Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1857-04-24
Volume II.---NO. SO.

loiioiU, plopdply. nc same NUMBER
of organizations, laboring with the same
unanmity, and having the same out
ward facilities, though having different
basis, might have accomplished nearly
as much. Two or three thousand re-
spectacle men, standing at the head of
two or three thousand purely literary
societies, or even two or three thousand
engine companies, if scattered through
the towns and cities of New England,
might have done a great deal to defeat
the democratic party. And the churches
and the ministers did great deal, I'M
questionably. But what good Are
the churches purer? better united? bet
ter satisfied with themselves? stronger
for good works and innuenccsl more
Jealous for goodness ? Do Christians
love their ministers with a stronger love?
Do they love each other more? And
has the world higher, nobler, bet
ter, stronger regard, or more sincere
respect for the church 7 These are
questions for Christians to answer Can
they avoid thinking Of them?
And while thinking of them, will they
not seriously ask themselves if those
ministers of the Gospel who, though
strong in their attachments to the demo-
cratic party, held their peace during tho
late exciting struggle, do not occupy u
higher, far higher, position than such as
mingled in the strife Of the opposition?
Is it not something for the democratic
party to be proud Of, aud to boast Of.
that Of the thousands Of ministers WHO
loved its cause--many Of them men Of
great influence -llot onc was invited to
carry politics into :hc sacred desk, or to
deliver political harangues in other pia-
ces? In the city of New York about
oue-tbird of the preachers, embracing
several doctors of divinity, were known
| by their intimate friends to be democrats.
Not ono of them, we believe, addressed
political meeting. Not one Of them,
that We ever heard of, preached par
tisan sermon. Think you, reader,
would these men change places to-day
with the ministers who were loudcst in
their shouts for Fremont? Nay, would
not thousands of the latter class gladly
say Of themselves that they, also, had
been silont?
Our purpose has not been, in these re-
marks, to embitter the feelings Of any
class of our political opponents by UNI
kind comments upon the past But the
past has its lessons, and to these We have
called attention win not those for
whom our words are intended, now that
the crushing wind" has gone by, give
their thoughts to the subject we hayo
spoken upon, and inquire in their hearts
for the "still, small voiceY
Rev. KALLocR, recently on trial in
Boston for adultery, was, it is well
known, one of the leading Republican
orators in New England, during the last
campaign. In a Qualification speech af-
ter the election, at Roekland, Maine, he
said -
e" WE have laid that antiquated old
fogy, Lewis Oass, on the shelf Of final
retirement. WE have buried Erastus
Brooks, the most notorious and unmiti-
gated slanderer OF Col. Fremont, rnder
the pulfid mound Of his own calumuics.
and left him to rot in the offal of poll
teal corruption. WE hayc compelled
Buchanan to 90 into the Presidency with
but a small majority, and under protests
from tho Christianity the intelligence
and the dcccncy of the North ="
PomrIcs IN THE PULpIr FIX Senator
Dickinson, of New York, in one of his
ono,;nno 4l,,,g .,no,I-e of tI,o III. % =.
introducing politics into the pulpit.
--.,-~@ tt tt has ,lo more tU tcfnoraiizc tire
public mind than any other social evil,
for it has planted death in the scat of
life, it has done more TO desecrate tho
cause Of religion than the worst opin-
ions Of Paine more to raise up an army
of sconcrs than the writings Of Voltaire
more to manufacture infdels than the
seed sown in the revolution Of France;
and when all these influences shall have
boon oxterminated and forgotten forever,
the plague spot Of political pulpits will
rest upon society like deadly incubus"
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EG' The practice that is going to be
pretty extensively adopted by the Know
nothing party, Of putting out candidates
and calling them oid-line Wings, is sig
uiGcant. 1t shows that the party is con-
scious Of their own weakness that their
organization and creed are odious.. They
cant even trust themselves with their
old name where they had a majority last
November Mark these Wing animals
withKnow-nothiu2 tails exhibiting them
selves about as candidates Inquire if
they were not last year Know-nothines
with Wing tails -- LopjsriUe Demoorat
TIM NEw CgSr.-Tt Is stated in the
Philadelphia Gazette, on the authority
Of Col. onowden, director of the u. S.
mint, that in about three weeks time
thi much desired c6iD viii be distributed
10 the public. About million are al
ready completed, aud two millions more
will be inisaed before the mint com
mcnces paying them out, Col. S. also
states that since the establishment Of the
United States mint no less than 1900
tons Of copper cents have been coined
Masking Of distinct pieces one hundred
and fifty millions OF those large
number have been lost, converted into
"wasbcrs' for machinery, or otherwise
taken out Of circulation.
Es'- Somebody has written book on
''Tbc att Of making people happy with
out money" We are in excellent con-