Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1856-03-29

oi"NSS " HVh-hdtuIdllIeti Foreigners -
Suppose they choose to do it. All! but
the meaning is this If the Squatter,
soverelgns say that negroes shaH be slaces
in their territory, we must not interfere
with them. But if they say that aliens
shall cote, thea we shall interfere with
Squattcr-soyereignty. Squatter-sove-
reignty is good to protect Slavery but not
to extend freedom. To deprive black
man of liberty altogether, is proper
consequence of Squatter-sovereignty.--
To confer political liberty on a foreign
er, is an abuse of it.
Art. 8. Unwise, but let it pass.
Art. 10. Opposition to any union Of
Church and State; no interference with
religious faith or worship; and no test
oaths for Office"
What unparalleled effronteryl A par
ty which has not only prescribed as a
test for Office the pronunciation of the
Catholic religion, but has made the TAX
ing of its own secret bonds and oaths a
condition of candidateship to any Office |
A party whose evident aim is to unite
Church and State and which avows its
intention of interfering" with dogma
of the Catholic faith--namely the SD
premacy of the Popo The dodge by
which this impudent inconsistency is the
following. They do not, forsooth, inter-
fere with our religious faith" as such,
but with our political doctrines. The
fable of the Wolf dndhe Limb was new.
or more aptly illustrated than by this
article of the sham American platform.
A Know-nothing platform can stand the
higher-lawp of the Massachusetts ne
gro-lover, which denounces the Consti-
tuition as a man-stealing instrument, and
law of Congress as an infamy; but it
cannot abide the higher law of the Pope,
which teaches US all to obey the laws of our
country, and that SLAVES should obey
their masters" This article is mere
hypocritical buncombe, which in relation
to Catholics adds insult to injury.
Art II. Free and thorough investi-
cation into any and all alleged abuses of
public functionaries, and a strict econo-
my in public expenditures.
Buncombe, and dishonest buncombe.
When party that wants office talks of
a " strict economy in public expendi-
lures" let every taxpayer Immediately
button up his breeches pocket. 1t is
the fore-rmner Of such an inroad upon
the public purse, as our Know-nothing
administrations can everywhere show
Oh, Joseph Hiss where is thy virtuous
blush, when thy Know-nothing btethren
talk Of :" free and thorough Investigation
into any and all alleged abuses of public
functionaries !" Let us have the accounts
of the Committee at Worcester, and tell
US who paid for Mrs. Patterson 60
trumpcry! . Morris I" as Yellowplush
says.
But we cannot follow this rickety plat
form any further. There is hardly
plank left that holds on to its neighbor.
The 18th article plainly says that the
Fugitive Slave Law shall be executed,
which agrees, we confess, with the NOM
ination of Willard Fillmore, WHO signed
it and the 18th denounces the present
administration for a trucking subseryi-
ency to the stronger powers" which de-
nunciation sees the light rather inoppor-
timely by the side of the Marcy and Clar-
endon correspondence and we are led
to historical inquiry whether Willard
Eillmore's administration did not truckle
to and tremble before Kossuth.
The epithet of g insolent and coward
ly bravaGo" applied to the course of the
Administration towards the weaker
powers, somehow, in like manner, calls
to our mind the Hulsemann letter of Mr..
Fillmore's Secretary of State, issued to
bully Austria when Austria was suppos-
ed to be weak" and " therefore, to
remedy existing evils, and prevent the
disastrous consequences otherwise result
ing therefrom" "a remarkably lucid sem
tence) eve would build up the Ameri-
can party upon the principles hereinbe-
fore stated"
1t is foundation of sand, and when
the floods of next November come, the
edifice, we apprehend, will be found no.
where; more especially as the 10Th ar
ticlc gives liberty for annulling all the
existing constitutions of the Order, and
the 10th leaves "a8 its principles" open
to discussion. 1t would be very unwise,
therefore, to vote the sham American
ticket, or commit himself in any way to
The Scandinavian party, for its own
platform kicks over its previous consti-
tutions, and openly declares that it has
no feed and dsccrtained principles
Leader.