Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-11-16
Political Selections.

pressions Of sentiment as may be illus
trative of the political views of persons
and parties who may be likely to exert
an influence upon the future.
MOVEMENTS IN VIRGINIA. AT Alex.
andria, Richmond, Portsmouth, Peters
burg and other towns of Virginia, the
wearing of cockades has commenced on
the part of many young men. A beau
tiful silk flag has been sent to Ex-Gov.
Wise from Richmond, to be presented
to him as chief of the Minute Men of
Princess Anne county. The Portsmouth
Transcript says:
1.-The fighting spirit is fully aroused
in this section, and while our people are
opposed to precipitate or undue haste, we
believe they are ripe for secession, civil
war or anything else, directly, when Mr..
Lincoln announces or essays policy in
abridgement of Southern rights as I'M
dcrstood here"
The Norfolk Herald and Alexandria
Gazette both oppose anything like seces-
sion until Lincoln, after his Inauguration,
commits some overt act against the South.
A union mass meeting is to be held at
Staunton, Va, on Saturday the 18th
inst In Halifax county they are form
ing companies of Minute Men" The
Shenandoah Spirit of Democracy is OPP
posed to going into any Southern con-
vontion because of Lincoln's election. -
The Alexandria Sentinel earnestly calls
upon Virginia to make some movement
in view of the impending danger to the
country. 1t says:
Let the Governor promptly convene
our Legislature. Ought we to have no.
thing to say, when South Carolina and
Georgia are in session deciding their des-
tiny and ours? Are we TO sit still and
merely wait for the decision? Our peo-
pie ought to speak. A Southern con-
vention, and probably State conyen-
ton, ought to be insisted upon and pro-
vided for.
Suppose the South were in such man
ner to unite in solemn league to stand by
each other. Suppose they then united
in firm and temperate statement of their
rights and their ultimatum of delay in
having them recognized Suppose they
demanded by direct appeal to the four
teen northern multiplying States, the
prompt repeal of their injurious laws,
and the discharge of their covenanted
duty. Suppose, in case of refusal by
any of these, they then appeal to the
separate or collective authority Of the
several States, to exercise the converse
right Of secession--wc mean the po,scr
Of erclusi6a Suppose such exclusion
from the Union be demanded against
States that refuse to perform their obli-
cations, that thus the guilty, not the in
nocent, may suffer.
Would these things, or would any
other expedient, present any hope? If
SO, let US try them. And let no time be
lost, for there is no time to lose. Let no
man delude himself with the idea that
the Union will stand in the present posi-
ton of issues, and the present rapid
working Of things. 1t is simply an i'm
possibility, and he who would save it
should 60 nationally and instantly to work.
DeIay is disuaioa swift and sure.
TIE PRoposITIoN TO HOLD NATIONAL
CONVENTION AT WASHINGTON 1t has al
ready been mentioned that It had been
proposed to hold a national convention of
all the States. at Washington, in order
to effect final settlement Of the slavery
question, and that President Buchanan
favors the movement. The Southern
Confodcracy, published in Atlanta, Ga,
in the following remarks, also favors The
proposition
The vital question now presented to
American patriots is, how and in what
manner can constitutional Union be pre-
served? 1t is the most solemn and mo-
mentous question which ever presented
itself to free people. Will patriots Of
all parties think Of it? Consider it,
Reflect upon it? Nothing can be more
awful than to destroy the government Of
thirty millions of pcoplcl And nothing
can be so hideous as to plunge thirty
millions Of people into anarchy and re-
yolution. r We think now
that convention Of each Southern State
should be postponed, for it is we'll under
stood that in no case or under any cir
cumstanccs can sectional black repub-
ican President rule the slave States. -
This, we believe, is the settled and I'M
atcrablc determination Of the South. -
Our only advice is. stand firm South
Such then being the facts Of the case,
convention Of each Southern State is
unnecessary, for the present at least
but let there be a national convention,
convention Of all the States, to convene
the first day Of January, in Washington
city, and composed Of delcgates, two on
ly, from each State, elected by the peo-
pie, and let the object be final aud un-
changeable settlement of the slavery
question, and all other differences which
agitatc the public mind, and ALLEVIATE tho
two sections. In that convention let
each section Of the confederacy present
its mtiDotuDt, and then, if satisfactory
and amcablo adjustment Of all differen-
ces cannot be effected, then, and not till
then, should the South withdraw and es-
tablish separate government. Such
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