Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-09-21

which can serve my country at the
present time, Is 70 stand by tie american
party. | am net member Of the order,
b@ I feel that al he@t 1 an as true tothe
great and ieaoltag principles Of tie party
as could BE- mere I formerly initiated IN
to one Of It's councils.
HE DEPENDS ITS SECRECY.
The councils of the American order
are denounced as secret political societies,
fraught with and tending to all the mia-
chiefs and atrocities Of the Jacobin cltbai
Of Paris in the French revolution yet
since the order has become u political
party all their alleged secret proceedings
/ are known, almost upon the instant to
the public The oaths administered on
initiation Of members are denounced as
IMMORAL and amounting to n surrender of
all freedom and Independence in The ex-
ercise Of the elective franchise yet the
oaths administered in various other secret
societies, or voluntary associations in
this country. pass without notice or cen
sure; and it is well known to these as
sailants, that any member can set aside
the obligation of the oath he takes, so
strongly objected to, ut discretion, by
Withdrawing from the Order"
HE DEFENDS TIE KNOW NOTHING PgosCRIp-
TIoN or CATHOLICS AND FOREIGNERS.
The exclusion Of Roman Catholics
from the official pale is denounced as pro-
scriptiyc, and an attempt to establish a
religious test, in violation Of the Consti-
tuition. The exclusion of naturalizcd
foreigners, from all official stations, is
denounced as proscriptive, and likewise
a violation Of the constitutional rights Of
that class of citizens. To propose an
amendment to The Consultation by which
Romanists shall be excluded from office,
might justly be considered an attempt to
establish religious test and to propose
to exclude naturalizcd foreigners from Of
flee, by an amendment to the Constitu-
ton, might, with truth, be said to be an
attempt to prescribe them; but the or
ganizdtion of q potiticdt purity, upon he
principle or policy Of uihholdiag the
seppoyt and saBrages Of the men,birs Of
that party IN the public election from, Ro-
man Catholics dalndtu1uli@ed citizens
and that is all the American party pro-
poses to do-cannot, By any .fair reasoa-
ing, or ingenious sophistry, be shocn 10
de an attempt 10 establish a religious test
or to Proscribe any ctass Of citizens; nor,
in regard either to Romanists or natu-
rallied citizens, can the argument be
maintained, that the American party IN
acithhotding. from them Meig support IN
elections, is guilty of violation Of the
Constitution in letter or spirit unless
the practice and maxims of both the great
parties, which have SO long contendod for
the possession of power in this country
in elections, and appointments to and re-
moyals from office, be admitted to be in
violation Of the Constitution or its spirit.
THE DEMOCRATS CANNOT SAVE OR BE SAVED.
Il "But whatever alliances the
Democrats may form with foreigners and
Roman Catholics however the leaders
may fret and rage with whatever OBJ
stinacy Of purpose they may seek to re-
sist or crush the American party, they
will fail to defeat the great end and fun
damental policy of that party.
MUST NOT BE FRIGHTENED BY LITTLE
BLOOD BETTER A LITTLE NOW THAN
GREAT DEAL HEREAFTER.
4" The fears of the timia have been APP
pealed to by the ASSISTANTS of the Ameri-
can party, and their cooperation invoked
in putting it down, on the alleged ground
that its policy in regard to foreigners,
tends to provoke riot and bloodshed 1t
is said that this new party has been
stained with blood, in its very birth, and
that from this we may augur bloody fu-
ture. Yes blood has been shed, and
ne may /oreshadolo q dioody future. |
will not stop to inquire who provoked the
shedding Of blood in Louisville and other
places, but this ! will say, that whatever
party may have given the proyocation, it
is better that little blood should sprin-
ble the payements and sidewalks Of our
cities now than that their streets should
be dronched in blood hereafter; or that
the highways and open fields of our
country should drink up the blood Of its
citizens slain in deadly conflict between
armed bands-it may be between disci-
plined legions-natiye Americans on the
one side, and foreigners, supported by
native factionists, ON the other. And
this will be our future, unless now, and
before it is too late, we erect sufficient
barriers to arrest the torrent Of aliens
and strangers, which threatens in few
years more to flood the whole land"
1t was in reference to the " shedding
Of blood in Louisville" that Mr. Yanccy
in his speech at Memphis, uttered the
following outburst:
don't wonder Leslie Combs asks
the lrishmen not 10 criticise the past too
much. | do not much wonder, when
we think Of that bloody and awful No
yember, when fire and faggot, bayonet
and ball, poured out their blood in tho
streets Of Louisville, amid the shrioks Of
their women and children. Immense
applause. / don't wonder after Know
Nothingism had shown It's horrid ven
geancc against these poor foreigners
there, that Combs should now say, don't
let US crticise tho past too much II Is
my province TO bring II to your rccollec-
ton. 1t is my province to say to the
foreign population, if you forget the hour
when the bones Of your wives and chill
dren cracked in the flames Of Know