Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-10-18

this emergency. With uuwonted hearth
ness should we now beseech, "Spare thy
people, Good Lord spare them, and let
not thine heritage be brought to confu,
sion !"
Can this Union, whose grateful walls
three-quarters of century have slvered
over, be saved from dissolution ? Not by
armed bands, beloved---not by the march
Of .carriors, uor by shouts Of battle, nor
by n,any garments rolled IN Uoodp
The medicine Of coercion is not suited
to heal the gaping, bleeding wounds of
the Union 1t may seem very brave and
valiant to discourse, as many nowadays
do, about forcing State to remain in
the Confederacy; to insist sternly upon
an appeal to arms, rather than have one
60 out; it may be very well for the pro-
sfessional soldier, or the amateur ualriors,
to believe only in fighting to Keep the
Union perfect, aud whipping back"
seeding member The one may have
his ambition aroused for higher fame, in
the glory of new Victories the other
may be eager to acquire similar distinc-
ton, in the annals of martial exploits
But for any other than these to talk
about coercion" and 'civil war" is the
merest fippancy-for they cannot have
weighed the force ofsuch pregnant words,
nor pondered much upon the results Of
such alarming counselsl What would
VIC keep this Union together by fighting,
State against State Gracious God =
What an eno,mityi What an impossi-
biity would this be What sort of a
Union should we have after the fighting
was over? And where and when would
the fighting end I? Admit that ,oe--the
most numerous and strongest--should be
victorious What would the contest be
worth !? After a'bloody, fratricidal war
ofStafe against State, how could we come
together as members of the same confed-
crate family again? What feeling of am
ity and concord would remain in .the
breasts of the conquered? Unloyal sub
subjects they might be; feltow-ctti@em
again no longer" \
A Northern army might, by the power
Of greatly superior numbers, succeed in
marching through some border Southern
States, and perchance, mightreduce their
inhabitants to submission for time-and
even so far change the order of things as
to make the Hocks the masters and the
,chites their slaresi But what re.
establishment of the Union would this
be! And what was attempted in one,
would have to be attempted in ALL For
it is not one State only that will be in
opposition the first blood shed to enJorcc
the Union will rally together the entire
population of the Southern Stotes, as one
man against the aggressor Ten millions
of people, animated with the same heart
and mind to maintain their rights!
Oh, grant me patience, Heaven, to
dwell upon this thought DO you seri-
ously think that any ornaments could
drive those myriads into the Union zee
had compelled them to break assunder
Neyer could such a work be accomplish
ed NEyER As well might we look
for the stars in heaven to fight for us
Ncrcr would the bloody. barbarous task
have a happy end As well might the
whole navy attempt to reUerse he current
Of The GulfIstreaDl, as to bring such
race as the Southrons TO submit to yoke
which they have become no longer will
ing to bear That Anglo-Saxo elc-
ment which predominates as well through
the Southern as the Northern section of
the continent, has had too much expert
ence, aye, and success in resistance to
aggression, to hesitate about consequences
or to expect anything but triumph
should contest unhappily beineyitable--
in a cause in which "their lives, their
fortunes and their sacred honor" were at
stakeI
II Il
God most merciful most just point
out to our now benighted eyes the safe
path through the sea OF troubles BE
Thou wall on our right hand and on
our left against the waves that else might
overwhelm us Let US take heed in
time, oh, countrymen Of the North ere
We arc plunged into the ineaprcssiJie lar
roys, the Ie0rtm colamjties, the decas-
tating ruin of GIRL rar.
And. if VIC find that our Southern
brethren are indeed unninchingly and
consciencously resolved to separate from
US, and thus to disrupt the Union, though
we may not approve their course, but
most profoundly deplore the eyent--lct
us have the grace and wisdom to part IN
pence; and let our yaledictory be "Go,
brethrent and God Almighty our faith
er's God and yours be with you and
bless you forever and forever more Pr
We shall thus be acting upon the beau
tiful and magnanimous spirit Of the wise
Patriarch towards his brother. Lot, and,
like him may say: "Let there be no strife
between me and thee, and between my
herdsmen and thy herdsmen for we be
brethren. Is not He wh0ie iand before
hee2 Separate thyself, pray thee,
from me" Thus shall VIC have the ap.
proyal Of our God, 10 the last moment Of !
our lives.
But if we turn aside from rise conn
sels no~, and refuse the things that
make for peace" what else can VIC OK.
poet than to be visited with the same
Tread fate which was fulfilled against Je-
-usalom? "Desolation and destruction,
with the famine and tho sword Who,
hen, shaH be sorry Jor @?"
E1- A Chicago paper states that the
Adams Express CompaDy's bill against
he Government per Gen. Fremont, for