Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-11-14
Political.
TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF
THE UNITED STATES.
National Democratic Committee Rooms,


National Democratic Committee Rooms,
November 6, 1856.
The trust of conducting the national
canvass confded to the Democratic Ma
tional Resident Committee has been dis
charged with the fidelity which the hon
or and exigency of that trust alike de-
manded, and has to unite its congratula-
tons with your own in announcing the
success of the democratic ticket by a
decided and gratifying majority.
The struggle is over, and the Union
is safe. Ours is, indeed, a new and
signal triumph Heretofore our victo-
ries have been achieved over those who,
like ourselves, were friends of the Union.
This has been conquest over its enc
mics. Heretofore our antagonists have
contended with fraternal eagerness for
the honor of promoting the progress or
of insuring the duration Of the republic
Those whom we have just yanquished
sought, under q treacherous adherence
TO the forms Of the Constitution, TO rob
it of all its essence and vitality. The
principles of the democratic party hav-
ing become the established policy of the
federal government, it became necessary
for its enemies to organize some new and
desperate combination to overthrow it.
An unnatural alliance between fanati-
cism and venality has engendered mon
ster which the democratic party has with
great peril sought out and destroyed.
That monster was sectionalism.
The circumstances under which the
evil originated were peculiar. The land
has been clouded by a miasma of error.
The belief that one part of the Union
had been invaded by the institutions of
another, and that the federal government
had lent its power to promote this in
justice, had spread with cpidemical ra-
pidity 1t had been infected into the
circulation of popular thought with all
the force of an INSCRIPTIONS press, and
was spread broadcast over the land by
the whole power of representative innu
ence 1t seemed at one time almost in
vain to pursue with the antidote of truth
and reason this venomous error as it
sped through the channels of public
opinion.
Our enemies had chosen their ground
with skill they had recruited their ranks
with all the influences which could COM
bine an army. They proclaimed the
ultimate abolition of slavery as the in
centive to the fanatic-the division Of
the spoils as the reward of the mercena-
ry. The pretended invasion Of a sacred
right constituted their appeal to those
with patriotic impulses, whilst feigned
regard for the Union was to secure the
support of the neutrality Of all whose
material interests were involved in its
duration. These devices had organized
a formidable array Masses of honest
and earnest men were dcludcd by the
teachers whom they had trusted into the
belief that their government had bctray-
ed, and their fellow-citizens had OPP
pressed them. Divines, girded with the
sword and clothed with the authority Of
the Gospel, preached bloody resistance
to the laws as the most acceptable SER
vice to God Woman quilted her peace
full station to animate with her apprehen-
sions those to whom her wishes are ever
a command and the youth, indoctrina-
ted by willy managers, responded with
enthusiasm to false appeals addressed to
their innate and generous hatred of OPP
pressien Politicians speculated philo-
upon the capacity Of the Con
caring only to know whether
its native strength Of structure would
bear the agitation necessary to secure
The success Of their nefarious schemes,
and still leave enough Of stability to in
sure their enjoyment
II was the purpose Of these conspira-
tors to secure possession Of the govern
nent if it perished-as it must have
,crished-in their grasp. II was their
purpose to inauguratc tae North as the
dominant section. The rule Of eligibili-
y was 10 be obedience to the sway and I
conformity to the opinions of the domi- /
lant section. The subjugation Of Ire {
and by force. division aud bribery was ,