Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-12-12
The Position Of the. old-lin wings.


try for the timely, efficient and patriotic
aid they rendered during the late Presi-
dental campaign. In the States of
Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, North
Carolina, Delaware, Georgia, New Jer-
sey, and last, but not least, Pennsylva-
MIA, their labors were most conspicuous;
and if we are rejoicing over the triumph
of freedom over fanaticism, nationality
over sectionalism, and over Union pre-
served and a Constitution upheld, no
slight share of the victory is due to that
gallant and unwavering band of patriots
who could not be dismayed by assertions,
intimiaated by menaces, or bribed or
fattered into opposition to those princi-
pies upon which alone the republic can
rest in security.
The Louisville Courier, an influential
organ of the ol2-line wings, thus speaks
of the past and probable future position
of the party which it has so long and so
ably represented:
"The success of the democratic can
didates in Kentucky, it is conceded on
all sides, is due to the noble and patriotic
course pursued by the remnant of the
whig party in this State, who. unseduced
by know-nothingism, maintained their
honor through severe political crisis,
and unfaltering kept step to the music of
the Union, having resolved to join no
party that did not carry the bright and
glittering flag of our united country -
That which they resolved upon doing
when they met in convention in Licking
ton last April, they have accomplished.
Numbering, as it has been estimated, ten
thousand loyal men. they rallied under
that banner which had so long Haunted
at the head of the opposition, but which
proved to be the only one in this mo-
mentous contest that was not borne by
sectional, proscriptive and intolerant
partisans. Holding the balance of pow
er in the State, they readily and cheer
fully determined to throw it in favor of
the Union and its maintenance. We
know that many of this gallant band
were reluctant to yield up their personal
preferences and past associations, but
they did it with their whole hearts, for
the perpetuity of the nation was at stake
To assist in its preservation was their
chief aim, together with desire to re-
buke the arrogance of a secret order,
that has assumed for itself all the virtue
and the possession of powers unwarrant-
ed by law or reason.
''How well we have succeeded all
know, and it is no assumption in us to
claim share in the glorious victory, for
which grateful people are now re-
joicing. One of these ten thousand
whigs-a wing by education and instinct
we labored with all the ardor, earnest
ness and ability we possessed, and never
in any exciting contest where our most
! famous leaders were marshalling the old
whig battalions, did the spirit and de-
termination to succeed animate us more.
''Now that the battle has been fought
and won, we feel, in common with our
wing friends who have so nobly sustain
ed us, no delicacy or embarrassment
whatever in our position. We are what
we always were, friends Of the Union,
and the enemies of those who would pro-
scribe men for their religious belief-the
friends Of law and order, and the enc
mics of the riotous and rebelious spirit
inaugurated by know-nothingism. Wearc
| friends to the South and friends to the
North, and enemies as well to the ex-
tremists of one section as to the freedom
shrieking fanatics of the other.
"When Mr.. Buchanan shall have
entered upon the discharge Of the duties
of his elevated position we shall sustain
him and his administration in whatever
is right, and oppose that which we es-
teen to be erroneous. We have no
doubt that great prudence and wisdom
will characterize his management of pub
lie affairs. He is man of great expo
fience, of fine executive talents, end dis
tinguishing virtues. With wise cab-
net he can restore peace and confidence
to the country. He can crush out sec
tionalism at the North, not by dint Of
oppressive measures, but by discreet
course of policy 1t is in his power to
make his term of Office bright epoch in
the history of the country---an era mark
ed by the restoration Of goodwill to all
sections We have confidence that such
will be the result In accomplishing
these benefcent measures he will find no
body Of men more willing to render him
assistance than the thousands of patriotic
wings all over the land who in the re-
cent contest gave him their labor and
their votes"
A Novel SPECULATION The Wash
ington correspondent of the Philadelphia
Inquirer, states that some adventurous
individuals have purchased of the pro-
prietor Of Mount Vernon all the trees
and shrubbery left on the estate, at
cost, of twenty thousand dollars, and that
the same parties have erected large
building near the railroad depot in
Washington, at cost of probably $10,-
900 more. This large outlay is to be
reimbursed by the manufacture and sale
of Washington or Mount Vernon canes.
Es'- In the announcement we made
week before last, Of the marriage of