Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-09-26

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These black republican leaders imme-
diately change their tactics. They now
send a forced population to Kansas at
once-benighted Ashtabula sent a Plumb
as captain of the host for that county !;
like leaders, like men, they did not dis
guise their purpose of trampling with
the power of overwhelming numbers
upon every southerner found there; they
had been the chief officers of the under
ground railroad in running off slaves
from their owners, known as such TO the
South; they go there playing the game
of brag; they are confident to be able
to take up all the best claims of the Ter
ritory, and thus forestall the supposed to
be slow-moving, slave-dependent, emas-
culated, uuenergetic, and worn-out race
the stakeholder of the South.
And all this time the press-gang of
the anti-democratic press of the whole
North show no fellow feeling-no broth
erly kindness to the South there is one
continued stream of abuse of the insti-
tuition; every stakeholder has to hear
himself denounced as the vilost of the
vile for being a stakeholder as his father
was before him; the whole people of the
South-joint owners with us of all our
territory-are condemned as criminal, as
meditating and purposing "the crime of
crimes" in the language of Sumner,
because they are willing that all our vast
Territories should be free Territories
and States, if a majority of the actual
bona tide settlers upon them should SO
desire. They are compelled to listen to
all this deEunciation, when they asked
nothing for themselves as southerners,
but are willing to yield up all to the
people-settlers in the Territories-whc
should be willing to endure the hardships
of border life, in new and unbroker
wilderness. They are told that all com.
promises with the South are at an enc
forever-even the compromises of the
Constitution. And laws are passed in
several northern States, and threatened
in all, to prevent, in direct violation OF
the constitutional guarantee, the recovery
of fugitive slaves They could all see
that the veriest and ultraist abolitionists
had swallowed up one great national
party-the whigs-and how natural for
them to fear that the democracy would
follow fast after? What more natural,
then, than for southern fanatics and sla-
very propagandists to take advantage of
this state of things, and to appeal to sec
tional pride South to answer to this Sec
tional hoggishness in the North? The
southerner ever has, and ever will, hate
an abolitionist as an aboltionist hates a
horse-thief, and for the same reason.
The border rufiians of Missouri now
step into the ring They have heard
the challenge of the majority of the low
err house Of Congress, supported by the
whole northern anti-democratic press,
that the voice of southerner settling in
Kansas shall be of no avail-his wishes
shall in no event be regarded if in the
majority, he shall have no voice in de-
termining the character of the Territory
and if caught in the Territory his slaves
shall be taken from him. They feel
outraged, insulted, abused, trampled up
on. They act as such men might be
expected to act And the black repub-
licans say, though in a minority, they
succeeded in overriding the voice of the
majority and controlled the first elections.
They committed some few outrages at
the polls, but not more nor greater than
have often disgraced elections time and
again in Ohio. Then it is sail they re-
turned to their old homes in Missouri
What then? Abolitionism shrieks-
sectionalism thunders- fanatcism RACES.
Then Beecher and Greeley shout "Kill-
am" Every emigrant they send to
Kansas is armed with Sharpe's rifles and
Colts revolvers. 1t is to be war to the
knife if Missourian dare cross the Kansas
line again. Aud MissOurians are now
outraged by this new emigrant-aid police
sent out for the express purpose of cow
ing down the efeminate southerner; they
are the par excellence freemen of the
North, and who dare resist? With this
army of northern rulfians 10 give them
support the jim Lanes Of Kansas-thc
would-be senators and governors Of the
new State--have taken courage. They
feel strong enough not only to keep out
border ruffians and all slave-State men,
but strong enough also to defy the legiti-
mate government Of the Territory, and
the government and army Of the United
States They adopted new comtitu-
ton, elected an entire set of officers for
the government Of the Territory, de-
clared themselves the State, and de-
manded admission of Congress with
forged and mutilated copy Of their al
legged constitution; and that constitution
not TO be amended for nine years, altho'
not man in the Territory, not one Of
the faction, voted yea or nay on its
adoption.
The United States Of America must
take this constitution as sort Of snap
Judgment against them, or, in the Ian
guage Of Senator Sumner, the end twill
be war-.fratricidai, parricidol par."-I
And once more it is proclaimed that no
Of any slave territory shall
hereafter be made; that what Terrific
ries we now possess, in the joint owner
ship Of the northern and southern States,
shall never avail anything to the South
and the chief leaders and chosen orators
Of the new geographical organization,