Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-06-28
The Old Line Wing Meeting at
Washing ton.

Among the Know-nothings (says the
Washington Starr who we're engaged IN
the characteristic work of disturbing the
meeting of old-line Wings Of this city
on Saturday night last. the 2lst instant,
were not few citizens who usually pass
for persons of character and standing in
this community. The rebukes admins
tered to them by the chairman, Col. Sea-
ton, and Senator Jones, of Tennessee, for
their unauthorized and rowdy interference
in matter in which they assumed to
participate unbidden, and in such man
ner, will long be remembered by such of
them as have not become lost to all sense
of shame through the influence of their
af1iliation in secret lodges with the row.
dies who behaved so outrageously at the
Democratic meeting at Carusi's saloon,
and, subsequently. before Browns hotel.
The result of their conduct on Saturday
night has been to increase in the minds
of thoughtful and really respectable per-
sons in their own organization distrust
of their principles, rules, &C., which
thus so manifestly tend to the prostra-
ton of everything like popular rights
under this government, whenever under
cover of the night and crowd, the
vicious among them sec proper to violate
them
1t was very evident that the great
mass of the old-line Wings present SYM
pathized closely with the eloquent re-
marks of Mr.. Jones, the tendency of
which went to show that the path of pa
triotic duty on Che part of those Wings
who do not affiliate either with Know
nothingism Or Republican partyism, is to
give Buchanan and Breckenridge cordial
support, as being the only candidates
before the country who, if elected, can
be relied on to discharge their respective
functions on principles not subversive Of
the Constitution and at war with all that
experience and sound discretion teach to
be the best interests of society. If the
spirit so evidently .actuating the Wings
Of the Federal metropolis pervades their
brethren of the different States who are
to assemble at Louisville in the course Of
next month, the correctness of our an.
ticipations as regards the course of that
highly respectable party in the approach.
ing Presidential canvass, will be amply
indicated indeed.
After the Wings found it necessary tC
turn off the gas at Cops saloon, to gel
rid Of the Know-nothing rowdies who
had assumed to take the affairs of theil
meeting out of their hands-which was
done in the middle of the speech from
Mr.. Lewis d. Campbell that had beer
forced upon them-Mr. G. was escorted
by large crowd of persons ambitious Of
'ruling America" by force of boot heels
brick bats, cat calls, slung shot, &C., tc
the City Hall, where he delivered very
violent and virulent abolition speech,
which was enthusiastically shouted over
by the crowd surrounding him. Its
noteworthy feature was its comments on
Mr. Brooks, of South Carolina, and its
sweeping Misrepresentation of that gen.
tleman's case, on which Mr.. Campbell is
so soon to sit as judge. Nothing could
have been more out of place than the
act Of Mr.. Campbell in dragging that
case before such an audience as that by
which he was surrounded, and essaying
to sit in judgment upon it before the
testimany on which he is to decide upon
it, as representative in Congress, next
week, is printed.
1t was very evident, from his remarks,
that he proposes to dispose of the case
as before the House, not upon the testi-
mony elected under oath and the law
thereof, but as a political partizan, bent
on using the affair for partizan end
only. His course upon it, in the presence
of the rowdy and noisy crowd Of Shout
der hitters-in-the-dark by whom he was
surrounded, has stripped his position
upon it as a representative, of all moral
weight, aud has justly forced on the
minds of nearly all here the conviction
that he has gone into the crusade against
Mr., Brooks wholly for what he can make
out of it politically, for the cause Of
abolitionism as involved in the approach
ing presidential election.