Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-09-07

JAS. A. FRANKLIN, of A. Arundel Co.
THE TRUE FRIENDS OF THE UNIoS.-There is
no truer friend to this Union than he who
calmly points out the dangers and instructs
the people by fair and just statement of the
condition of things as they surround the pre-
sent presidential controversy, No one be-
leves that Mr.. Bell or Mr.. Lincoln, Mr.. Doug
las or Mr. Breckenridge, favors dissolution
of the Union, or that either advocate meas
ures that then think will lead to such result. |
That is not the question as to who is for dis
solution of the Union, but the real question
is, what is the danger, and who is response
BILE? The issue rendered is that the election
of "LINcoLN is THE DOWNFALL OF SLAVERY. -
This is not the opinion of one man-it is the
almost universal sentiment of the black-re-
publican press of the North. We have yet
to see the first paper of that party at the
North that has repudiatcd it. Every speaker
in the back-republican party utters the same
sentiment. 1t pervades their pulpits; it clus-
ters around their firesdes and their affairs; |
il enters into their daily business. They hear
it in the former; they read it in the press /;
they talk it at the corners of their streets; it
meets them in the market-places, and pervades |
every avenue, whether it leads to pleasure or
10 profit No one sentiment is more univer-
salt is as common almost as the air they |
breathe. Can this Union last if such senti- |
ment is attempted to be put in practical OPP |
Grafton? We are not alarmsts, but we ask |
the question, can peace and harmony exist in
this Republic with such sentiments controll- |
ing every department Of the Federal Govern
ment? This is not an over drawn picture,
nor do we refer to it for the purpose of excl
ting sectional jcalousies; but we call the Sc
rious attention of thinking men to such arti-
cles as the following, which we take from the
New Jersey True Americut, whose partialities
are for Douglas, though the paper is advoca-
ting the Union electoral ticket in New Jersey.
Surely such a paper is not in favor of mis-
representing public opinion in the conscrya-
tive State of New Jersey, as reflected by black
republican organs, for the purpose of tanning
the disunion fame. Will the South consider?
They still have the power to prevent the ca
r 1NtniAy MtllNN SDlnc lSstt duu NhlSh al NNtAST
cate That power is, in one word, UNITY
Let the south cast aside your Bells and Ever
etts, and your Douglases and Johnsons, and
come boldly TO the support of Breckenridge
and Lane, the open, unwavering advocates of
the q equality of the States as guaranteed
under a common Constitution, and all will
be well. The UNITY OF THE South at this
juncture in our political affairs is the preser-
walton of the Constitution and the salvation
of the Union:
THE IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT.
The black-rcpublican organ of this city in
in its last number copies the extract of Mr..
Lncolns speech, delivered in Illinois in June,
1853, which gives to him the honor (?) of in
itiating the doctrine that " this government
cannot endure permanently, half slave and
half free,' and in which he said:
"a house divided against itself cannot
stand. | believe this government cannot en-
dure permanently, half slave and half free
do not expect the Union TO be dissolved-l
do not expect the house to fall-but do ex-
pect it will cease to be divided. 1t will be-
come all one thing. or all the other.
The organ also quotes from Mr.. Seward 5
Rochester speech TO the same effect, and adds
as follows;
" Contrast these two extracts with the
namby-pamby stuff which we hear from the
lips of some who call themselves friends of
freedom, and behold the difference Instead
of letting down the standard, instead of
throwing their constituencies back from ten
to twenty years they advance ii onward and
ri for hos Ero hat fhpro ia n ir-
repressible conflict which never can or will
cease until crisis shall have been reached
and passed"
Those who talk about party 'pdsting
their time in useless discussion of The SLAVERY
question: and who claim to be friends Of MIR.
Lincoln, not because of his fearless advocacy
of the great principles of freedom, but because
'he is an old-fashioned wing, would do well
20 study the signs of the times, and imbibe
somewhat of the spirit of our noble standard
bearer. OF all the issues now before the peo-
pie, the only one in which the heart and con-
science is involved is the slave question; all
Others are mere questions of policy, or Of
dollars and cents; and to attempt to ignore
or blot out this one great question is just as
useless as it would be to attempt to ignore the
existence of good and evil, or to blot out the
sun from the universe. 1t must and will go
on until ii conquers or is conquered ~
graduate our cotemporary for the boldness
and frankness with which ne presents it, We
know that he is daily receiving the condem-
nation and abuse Of many Of the supporters
of Lincoln for this candid exposition of the
truth, but they are wilfully blind or grossly
B infatuated If they do not see that the opin-
4 ions expressed by the distinguished men re-
ferred to are the logical conclusions Of the
present presidential canvass The "namby-
pamby stuff which has hitherto servedto
keep the loyal men of the country, who are
willing to support Mr.. Lincoln, not because
of his fearless advocacy Of freedom, but be-
cause he is an old-fashioned whig " in the
ranks of the republican party, can no longer
be trusted. The issue is made and must be
fought out; and however these mandy PAM
by " gentlemen may frownand scold, and as
cribe these declarations TO the folly or impru-
dence of the Republican, II is evident that
there is power in control Of that journal
from which thesc articlcq emanate that feels