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

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10 bring out men's views. pinion the
following before they escape me. pro
bono pub: The gin o. the CAB IL scien-
tifcalIy christened Cscoeihes Loquendi:
this translated to rushing Into print
might be called cacoethes scrrbendi.
This latter / cannot fairly plead guilty
10 heretofore, nor have dabbled in poll
itics much 50 Ear as words 60. have
boasted in the past that my father flied
one Office fifty years, TO the protit ofthe
Government, and never had a polite
nor bequeathed me one. IL now, then,
I venture to have individual views,
which think may stir responsive chords
in other harps OF thousand strings, as
Rev. DIR. Watts calls men, have the
precedent Of Sir Walter Scott, who
only after forty years Of study felt grown
up enough to teach. A man cannot
help TO make history without acquiring
some title TO riers. And il this should
seem too much assertion of individual
ty. let il be taken as pretext for lug
ging in, head and shoulders, the infor-
nation 10 the public that-paraIiel-the
men and brothers who contributed their
labor to the building of Colored Pub.
School No. /. E Dist. No. 2, (old style)
claim so much The control Of the edi-
fee that they object tothe School Com
missioners putting either improvements
or school furniture 10 the same. Ifthcy
persist in this folly their teacher will
''have no Whitaker" next year.
But lest my dressing be bigger than
my oyster, let's return TO our POLITICAL
views. The ". 7. World requests Y h
Of ITS patrons TO communicate TO it his
views Of Hancock's nomination, and in
formation how IL is received by good
Republicans in bis district, aud to " ork
FOR the enlightenment of his respective
section throughout the coming cam
Paign. This strikes the vital chord Of
our political harp Of forty million strings,
and vividly illumines the mechanism of
our institutions, as | would hope TO
show. II ink could fIow ''as quick as
meditation or the thought OF love-" Or
atory has bad its day and passed. The
Pulpit has educated the people up to a
higher standard of public spirit and pre-
pared them for freedom, but il has been
reserved for the Press to be the book
keepers and domestic correspondents Of
popular sovereignty. But the Press
must leave its infancy. like all else.
Being healthy babe, II has reached or
is reaching its efficient manhood. and
tho chief manifestation of this lies in It's
greater closeness 70 its patrons: these
are no longer addressed by an intangr-
bly, distant entity styling itself 'We,'
but either the known corps OF editors.
in their editorial columns, or by indiyid-
ual correspondents or contributors, over
their own signatures, become RESPONSE
bic for or at least fix the weight orprin-
ciples proposed for our adoption. The
anonymous system of magazine lItera-
utre has had lts awkward (dogl day,
then, and passed. The Press itself now
complains that the Press spoke TOO fee
bly, to the people in 1867. Itseeks now
to utilize TO the public the experience
of its adolescent blunders by entering
into Double Entry system, asking the
peoples views, as well as keeping them
posted And this. in thus present yeaIS
OF history making, constitutes in itself a
new era in the age OF the Press and of
Liberty. Daniel Webster excIaums-
"In the name Of God has any citizen
OF a free country right TO remain in
listless Indifference TO or williul ignor-
ancesof the institutions of the Country
of whose Government he expects pro-
lection !" Ideas are too light on the
wing to allow time to hunt up the words:
my quotation is certainly as exact as
Henry Clay's quotations from .ihe bard
os Avon Why is il that Politics have
become 50 much regarded a. dirty
work as to seem 10 justify busy citi-
zens and gentlemen in neglecting their
own interests 50 much involved m them.
Selfshness- so-called lazinesS- answers
with a convenient proverb--'E Every
body's business is nobody's business.
And the rogues encroach with their
private fences upon the pubiic roads
whose repair everybody neglects. Mol
Z" Cesf xne Prorerbegue les pr0rer5es
sOni f1Hsses." Il Is proverb thai Pre-
verbs are falsel +; they are made 50 BY
selfish peoples rni~applications Of them
to suit their special pleadihgs.' The
devil can quote Scripture at pinch
That everybody's business finds diff
Guilty "a fixing its responsibility ON any,
body makes il the more sacred duty OF
eachbody 70 attend TO il. Now the Press
deserves the credit Of educating the
public up to the grasping Of the truisG.