Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-05-27
THE APPROACHING CAMPAIGN.

THE APPROACHING CAMPAIGN.
We publish in another column of to-
days Sentinel call for meetings of the
Democrats and anti-Know- nothincs of
this county preparatory to the approach
ing political campaign, and in doing so,
we conceive it appropriate to remind
them of the great and important ques-
tons involved in the issue of this con-
test. The least informed of our read
ers are aware Of the character of the
last campaigns the zeal and enthusiasm
which the followers of Sam displayed
i'll their pursuit and denunciation of our
foreign and Catholic population is fresh
In the memory of every one-the ex-
IRENE and unparalleled means resorted
to in order to accomplish their designs
can never be forgotten Yet, as violent
and disgraceful as were their efforts. the
good sound sense and enlarged patriotism
of the American people proved a sue
cessfu barrier to the adoption of princi-
pies fraught with such dangerous ten
denotes.
The triumphs of the Democratic party,
Ill its conflicts with Know-nothingism in
other States of this Union, have en-
couraged the timid and doubling, and in
spired them with confidence to rally to
its standard in our own State, and we
are we'll assured that at the next election
many, heretofore estranged, will be found
first and foremost in our ranks, battling
for equal laws and equal rights. Doubt
less this is the last effort that Know
nothingism will make; its ranks have
been broken, and its organization des-
troyed; yet, the material of its former
makeup exists, and is among us for mis-
chief and discord. Their hatred to De-
mocracy is so great that there appears to
be no ism, no matter how obnoxious and
Repayment to all sound reason, that does
not command their admiration and sup
port in preference. When, heretofore,
we have said that their organization
gave aid and comfort to the slavery abb
olitionists Of the North, "hands in holy
horror" were raised, and words could not
be found to express their Indignation at
such an idea When, in 1856, we de-
clared that the leaders and -pullers
of "Sam's" order, in the State of Mary
land, would prefer the election Of FREE
mont to Buchanan to the Presidency, we
were almost alarmed at the indignation
manifested by his votaries that we should
dare impute to them anything Of free
soilism but now how changed the scene
how humiliating the spectacle SANS"
fortress has been assailed, and his once
powerful and countless armies routed
and beaten down; no plank of their once
glorious and patriotic platform remains
as q resting place for any of them, and +,
with Winter Davis as their leader, they
60 over to the Black Republican party
and call upon and invite all who were
once with them, to join them in their
united effort against the Democratic
party. This is no Imagination; it is too
true A coalition of the American"
party South and the Republican" party
North Las already taken place, the terms
Of the contract agreed upon, and the dis
tribution of the spoils settled. 1t is
against this combined order that the
Democratic party has to contend ; Mary
land is the battle-ground, and it is in the
coming election that the decisive blow is
to be made. We therefore remind every
one of the great Importance of the ap-
preaching campaign, and call upon every
lover of the Constitution-cvery friend
Of our Southern institutions, and every
patriotic and law abiding citizen--to be
watchful, to rally under the banner of
the Democratic party, and battle for the
constitutional rights of every citizen.