Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-02-01

ing the truth, in respect to the doctrines of
the Mary land Friends concerning slavery
will send him the printed "extracts " of the
proceedings of their yea;ly meeting: therein
Will be found abundant evidence of their
principles of non-interierence with the rights,
guaranteed to others by the laws of the land,
TO which no people have rendered more will
ing obedience
In regard to the particular occasion upon
winch the Friends of Sandy Spring met their
iellow-citizens of the county, on the first day
OF this new year, their attendance can be
readily explained, without resortng to any
injurious imputations. They probably be-
lleVe, In common with our excellent Govern
or, and with most persons who take an intel
llgent view Of the future probabilities that
the dissolution Of this Union would be fol-
lowed by the speedy extinction of slavery in
Mary land. If them they sympathized with
mat tanatical party, whose devotion to one
idea, has produced so much mischief in the
country, they would be found strengthening
the hands of those who are blindly endeavor-
ing to destroy the best government ever franz
cd by man. But the Friends can and do take
into consideration many things beside slave
ry: they are sincere well-wishers to their
neighhors, their country and mankind hence
they go in, with one accord and with their
whole heart, for peace and union.
ask leave to make one other reference TO
history. Bancroft in the second volume of
his great work, gives, perhaps, the best and
most discriminating account of the principles
OF the society Of Friends, which has ever been
published. In an animated chapter that will
repay perusal, he shows the influence which
that people exerted in establishing the princi-
pies of civil and religious liberty, and attri-
butes 10 their peaceful efforts a considerable
share in impressing those sentiments, which
IpI II eIt tn t1,a Il .f
ca. George Fox, the founder OF the society,
came over to America as Bancroft tells us, at
very early period, and visited the infant
settlements of North Carolina, at a time when
its lordly proprietors in England were en-
deavoring to force their obnoxious measures
on the freedom-loving people of that Colony.
Devoted servant of the Prince of Peace, as he
was, Fox used this language in his public and
private communications: "Friends" said he,
" stand up for your rights p This doctrine
has also taken root in the hearts of his peo-
pie. Let us hope that the Friends of Sandy
Spring will be still his faithful followers
and, while respecting all the rights of others
stand up, mildly and firmly for their own
Surely this is no time for divisions and re-
ordinations among citizens of the same COM
munity, bound together BY all the ties of in
terest and ancient friendship, and linked to
one common destiny. For let it be borne in
mind, in these times which are again {" to try
mems souls,' that the fate Of one, is the fate
of all. Whether our good State of Maryland
remains to be the proud heart of happy
Union; or whether drawn into the fatal en-
brace of South Carolina she shall be dragged
with her over the precipice of disunion into
the gulf that yawns 6eyoRd-we, her true and
faithful sons, shall all % live or die, sink or
swim, survive or perish" together
ONE OF THEM.