Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1888-08-23

ON0e4es u cD0-Ee, u8.t nu& tXf3& " sac Z
venture W their slaves W.tssn fhei
bounds. for tie motive that prpmpsed 81
repeal mae Z iargesous q do 20 In
co., ,esy. No one / DresuuHe, would rs
seEt 'aas Gls slave-owaer was net enssf'e,
4 the &c and 1nsils .u-hed cnioymers o
tie nights aud psiy..r-cs which ne Conssi
tuition and laws allowed min. To .eacl
and p-@csice c ron such : dosss me wcuis
lave mot pen c'cus tendency, for r \,
siave-ownar canno. hold RS slave pFoner
", co4.ormed 10 him By law, how SAFE
would Ike 20 know s any Other 50 held, 1
has not act12, force sufficiees % defend II
But he encFoscsmenfs cannot De proven
and me poii'. ans, who in their speeches
and ess1ys made the cEa--e, knew il was
| false.
We Rave no. cot . he e:1use q the war
/ Vet. 4 he Hon. John sherman in = sneech
a. Nashville few months snre. declared
/ ihst the war was perhaps unavoidable =
| bourd 50 ome some time and ne sooner
ended the better. No man IN she No. h
/ questions the honesty Of purpose or 'he he
roism with which the Confederates ma n
tanned thei- cause" O'ser speaSers tamcng
'hem Geo. W Cuts at &c iysbu-gl have
dCclarged That war WAS "ihecasa5@s. y il
was unavoidable ard inevitable. then I
should think 70 SIDE should be blamed aud
SIDES be Wiling % repair or alleyia.e is
Injuries Eu: diSe- with .hEse ora JES on
t. 8 subject The war was not laseisabss
ani cou a easily have been aseitcd. Ifshe
spi,t in which he compact Of slie Conssi.
tui on was adopted h2l exis. u tSe-e wonld
have been no conffscs. T1g sss0tEs I'll 10
PIE never claimed more than was guaran-
teed 70 them by she Cons luton and laws
and if even lees than they hac right -,
had been compromised upon, &C was IRE
quently and earnestly proposed, hen here
would have bean 10 war. Even if the
Il iced fat, o he Lincoln sdmir tat on
FOR ike eva nation Of Fort Sum, n had
teen kept, way MIL. have besn avoid
l; was the- c2i here and by item hat the
neg" was ",D0zE1s"
I u cr-dr o. :he Northern pe Dple was
ucG- nnaJ'v he cause Of he wa. Ply
80 ex'-ouely 'l't-ting PIC: ;'ngs
W Oh ! vi no. he detail, 'sey made
:, =, io~-ed. re oppo 1n';y. and zen " h
l.!1rAe' cunning and ingeBr' : ava lei
;'.em- W of i: under the dissl'- OF pre-
SCI - he Un'on, ard hrs effe ,:cd ''le'v
e' Gsnt purpose OF des. nc On. 1hty de
T. ned N leir n IDS IA. ne end 10 be
omp' 81 ID justified me n ans This, in
my Oh mon. WI be he iud., nent Of anv
il el"rent, imps4 ;alhistorau. Unjust give
I'm cred, however Tor beliey ,ng that
their object would have been ga'Red n
much less cost 'har il was. Seward in
lo'mT foreign nations that he South would
Be unable 20 resist more than r'nety DAYS
The army they sent 10 Bull Run was ex
pec:ed 10 ms Ike clean sweep, and follow
ing re train Of the retreat ng poor VIII
.sh sbaH- N,irt mr. a 2ha
soldiers, was 20 come out c'1r.ous over
the whole Southern land, and he incubus
.. slave.y, which was such a great we sht
I N tho who never came \ on,actw.'5
L must be destroyed. They were greatly
N taken i ne : me IN which th's heir IN
cnntrolab,e De. e weS 20 be Brought about,
but VIA .ver me II Dok The grand prr-
pose, ile abolition Of prone. in sIav 3,
mus; b. np'sh ]. Delenda est c.
rha-o, slave"v mCst te abolished was he
dema ii of many real O.. pre- anioi Mort
era Ca.Os.
I rece we'd from a / end soon a. II ils de
livelT, he Grafton of Col. Rob-, G. Ingcr-
soil, spoken in New York on The day
set apa,, for decorating me graves of tie
Federal soldiers The place was crowd i
by his admirers. male and female, and the
.c1ne was brilliant and impre siye in ne
eX eme. .Ipgersoll, whose aEc1aditi1l q
opposition to domestic slavery as il existed
in the Sou heIl States was well known,
had been chosen "a their orator as well Tor
his Principle p for his pomrous and mel
aphoricd style in delivering his though
His rbapS ody, which uon2um inter va''um)
reminds one OF Ossian, begins tlus:
lbs day u sacI d dav-a dav of graf
lde and love. To-day We commemoTI'e
~ than mi. e. 4p1apca. Y,nnra he
b III Of major: more than the Il lits Of
ne revolution; moIe 'han the accumulation
o! veal =, moe ,haG ma ional PRESTIGE aud
power We commemorat the grelt and
ol 'sed vic Dry ovef ouH elves-ihe triumph
ot clTlliA- ION; he Ie,ormation Of q people
The otIb' shment of government conse-
Grated 70 the presei ration Of liberty and the
r4ual TIGHTS OF man"
In leading This pomIous and absurd ef-
fusion, the first ques on a. q which should
Be proposodstn Col. Inyersoll and his AZ
plaudilg audience. Why is this dav day
a day of gratitude and lover" Why are
they gIAie.Ll 20 the poor ieliUw-bein.s
whom he and they sent : D their un nelly
: av,s, Whose bodies are "unkneaG~i
Gods, never in HI lei T 10 be again Wy.
ned and prepared for he presence Of God.
Let NE ask, IS il not ominous that tN's man
: chosen Their mouth piece on such sol
emn occasion who publicly and openly de
ClareS, Without sta ing bis aude that
there is no GOd-no Redeemer- no re.u--
rec;ion IRON he dead or lie everlas 'rgf
Inc only life he will promise these poor
unhistoi cal Nic.ms : a few puffs OF " ind
from his bl.liant but untutored imagina-
ton, a sho! Lived, exaggerated rc'' u
nous fame.
But why this gratitude and love, in The
whole Of VII oh there = no. mingled a slu-
gle expression Of so!row? II is because
they sacI feed them elves in that stupen-
deus folly, The laid upon Southern ins' itu-
ions. They c'ed, not in defence OF the
rights and pin ieges Of any Nosthera man,
for which gratitude N ght be due, for not
one Of those ghts was assailed, but Simply
IN the effol 70 deprive me and other slave
ow neIs OF Or propel + in slaves, Tor which
We held ne most solemn guarantees. Let
me ask Col. Iugersoli what inizzg OF hai n
my negroes I'D him or any Of his audience
He or hey never s.w them or any Of them,
for no one OF them ever sought the "Nos In
ern ST." IS scails the sad>seroras
rds odf- " he had sifed me. hey would
have ,aeaiad him with becom ng resp, 4
and # he had stAid long enough he would
have discovered ttO his aston 'Shment nroi
ahlyl hat they were quite cheerful and
conteuied under my pal. .aFch;cal con, rol,
aud i he delivered in their hear NJ one ~
h an'i-chi sian lectures, 80 popular else
where, nv old Oh : an slave would have
told him veyy promptly, TO use his own ex
preston, Colonel, you are defunct on the
grand queS on" WHAT / saw Of NV Own
case can be said Of all the slave ow ac,s
with few excep onsl Of whom have had
any knowledge. Slavery was, of course.
quasi despo,;sm-despofic power over a
NATION or a fam " Is not necessaT " cruel