Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-11-02

not exist, and peace continue for ninety
days between two foreign nations. Our
citizens are declared from entry into any
of their States with their property, for
business or pleasure, without forfeiting il
the moment their lines are entered We
are thus denied privileges which civilized
nations recognize as between each other
without treaty. In several of these
States, the entry into them with slave
is heavily penal on the master; while in
most of them fine and Imprisonment are
literally melted out to any one who assists
him in exercising his " constitutional
right" of reclaiming his lost property.
A Minister Of the United States, going
to his post at foreign government, is
waylaid and robbed in open day in the
second city of the Union, and there is no
redress because the property stolen is
slaves. No such outrage would be tole-
rated by one nation from another.
Rebellion and treason are perpetrated
in Virginia, and Ohio and Iowa refuse to
deliver to her the traitors and murdercrs
for trial. Ohio refuses to deliver to
Kentucky felon who had invited slaves
to abscond Illinois refuses to give up
to the same State thief, because he
happened also to be slave. Wisconsin,
through her Supreme Court, liberated
Booth, incarcerated and convicted by
Federal laws for resisting the execution
of the Fugitive Slave law, and the Su-
preme Court of Massachusetts, takes San
born out of tho hands of the United
States Senate, because he was connected
with John Browns raid upon Maryland
and Virginia, while Ohio incarcerates
Federal officers in the penitentiary for
executing Federal law. The Constitu-
ton is withered up in the fierce fire of
this fanaticism. Whenever any clause
of it, any right secured by it, comes in
conflict with this sentiment of the North,
it becomes utterly worthless the clause
is ignored and the right destroyed. And
at this time, in not one single Northern
State, is the Constitution in existence, as
far as the rights of the South to its pro-
perty are concerned 1t is nulliiied,
trampled under foot, deridcd, despised
This plain statement of historical facts
shows clearly the condition of the con-
test. On the one side powerful! North
ern majority overrides the constitution
and denies its obligations. 1t attacks us
by organized associations and unorganized
mobs. Acting through its legal govern
mental agents, expressing its will by So
lemn laws of States, it makes war upon
us through legislative acts, by its chief
Executive officers, and Governors, and by
the judicial DEGREES of its courts of high
est jurisdiction it does it, How vain
then that attempted assimilation by q
few, very few partizans among us, of the
Northern aggression to the Southern de-
fence. How worse than envious, to
compare the position of the South defend-
ing with irmness and zeal her existence
and her constitutional rights to that
Northern power which seeks to destroy
the one and to abrogate the other
But the present moment is pregnant to
us all. Parties will sink into insignili-
canoe, and s1artizans be submerged in its
terrible Importance.
This aggressive majority, these out
numbering millions of the North, now
seek to take possession of the govern
ment, through the forms of a Presiden-
kal election. And not satisfied with the
assured prestige and power of a majority,
they stand before US, backing their posi-
ton by the physical force of seni-mili-
tary political organization, which is said
to contain among its enrolled members,
ha!fa miAion Of meni Mr. Seward in
a speech in the West, congratulated his
party upon this Wide-Awake association,
for said he, " Your assistance may be re-
quired an Preser0ing he results Of yop
tdbors."
The Inauguration Of Abraham Lincoln
may witness the presence of tens Of
thousands of Northern troops in Wash
ington
In this crisis it is the duty of the pa.
triot, calmly and soberly, to take his po-
sition. The preservation of the Consti-
tuition, through which the Union of these
States lives and moves and had its being,
can only be effected by the decided, posi-
tive and united position of the South.
Any division among US, any difference in
our counsels, will be heralded as the
marks of weakness and the signs Of cow
ardice.
The next step is the organization of
this Black Republican party in the from
tier States. From agitation and action
beyond our borders, we are TO be attack
cd at our fresidcs and in our own hous.
es. The discussion is to be spread gra-
dually throughout the slavcholding States
until, at last, they will be obliged, in
self-defence, to resist, or submit TO the
will Of the Northern majorilies.
Here, in Maryland, the danger is now
on US. We stand face to.face with the foe.
His troops are already marshalled and
eager for the onslaught The late Penn
sylvania election, rendering the election
Of Lincoln certain in the opinion of bis
party, has called into open day the thou
sands Of secret sympathizers we have all
feared to exist in our midst.
The patronage Of victory is carrying
to him many who have heretofore stood
aloof. The result Of the Mayors cleo.
ton in Baltimore has utterly Frustrated
the hopes Of that large class Of men who
then adhered 10 the fortunes Of the late
" American" party. They never gave
cordial support to the nomination Of
Mr.. Bell, and the defeat Of their candi-