Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-07-19
PSEUDO OLD-LINE WING CON-
VENTION OF MARYLAND.

PSEUDO OLD-LINE WING CON-
vENTION OF MARYLAND.
We desire to address to the old-line
Wings of this county few words of
friendly and respectful counsel. En-
couraged by events, transpiring all over
the country, showing, as they do, that
the true disciples of CLAY and WEBSTER
are rallying to the support Of the Con-
stitution and Union under the BUCHANAN
and BREcKINRIDGE standard, we might
have been content to remain proudly ST.
lent. But when we see studious and
elaborate attempt made to misrepresent
the feelings of Maryland WI O., we can
not refrain, in view of the future, from
trying to expose the fraud. We refer
to the proceedings of the miscalled cold
line Wing Convention, i" which assembled
in Baltimore city short time since,
very generally circulated and commented
on by the Know-nothing press as the
present position of the Wings of Mary
land.
Those proceedings show that eight of
the counties of the State were unrepre-
scented in the convention; and some of
the delegates reported to have been in at
tendance from some of the others, have
publicly declared that they neither par
ticipateG in nor sanctioned the action of
said convention. 1t will hardly be cred
tied, but it is simple truth, to which we
defy contradiction, that the leading
spirits in that convention contributed to
the success of Know-nothingism in Mary
land at the State election last fall. How
can they now dare to blazon their names
forth as Wings, and promulge platform
for those whom they so ingloriously be-
trayed and deserted? This may be hon
or and morality in the Know-nothing
lodges, but it seems very much like dis
honor and equivocation out of them. To
us it seems closely allied to the system by
which men of high social position, oe re-
puted integrity, and of religious pro-
fession, deny adhesion to secret political
organizations; and yet, with the denial
fresh on their lips, attend lodges and
councils night after night, and make
speeches and deliver lectures on the texts
of fanaticism which are there current
Such there are among us well known and
well marked This is one illustration of
the conduct Of this d" Old-Liae Whiq'
Convention.
As corroborative of the disclosure and
exposition of the conduct of this Convex
tion. we refer to the fact that while the
resolutions adopted and put forth de-
nounce in unmeasured terms the Demo-
cratic nominee for Presidcntfor his anti
Wing antecedents, and especially for in
justice to Mr.. CLAY, the latter of which
has been times without number dis
claimed, they ardently express their
preference not only for Mr.. FILLMORE,
who owes his nomination to the Know
nothings, but also to Mr.. ANDREW
Jackson DoNELsoN, who, as editor of the
Union under Fillmore's administration,
Thought no color too Uacl to paint the
political character of his present associate.
4" Okl-Liae Wing Coarentioa I" It
was no such thing. 1t was another arti-
fee of the enemy to deceive the Wings
of Maryland. The Know-nothing man
ayers contrived to secure an ascendancy
in the Convention, and used the name
and apparent organization of the Wing
party, to send forth an insolent address to
dupe if possible those they had long since
declared dead and rotten" This, as
we have already said, is a characteristic
trait of Know-nothing tactics, and this
we have felt it our duty to expose.
Inconclusion, we call upon the Wings,
the independent open Wings, to be stead
fast, and immoveable in their alliance
with honest compeers against dangerous
common enemy. The fusion of honest
men in the face of the world is the con-
fusion of secret intriguers. For this end
the Wing party is in full life. 1t means
to live and to be felt. The legion of
Wings and Democrats who now see eve
TO eye cannot be easily disunted, so long
as they concur in attachment to their
country, and opposition to all secret po-
litical organizations and if united they
must prevail. The system Of Impress
ment never made good soldiers, and
doserters from the secret camps and
eaverns are coming and viii till the day
Of battle continue to come in. Let them
be treated kindly and magnanimously;
but with those a9Yenturers or dupes--