Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-04-19

that we have obtained the consent Of
GEORGE II. BRADDocK, Esq. that his name
may appear at the editorial head of this
paper His experience and efficiency in
this department are too well known to
the people of this county to require from
us any endorsement.
Eg- AT every State, county and other
municipal election since eighteen hun
dred and 6fty-two, at which formerly
established Democratic majority has been
overcome at the North, the successful
vote Of our opponents has been the result
Of combination Of Abolitionists and
Free-soilers with Native-Americans and
DISCONTINUED outcasts of the Democracy,
united under the Black Republican or
ganlzation. This organization would
have been everywhere at the North as
powerless without the aid of the Know
nothing vote, as the Know-nothing vote
would have been insignificant without
Abolition and Free-soil cooperation.
The repeal of the Nebraska bill is now
the pretext of its pretended opponents.
Their hostility is really to the fugitive
slave law the real object Of their COM
bination with the Know nothings is its
repeal. They forbear, as yet, to agitate
the question openly, because when its
agitation was attemptedin eighteen hun
bred and ffty-two. the vote of twenty
seven of the thiriy-one States, at the
Presidential election, showed the strength
Of the Democracy, with its legitimate
support of Southern patriots on the one
hand, upholdiDg the rights of their nat
uralized brethren and adopted Americans;
on the other hand sustaining the consti-
tutional rights of their Southern fellow
citizens. Our opponents hope in divi-
ding these forces, to conquer US. They
think that, if either support were with
drawn, the force of the Democracy. aid
ed by the other, would be insufficient to
resist their combination. Should it sue
coed, the fugitive-slaye law would be
sacrificed as assuredly as the naturaliza-
tion laws.
The Know-nothings of the South, we
are aware, openly repudiate all affiliation
with the Abolitionists; but, nevertheless,
the union between these two parties is
as complete, as compact and confederacy
can make it binding, perfect, and sue
cessfully operative. The men who OPP
posed the fugitiye-slave law and the
Nebraska bill--the men who insist upon
the restoration Of The Missouri Compro-
mise and Kansas restriction, are the men
who perfected the know-nothing organ
Hatiou, and who are now welding its
secret power in the confident belief that
they will yet be able to overthrow the
great National Democratic party-yet be
able to break down these constitutional
barriers which have hitherto preserved
Us as nation Of free, sovereign, and
equal States, and yet be able to indurate
the South in the binding cords of fanat-
icism and imposture AT this juncturc,
when old issues are lost sight of, and
when the fag-ends of all isms, factions
and parties, are gathering under the
black wings of Abolitionism, for foray
upon the cherished institutions of the
country, it would be as well for Southern
men to inquire into the idiotic cry about
Papacy and foreigners, and to ascertain,
if possible, where foes are to be expected,
and where friends are to be found, in the
approaching hours Of trial.