Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-01-04

should have assumed the position we now
occupy. Independent ourselves, We dis
claim any design or desire to lead the
counsels of the other Southern States. -
Providence has cast our lot together. by
extending over us an identity of pursuits,
interests, and institutions. South Caro-
lima desires no destiny, separated from
yours. To be one of a great slavehold-
ing confederacy, stretching its arms over
a iarritory lerscr than any power in Eu-
trcpe possesses-with population four
times greater than that of the whole
United States when they achieved their
independence of the British empire
with productions which make our exis-
tence more important TO the world than
chat of any other people inhabiting it,
with common institutions to defend and
common dangers to encounter--we ask
your sympathy and confederation. Whilst
constituting portion Of the United
States, it has been your craftsmanship
which has guided it in its mighty strides
to power and expansion. In the field, as
in the cabinet, yon have led the way to its
reaown and grandeur. You have loved
the Union, in whose service your great
statesmen have labored, aud your great
soldiers have fought aud conquered
for the material benefits it conferred. but
with the faith Of generous and devoted
chivalry. You have Tong fingered and
hoped over the shattered remains of
broken Constitution. Compromise after
compromise, formed by your concessions,
has been tramplod under foot by your
Northern confederatcs. All fraternity of
feeling between the North and the South
is lost, or has been converted into hate
and we of the South are at last driven to-
gether ny the stern destiny which con-
trolls the existence Of nations. Your Bit
ter experience of the faithessness and ra-
pacity ofyour Northern confederatcs may
have been necessary to evolve those great
principles of free government upon which
the liberties of the world depend, aud to
prepare you for the grand mission Of
vindicating and rc-cstablishing them.
We rejoice that other nations should be
satisfied with their institutions. Con-
tentment is great element Of happiness
with nations as with individuals. We
are satisfied with ours. If they prefer q
system of industry in which capital and
labor are in perpetual conflict--and
chronic starvation keeps down the natu.
raj increase of population, and a man is
worked out in eight years, and the law
ordains that children shall be worked on
ly ten hours day, and the sabre and
Layvnct are the Instruments Of order. be
it 80. II is their affair, not ours. We
prefer, however, our system Of industry,
RyswLiehs lahpg Aad capitnl arc identified
~ interest, and capital, therefore, pro-
tects labor by which our population
doubles every twenty ycars-by which
starvation is unknown and ABUNDANCE
crowns the laud--by which order Is pre-
served by an unpaid police, and many
fertile regions Of the world arc brought
into usefulness by the labor Of tie Afri-
can, and the whole world is blessed bv
our productions. All VIC demand 81
other peoples is to be let alone, 20 work
out our own high destinies. United to-
gether. and we must be the most indc-
pendent, as We are among the most i'm
portant nations oft world. United to-
gether, and we require no other instru-
ment to conquer peace than our benef-
cent productions. United together, and
we must be great, free, and prosperous
people, whose renown must spread
throuhout the civilized world, and pass
down, we trust, to the remotest ages.
We ask you to join us in forming a con-
fedcracy Of slaveholding States.