Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-10-10


country from its present imminent peril.
Mr.. Roman attempted some poor wit
by calling Mr.. Buchanan James Plat
form, and denouncing him as a southern
sectional candidate. Where is Mr.. Ro-
man? Is he South, or is he North l
hope the South ON this question of equal
rights, of liberty, and of life itself, are
united, and that all such as he, who go
about to distract and divide them, may
find their proper place. But we have
noble friends all over the country, both
wings and democrats, who will show him
in November that we are national enough
to put down all those factions who would
rule by the ruin of their country. We
want not second edition of the division
and ruin of Poland, by stirring up in
ternal divisions among ourselves. The
democratic party was organized in 1913,
and from the election Of Jefferson in
1900, up to this day, has existed through
out the United States whereas the
know-nothing party sprung up two years
ago, like a poisonous fungus, in some
dark and damp concealment, soon to die
from its principles of prescription and
intolerance.
Mr.. Roman followed his leader, Banks,
in depreciating the South, and stated that
the North would never let them rest if
they dared to elect Buchanan, their Sec
tional candidate that the South had
only six millions Che ought to have said
ten millions) of inhabitants, and there
fore ought to yield. So argued the To-
ries of the Revolution, when we haG not
quite three millions, against the mighty
power of Old England But patriot
would prefer the language of Patrick
Henry, when the rights of the country
were invaded, "give me liberty, or give
me death" Mr.. Roman did not state
how the election of Fillmore would quiet
the aboltionists Of the North, and we
are left to infer that he would stop their
mouths by filling them with good sop.
Mr.. Roman, in speaking of Fremont's
psalm singing rascals, as he called the
political parsons, said that if ever he
could endure to see any one hanged, il
would be that class of sinners, but after
wards asserted that he would rather sec
Fremont elected than the democratic
nominee.
This is the meonest Roman of them
all! Yes, he had rather go for the can
didate of the Negro, who, in a. Fremont
meeting, called Washington scoundre
the candidate of Fred Douglass, o
Giddings, of Greeley, Of Boecher, o
Parker, and the whole host of fanatic
and scoundrels who long to see the Who'll,
South swimming in the blood of its in
habitants. Mr.. Roman differs widel,
from Mr.. Fillmore, who said most dis
tinctly that the Government could no
be administered on the sectional princi-
pies contended for by Fremonts friends.
In his hatred to the South, he could moi
omit to have his fling at Mr.. Brooks, Of
South Carolina. He charged Brooks
with saying that if Fremont was elected,
he would come to Washington, seize the
Treasury, raise soldiers and conquer the
North If Brooks had been there with
his gutta-percha cane, he would not
have said that.
The charge against Buchanan Of SLAM
dering Clay, in the case of Adams cleo
ton, was Of course brought forward. -
Mr.. Clay stated that Mr.. Buchanan had
acted as man of honor; Gen. jackson
sent him as Minister to Russia, and ad-
viscd Mr.. Polk to appoint him Secretary
of State; and Mr.. Clay's son James,
now speaker in the Buchanan cause,
says he has examined his fathers papers,
and is satisfied that Buchanan is not to
blame in the case.
Mr.. Roman in speaking of the Mis-
souri, Compromise stated that Mr.. Madi-
son consulted his cabinet on the consti-
tutionality of the measure. Now, man
who goes about instructing the people in
political affairs, ought at least to know
in whose term any important act was
passed. Mr.. Madison's term expired in
1917. and it is doubtful whether he would
have agreed to the Missouri Compromise,
as he was the great expounder of the
democratic creed Of strict construction.
Mr.. Monroe, in whose time the Compro-
mise was made, was trying to bring
about the era of good feeling by uniting
the Federal and Democratic parties. He
might as well have said that Jefferson
signed the Alien and Sedition laws.
Mr.. PEARRE, of Allegheny, was the
next speaker. lie is an out-and-out
know-nothing, sprigbtly of-hand man,
and his tongue ran as glibly and fast as
if it had not the least weight to carry.