
it presents no difficulty at all. Great
Jurist is this Rus in Urbe, and rather
think the high Sheriff, Governor and
State Treasurer have done the country
good service in excluding him from the
next General Assembly of Maryland.
Now Rus in Urbe, it would seem, has
been seeking information (but not in
the right quarter) as to my present
means and how / exist, and what eat
and drink. Well. if he will take the
trouble of correctly informing himself
on my private affairs, he will be told,
that the fire that destroyed the old
household at Summerseat spared the
land, and he will further perhaps be
Informed that on Democrat friends and
blood relations in Europe hearing of the
disaster that left him houseless and
homeless. they at once forwarded liber-
al remittance to aid and sustain him in
his difficulties. So all his dirty talk
about Democrats living on Govern
ment zap" is false. What any or each
member of his family may do toachieve
an independence, and what and how
much each may contribute towards the
expenses Of common home, are topics
that do not interest the public in any
way, and certainly ''no gentleman born
on the soil of st. Mary's" or any other
soil would Paul Pry into such matters,
however congenial to the debased ma
ture and low instincts Of Rus in Urbe
it may be to do so.
Before l conclude, I must not forget
to make some slight return to Rus in
Urbe for the magnificent prototype he
has provided for me. 1t will not be
necessary to go back into the centuries
nor yet to grope among the buried ma
jesties of Europe in order to find a pro-
totype meet for our great iurist and
Encouragement. Indeed, "the man
and the name" have been embalmed in
song (husking-feast song) for
the last sixty or eighty years, and to
Rus in Urbe, who is so deeply read in
nursery literature and ditties, his men,
DRY and deeds must be quite familiar.
He is of the same name, too, and for
anght that is known to the contrary,
the same race as is our wise jurist.-
The eouplet that has, so far, rescued
from oblivion the prototype I now pre-
sent to Rus in Urbe in return for his
Henry VIII-the much
wived and much divorced King of Eng
land-runs thus and is, I doubt not,
still green in the memories of our dusky
descendants of Ham-now
resident in st. Mary's county:
''Mrs. De Butts, she killed a Niger,
Josie Coad he killed another"
The immortalized Josie and his s'killed
niger" arevery unequal indeed in ''place
and dignity" to old Hal and his muir
dered and divorced wives, but it is the
best l can do Just now for Rus in Urbe
in the matter of prototype, which now
present to him, with the assurances of
the scorn and contempt of
DEMOCRAT.
GovERxoR GRooME's POSITION