Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-03-26
A Picture of the late Legislature.

" Clipper" but we cannot refrain from
making the following extracts; for, when
''rogues fall out they sometimes speak the
truth" The Clipper" has evidently been
disappointed in not obtaining large
portion ofthe public spoils, and therefore
divulges some of the secrets of the party.
That it is competent to speak, no one
for moment can doubt. 1t is in full
knowledge how certain bills became laws.
and how others were defeated F; and now,
after three years and more of unceasinr
efforts to build up Know nothingism,
it gives the fruit of the stuffed tree.
1t tells the people precisely what the
democracy told them from the first
Here are the extracts:
THANKSGIVING AND PRAYER. Now,
that we are in the midst of devotional
season, entertaining desires for aid in all
that communes to mans welfare, and hav-
ing just been blessed with happy rid
dance, we think no more becoming OPP
portunity could be presented for day of
thanksgiving and prayer. than one not
far distant. But, before engaging in
those invocation ceremonies, it behooves
US to look well to our past acts, and with
out desiring to hide anything from public
view, endeavor to find if we have been
guilty of any wilful, deliberate or pre-
concerted movement whereby our social
or political happiness may have been dis
turbed 1t is true, that many thought
less and short-sighted offences may have
been committed, which though censur-
able, carry with them paliation, on the
ground of the absence of intent. But
how is it on the reverse of this picture,
when hardened nature makes US callous
of all conscquences-disregardi all
social ties, and regulating every allie
glance to the commonwealth good Is
not such state of affairs to be deplored?
Should filthy lucre intercept all our bliss,
and fashion us like unto the raven, de-
vouring our fellow-creatures that we may
live the better for it, and leaving nothing
paramount but self? We lament the
condition, and give thanks to the Creator
of all good, that we have just passed
from an epoch shrouded in pestilential
vapors-blunting the edge of our bright
est hopes, and spreading pail upon the
future energies and justice of State Lee
gislatures We have never heard OF
events more to be regretted, and rejoice
that we have just emerged from the i'm
pending cloud of ruin. Its breath par
takes of disagrecable odors, rendered
the more obnoxious when we come tc
think that minister of the Gospel should
be told that two hundred dollars woulc
get bill through, which had for its OBJ.
ject the good of tic public schools anc
the Advancement of our growing youth
J Could such thing be dreamed of-ye
, this is but an isolated instance, to enume
rate all of which would become extreme
ly burGensome
; 1.-The Transporting incidents horrify an,
/ sicken US, they are blackoned to the core
, and we give thanks that the filthy mate
= rial has been elected from those tim
/, honored walls. We admit of some OK
ocptions, but look to the preponderanc,
of pressure. In conclusion we beg Il
: inform the Governor that the LEGIsLA
n TURE OF MARYLAND HAS ADJOURNED, ant
{ in commemoration of that blessed event
9 we sincerely and bescechingly call upor
him to set apart some day near at hanC
as a season of hanhsgiving and prayer
1t is greatly desired by ninety-nine o
, every hundred Americans, each one o
whom instead of saying ''well done. thor
good and faithful servant" would vehc
mently exclaim-"Let as ncrer look upon
, their like ogatnp
In subsequent issue the clipper in
dulges in little "plain talk" Il
says:
= "Our leader on thanksgiving and
prayer, on yesterday, fell, we understand,
like bombshell from an unexpected
quarter. The CONSERVATION of dema-
goges, (too long wrongfully shielded by
, party identity, was tremendous. Should
it blow them sky high, so much the bet
ter. The American party of Baltimore
has been sold in the election of traitors,
/ and we are bound to expose them at all
hazards. With the exception of four
delegates, perhaps, we have had none in
the batch worthy the name, much less
} qualified for the responsible positions
they have prostituted.
This combination of tricksters, in
; whose dark, henightod souls spark of
: true political honesty seldom glininers,
and who, beyond sclf-aggrandizement,
know no motive, betrayed their treachery
at the start by base desertion of the
Clipper. The Clipper, by common con
sent, contingent with the first ascendency
Of the party, should have had its undS--
, vided patronage, because it has been tAe
herald of Americanism in the State; be-
cause it has advocated the religious and
other tenets of our faith, when it was
not only unpopular but extremely dan.
gerous to do so; and because, through a
long series Of years, it has fought brayeiy
in warfare into which it had thus gone
a. its own expense. But forsooth, as
soon as victory was proclaimed, the glory
as well as the spoils, were awarded a CO.
temporary, upon the hinsy prctext that
without such bestowment it would cease
to exist in less than fortnight"