Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1858-10-22
HE TINEL,
ROCKVILLE. NED.
FRIDAY. go; OCTOBER %, 1858.
a Retrospect of the Battle Field.

hHOM-HoOulHSSs anu ulSdUecIcu DemO-
crats-(says the Baltimore Republican,
are rejoicing together over their success
in Pennsylvania and Ohio. They pre-
tend to believe that this unseemly coali-
ton, so falsely called the Peoples par
ty," is gaining strength everywhere, and
is destined to triumph throughout the
Union. This is either sheer pretence or
consummate ignorance. These parties
well know that the mongrel coalition has
nothing to hope for in any Southern
State. The niggcrworshipping element,
which constitutes the larger portion of
the opposition forces, can never be tole-
rated in the South, and the vote of the
past election shows conclusively that the
people of the North are fast being wean-
ed from this dangerous sectional party
The State elections which have taken
place in that quarter this year show large
Democratic gains.
Maine has reduced her Fremont majo-
ity of $4,000 down to 5000.
New Hampshire has reduced her Re-
publican majority of 5000 in 1856, to
5000.
Vermont falls from $4,000 in SO to
Is, 900.
Connecticut, which gave 10000 for
Fremont, is Republican by only $500.
California shows a change of II, 900
in favor of the Democracy.
Missouri has risen from a Democratic
majority of 5000 in 1856, to 25, 600 in
1858.
Kentucky has run up from 1000 for
buchanan and Breckenridge, to Is, 600
North Carolina, which gave 200
for the Democratic nominees in SO, now
gives 10000.
These facts seem to be entirely forgot
ten by the piobald opposition, which,
through the temporary alienation of a
portion of the Democracy, has succeeded
III the States first named. The few act
i've disappointed demagogues who have
been the principal cause of the detection
alluded to, will soon be stripped of their
influence, as their identity with Adolf
tionism becomes more clearly evident,
and the honest people who have been
misled by their clamor and misrepresen-
tations will come back to the Democratic
party, where they rightfully belong =
The great State of Pennsylvania seems
10 be most easily affected by these popu-
lar excitements but her people are al
heart true to the principles of Democra-
cy, and will not long be found in the
ranks of any coalition organized for their
destruction.
The plausible cry of free speech and
free soil has been used with great effect
in Ohio and Indiana, where, we are sor-
~ to say, Black Republicanism, or the
love Of the negro in preference to the
whites seems to have found a strong
foothold But we have no fears but that
even in these States, when the naked
issue is fairly made between national De
mocracy. and sectional Abolitionism, q
majority of the people will be on the
right side As to Know Nothingism,
which has obtained its little power only
by the most disgraccful frauds and vio-
lencc it has long since ceased to possess
any claims to a national existence, and
lives only in a few cities, where corrup-
ton and rufianism have sprung up like
unsightly and unhealthy fungus upon the
diseased body polite IF it die not of
Of itself, the pruning knife of moral re-
form must ere long be called into action
to remove the loathosome excrescnce and
restore health and soundness to those in
jurcd portions of our common country.
In looking over the great field of battle,
then, we see nothing to dishearten the
national party. Here and there a diyi-
sion Of our forces have met with re-
pulse But the main army is untouched
by detection, and its victorious march is
ever onward to conquest and to conquer.
Let the short-lived coalitions shout over
their temporary triumphs Let the Alb
olitionists, the Know nothings, and the
disatIcctcd Democrats, set down cheek by
iowl in their common wigwam, and par
eel out the offices among them so far as
they have been made accessible by their
unhallowed combination. The honest
masses will look on them with distrust
and contempt, and when they think the
golden prize is about to be theirs, they
will find that like the fruits of Sodom
and Gomorrah it will turn to ashes upon
their lips, and leave them but the bitter
ness of disappointment and despair
INDIANA ELECTION The Democratic
State ticket is elected by 2, 800 majority
The Congressional delegation stands three
Democrats, one Anti-Lecompton Demo
crat, and seven Republicans. The State