Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-10-10
For the Montgomery County Sentinel.
THE KNow-NoTHING BARBECUE.

Mn. EDITOR Il attended the know
nothing and "old-line whig" barbecue last
Saturday, to hear some reasons given
why the people of Maryland should, at
this momentous crisis, forsake their
brethren of the South, and give their
influence, at least indirectly, to that par
ty, who'with Burlingame, of Massachu-
sets, want an "anti-slavery Constitution,
an anti-slavery Bible, and an anti-slavery
God" For the utmost that Mr.. Fill
more can Go is to throw the election into
the House of Representatives, where the
party who elected Banks, would either
elect Fremont or break up the Govern
ment
The turn out from the county and the
District of Columbia was quite large,
and the dinner on the Fair Ground am
pie and well cooked.
The Hon RICHARD j. BOWIE was
called on to preside, and first addressed
the meeting He told them that he was
an old-line wing, and had lately attend
ed a convention of that party in Balti-
more, where they had determined to
support Fillmore. He said he did not
approve of all the doctrines of the Amer
lean party, (without telling what part
he disapproved y that though Fillmore
was nominated by that party, he fully
endorsed it, and that nomination made
by either the old-line wing or American
party should equally meet his approba-
baton. Chat is good know-notfring
doctrine, except the oaths and the dark
lantern.) He passed a high and de-
served eulogium on Mr.. Fillmore for
his frmness and patriotism in admins
tering the government, particularly in
aiding to pass the Compromise measures
of 1850 The democrats in Congress,
with the venerable Cass at their head,
labored day and night to accomplish
those measures, and they are willing, at
this day, to award Mr.. Fillmore his share
in the honor and glory of those acts |
hope they will always have too much
magnanimity to detract one iota from the
merit of an opponent.
But the portion of Mr.. Bowie's speech
that attracted most attention was the
avowal, that "he had rather 90 wrong
with his friends, than right with his foes. /"
That's what the English call =" thick
and thin" man.
"Strip my children, let's jump in,
And we will dash through thick and thin"
Or as Macbeth's witches said -
& Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
Hover through fog and filthy air."
Or as Bardolph said on the death of
his friend Falstaff:--
"Whether he's in hell or heaven, I,would |
were with him."
The worst charge against the Jesuits is
that they do evil that good may come and
it is strange that something of the same
doctrine should be openly avowed by the
ally of their greatest opponents, the
nothings. How different that say
ing of Henry Clay had rather be
right than President" How different
the doctrine of Fillmore, who braved the
opinion of his own section in signing the
compromise measures of 1850.
But who are Mr.. Bowie's friends in
this case2 Are they the Fillmore men
in Pennsylvania and the North, who,
by uniting with the abolitionists are
trying to elect Fremont, or throw the
election into the House? And who
are his foes? Are they the southern
people who are struggling to maintain
their constitutional rights and liberties,
aided by the democrats of the North,
and those patriotic wings who prefer
their country to their party tactics, such
as Choate, Pearce, Pratt, and Gather,
Clay's son, Webster's son, and host Of
worthless in every part of the country,
embracing the very flower of the old
wing party? While he is with his pre-
sent party, he will have plenty of occa-
sions to 60 wrong with them. As a re-
preventative, I should be afraid of such
a politician, for his friends might be
adverse to the interests of Maryland,
and he might prefer to 60 prong with
them, rather than right with those he
deemed his foes.
The next speaker who addressed the
meeting was the Hon Mr.. ROMAN, ex-
member, of the Western District of
Maryland. / understand that he is
member of the nothing order,
though he wished to pass for an old-line
wing. He endeavored to show, not by
proof, but by bold assertion, that the
Democratic, as well as the abolition par
ty, was sectional, and that the Fillmore
party was the only national one in the
country, But he omitted to show where
this national candidate has received the
vote of n sinole State in tho late cleo