Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1880-10-14

suit them. Or they will run The thing to
suit themselves. They are nos going
10 be played with any longer. It you
hear any man say thai Hancock r8nnpl
carry I'll oE TIE South. You may put
him down as . damned fool. Thus far
Messrs. Editors. / have endeavored f0
point out sosne of the Inconsistencies ia
the words Of Col. Harris. also few Of
the Incongruities in the Official Iife oi
Gen. Hancock, a. well e. some of the
responsibilities which STARE him ia the
facr. shall now notice some Of the
vefiest demagogueisFn ever perpelsated
by che democratic parts-as ia doing
80, I shall Be compellsd from the na-
ture Of the subject 10 come to the door
of that party and lay down ai tsthresh-
hold every dollar Of the debt incurred
by the war--every item of the stupen-
dous total which expresses the great
cost Of the war, which amounts in round
numbers to s6. 1S9. .929, ,90S.5S. And |
will say if il bad not been for the en-
couragement given to the seeding
States by the democratic party of the
North The war could not have lasted
thirty days, and we should have had no
burden of taxation, not mentioning the
long line OF ghosts Of our slam brothers
who fell on both sides, or the countless
number of widows and orphans cast
out upon the cold charities oi the world.
Yet we are told BY Col. Harris and Sen
ator Bayard that the democratic party
is the great constitutional party, "the
party Of honest money" ''the party OF
honest principles, ''the party Of free
dom and equality to all, !" ''the party Of
fellowship and good will" On the
other hand, they tell US that the repub-
lican party is the ''party of deceit, Of
dishonest money, of sectional ahimosi-
ty, Of corruption, of centralized despot-
ISM" They speak al party that en-
deavored for lour long years to disrupt
| this Union and dissolve the compact
that binds these great States together
as the great constitutional party. They
speak Of party that sought 10 clog ev-
ery avenue through which the republic
can party hoped to return to specie pay
ment, as the party of honest money.
They speak oil a party that hasrepudi-
ated its public debt m nearly two-thirds
/ of the States lately in rebellion as the
4 party OF honest principles. They speak
of party that stroye to found the Con-
federacy with slavery as its ground
work, as the party of freedom and equal
ity to all. They speak of party that
has BY the shotgun, social ostracism.
4 tissue ballots and "bull-doziRg, stiflad
eyery sentiment that does not chime
with dcmo-aristocracy of the South, as
the party of fellowship and good
will. Col. Harris shows his disappro-
baton of the principle of freedom and
equality in letter addressed to your
paper of June 4th, 1874, in which he
saws, that "inasmuch as the democratic
convention itself in its very FIRST reso-
luton recognized The equality Of all men
before the lGC, il is clear that the demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency might
with as much propriety have been a
Negro as Horace Greeley" But Col.
Harris and Senator Bayard know that
the republican party has given the eoun-
4 IEN tue SOuuuESA7 anu uEEA RaPNA N0hf(1
cy it ever enjoyed, in spite Of demo
cratic opposition, and Senator Bayard
knows that when he wanted to vote for
honest money he had always 20 vote
with the republicans and against his
democratic brethren. They know that
the democratic party has appealed 70
every device within its reach for the
last twenty years in order that il may
return to power. It has asked for the
confidence of the people solely as the
democratic party, and it has Tesorted to
every trick TO reconcile itself 10 all the
varied sentiments without the least re-
gard for principle or the welfare OF the
natioa. They know that in 1S64-the
saddest and most gloomy period OF the
war-the democratic party declared ia
convention at Chicago, ''thal the wal
was q failure, ? and it.nominaled Nc
CleiIan, the chiefest failure Of all. Bul
| will do Col. Harris the justice to say
that he took no stock N Mcclellan anC
denounced him as well as all the Union
generals (including Hancock Of course.
as tyrants. They know that in 1868
The war being at an end, and relying on
reaction Of feeling, the democratic
party nominated Gov. Seymour, Of New
York, Northern democrat with Sc
cession sentiments. This scheme also
proved failure. In 1872, thirsting for
success, the democratic party d0fed ev.
ery principle OF distinction and nomina.
ted Horace Greeley, the editor Of one
Of the most powerful anii-slayery jonr-
mails IN the country, a journal which had
been denied transit through the South.
ern mails on account of ITS antI-slavery
sentiments. Being foiled in this effort
in 1876 the democratic party pitched
its voice high for morality and reform
and nominated Coy. Tilden, man wbC
had been associated with .Boss" Tweec
when that great democratic luminary
wss IN q stream rs success, and dIssoiv-
ed his connection only when be knew
Tweed's downfall was at hand, and ther
he turned upon poor Tweed and gave
him . kick as he was falling. ] wal
moi mention the subsequent revelations
such as the cipher dispatches, ETC.
In 1850, having fried every otherex'
pedienl whereby success appeared pro
bable. the democratic party renounces
! professional politicians, Northern seces
sion sympathisers, dissatisfied Tepubh
cans, and il nominated Union Gener
81 whose Chief renown Is that OF help
RI -, A., rana.er democrats in arms z