Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1890-01-16

where on The one side | have many
friends and everything 10 make ne
happy, where ny profession alope
has gained me al income 81 more than
twenty thousand dollars a year, and
where my great personal ambition .in
my profession has such great field
for labor. On the other hand, the
South has never bestowed On me one
kind woik---a place where have no
friends, except beneath tho sod q
place where / must either become a
private soldier or beggar. To give
up all the former for the latter, be-
sides my mother and sisters, whom /
love 50 dearly though they 80 widely
differ from me il opinion, seems in
sane but God is nay Judge. I love
justice more than | 90 country that
disownait; more than fame or wealth !,
more Heaven pardon mel If wrong
than 2 happy home
! have never been upon a battle
field, but oh my oountrym men, If you
could all zee the effects Of this horrid
war as I have aeeu them il every
state cave YirginIe, know you would
think like mo. and would pray the
Almighty to create 10 the Northern
mind sense 81 justice and right, even
should il possess no seasoning Of ner.
cy, and that he would dry up this sea
Of blood between Us, which Ii daily
growing wider.
Alas POOR country, IL she to meet
her threatened DOOM Four years 2
. / would give thousand lives to see
her remain as / had always known
her powerful and unbroken--aud
even now | would hold my ljfo as
naught to ace her as ehe was.
Oh my friends, II the fearful
scenes Of The pas. four years had new
er been enacted, or II what has been
was but fearful dream from which
We could now awake, with what over
flowing hearts could we blcsa our God
and pray for His continued favors.
How | have loved The old flag can
never now be known. A few years
ago the entire world could boast Of
none 50 pure and spotless. bat I have
Of late been seeing and hearing Of the
bloody deeds Of which she has been
made The emblem, and would shuddst
to think how changed she has grown.
Oh, how have longed to break her
from the midst Of blood and death
that circles round her folds, apoiling
her beauty and furnishing her honor
but no, day BY day has che besn
dragged deeper and deeper into cru.
city and oppression, Til nov, 10 my
eyes, her ouce red stripes seem likes
oloody gaseas ID the face Of Heageu.
! look now upon my early admiration
Of her gloriea as a dram Ny love,
as things stand to-day II for the South
alone, nor DO deem II dishonor to
attempt 70 make for Der a prisoper 81
this mar 70 whom ehe over 90 much
Of misery. Ii euccess attends ms, !
90 penniloss 70 her side.
Ihey say she has found that elsst
diich" which tho North have 20 long
desired ard been endeagoring 70 force
her il forgetting they are brothers,
and that il Il iIppoliiic TO goad an
enemy 70 madness. Should ! reach
her in safety aud End ii true, will
proudly beg permission 70 triumph Or
die in tl1at laat ditch by her eide.
q Confederate doi1g duty on hls
own responsibility.
J. WILKES BoorH.
Sic ,Seniper Ipaaais.
April Il. 1865.
On the outside Of this copy a the
following euperscription "oepied
from copy which has been hidden
since April, 1865. but carefully pre-
served The United States suppress
ed the newspapers at once, but the
one tbs was copied FROM was hidden
away BY q lady friend Of ours. Tie
United States had detectives scatter.
ed 81 over the South, al well as the
North, at The time Of Abraham Lin
oolu's death, aud q friend Of he fam.
lily told my people TO say nothing, for
their very complexion would be known
By that night il Washington. Z
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