Year: 1861

As out of evil comes good, we had hoped to
extract out Of the bitter of the present hour tho
one Dish of sweetness--the welcome rddance
from public notice of Mason, late Member from
Virginia in the United States Senate. one OF the
most egregious bores and most melancholy hum
bugs that ever sat in that body, the man who
paraded himself in suit Of Virginia homespun,
so called. but covered with large-sized Connecti-
cut metal buttons, and known as such to all men
by the trademark thereon. In vain There Is
but one dissolution that will ever deliver us from
tho inevitable old man, to be clear of whom
would almost reconcile US to parting from NIr-
ginia forever, and that dissolution Is his own.
AS long as the Hon. John ~ lives it Is clear
We shall have to put up with him as one OF the
ills for which there is no remedy.


TIE ex-senator has, as usual-he is always
doing it-Inade a speech. The occasion OF 1t
was the presentation of Confederate flag ut
the Capitol grounds at Richmond. Va, to
company of traitors from Baltimore known as
the Maryland Guard. We publish the entire
speech in another column, because We know
there are people who like to see these public
exhibitions of doting folly, and we nre under no
such obligation to Mr.. Mason as to make it in-
cumbent upon US to hide his moral and mental
nakedness. As to the flag, there were two
things about it that gave it special interest
first, that one Mrs. Mclaughlin, whose husband.
it seems, is one Of those traitors who either
wants tho courage or the sense OF honor to hight
for the country that has fed and clothed and
pampered him ever since he was
boy, had made the flag serve as her
petticoat, or some other neither garment" CEN
" cealed as only a lady knows how" is the
indelicate euphensm of the Richmond paper
aud second, that this pe,ticoat made into flag'
or flag made into petticoat, whichever 1t was.
was presented to company of Maryland
traitors, who, If we remember right, smuggied
Themselves out Of Baltimore some tune since by
the lrrcverent mockery Of n pretended funeral.
There is no satire like truth. a petlcoat Is the
most emblcmatc thing those men could possibly
wave over them, and as there could not be the
slightest necessity for any lady travelling South
ward to resort to any such method for conceal
ing that shc carried with ber a few yards OF
bunting. the fact that she should have so clothed
her limos and so made the standard the pro-
verbally reverse emblem Of manly courage, Is
one of those curious and happy condolences which
the Wit Of man might have striyen for IN VAIN
But Senator Mason didn't mention 1t.


For a variety Of things he did mention, how
ever we refer the reader to the speech ITSELF.
1t is tempt ng speech to tear to pieces, If 1t
were worth while; but it is not. Mason was
always mischevous and pestient, but as he has
removed the scene Of his labOrs TO Virginia, We
can afford to let him alone More. we can bid
him good speed in being as mischcyous and pes
tllent there as he possibly can, for If Virginia
finds that the result Of Secession is ~ have
Mason all to themselves they will return to al
lcgience to the Union to divide the dlspensato on.
For one thing, and one thing only, however, has
the speech the slightest value; it assures us that
Maryland is loyal to the Union. 1t is Lot i'm
possible that Mason is mistaken as to the fact
but so far as his opinion goes he reassures us.
4" lie stakes his word upon it, as a man OF prin-
" ciple and man Of TRUTH that Maryland il
with the South. If that is the way the case
lies, if anything depends upon Masons word as
a man of principle and man OF truth, then we
know where We are. Maryland is SAFE