Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-04-12
Wendell Phillips upon Hayes.
Rerised and corrected By .M. Phillips.

Rerised and corrected By .Hr. Phillips.
Mr.. Phillips referred in the begin
ming to the fact that this was the cen
tennial period Of the couniry's exis-
tence, and then went on TO say that We
may, without Mck Of modesty, call on
the world TO notice the grandeur of our
work. We have actually done what
no nation ever dared to attempt. We
have rested government on every
gro~n.up man.. This was nexerr:sked
Before. Neither Greece, Rome, Swift
xefland, NOV lloiiansls ever seatdred IL
Our duty Is to show the same boldnesa
in searching for the dangers that threaten
US, and the same courage in facing them
that our fathers did. The epoch in
which we live is one given over to .
struggle between two CIVILIZATIONS
The Northern rests on the Declaration
Of Independence-the Southern on
denial OF It. Ever since Calhoun was
graduated at Yale College the South
has been educated 10 believe that uni
versal suffrage was the road 10 ruin
She believes that as sincerely as Mas
saehusetts believes. the opposite. In
due time the antagohism eliminated in
the rebellion Both sections were
equally sincere and equally in earnest
-the North sincerely right, the South
sincerely wlcked--"beIieving a lie."
Does human nature or history allow
as 10 think that the deep-rooted convic-
tons of seventy years have been chang
ed by dozen defeats in battle and dog
en- Years OF angry submission God
gave the Jews forty years TO purge of
the poison Of Egypt. The struggle be-
tween Cavalier and Roundhead lasted
a century. The struggle between sim
liar forces IN France began in 1880 and
has not yet ended. How can sixteen
years be expected to finish the war
here between forces as angry and as
radical as those which shook England
and France for century, A single
man may ehange his opinions. Mil
lions OF men rarely do. and when such
changes take place it requires genera
tons TO ripen and complete them -
There were million Of men riding,
booted, and spurred, at the head of
Southern society. They have been dis
mounted and their spurs hacked off
Does such a class usually settle prompt
~ down, after such decent, with the
serene conviction that that he new or
der OF things is all right, He must
iced on moonshine who thinks so. II
Lee had driven Grant into Ohio, and
our men had been paroled at Columbus,
would Massachusetts have taken down
Bunker Hill Monument or set fire to
Faneuil Hall with her copy of the Dec
lara:ion OF Independence No. We
should have closed up our ranks and
sworn to live and die with Sam Adams
The South went home, an idle mass,
10 plot for getting BY the ballot what
the bullet had lost. Our soldiers melted
into lawyers, mechanics, merchants.
every profession and trade of busy men
The South had no such resource. She
was never trained to earn a living
She must steal il from somebody. Her
burglars tools are the revolver, dom:-
neering over the ballot box, and cabal
binding politics and Congress. II
the Democratic party had succeeded it
would have owed its success to a "solid
South" the old slave power with a ne "
name. Her ally was, as OF old. the
rotten mass OF the great cities. Under
our present working of universal suf-
fragc the masistIacy OF cities represents
and is chosen by their criminal and
dangerous classes. The journals pro-
claimed last October that Tildcn could
have New York city il Morrissey, Kel-
ley, and O. 'Brien chose. How could
they give 1t TO him By their control
OF tsslums. II Tilden had entered the
White House il would have been the
revolvers OF Carolina and the erog shops
OF New York that lifted him there
The white South believes to-day that
she Is contending for good government
and the hige>t interest of civilization.
In political matters the two sections do
not speak the same language. Right
aud justice mean different things at the
North and At the South. ANY South
erner will shout as loudly as We can
that "all men are born free and equal.
But - nevertheless of course
know-thlt does not mean that we, the
whites, are not to govern: The South
ciings to her ideas with all the energy of
angry defeat. Men a.ways love what
they suffer for. The North has abol-
issed slavery. but it lasted long enough
to make almost every Nor,hener tiun-
Ky, hence the danger that the South
will be finally victorious.
Oh that Rarey were living and Pres
idcnt of these States. His is the hand
to save Us. The South needs the Ra-
rey treatment-first show that we can
crush il, and are determined, at any cost,
to be obeved; then YOU NAV gentle"
the brute and conciliate all YOU please.
Until then the South sees that all this
cancellation Is only cowardicc trying to
pass for magnanimity.
History repeats itself What the
South needs to-day is the element which
Charlemagne, William the Conquerer.
and Cromwell contributed TO their times
the heavy hand and fearless grasp
which hold dIsorderly and struggling
forces quiet. until peace tempts and
wins to action the elements which mould
our modern civiilza .ion-cap,tal. labor,
eommeree. education, hope and equali-
ty before the law. This grasp Grant
would fam have used. but the senscless
eiamor Of timid Congressman and silly
journalists Preveated. Hayes proclalms
h,s purpose TO tcrcgo and surrender il.
When he took Office Appomattox faded
out Of Sigh, and The Sos,h was vie,o.s.