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

We
If there is any one motive which now
more than another, animates us, as the con-
ductor of Democratic press, it is to heal the
discussions which now partially disturb the
unity of our party. We blame no man for
exercising his honest preference for Mr.. DoUa-
LAS; nor will we consider him less a Demo-
Graf who believes Mr.. Douglas to be the re-
gular nominee of the party. Our purpose is
to induce every Democrat, who desires to see
the INDY ing principles ofDemocracy perpetu-
ated in all their vigor, to stand shoulder to
shoulder against the common enemy, in the
approaching contest, and not throw their
votes in such way as to give the State to
BELL and EVERETT.
In common with large majority of the
Democracy, we cannot agree that Mr.. Doug
las was nominated according to the rule
which has heretofore governed our National
Conventions, and which prescribed that no
man should be declared the nominee unless he
received the votes of two-thirds of the dele
gates elected to such convention BY this
rule was Mr.. POLK nominated in 1874, Gen.
CAss in ls4s, Mr.. PIERCE in 1852, and Mr..
BUCHANAN in 1856. Mr.. Douglas, with all the
unfair appliances, (Which it is not necessary
to refer to here, did not obtain the required num-
Der Of gotes in tie contention but his friends
finding that he could not receive nomination
according to the rule adopted by former con-
ventions, and which it was understood would
govern the last, rashly undertook to disre-
gard this and all other considerations, and
determined to force him and his Objectionable
doctrines upon the party, and thus they pro-
claimed him the nominee in defiance of the
protest of all the Democratic States in the
Union-every one of which had repudiated
him by their votes in the convention How
then can he be considered the regular nomi-
nee, achen he did not receive the cote Of single
Democratic State in that Convention
But independent of this objection, we have
other and more serious causes of complaint
against Mr.. Douglas. Ever since the inaugu-
ration of Mr.. Buchanan, whom we all helped
70 elect President of the United States, MIR
Douglas has never, by any act or word, shown
or support; but for the last two years has
taken especial pains to heap upon the head of
our venerable Democratic President the most
malignant and uncalled for abuse-allowing
no occasion to pass in which he did not en-
deavor to belittle and disparage his admins
tration in the eyes of the country. It is by
such conduct that our enemies have been en-
courged and emboldened in their vndictive
assaults upon the Democracy.
But aside from all this, let every Democrat
look at the facts as they are practically pre-
scented to us. Every man must see that Mr.
Douglas has no earthly chance of carrying
single State. Mr.. BREcKINRIDGE~o n the other
lani, will certainly carry large majority Of
the Southern States, and, if it was not for the
few scattering votes that Mr. Douglas will
draw away from him, he would, in all proba-
bilityi carry every one of them. How then
can any Democrat in Montgomery hesitate as
TO the proper course? Mr.. Douglas has not
the slightest chance Of carrying single coun-
ty or election district in the State--whilst it
is apparent to all that Mr. Breckenridge will
receive nine-enths of the Democratic vote in
every county and precinct, and if he could re-
ceiye the united vote OF our friends, would
certainly defeat Mr.. Bell in the State. Let
any Douglas man look at this question fairly ;
let him, if he chooses, retain his impressions
that Mr.. Douglas is the more regular nominee
but let him meet the issue like true Demo-
crat. and cast his vote for the man most like
" to defeat the enemies of his glorious old
party.
John c. Breckenridge has always been a
Democrat; his political career is unsullied,
and no one dare deny that his love for, and
fealty TO, the Union and the Constitution are
stamped upon every page of his history.
Nine-tcnths of the Southern Democracy will
vote FOR him in preference to Mr. Douglas.
Will any Democrat, therefore, withhold his
vote from Breckenridge, and thus help TO de-
feat his own partyP or rather will he not cast
his ballot in the maintenance of that noble
old party, who bore on to victory a Jackson,
a Polk, a Pierce and Buchanan, and whose
motto has ever been g Equal and exact justice 10
all nleRg''
We beseech you, therefore, felow-demo-
Gratis, to stick to your own friends, rather
than by any act advance the cause of your
enemies, and thus plant thorn in your own
side, which will forever rankle there to your
future disappointment and chagrin.
Sr.rr C.rvAsa -Rv a resolution of the