Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-12-08


Messrs. Editors .--News isscarcein ahise0m-
muniiy. Farmers ssre still very much behind
IN their <Ork- Some have not JET snished
seeding their rye
Sickness Is DECREASING, though many are
saHsfisg viii colds. from ihe frequent changes
Of the weather.
Mr.. Jas. s. Posry lost Gov on Friday q
Iast week. She wss hurt IN der stall On We'd
nesday night
The people Of this section are aaxiously look
ING for the IrOn-bcrse. We can occasionally
hear him, aud IL present rrporu are correct,
expect ere Iongto Zee him.
franklin Neal. d worth coIored man Of orr
neighborhood, diei on Friday, the zssh. uIt.,
Of consumption. aged about As years.
Your correspondent "Anon, - whatever his
other attachments may be, IL ceriainly well
Eersed in BiIIinsgsie. Perehed upon self
reared pedestal Of egotism aud vanity, be
vainly imagines that he can throw down the
fabric reared by saeh men as Lincoln, Car
field, Gsant Conkling, Whittier, IongfelIow.
and a host Of Others whose names, despite
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the gatherings Of democratic monkeys Ike
'Anon, +" win pnss down 10 pOsteFify, sur
rounded with ~ bright halo ~ those who
built what they have preserved.
The democratic party has repudiaied every
idea u has advanced in the last twenty ye.rs
viz I; Secession, slavery, opposition 10 the
Constitutional amendments and rernd ation.ol
The National debt incurred TO gave the Union.
All these grand dogmas IL now alandons
aud accepts the position ASSUMED By the re-
publican party. So s.ys its National Con-
veniion. Yet the republican, party is damna-
bic? SO says canon " II has fostered The
public schouls, and wherever Il obtains conirol,
popular education Is sgre to follow. Ye-
'Anon" -. 8 II is combination of the dem
agosue and fool, and uphoIds ignorance and
prejudice. Pets ere stubborn things, "Anon,'
| and cannot be brushed away with word
Con pare repuh':e n Massachusetts, spend
ing over S22 per capita, eaeh year upon
her school population, w. democratic
Maryland spending a little over So, vir-
gina about s., and Others under 81, and
tell us which party fosters ignorance
The card Of canon shows Ircjudire and
deEnagosism enough without looking further
for it. lie calls the republican party fraud-
ulent one. Il would be well to cleanse dem
oeracy before preaching purity to republicans.
and rs "a initiative movement, would adviss
him to try his hand upon his native county.
Il sadly needs purifying. He rriierates his
assertion that Graves Is desEi a le, ard the
representative OF the worst element, and calls
the republican party the worst element. If
the negroes are ignorant, they are certainly
not 10 blame for il, and IL they had voted with
democracy, methinks we would lear nothing
Of their ignorance. They are the worst Gle
ment, simply because they voted the republi-
can ticket. Mr. Wilson tried 10 get all the
ignorant negroes 20 vote for him he could.
Would he have been despicable had he Oh
tanned enough 70 elect him? Bat xhy single
ont Graves? Messrs. Canter and Allston were
also the representatives Of the republican
party. Why are they not despicable? Il Is
because Graves Is poor and trey are wealthy
] guess that is about as near the answer as
we will get. Graves represented the people
Of this county two years ago in Annapolis
He did not make an ass of himself then.
"Ancn'' Is the FIRST man who has ever publ
ely represented him as being incompetent, and
he has only lived in the county few ye.rs.
and ld0ubt il he knows Graves when be sees
him. Graves has fairly met with his pen some
Of the hest writers in the democratic party.
These gentlemen viii testify Of his power
No fool could educate himself a. he has done
and no knave could openly gain the support
that be has received from his neighbors.-
While we do mot wish to disparage Mr.. VIII
son, for weknow him to be q lawyer Of con-
siderable ability, ret apar: from legal attain
meats, Graves is his peer.
''Anon' displays fondnsss for impugnipg
the motives Of OtherS. This in itself shows
the narrowness Of his view. Is he iniallible?
bis Wild and exaggerated statements IL a SUI
fcicnt answer.
To call the colored people fools for acting
with the party that gave them man s dearest
rights. is certainly silly, to say tie least, and
TO brand as knaves those who act with the
republican party is equally so unless it can be
shown that they do il for their own selfish ag-
grandizement and to the deiriment Of the public
interest,". Generals Longstreet and Malone
were intelligent men and brave soldiers until
they Co-operated with the republican party.
TLen they were Immediately transformed into
fools. or knavss, trading upon the credulity
Of the negro. Bah such trash is the veriest
nonsense, 1T Only to feed TO fools. Every In
telIigent man knows that in Maryland the
laws prohibit tolored men holding Office. or
practising the profession Of law. Republic
cans have continually sought to wipe away
this last relic Of the barbarisT7 Of slavery -
Democrats, who were in the maiority, pre-
vented IL. You don't tell the negro this
when yOu tell him that republicans use him,
and then have no further use for him. n
this case, pray tell US who is the demagogne
viii not the men elected TO Office in this coun-
~ BY republicans compare favorable in point
Of intelligence, honesty aud wealth, with
those elected by demoerais7 know that
prior 10 1870, when the negroes first voted,
that taxes were higher than theY haveever been
since. although rOadsaad public buildings hare
been put in much better conditiOn. He says
that for any white man south of Mason and
DixOa's line 70 bea republican IS IN be trail
tor TO the land that gave him BIRTH and that
be ID "a Democrat BY education, and force Of
eiTeHassiaaees,' net FriaeiPis. Perhaps, ifhe
usrc North Of Mason and Dixon's lire, whsrs
the opulent and Influential class il reDubli-