Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-09-19

ern States can he carry? His friends
claim Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee,
North Carolina and Louisiana. How
many of these States can be calculated
for him with any degree of confidence
North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri,
Arkansas and Texas, have already spo-
ken, in voice too loud to be msunder-
stood, in condemnation of Mr.. Fillmore
and the organization which he represents.
But, suppose all these States should vote
for him, he will then have but forty
eight electoral votes. 1t may defeat Mr..
Buchanan, but it would not elect Mr..
Fillmore, and the election might be
thrown into the House of Representa-
tives. Are you prepared for the strug-
gle which will ensue if the election of
the next President of the United States
shall devolve upon the present House of
Representatives? You know what they
y
did in the election of Speaker. And
are you willing that that body, constitu-
ted as it is, and organized as it is, shall
elect your next Chief Magistrate Should
this duty devolve upon them, it would
result in the election of the candidate of
the Black Republican party. 1t seems
to us that no man with the heart of an
American freeman could be willing to
contribute, directly or indirectly, to the
success of such party. 1t is section
al party, banded together, to war upon
the South, the Constitution and the
Union. Upon its flag but sixteen stars
are to be seen, under which are the in
scriptions-"Wilmot Proviso," "Abo-
lition of slavery in the District of Col
umbia, "Repeal of the Fugitive Slave
Law" Abolition of slavery in the
States"
Do you desire, fallow-citizens of Mont
gomery, thatsuch a faction should achieve
a triumph in the coming election? What
have you to expect from such an achieve
ment? The Black Republicans must
either adhere to their present professions
in which event your peace, your hap
piness, your honor, would be overthrow
or else, even if those professions should
be abandoned, their practices heretofore
but family foreshadow the public profit
gacy and misrule to which you must be
subjected. Let us warn you that you
cannot avert these dangers by support
ing Mr.. Fillmore on the contrary, you
make them the more imminent bv so
doing. In our very soul we believe that
every vote cast for Mr.. Fillmore will but
increase Fremont's chance for election.
But, thanks to kind overriding Pro
violence, there is still another party in
this contest, and in our Judgment, it is
the only party that can save the country
from the storm of sectionalism which is
now threatening to burst upon it. With
this party, in this contest, every friend
of the Union should cooperate to save
it from the hands of the spoilers. 1t is
the Democratic party. Its history is
identified with that of the government
from its commencement down to the pre-
sent period. 1t speaks the same voice
on the granite hills Of New Hampshire
in the young but giant West, and on the
shores of the far off Pacific. 1t stands
everywhere on the same platform
platform of equal rights and privileges
"a platform, which declares it the duty
of government to throw the broad shield
of its protection alike around the insti-
buttons of every section of the confede-
racy.