Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-12-14

thing of good gave way to the fanatic
clamor of mere unreasoning and sense
less sympathy with black men to such
degree that to break covenants, to steal
property, or to facilitate the stealing of
it; to write and distribute documents in
citing to Instruction, murder aud rapine;
tospetition for, to insist upon, to advo-
cate and to urge, in season and out of
season, the deliberate violation of the
compacts of the constitution or the over
throw of the Union--such came to be
the familiar sights and sounds of our
daily life
The sacred pulpit, to great extent,
became infected with political abolition
ism as with an epidemic plague. The
churches, and their aucillary associations,
were distracted, divided broken up. Po-
litical parties became demoralized. Cur
rent literature assumed morbid, iaun-
diced, foulish black hue. The leading
thought of Governors and of Lcgisla-
lures came to be the meddlesome inter-
ference, by messages, resolutions, and
otherwise, with the institutions of the
Southern States. Political power at the
North could be obtained only by pander-
ing to this unconstitutional spirit Of in
termeddlesomeness. Most of the politi-
cal and many of the religious and pro-
fessedly literary journals fell into the
same perverse condition as that Of the
local public mind which they reflected.
The favorite orators in the Northern
States were such as detained against
the constitutional rights, the free inha-
bitants, and the institutions Of the South
ern States, who denounced the constitu-
ton and the Union, because of the con-
stituhonal rights which the South has in
the Union, and who had reached such a
pitch of demoniac possession as to pray
for the advent Of an anti-slavery con
stitution, an anti-slavery Bible, and an
anti-slavery God, " as if so petty ques-
ton as The scrf-labor of the South were
the sum Of the universe Of the proyi-
dence of Almighty God. Thus the dali
ly speech and thought Of tens Of thou
sands Of persons in the Northern States
was of such hostility of feeling toward
their fellow-citzens of the Southern
States as the btterest national hatred
and that only, could apply to foreign en-
emies and the sentiment did not fail to
intensity itself into actual hostile inroads
from the Northern into the Southern
States-the authors Of those inroads to
be honored, and in some cases to be sane
tilted, yea, almost deifed, if not in all +,
yet in but too many Of tie most intelli-
gent and cultivated and professedly mo-
raj and religious among tho Northern
States.
And at length, to cap the climax of
political alteration, the sons entered up
that which the fathers dreaded and warn
ed against as the great last peril of the
Union. These unlilial sons of the fathers
organized sectional combination of the
Northern States, with sectional candi-
dates for the Offices Of President and
Vice-President Of the United States,
through whom, if elected, to impose
their will on the Southern States; aud,
failing in their first attempt to do this,
they have now, as they assume to believe,
at length succeeded in second attempt
Of the same sort, by the election Of
President whose distinctive idea is that
States with different domestic institutions
some free labor, some slave labor
cannot exist together in the Union; that
there is an irrepressible conflict between
them; and that Of course the fathers
erred in assuming that States with vary.
ing domestic institutions can co-exist, and
in framing constitution expressly adapt
ed to that precise end, and SO construct
ing the Union.
Mr.. Cushing next proceeded at some
length to show that the a. one idea " Of
the republican party must inevitably lead
to the dissolution Of the Union, and then
adding:
There is no escape from that You,
the republicans, by Abraham Lincoln,
the selected representative Of your opin-
ions and policy, and by the principles
and reasonings with which your speakers
and writer's have succeeded in getting
plurality Of votes for electors assumed to
be favorable to the designation Of him
for President, have declared aud an
nounced that the two different kinds of
States, frec-iabor States aud slaye-labor
States, cannot co-exist in the same Union. |
That, and not the equality Of the States,
is yotr fundamental idea. The funda-
mental idea Of the fathers was 10 enable
States Of differing domestic institutions
to live together in peace and good fel-
lowship, and as the means to that end
they established the domestic independ-
ence and equality Of the States You
rcpudiate the idea Of the fathers; you
of course reject the means which they
devised for the security Of their idea; to
do that, you in effect change the govern
meBt from federal to consolidated one
and that is resolution.
v hat is the alternative of this? Il
there any? Yes, your idea comprchends
it. If such a Union, with such States,
cannot co-exist, then either one set Of
States must propagaDdize, convert, con-
quer, the other or else they must sepa-
rate, and that also is reuoiation.
Then, | say, you, the republicans,
with your idea, if you inaugurate that
idea, have reduced US 10 this fatal diem-
ma; revolution on either hand incuitaUy |
either revolution in the change Of the do
nestle institutions Of the States by the
action or influence Of the federal govern