Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-01-25

Mr.. EDIroR: think it is TING we should
call things by their right names. If we look
at the late presidential election, we will find |
that in all the Northern or Free States the
American party $50 called) has almost entire
~ faded out Of view, whilst the ranks of the
Aboitionists have become swclled by such ac-
cessions as 20 ensure its first and fatal triumph
over the Democracy.
Look, for instance, at the vote in Pennsyl- |
vania, where, four years ago, Mr.. Fillmore
received some eighty-two thousand votes, now
Mr. Bell receives but twelve thousand. In the
other States the disparity is even more signi-
fcant II is now apparent that the same APP
planes, so successfully used at the North,
are at work to produce similar results in Ma
ryland. What stronger evidence do we want
Of that fact, than to see the Know-nothing
party of Montgomery, through the preconeert-
ed bidding of its leaders, bindly voting down
n proposition, which merely declared (" that
If, unfortunately, the slavery questions could
not be settled upon terms satisfactory to the
North and the South, and the Union should
be dissolved, then Maryland should go with
the South" In what other light can we
view such conduct, than as fragrant attempt
by g designing politicians, " TO sell out Mary
land to the North2 N use the quotation with
out any intention of plagiarizng any portion
Of Mr.. Bowie's specify
commission, by the abolition Governor of
Pennsy lvania, to Annapolis, to congratulate
Governor Hicks upon his frmness in declining
TO allow the people of Maryland to speak out
on this subject! What means the enthusiastic
concentrations of his conduct the toastine
ofhis namc and the firing ofguns to his honor
at the various abolition assemblages at the
North? 1t means just this: that they view
his course as aiding and abettng their aboli.
l.
then, that they are jubilant at the idea tina
the people are not to be allowed to expires!
their opinions through the only constitutions
chGnnel--that their voice is to be stincd and
they and their posterity to be quietly shifted
under the yoke of abolition oppression which
once on, they can never shake Off Was evci
an intelligent aud free people so outrageousy
insulted on the one hand, and BETRAYED on thu
other2 Have we arrived at that turn in 90
vernment when the people are not to be trusted
with the management OF their own affairs? #
70, it is time the incorruptible patriots of the
land should rise up and demand their right:
and determine to have them. Whilst every
other slave State have called conventions, tc
demand their rights in the Union-or, if that
be denied them, then to declare their indie
pendence out OF it-Marylan is treachcrously
denied the same means OF protecting herself
fes, sir, she is to be bound hand and foot,
abolition rule. Already the decree has been
announced by Mr.. Linooln's oracle, "that
should every other slave State go out of the
confederacy, Maryland shall not be permitted
to unite her destiny with theirs, but that all
soil north of the Potomac is to be claimed as
Northern territory"
Is it possible that the thinking masses of
the American party in Montgomery are will
ling that the land Of their fathers shall thus
he fnI 4
at by few designing leaders some of whom
it is true, are Shareholders, but who, fearing
that some detrimea might 6efdU their own selfish
aspirations, by uniting their efforts with those
who are always ahead of them in battling for
the interests of the people, would sooner part
with the few slaves they possess upon conside-
ration of receiving some distinguished politi-
cal favor st the hands of Mr.. Lincoln? But
what right have they, in SO doing, to sacri-
flee the property Of others? Gladly would |
lie assured that was mistaken in attributing
such unholy motives to these men, but they
m18tsee that their conduct fully justifies the
imputation.
Who can picture the future condition of
Maryland, should she be held to her present
do-nothing policy, until the powers of the
general government have passed into the hands
Of Mr.. Lincoln, who openly proclaims that
the principles upon which he was nominated
and elected, shall be faithfully carried out in
his administration? Those principles assert
that the Republican party intend to wage an
unrelenting war against slavery until it shall
have become extinct. With this view, they
declare that, hereafter, no Shareholder shall
be permitted to settle with his slave property
in any part of the common territory, but that
it tslavery) shall be confined within its pre-
sent limits, where its power for protection
will grow less and less as the country increases
and expands, and at last yield to surrounding
pressure.
1t cannot be denied that, in the face of these
authoritative avowals, and in full view OF the
determination by the Republicans in Congress
not to yield an inch to compromise con-
cession, every other slave State will be out of
the Union before the fourth of March They
I" lrave taken time by the forelock - and are
preparing to act through their sovereign con-
Yentions before Mr.. Lincoln and his coercive
policy are installed in power. Maryland will
be standing alone, an inglorious monument of
her own imbccility. Her own broad Potomac
will be Immediately occupied by hostile CO.
horts of the North as the grand base-line of
their invasive operations against the South ;
every farmhouse in Montgomery will be laid
under tribute to predatory hordes Of John
Browns, who will bring to our very doors
free-booty war, with all its concomitant hor-
rors of servile insurrection aud assassination
Any whisper then of dissatisfaction by any
of our citizens, will be Immediately caught up
and treated as treason; and such il would
undoubtedly be-for SO long as the State con-
tinues her present relationship to the Federal
Government, no citizen can act or encourage
an act, against the expressions of the latter,
without being amenable to the law as a trail
tor, and punishable as such; and even should
the State then desire 10 Mrow or her allegiance
and resume her sovereignty, by means Of conpen-
tion she could not do so, because she rould be in
The possession Of po,oer ia her midst icho ,rould
prepeRt her from acting.
We would then be completely tongue-tied.
as well as hand-cufed; nor could we look for
assistance from the other slave States, after
our having refused to cast our lot with them
Our only alternative would be, the comforta-
Bile reflection, that we were The sef-conquered
appendage of a Northern abolition confedera-
cy, with no hope Of future extrcation from
its memorable tyranny. Should such be the
future of Maryland, and desolation sweep
through her borders, may God, in his just
Providence, direct that its fury may spend it.
self FIRST upon the heads of those whose con-
duet is now inviting it,.
The question is narrowed down 10 one of
North or South--to which shall Maryland go
Win she ally herself 20 that section which
now gazes in stoid indifference AT the waning
eifulgence of that constellation whose concern
tered lustre She has so long and so steadily re-
Elected, but whose glittering stars, loosened
from their wonted spheres by the reckless
fittings Of an accursed fanatieism are falling,
one by one, from the glorious galaxy Of our
federatiye ystem2 Win she turn her back on
the land OF Washington, Henry, Marion, and
Jackson, and prefer incorporation with the
soil so fruitful Of Burrs, Of Arnolds, of IIulls,
and OF Wilkinsons2 Never lever until the
virtues and renown Of the former cease TO be
emulated, or the ininmN ofthc lnficr nNncrntch