Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-10-24
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For the Montgomery County Sentinel.
THE CONTRAST.

As INC canVaSS IL drawing near lUS
close, we would take retrospective glance
at the past, and notice the difference as
to the means employed by the two par
ties in Maryland in the present canvass.
Aud here let me say that members of the
Democratic party can look at the past
without blush, conscious, as they are,
that they have employed none but hon
orable means to promote the success of
their party--they have resorted to no
vile abuse of Millard Fillmore, to defeat
the party of which he is the head And
we, as Democrats, are proud that it has
been thus.
But what, ask, has been the course
pursued by our opponents ever since the
earliest dawn of their political existence =?
Did they not meet in their secret places
and vilify Franklin Pierce and the dem
ocratic party? Did they not say that
large and respectable portion of our fell
low-citizens owed allegiance to foreign
power, and were in league with the
Jesuits to overthrow the liberties of this
country? Did they not also say that
Pierce and the democratic party were
ai6ers and abettors of this secret Jesuit
order? Were they not doing all this
when our party was straining every
nerve To- maintain the dignity aud honor
Of this country, unaware of the Sc
eret party, at that time led on by the
most noted despcradoes in the land, that
Wa. striving with the zeal of desperation
to Undermine the far fabric OF democra-
ey Then, ask, was not this a suffi-
leieut capse'to arouse the democratic par
ty 70 tfe highest pitch of indignation
when they discovered the cringing cur
that had been growing in his kennel,
but which sailed forth under cover of
night to prey upon the democratic fold ?
And even up to this very time they have
continued their ISLANDERS with unabated
fury, and have the impudence, on the top
Of all this, to call themselves tn: Amer
icam partyp Do Americans resort to
such means to build up party-and
then claim to be honorable men? Amer
leans, indeed God deliver us from such
Americanism And with all their trick
cry and dark lanterns hanging to their
skirts, their "hifalutin" orators get up
and raise the cry of "stop thief" and
say that the democratic party is the most
secret and undetermined party in the
country; what arrant nonsense! what
transparent attempt at humbugl This,
10 say the least, comes with bad grace
from the party that owes its existence to
secresy and cloudy nights. But they are
done now, they can strike no more blows
in league with black republicanism and
other isms conceived at midnight and
brought forth in darkness, they wither
in the sun of popular opinion. They
boosted that they would purify the two
old parties, and, as Mr.. Crawford said
in the Court House, they have done SO
most etfectually, by absorbing the. dross
and filth of both parties--leaving them
pure, and for this they certainly deserve
vote Of thanks from the democratic
party, as most efficient scayengers.
We are astonished that men of repu-
tation should lend themselves to this
movement; and it can be accounted for
in no other way than their intense hatred
to the democratic party. They have
demonstrated, in word and deed, "that
they (the old-line wings, so called) would
sooner err with their friends, than dc
right with their foes" If we charge up
on them their own language, we are moi
accountable for their meaning; if they
do not mean what they say it is for them
to explain it--not us /; but we think il
furnishes key to the course of the old.
line Wing Convention in Baltimore.
But they have proven in several in.
stances that they would sooner err with
black republicans than support Buchan-
an and Breckenridge, and propose, even
in the State of Maryland, cheers for the
success Of that sectional party. We
ask old-line wings and Marylanders o.
all parties, what is meant by this "dick.
ering" betwixt the know-nothing anG
black republican parties? Is this tn,
encouragement the North is to receive
from its Southern friends? l mean the
noble band that rears the democratic
banner in defence of State rights in al
the Northern States. Look at the Nortl
aud East and see who is battling for tn,
Constitution and the Union. The punN
arm Of whiggery is there paralyzed OF
absorbed; while the democratic party
form an unainching phalanx, and dea
giant blows, right and left, at the sec
tional parties arrayed against them.
Then, we ask, which is the nationa
party, if it is not the democratic party
1t certainly is not the party with thei
knights of the midnight conclave anc
their hob-goblin tales of traitor Catho
lies and perjured foreigners, that CLAIM
nationality, who are now even bargain
ing with the vilest party that ever sprung
into existence, if we except their own
which, to use the expressive language o
"queer fish," came up like a pep
pergrass, and will 60 out like hopper
grass"
But VIC have confidence in the people
Of Maryland; if they have been gulleC
into the gull-trap Of know notlringism,they
are wide awake now, and will roll up I
big majority for Buchanan and Breck.
inridge the 4th Of November, and thus
seal the doom Of know-nothingism and
their ''cullcd brudder" Sambo Republi-
cana. r,