Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-10-10

PooLEsyILLE, Sept. %, 1896.
Mr.. EDITOR: | observe in your last
issue letter from an old-line Wing in
Bcrry's and Clarksburg districts, and al
so one from "young Wing" which |
think came from Cracklin. Now, as
Medleys counts one in this Co., |
hope you will give me room for few
lines. The letters referred to all deny
the orthodoxy and repudiate the action of
the late Baltimore Convention. / do
not think letters from any one will do
much good now, for the Wings have long
ago decided how to act. | only wish to
let my wing friends know that the same
atmosphere that keeps vitality in them
in their districts, is rife in Medley's.
None of us Individually need entertain
a doubt in regard to our true position as
a political body, for when the ides of No
vember come, the ballot-box will speak
for US. 1t will give patriotic and elo-
quent voice against the combination of
Observation-Disclosures unholy alliance of
Abolitionism, Know-nothingism, and
sectionalism.
1t is impossible to find old-line Wings
where there is not vestige of constitu-
tionality, nor do believe there is sin
gle one in the whole State that sanctions
the endorsement of Mr.. Fillmore at the
above mentioned convention. Does any
man of common sense suppose for one
moment that we will cooperate with a
party that boasts ofhaying risen on ''the
ruins and corruptiqps ofeur political Or
ganization;" or s'apport man for the
Presidency who is asWorn member of a
midnight conspiracy? Whatever may
have heretofore been our estimate of Mr..
f., we connot support him as the nominee
of as many isms as it takes 10 form
Knowinnthmeism. The Know-nothines
have Just aboutas much claim on the
old-liAe Wigs as they have on the old,
line DemoeratsA We do not live 70,
ourselves, but for our children; nor die
our torefathers live for themselves, bu
Tor us. II was their hands that bull
and consolidated this republican citade
OF ours, and it is our duty'to preserve it
1t has been garrisoned four fths of the
last fifty years by the Democratic party
aud we cannot deny but that it has
grown in growth, and strengthened il
strength :" and although our theorie.
about the United States Bank, govern
ment internal improvement, protectiv,
tariff, &c, are so Numerically opposed
Gin letter. to the principle by which i
has been governed, yet we are taught b,
experience, that the present tariff regu-
lations and sub-treasury laws have work
ed well and as the conservative Wings
and the whole national Democratic par,
~ are an unit on the all important ques
ton of slavery, and as aoc are not able {,
elect any man to the Presidency of ou
particular principles, let me assure you
that we will at least show our devotion tC
the country, by giving our undivided in
fluence to men who stand upon the sam,
platform that has governed us for forty
of the last fifty years. Wing principles
never die; nor do great men die as soor
as their bodies are entombed. To-da,
the examples of Henry Clay and DAME
Webster are operating silently, but pow
erfully, throughout the civilized world
The same conviction of duty that com.
PEELED the whole Democratic party tC
stand shoulder to shoulder, and side by
side, with them in the great battle for the
compromise measures of 1850, compels
me for one to follow the example of our
Senators, Pratt and Pearce, in support
ing Buchanan and Breckenridge for the
Presidency.
MEDLEY'S DISTRICT.