Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-05-03
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NORTH.
Correspondence of the Montgomery Co. sentine
New HAVEN, April 20, 1856.

kNOW-NOIi1iNUlo tOR IL
Correspondence of the Montgomery Co. Sentinel
New HAVEN, April 20, 1886.
Mr.. ED1roR: In my last letter gave
you short account of the principles of
the Democratic party, as it exists at the
North. We then saw that the tenets of
that party pere essentially national-that
it everywhere battled for the same prin-
ciples, and that the leaders of Democra-
CIV. North and South, based their argu-
ments in behalf of their party upon the
same constitutional platform. 1t has
been asserted by the Nnow-nothing jour
nails at the South that the Democratic
party of the North rests the claims of
the Kansas Nebraska bill upon the ground
that it may work out more free than
slave territory. This is totally false. 49,
The Democracy do not stop to ask whether
slavery be moral evil or not. If it
be an evil, they know we did not entail
it upon ourselves; they see that it is
guaranteed to us by two distinct articles
in the Constitution, and they are willing
to stand by this contract which our faith
ers made. 1t is enough for them to
know that they have abolished it in their
own States, and they extend to their
sister States the same privilege. They
say to the territories, regulate your own
local Institutions; you may make such
laws and regulations as shall conduce
most to your own happiness and welfare.
Upon this issue the Democratic party in
the Presidential campaign will meet the
combined forces of Know nothingism
and Abolitionism.
Let us now examine the principles Of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT as understood at the
North, and we will find that the South
ern States are justified in scorning such
party from their midst, since it is
purely sectional in its tendency and prin-
ciples. 1t may be enough to say here
that nearly every Northern State, in then
conventions, has declared the carolina
object of the Know nothing party to be
decided resistance to any further exten
sion of slavery. TO prove this, and t.
see the sectional character of the organ
ization, we have only to look at the re-
ception of Mr.. Fillmore's nomination il
the free States In the States of Iowa
Wisconsin. Michigan, Vermont. Maine
Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, and New Jersey, not . single
paper has been heard from that has re-
sponded in his favor. Massachusetts,
one of the strongest Know-nothing States
in the Union, has also totally repudiated
him. Resistance to the extension OF
slavery then is their avowed aim; what
means do they adopt to accomplish this
aim? IN answering this question we
have thet whole secret Of the organiza-
zion. We will see wllv they bring re-
lioion into this contest; we will see why
the sanctities of private life are invaded
and unprotected women exposed to insult
and disgrace; we will see why the mid
night hour is LIGHTED up bv the lurid
flames bursting from the roof of some
quiet convent. Why all this Let them
answer for themselves. AS in their first
resolution they declare their resistance to
slavery; SO in their second they war
against the Catholic church, which they
tell YOU is its .sco-worker and ally."E
Here we have the secret. They pros
cribe the Catholic church because she
will never consent to divest religion Of
her holy garments, and to drag her into
the political arena; because she tells
"scrvants to obey their masters . be-
cause she renders unto Caesar the things
that are Caesars, and unto God the things
that are Gods"
The reason of their opposition to oul
foreign population is no less apparent
This hostility to the foreigner has always
been deeply rooted in the North
Here arose the Alien and Sedition Laws
here festered that canker upon the body
politic-the Hartford Convention. The
Foreigner, true to the instincts that drov,