Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-06-11
The New orleans Revolution.

The intelligence from New Orleans,
which we publish to-day, realizes the
apprehensions, long INDUCED, that the
people of that city would be driven to
some violent and revolutionary resort in !
order to terminate the bloody rule of
Know-nothing rufians, who have main
tanned, for the last three years, reign
of terror over that unfortunate city. We
have never been the apologists (says the
Baltimore Republican, for mob law
and violence in any shape they might
assume. We deprecate all forcible re-
sistance to legitimate authority as sin
cerely and truly as any one, and are as
fully aware of the vital obligations rest
ing on the press in this country to incul-
cate profound sentiment of loyalty and
obedience to the formularies of govern
lnent and law and all the fine homilies
that may be preached from now until
the Greek katends, wi4f~not deepen cur
convictions upon this point But we are
nevertheless not Of that class who can
never discover acts of violence and out
rage unless they are the victims, who
never cry wolf except when their flock
is invaded. On the contrary, our re-
sistance to all violent proceedings by
which the rights of the people are inva-
ded, is based upon the broad principles
of justice itself. We will never be of
that class who, like Macbeth, would not
"play false, yet would wrongly VIM
Thus, when we beheld the formation of
the secret clubs whose rule, wherever
they have existed, has been marked by
violence and outrage of the most unre-
lenting and systematic character; who
have, wherever they have by such means
obtained the control of government, no
toriously employed it to inaugurate
reign of terror, our voice was loudly and
fearlessly raised in denunciation of their
proceedings.
We predicted time and again the in
evitable results that have everywhere
marked the progress Of these secret or
CARNATIONS We knew and felt that
they were sowing to the whirlwind and
that the storm would inevitably be reap
ed in the blood of our fellow-citizens and
the overthrow of Legitimate government.
Then was the time, too, for those who
are now lamenting with such affected
horror, the scenes and occurrences which
have taken place in New Orleans, to have
used their influence in checking and re-
-strsining these dangerous bands Of ruff
fans. Then would have been the mo-
ment for the so-called conservative press
of the country to show their alarm for
the existence of law and justice and the
preservation of the authority of govern
ment This they have failed to do. -
Nay, more; they have denounced and
villifed those who stood forth boldly to
discharge this duty
1t is useless now for them to stand
amazed at results which their own saga
atty must have seen to be unavoidable. -
They should as reasonably expect to ap-
ply the torch to magazine and not real
ize an explosion.
Notwithstanding this, we will not be
betrayed into any justification of the
proceedings in New Orleans, but we will
not, at the same time, give utterance to
hypocritical sentiments about the awe
and majesty of authority in case where
we believe the outrages, murders and
violence committed by those claiming to
exercise it, have driven people beyond
the bounds of patience and endurance,
and when resort to force appeared to
them the only means of escape from the
execrable tyranny, unlawfully and fraud
ulently exercised over them.
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DEATH OF SENATOR HENDERSON. 1t
becomes our melancholy duty (says the
Washington Union of the 9th instan.)
to announce this morning the deceasa ne