Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-07-15

/ ied 70 you before, Because Hancock
/ win be elected. Besides not even fur
nishing the Repablicans The false pre-
text 81 "SoutheFn sympathy as you
suggest. Hancock hss 40 legislative re-
/ cord Tor the opposition 70 fnd a flaw in
o. pick q aaw ia. Ifyou hassnO cher
ries on your tree the wicked little Dick
ey-birds can peck no cherries OF your
tree. II my sirniIe be caviIed abby The
citation Of Hancoek's Military Dictator
ship over Louisiana and Texas. that
l places hEm m parallel sSitIl Dundreas3 :
''bird Of feather" as that bird would
strive the harder TO protect that one
feather. so We viii nobly challenge Cock
Robin, Cock Sparrow. Cock ConkIing
s. Co. to rife our one cherry. But,
while eheerfully yield TO Hancock PO-
fential purity equal to that Of Bayard, ]
should have been prouder Of Bayard's
nomination, while ] should not have
been sure of his election until he should
have been elected. For these reasons.
The adage-'Like master like man has
had IFS exemplifcation in the corrupt
morals of France under LOUIS XIV, Of
England under 'ye merrie monark,
| Charles ii, and under'oId Mol Crom mwell,
in another phase, Of Europe a. large un-
der most of The Bourbons, and in fact
throughout human history, 10 say moth
ing Of our own people conversely un-
der Washington and his compatriots.
| had well nigh spelt his with capital
h; for still cherish an insane venera-
ton of his record and character. be-
lieve do not risk controversy when ]
assert that since 1860 the American
people have to quote from Sir Walter
Raleigh's The life Of Mans a melodra-
ma. ARRIVED at the estate of man
Il hood and matured the deeds of SIM, as
people: or to put it palmer, have be-
come so debauchcd by corruption in the
Government, that they must needs be
| gradually re-educated up to the moral
standard requisite TO elect their Chief
Magistrate entirely on principle. This
seems hard saying. But let Us look
at it bravely. With Polonius. "Still
halping on my daughter" was there a
man in Congress in 1867 with moral
courage enough to rise in his place and
fearlessly expose the ass's hoOfs and
tail under the assumed lions skin when
the Republicans brayed their threats Of
war unless we should consent to sub
nit the destiny of free people TO lot
terry of8 by z strawsl When else in the
history Of the so-called Nation would 4
Patrick Henry or Henry Clay have
failed TO arise out Of the emergency :
There was not in our material the ma
king of one great man to match the
greatness OF the occa-ion. Useless TO
plead that our best men were not there
70 represent US the choice Of an agent
shows the character OF the principal.
if our best men are willing to sat idly
by aud LET bad or weak men be sent to
attend to their interest, as little can
they shirk the responsibility as I might
decline to defend my house from bur-
glars because such adversaries were un-
worthy of my STEEL Again. Han
cocks nomination is an acknowledge
ment that not positive fitness for the Of
fee is alone sufficient to elect him
against an impeached opponent. but the
very channel, so to speak, Of his past
career, must be so like that OF their ideal,
!. e., The military, that the opposition
cannot claim any essential difference
between our and their idol. Like mas
ter like man One Democratic dynas-
tY win be all sufficient to educate our
people back TO political honesty. For.
as no force is destroyed fnoF natter
and aggregates of small forces constr
tute large forces, like matter, so, have
an abiding faith that the aggregated
force Of public opinion on the side OF
political honesty which has accumuIa-
ted aud manifested itself for century
has not been destroyed by the lesser
forces of rascality which have only
gathered momentum for a score Of years.
or will longer allow itself to be denied
expression by fortuitous events which
have temporarily elevated 'Our danger
oss Glasses, into power. Nor do de-
lude myself nor seek TO delude Society
by making this an excuse for the moral
cowardice of 1867. IFfhe Democrat
ic party had severely let the Rcpusli
can party (socalIed. alone, there would
have been no war-or the Philosophy
Of the Conservation Of Forces (and OF
matier) is fallacy. We are told BY
the weak-kneed or the weak Of areu-
rnent that We mustn't expect any re-
torn 10 The purity Of orr fathers from
change Of Administrator, for all parties
are equally corrupt. In the name OF
uncommon sense-which means en-