Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-03-17

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These 80 great mnny peraans Nessrs 3D.
is0Fs, pho ere out a. place IN attending lI,cIats
iaanguraf;an e. James A. Garfield as President
Of the rs<Isd States. A large portion was at
ssaessl &. seabuby curiosity and dssire @ see
|fIss ersas zsas. and thus added % is immeasi-
~, llssi i as.gezzs 10 me they would hare shown
their II sie caianitys and IS E.sr - u might
have sn3A esert. their rcorn and eonfempt for
ire mao. - their ahsence fron the scene Of bis
triumpls Certainty q must unworthy man has
been snls "a wish great power, which We have
no rlaeaa IS believe he win nos abuss. A man
who h6s k1en knocking at the door Of ihe peni-
lehiiAfy hss been advanced By the voiee Of the
people u rs highest honor and trus, in their
pomer Il givs. Row demoraIixing ItaPPears
10 me thas : future Gibbon must cOmmence his
history u re decline and Gill Of our republic At
period uithin the last twenty-five years. and
would az this particular period asdiscIosing the
full Developments Of It's disease. Indecd, the his
tory q ahort time back, as connected with the
rreses' a1ous how capriciOus a vast and grow
Ing nnashcr % our people can Be, and how in
.dE1srsni 10 Justice and right. The bodies Of
Cakes Aces and James Brooks ere noulderiDe
IL the er0nna; they dabblsd IN Credit Nobilier
stock R<fe axpsllei from the House Of Rep
rsslnI S this corruption, The ehAgrin and
nmssu Azising from their. expulsion pro-
bnb Eng their deaths. James A. Gar
6sld, was guilty Of the same corrupt act
who We guilty of the additional oaeuse Of the
~ GoiYer corTuptiOn-who was guilty Of the
frther additional crime Of deliberate perjury be-
Gore Congressional Committee, has become the
Prtsident Of this great country. This contrast
Is most striking, and the men who cannotsee IT,
cannot SEE mountain. lie IL was who on the
fourth Of March took the oath ITO preserve, pro-
teet and defend the Constitution Of the United
Statea" and who, having taken the oath 10
support said Constitution when he entered Con-
gress, yet declared in the presence OF the repre-
sentatfves Of the people that he would not hest
tate 10 violate that instrument whenever he
deemed Il necessary, and thus Of course deliber-
a,elv pes;ure himself and the people have de-
cIared that they will trust such an INSCRIPTIONS
man with the protection and defence Of their in
estimable constitutional rights. oh, temporal
oh, mores
Sitting in my Office lately, my mind dwelling
upon the above points ! listlessly took upa paper
from among Others which had accumulated during
.he late campaign. II was the Baltimore Amer
lean containing an account OF the GARFIELD and
ARTHUR ratification meeting in that city. Wish
ing 10 know flor had not read il before) what
our Maryland republicans could say for their un-
expected candidate, ] soon fell upon the letter
Of the Hon. Milton G.. Urner, one OF our Repre-
senfaiives in Congress, regreiting bis inability
$3.50 a.. closes wish uStp 0f the
most startling assertions ever made. Speaking
Of Garfield, he says:
ssWfth the ststure ola Saul, the wisdom Of a
Solomon and the puritv and virtue of Daniel,
the people of the United States viii honor them
selves as well rs honor him when they shall elect
him in November next"
In this | will not charge that Mr. Urner in
tended 20 burlesque Solomon, or insult the mem
DRY Of the prophet Daniel, but if he did not de-
signealy aud deliberately mis!ead the people, he
was clearly led greatly astray himself by vivid,
Oriental imagination or by entire ignorance ofthe
real character of the man OF whom he was writing.
The people, Of course, If they believed the cor
rectness Of his statement, should in all honesty
have voted for the man before whom Washing
ton himself should hide his diminished head.
They no doubt never stopped TO enquire why
Mr.. Uruer did not proclaim these wonderful facts
before the 4 amsian. They forgot 10 ask the
uregn;zass Mr. Urner was in fl-
Sor of candidate different
from tIs q fadoh Of modrsty and purity.
They never thought presume, what fools or
knaves the members Of the Chicago Convention
must have been to have struggled 50 long and
voted so often for such small men as Grant, Blaine
and Sherman, and not recognize the wonderful
merits of this paragon until exhausted by their
contests for supremacy the two latter, in order
TO secure Grants defeat, combined upon this
Daniel. Garfeld's presence in The Convention,
displaying the stature Of Saul, !" and his GetiUe
excrtions for the Sherman cause, may have turned
their attention to him, for any person would
have suited them Just then rather than the 9th
er small men whose names were mentioned, but
who were not conspicuous by being in the Con-
vention Just here the question arises-how
could this pure and virtuous Daniel strive so ar
IDENTIFY for such man as John Sherman when
ne must have known that he was the man who
was PRINCIPAL in concentrating that infamous
fraud which stole the presidency while he this viz
tuous Daniel, according TO bis own pure standard,
was in the hack room Of the Custom House in New
orleans liking things all righfF But sirs, if
Garfield Is this Daniel, what should he done with
that committee called the Pollard Committee,
a majority Of whom were Of his own political
party, who took testimony and declared HIM
guilty Of the charges alluded to in the previous
part of this letter? Would Mr.. Uruer favor the
proposition to throw them into the lion 8 DENT"
But enough (lest be too longl Of this Urner
effusion and tremendous exaggeration. 1t is
mere surplusage, unworthy Of the consideration
or the Court Strike il out, and the great and
melancholy fact stares " in the face, that a man
branded with infamy occupies the seat once filed
by the Father of his Country"
BKSJ @. Hams.