Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-09-23
ELAND, FRIDAY MORNING, September %. 1852


The prohibition Of the slave trade
amounts now to protection of the latter
at the expense of the former. The mea-
sure is utterly impracticablc, and there
fore can only do harm in its agitation.
Like that of the slave code for the Ter
ritories, its only effects will be to produce
discord and differences among ourselves,
while it weakens that gallant band OF
Democrats in the North who have been
battling for our rights against such odds.
While the Democratic party is thus
firm in its defence of the rights of all
sections and citizens at home, il is no less
decided in protecting them abroad from
invasion or aggression The State Con
yention declared that ''the effort made
by European powers to ignore the natu-
ralization laws of this government, and
to enforce any claim of military service
or other obligation arising out Of former
relation!of citizenship to them from Anne
rican citizens by adoption, are outroges
which should be redresscd promptly and
by every necessary means"
This only announces the equality of
right between all classes of our citizens
without regard to birth place, and insists
that foreign powers shall not be allowed
to hold our citizens to obligations, which
they should not think of claiming from
those Of native birth.
It is the party avowing these principles
that you are asked in Maryland to oppose,
and in opposing, to unite with all con-
servativc clements also opposed to it.
There is now no pretence Of any dis
tinctive principle made by the opposite
party in this State. The ralIying cry of
only four years ago, is now unheard. -
The fear Of the Pope, and the hatred of
the adopted citizen, like the narrow
minded bigotry which begot them, are
allnumbcred apparently among the things
that were-buried beneath the contempt
Of free people
The sole appeal now made is that all
Opposed" to the Democracy, shall unite
and vote against it. They ask tho poo
pie of Maryland to join in the coalition
of Opposition" 1t will be well to ex-
prninA- the slsusppts which, soapose IL !;
and hence to dcduce its aims, its ends,
and its object
In the South, IL is composed Of the fag
ends Of all parties, mixture of every
variety of political opinion. In one
State insisting upon the passage by Con-
grcss of slave code for tho territories
in the very next one dcnouncing such a
proposition as project of disunion. BY
thus adapting itself to the current Of
local sentiment, it has elected some doz-
en- members Of Congress, who will hardly
find any principle Of action upon which
they can agree, save that Of opposition
to the Democratic party. The OPPOSE
ton therefore in the South amounts to
nothing
In the free States, however, the case
is far different. There the Opposition is
an organized, jealous, enthusiastic, pow
crful, and aggressive party. Ithas prin-
ciples, leaders, presses, public opinion,
unity Of thought and unity Of action. -
1t is known as the Republican party In
1856 it almost elected President! 1t
is confident Of getting possession Of the
government in 1860 1t is sectional in
its organization, in its sentiments, in its
principles. With able and ambitious
leaders, who seek to consolidate their own
power by uniting their own section in an
attack upon the weaker side; it has ey-
crything to lose and nothing TO gain by
abating its claims or modcrating its po-
sition. What those claims are, what
that position is, that Mr.. Seward has
stated in language too explicit to admit
Of doubt. The Republican party, says
he, is organized and based upon the
irrcprcssiblc conflict, which, he says,
must be going on between slave labor
and free labor.
:" IT is an irrcpressible conflict between
opposing and enduring forces; and it
means that the United States must SOON
or or later become either entirely slave
holding nation, or entirely free labor
nation. Either the cotton and rice fields
of South Caralina, and the sugar plan
tations Of Louisiana, will ultimately be
titled by free labor, and Charleston and
New Orleans become the maris for legi-
innate merchandise alone, or else the rye
and wheat fields Of Massachusetts, and
New York must be surrendered by the
farmers 20 slave culture, and to the pro-
duction Of slaves, and Boston and New
York become once moro markets for trade
in the bodies and souls of men,"
Here then VIC have conciscly stated the
object and the aim Of the Republican
party. Taking the side Of free labor in
this ''irrcpressiblc conflict, it is pushing
on to oxtcrminatc the other side, to abol-
ISL slavery, and to make New Orleans
and Charleston "mart for legitimate mer-
alone That is the distinctly
avowcd object Of that party. The means
by which it is to be accomplished are
easily discernod. Having FIRST obtained |
possession Of the Federal Government
by the assistance Of "all the elements Of
opposition, il will use the enormous pa
tronage in the South in onlisting recruits |
for the "irrepressiblc conflict" The
whole moral influence Of power will be
cxcrted in disseminating its principles,
and in ten years after its accession
strong body Of mcrccnaries will have
been gathered, transported or purchased
in the heart Of every slavcholding State.
In the progress Of time, the admission Of
new States will soon give the number
requisite TO change the Federal Consti-
.ution, and 10 vest in Congress absolute
power over slave property in the States.
Il is admitted that at present nothing can
10 done with the domestic institutions of