Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-08-26
Opposition Triumpbs.

ihlell'Sent democrats 10 see the avIdity
with which the Know-nothing party in
this State seize upon the news of the
election of anybody, North or South,
opposed to the National Democracy.
They have had quite jubilee over the
returns of the late elections III some of
the Southern States, where they have
gained several members of Congress,
and are shouting Justify over the elec-
ton of Gen. HousroN, as Governor of
Texas. To show the entire fallacy Of
their hopes of aid and comfort from that
quarter, We give one or two extracts
from a speech delivered by Gen. Hous.
ton during the late campaign, which we
find published in the Baltimore Exchange
Of Monday last In referring to his
brief connection with the Know-nothing
party in 1855, he says:
about this time the American order
was started 1t bid fair to be separate
element; but it became corrupted. Du-
ring my connection with it / met some
of the most clever men alive-nearly all
of whom are the leaders of your present
Houston Convention party. If they
make as good Democrats as they did
Know-nothings, so long as it lasted, they
will serve you well. Give them office
and you need have no fear of their de-
serting you; but if you don't, look out
| wrote the other day to Mr.. Flake, an
honest German editor at Galveston, who
interrogated me, as he had rightto do,
and | was bound to answer: That since
1855 l had not been connected with the
order. 1t was said to be dead, and so
| regarded it. l knew of no attempt to
agitate it, and had no desire to see it
agitated.' l will say here that if On at
tempt were made to revive it, would
oppose it, because no good result can be
attained, and there is no necessity for
it,"
If our Kn ow-nothing friends can get
any comfort out of this, they are well
come to it. Of his own creed, or rather
of the negative features of his creed, he
submits the following definition:
My principles you all know. / am
opposed to banks; opposed to internal
Improvements by the General Govern
ment; opposed to distribution of the
public lands among the States opposed
to taking the power from the hands of
the people; opposed to special monopo-
lies; opposed to a protective tariff; op-
posed to a latitudineus construction Of
the Constitution; opposed to slavery ag-
itation and disunion. This is my De-
mocracy."
Towards the administration of Mr..
Buchanan he entertains the best possible
feeling, and speaking of the President,
personally, he says:
He has been honest and faithful,
and if all the evils have not been reme-
died, II has not been from a want of
effort on his part. You did we'll to make
him President, and when all the clouds
which have gathered about his admins
tration are cleared up, you will find
that, surrounded as he has been by fac
tons which have crippled his admins
tration, and by difficulties which we're
not of his own making, he has acted
wisely and as patriot"
After this-who will claim General
Houston's success as an Opposition vic
tory? It plainly shows the dishonesty
Of those who, in order to conceal the
real weakness of their cause, are in the
habit Of claiming every defeat of De-
mocratic nomination as popular YER
dict in their favor, without regard to the
issues involved in the contest, or the
views of the successful candidate.
We doubt not that an analysis of the
result of the elections in North Carolina
and Tennessee, would show how equally
fallacious is the boast that those States
now stand in the attitude of opposition
For the enthusiasm which fopdly count.
upon support which it never receives.
we can make every allowance but for the
dishonesty which wilfully conceals, Of
still worse, misrepresents facts, we have
no liberation. II is in vain for the lead.
ers of the present dominant party in
Maryland to fatter themselves with the
hope that the faction to which they be-
long will ever attain the Importance or
tho responsibility of national organi-
cation, or to look for any other union Of
the Opposition than that which they
may be able to effect with their natural
and only available allies-the Black Re-
publicans of the North.
The CAMP MEETING, which has been
in progress since Friday last, has been
attended bv treat numbers from ovo.,,