Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1860-01-06

AS to the Helper book to which you
refer, | have not read it through; but if
the Compendium be fair reflex Of its
contents, | have no hesitation in saying
that it is the most vicious political work
ever issued from the American press,
calculated, il not intended, to do infinite
mischief to our institutions. It is bad
enough that men Of ability and position
in the country should seek to engendcr
strife between the States for portiznn
ends; but this man Helper, as though
instigated by the flesh and the devil,
goes deliberately about the work Of cs-
tablishing different classes Of citizens
within the sans State, and advising
thori to war on each other. He advises
the on-slaveholding citizen to suspend
all intercourse, social and commercial,
with his neighbcss who held slaves, and
to treat him With disgust and indignity,
thus begetting jealousy and hats among
those who should be friends, aud poison
ing the very sources of social fraternity.
To what viler end couli any man devote
himself2 Nor will it do for the sixty
eight Republican members Of Congress
who endorsed the compendium TO this
book to say that they didsso without being
aware Of its contents. They must come
out and discard its doctrines IN toto, II
thoy. would mako amend for the mischief
done to the peace of the country. -
But fear they will not all do 30, for
many of them owe their political promi.
nence to the favor offanatical abolitionists
As said before, | am delighted with
tho proceedings Of the meeting in your
city, but, my dear friend, all the meetings
Of the kind that are likely to assemble
will not give peace % the country, so
long as q great party in tho North, like
the Republican, seek 70 gain control Of
the government by sectional organiza-
ton, and by maintaining doctrines and
issues in derogation Of the rights Of tho
Southern State I'D offensive TO their
pride, as co,eqaal members of the con-
federacy. Nj Ssward's (" irreprcssiblc
conflict for thc mastery, between the
free and slave 81 ties, must be discarded
and denounced aud more, SO much Of
the last Republican platform as rates ne.
gro slavery aIelie of baabarism as base
as Mormonism, must also be abandoned
What could te more offensive than this
similitude An institution common to
the South il formally arraigned by par
b. seeking y gain the government as
barbarisul, and. Of course, as much q
crime as Mormonism, and tho. people of
the United States are asked to endorse
that sentiment at the poIls--to adjudge
that the citizens of fifteen States arc
criminals and yet, the representatives Of
this party in Congress say they have no
connection with or sympathy for tho Alb
clifton party in the North. This is alb
surd so long as they maintain such doc
trines they must sympathizc with tho
Abolitionists, and the Abolitionists with
them; and how could they hold any in
stitntion to be barbarism and a crime
and then say they do not intend to assT
it everywhere. The truth is, We poofo
| IN the North must mind our own brsi-
ness. We have no connection withfla-
very, no duties to perform about it/ no
rights at stake, no responsibilities tqlbcar,
except to do what the Constitution en-
joins about the rendition Of fugitive
slaves.
All that is necessary is to take tho
Constitution as guide aud recognize no
issue in couiiet with that instrument;
this done, aud he free States are sepa-
rated from the slavery question entirely.
and peace will be restored TO tho whole
country, except the croaking os a feeble
band Of disunionists at tho South, who
arc not likely to gain power enough TO
do harm.
Very truly, your ob't servant.
VIZ. BIoLga.