Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1859-08-19
KNOW-NOTHING NOMINATING
CONVENTION.

torney William Musser, for Surveyor;
Thomas English, for Sheriff; John w.
Darby, Elijah Thompson and DR.. A. H.
Somers, for Judges of the Orphans
Court; Mortimer Moulden, for Register
Of Wills, and Nathan c. Dickerson,
Zachariah Waters, John H. Gassaway,
John L. Dufef and Thomas Rawlings,
for Commissioners Of Tax.
Those who compose this ticket are all
agreeable and pleasant gentlemen, and
we feel sure that nothing will occur dur
ing the progress of the campaign which
will, in any manner, interrupt the kind
and friendly relations existing between
them and those of our ticket But we
recognize them as members, as the pro-
minent actors and leaders, Of the Know
nothing order of this county. These
are the men who disbanded the old Wing
party, and boosted that they had erected
upon its ruins the Know nothing or
American organization these are the
men who swore, in their midnight coun-
Gil, eternal hostility to all citizens of TO-
reign birth, and never-ending proscrip-
ton of all Roman Catholics; these men
are the advocates and supporters of all
that is odioas and obnoxious in "Sam's"
creed Of politics, and as such We mean
to battle With them through this cam
paign; and we say now to the voters of
this county, be not deceived by empty
defamation, promises of reformation, or
false and insincere recantation. Try
them upon the issues upon which they
themselves have submitted their claims.
The Convention was quite harmoni-
Gus. Indeed, few seemed to act for
the many, and all went along as merrily
as marriage feast, until the time arrived
for the nomination of candidate for
Register of Wills, when some indiscreet
member proposed the nomination of one
who never had sworn allegiance to
San" who never had been initiated in
a Know-nothing Council, who claimed
to be Wing, and never anything else
There was struggle. "Reminiscences of
the midnight council, fraternal sympa-
thy, and the more potent influences of
the sworn obligation to support brother
against an outsider, though be be even a
sympathizcr, controlled the Convention
and Mr.. MORTIMER MoULDEN, the Grand
Sire of the order of SAM" beat his Wing
opponent more than three to one. Vic
tory is sweet, but another such victory
would be fatal to Sans" prospects
After the Chair had announced the
result Of the vote, the Reu. Mr.. Henine
who was acting as secretary stated that
he had been requested to offer series of
resolutions, which he read aloud, and the
Convention unanimously adopted them.
The Hon. Il. j. BOWIE then appear
ed upon the stand and relieved himself
of regular speech, taking as his text
one of the Rererend gentleman's resolu-
tions, which possibly he may have seen
before. He had nothing to say against
Sam" or the Aboitionists. He said
the time had arrived for every one to be
up and doing; that, though he had been
inactive for long time, he had not been
undecided. What he said of himself,
we knew before for he decided in 1856
that he would "rathcr be leroag nth his
friends, than right Nth lis enemies ;"
and VIC have no doubt lie thought it was
time to be active, since he read from a
correspondent Of a newspaper that the
Black Republicans and their allies will
have a majority in the next Congress-
Chivalric and patriotic gentleman After
his friends have fought the battle, he
comes upon the field and offers himself
as sacrifice President BUCHANAN,
Secretary CoBB, and the Democratic par
ty generally, were the subject of this
gentleman's remarks. lie was really
pathetic when he spoke of our depriva-
ton of daily mail he said, only
three times week can wife hear from
her absent husband, a child from pa
rent, or an absent lover from bis mis-
tress;" and for this the Democratic party
should be defeated this fall. Docs the
gentleman know that the model Presi-
dent, FILLMORE, sent us but a tri-weekly
mail? But the main point of his effort
seemed to be against the Democracy of the
South-thc only place, he says, lit now
has habitation." He handled them
without gloves, and charged upon them
as disunionists and revolutionists. He
says in less than eighteen months the
South will probably, with force and arms,
assail the North; and if they should,
and for the causes he supposes they will,
he pledges himself, civilian though be
be, and peaceful as he is, to shed the
last drop Of his blood against thcm."-
lie spoke of the battlc-felds of Magenta
and Solfcrino, of the desolation and de-
vastation which marked The progress Of