Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-02-19

: Hes9tced, That copy OF these reso-
buttons be transmitted by Che Governor
to our several representatives in both
branches of Congress.
PARTY OBLIGATIONS. The New York
Journal of Commerce concludes dis
Greet article on this subject as follows:
"Thc position taken by prominent
statesmen and presses on the great ques-
ton now before Congress brings these
considerations practically before the pub
lie mind, A number of men, prominent
in the democratic party, and heretofore
able and active supporters of its leading
principles and policy, are now arrayed
against very large majority of those
with whom they have heretofore acted,
and are battling side by side with the re-
publicans, whom they have heretofore
considered their most deadly political
foes. They claim to occupy the same
/ position as when agreeing with their de-
mocratic associates. Their present re-
publican allies also profess unchanged
attachment to their forper principles;
and yet, strange to say the two classes
act together, vote together, and appa-
rently symcathize with each other in the
fierce battle against the democracy. 1t
is not for US to say that these former demo-
Gratis have turned republicans, or that the
whole republican party in both branches
Of Congress have turned democrats nor
is it for us, who acknowledge no partizan
obligation, to decide who shall and who
shall not continue to be recognized as
members in good fellowship of either of
the political parties.
Politicians, like other bodies, find their
level, and we suppose those who separate
from their political associates on a vital
political question will in time find out
where they belong.
/ Much is said about reading men out of
the party. To us it seems that time will
soon determine the question of political
affinity. Those who continue to act with
the Republicans will soon come to be
acknowledged as Republicans. Those
who concur with the great body of the
Democracy will find fellowship in the
Democratic ranks.
TIE KANSAS QUESTION. 80 Washington,
February 1.-THE House Kansas'com
mittee met tonight, when Mr.. Morrill,
offered a resolution summoning Messrs.
Walker, Calhoun, Stanton, and Hender-
son, for examination, and requiring them
to bring all the documents in their pos
session bearing upon the subject-matter
Of investigation. To this it was objec-
ted that as official documents were being
obtained from the executive department,
oral testimony might not be necessary.
The resolution, together with four or
five others, looking to the examination
Of all matters covered by the resolution
under which the committee was appoint
ed, was tabled by vote Of 8 against 7 !;
and the committee then passed Mr..
Abrams resolution, instructing the chair
man to produce from the State Depart
ment the registry and census of the votes
in Kansas, when an amendment was Of
fered by Mr. Stephens, % in accordance
with the law" The committee adjourn
ed to Wednesday next, in order mean
time to produce the documents called
for.
The majority of the Senate committee
on territories have completed their elab-
orate report The bill which accompa-
MES it is similar to those heretofore presen-
ted on such occasions, and admits Kansas
into the Union under the Lecompton
constitution.
BAD LIoUoR. We need not go so far
as California to find liquor which creates
delirium tremens and suicide, but the fol-
lowing shows that the "iquor" which is
imbibcd in the golden State must be pref /
ty rough:
THE police lately seized a quantity
Of liquor kept for sale at several drinking
saloons. The brandy was colored with
burnt sugar, and contained one-sixteenth
of grain of sui Pirate of morphine to
every ounce Of liquor. The gin was
composed Of forty-seven parts Of spirits
and ffty-three Of water, with a dash of
sulphuric acid The whiskey contained
strychnine and creosote. The pale bran
dy contained, among other poisons, prus-