Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-01-27
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asked how Mr.. Sherman endeavored to
do this, they answer by signing paper
recommending the Helper book to uni
versal favor, purchase and circulation.
Hence, the Democrats appeal to the
country to hold the Republican party re-
sponsible for all the evil that may result
from the long failure of the House to
elect speaker.
The move for the plurality rule has
come last from the successor to the well
known Joshua r. Giddings, the same
gentleman who once invited me to attend
meeting of the friends of the Topeka
constitutional honor which | respect
fully declined in the spirit becoming a
good Maryland Know-nothing. My pc.
htical folks in the House assign as their
reason for not aiding in the election OF
either Democratic or Republican speak
er, their convictions that there is hope
full prospect before them Of organizing a
powerful Union party for the coming con
test, and that success will attend such a
party. Among members Of the Demo-
cratic and Republican parties, this move
for new Union party is hootedat. The
Democrats say that there is no sectional
ism or disunionism even among their
most ultra Southern members, except
what was planted there By tho constant
interference Of Democratic North
erners with their rights, peace and seeu-
rity, and that justice requires the Re-
publican party to be held responsible for
all the seetionalism Of the South as well
as that Of the North They stoutly con-
tend that theDemooratic party has been
(and still is) the best Union party the
country ever had, and that there is no
place outside of its ranks where protested
Union men Of other political creeds can
serve their country to any advantage.
Hence, they all declare that every true
Union man among the Americans ana
old line Wings, il all sections Of the
United States. must enter the Democratic
i9li at once if there cfthe smallest atom
ofsinsetity intherpro.essious. Although
nm isTatler tough talk for me to let
pass unooniradictcd. thought it best not
to '.open my fly trap in opposition to it,
and must proceed to give my reasons.
The f" States" newspaper, published
here, insists upon recognizing aud speak
ing of the Republican party as nothing
but Abolitionists, and says their endorse
ment of the Helper book and their press
ing Mr.. sherman upon the House for
Speaker, proves them to be the worst
sort of Abolitionists The mourning
over the execution Of John Brown, which
was heard in SO many parts of the Free
States, and the recommendation Of a
negro instruction book" by so many
Republican members ofthe last Congress,
have caused Southernism TO be most
strongly developed among large numbers
Of my fellow Know nothings of that re.
gion. Well, this Southernism is what
some of my folks denounce as sectional
ISM IF the object of organizing new
jnion party be the extinction of this
lcve Of or native land and this deter
nihation 10 rehuke into good tGTiayiol
our anti-slavery aggressors then can't
gcfor it. Moreover, no good ever xel
come Of any of these special Union par.
ties. In 1850, because there we're many
pro5slavery Democrats in the South and
free-soil Democrats at the North opposed
to the compromise Of that year, num-
Der Of politicians then in Washington
proposed to organize Union party out
Of the friends of that compromise to be
found in both the old parties. Some
spoke Of Cass for President, and Webster
for Vice President, whilst others ad-
vised Webster for President, and Cobb
for Vice President But this call upon
the Democratic masses to renounce their
party allegiance and rally around such a
Union ticket, was answered by the de-
claration that tho Democratic party had
always been good enough Union party
for any body; and, hence, the effort to
get up Union national ticket in 1852
out of the architects of the compromise of
1850. proved a miserable failure. | am
decidedly Of the opinion that all true
Union men should exert their power for
the overthrow of Abolitionism in that
way which viii prove most effective, and
you will say your Democratic friends here
have pointed that way out clearly enough
The scene in the House of Represen-
tatives for the last several days. has been
very exciting one, Personal collisions
were quite often apprehended, particu-
larly on Thursday and Friday. Mem
bers Of both the leading parties interro-
gated each other on various points, until
much bad feeling was occasionally ex-
hibitcd Mr.. Hindman. Of Arkansas
has been tho leading dehater for several
days, and you may rest assured ho made
bis mark as one Of the ablest men of his
party. He says that 'the Democratic
members Of the House can never vote for
a Know-nothing without being guilty Of
bad faith to the large number of natu-
rallied citizens in the country who belong
TO that organization, but that no such OBJ
stacle exists 70 the concentration Of the
Know nothing members upon na,ire-
born Democrat. In reply to the question
whether the Democratic members had
net signed aa agreement to resist the
adoption Of The plurality rule by all par
lianentary tactics and siratagems, and all
means known TO tho constitution and
laws, II was admitted by the latter that
all the Southern Democrats had done so
Bat Mr. Cox, Of Ohio, said the Repub-
leans could have prevented this and or
gaaizea the liouselong ago if they had