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


not and cannot consider this as mere
struggle to exclude slavery from the ter
ritories or to forbid the entrance of future
slave States into the Union. 1t is evil
dent to her keen perceptions, (rendercd
painfully acute by the instinct of self
preservation that all this is designed by
her enemies to have no other end than
what we read of in the tragic history of
the West Indies. Give aboltionism the
Presidency and the Senate, possessing as
it does now the popular branch of the
Federal Legislature-subj beet the great
moral power and inAuenceof the Supreme
Court to its dictation--surrende to it the
sword and the purse of the nation--and
who would insure an hours existence to
the institutions and liberties Of the fifteen
Southern States, outside of their own
capabilities of self defence. That it is
the purpose of Black Ropublicanism to
seize upon the whole government and 20
wield its power as a battle-axe to cleave
down slavery or the stakeholder, is clearly
indicated at every point Senator Will
son is reported to have said, as far back
as October, 1855, in a speech at the
Tabernacle, in New York:
" We shall change the Supreme Court
of the United States, and place men in
that Court who believe, with its pure and
immaculate Chief Justice, John Jay,
that our prayers will be impious to
Heaven, while we sustain and support
human slavery"
And Simon Brown, of Massachusetts,,
tells his people, whilst candidate for
their suifragcs, that
The object to be accomplished is
this: That the Free States shall take
possession of the Government by their
united votes. Minor interests and old
party affiliations and prejudces must be
forgotten. We have the power in num-
Der; our strength is in union"
Should Fremont be elected, they will
in reality stake possession Of The Gopcrn-
nent'-they will have the President,
who has the Constitutional power to APP
point the Judges of the Supreme Court
time will give them the Senate; for
death and political change will vacate
the seats now filed by Cass, Douglas,
Bright, and those other Constitutional
men of the North and the West, whose
prophetic warnings shall have gone up
UNDECIDED by the nation-new anti-slavery
States will enthrone some other Bank,
in the Senate Hall-and the beginning
Of the end will come.
Suppose it shall come to pass that the
people of the non -slaveholding States
, who hold the power at the ballot boz
and in the Electoral College, decide il
November next, after deliberate argu
ment and reflection for four months, tina
the Government shall be given up to til,
purposes of Seward, Hale, Giddings
! Wilson, Sumner, and (if you choose t,
add Garrison and Gerrit Smith-tha
the Cabinet at home, the National diplo
macy abroad, the army, the navy, tn,
seventy millions of public revenue, and
the host of official influences from Maine
to Texas, shall be delivered over to them
to swell their arrogant power and to ad
vance their designs against the peace o.
the country and the very existence o.
the Southern States, can it possibly be said
that there will then be no danger
of disunionl win not a very solemn
question of self-prcservation Immediate
| ly present itself for solution to the intel
ligent minority? And who can possibly
foresee, although he may painfully fore
bode, what answer that question might
receive in the midst of an excited con-
dition of the public mind unparalleled
since the Revolution Of rs
IF the North could, calmly and nnder-
standingly, proclaim its confidence in
aud preference for such men as | have
named, and whose designs / have made
apparent from their own systematic dec
larations. would the South be obnoxious
to the charge Of aggressive "disunion-
ism" or voluntary treason" even were
she to abandon at once all hope of pa
eific solution Of the terrible problem by
which she has so long been held in anx-
ious suspense.
And will | be told that I anu dis
unionist for frankly saying to the people
Of the North that such crisis, should
il come, would, in my opinion, involve
the most imminent danger Of an imme-
date disruption Of this great confedera-
cy? Shel! the unimpassioned judgment
Of John V. j.. Mcmahon, who has for
so many years held himself aloof from
the excitements Of political warfare, and
processes allegiance to no party organ.
ization, be stigmatizcd as sectional folly
or "treason," when he tells us in hi,
letter recently published:
With regard to the rights, interests
feelings and determination of the people
Of the Southern States, the very error
Of the moon seems 10 rule the North
and, if We may judge from their recen
elections, they would seem to indicate
that they who rule the North are resolved
to leave Us no protection for ourselves
and our rights except in a separote na
tioaoi eristeace. That conclusion would
indeed be a most fearful one TO arrive a
for many reasons; but when reached, W.
shall be found ready for the crisis, anc
prepared TO meet every responsibility
and make any sacrifice which the cmcr
gency may demand"
Spoken like a true man and patriot
and if that be treason, then am willing
to take my stand by the side Of Mr.
Mcmahon and to confess the impeach
nlent, and maintain it with my life agains
the world 10 arms.
Have not several large and Influential
! Southern States, carrying with them the