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


The Douglas Committee in Pennsylvania
having withdrawn their peculiar, " Straight
OUT ticket, and agreed to unite on the regu-
larly nominated ticket of the Democratic State
Convention of that State, the Richmond En-
quirer, with much force and appropriateness,
appeals to the Douglas Democracy of Virginia
to follow the example And it suggests the
following as a mode by which the friends of
Mr. Douglas may pay him the compliment Of
their votes, without doing injury to their
party:
q Let every voter pho may prefer Douglas TO
Brechinridge, cypress that preference by erastng
Brechinridge and Lane from the Charlottesville
electoral ticket, and aorite upon that ticket the
names Of Douglas and johnson. Thus their
ballots would record their preference, while
their votes would be recorded against Bell and
Everett the common enemy of both Breckin-
ridge and Douglas. Wemake this suggestion
to our friends of the Douglas party as the best
means of showing their preference for Mr..
Douglas, without aiding Bell and Everett
More than this-such action on their part will,
in the future, be the most undeniable and con-
elusive evidence of their deep attachment to
their party, as well as an indisputable assu-
rance of their respect for Mr.. Douglas. 1t is
II mode of compromise which, while it gives
10 Mr. Douglas the compliment of approba-
| ton, furnishes no aid and comfort to their
enemy.
"When our Douglas friends remember that
this canvass, and all its feelings must be tenn
| porary that, after the election, circumstances
will force the two wings of the party to unite ;
that the foreboding future must make Virginia
Democrats brothers in common cause; that
| tnllf final Anf.n
tion-they ought not and many of them, ace
kno,c, ,cW mol by their votes, widen the IN
happy breach that already exists.
We earnestly commend this suggestion of
the Enquirer to the friends of Mr.. Douglas
They will not only thus pay him the compli-
ment of their voices, but they will better serve
his interests than by any thing else they can
do. They will command for him the respect
due not merely to their numbers, but to them
selves as brethren. If they vote their separate
ticket for Douglas, it will after all be only a
compliment to him, for every body knows he
has no possible chance in Virginia. And if
by SO doing they show willingness to defeat
their own party, and give the State to those
who have been for long years the persistent
and incorporate assailants and denouncers of
Douglass what state of feeling would they ne
cessarlly produce towards themselves and to-
wards Mr.. Douglas on the part of those who
feel kindly towards him though they cannot
vote for him now? We ask them to put the
question to themselves, and answer it as good
Democrats and as reasonable men. They can
compliment Douglas as well by voting for him
on the regular Charlottesville ticket as by
voting for him on the Staunton ticket. They
can do him no harm and will do him an indi-
rect good by voting for him on the Charlottes-
vile ticket. By this latter course they will
also manifest their own regard for the integ-
rity and unity of their party, and preserve
with their political brethren that mutual SYM
pathy and affection which will be so important
to us after the present difficulties have passed
away = Virginia Sentinel.
We ask our Democratic friends who are sup
porting Mr.. Douglas to read carefully the
above suggestions. They are equally applica-
bic to Maryland as Virginia. Why should
any Democrat continue a course which must
tend to strengthen our common enemy and
perpetuate the present unfortunate division in
our ranks? If there are those who are tired
of Democracy, and who desire to see Adolf.
tionism elevated to power, let them have tht
manliness to avow their opinions and wishes
and give their votes directly to Lincoln. IL
give support to Mr.. Douglas in any Southern
State is doing what the Know-nothngs il
Congress did-throw away their votes for tn,
benefit of the Abolitionists, and put them into
power by dividing the strength Of those OPP
posed to their sectional fanaticism.
There is not Douglas man in Maryland
who believes that he has any chance ofcarry-
ing the State, or the most remote chance OF
being elected. If they desire to pay him the
compliment of vote, and to show their re-
spect for his talents and their confidence in his
principles, that can be done by the means pro.
posed by our Virginia contemporaries, and il
can be done without destroying the unity Of
theDemocratic party and perpetuating unkind
feelings. Why should we not mite as bre-
thren against the common enemy, who has beer
through the past the bitter reyiler of all De.
mocrAts, and Of none more bitter than Mr.
Douglas? Will Democrats of old Maryland
friends Of Mr.. Douglas, so act as to give The
State to his lifelong enemies and revileri
rather than to the gallant Breckenridge, who
was his friend and defender in the past W.
hope not. Let us not by our divisions en-.
courage and strengthen our old enemies and
palsy the efforts Of the true and loyal of ouI
own party.
Democrats Of Maryland, friends of the
Union-all who are opposed TO Abolitionism
and its dangerous doctrines-let us unite TO.
gether and give our support TO one electoral
ticket pledged against this heresy, and by
such union we shall save our country from
disunion, with all its attendant horrors o.
civil strife and bloodshed .--BaH. Repub.