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


ter has not actually begun.
What said the meeting on the all i'm
portant question, whether, with theii
consen. and approval. Southern cite
should be demolished and conjidgrafed
and Southern homes made desoiate by tn,
slaughter Of fathers, ana Of brothers
their natural protectors?
Nothing absolutely nothing So fal
from there being any expression of ;
tender solicitudc for, or tho exhibition O.
sympathetic apprehension for the safety
of Southern fathers, of Southern matrons
maids and children, there was, touching
these matters, silence as profound as
that of an Egyptian mummy. Unless,
sir, have greatly mistaken both yonr
head and heart, you cannot coolly and
approvingly contemplate the massacre OF
our countrymen and the desoation of
their fresidcs. And yet, your presence
at, and participation in, the proceedings
of such a meeting will be joyously hailed
by every northern fanatic, as another
| pledge given for the humiliation and sub
Ijagation of your southern brethren. If
these people understand at all any part
of the teachings of Jesus, it is His say
ing, that he who is not for us is against
us, and rest assured, sir, that however
contrary the fact may be, and however
repugnant to your real sentiments it may
be, your indorsation of the stereotyped
resolutions Of the meeting as paHaceq
for the distressing ills which alllict the
country, will procure for you the appro-
baton of the most rabd republican in
the land. Tho "Republican party
swollen with the consciousness Of power,
for the first time by them possessed, in
nsolently scorn all thoughts of eoncilia-
ton and peace, and in their arrogant de-
monstrations of warike purposes, conf
IDENTIFY point to those IN the South who
think they fulfill their whole duty to the
common veal, and establish their claim
to craftsmanship, by joining in p@ans to
the Union, as part and portion Of the
Hosts which arc to subduc into slavish
submission any Southern State whose
people are old-fashioned enough to think
CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY has a real and
substantial value.
This dclasioa, oaihcir mart, is tie real
and only difficulty in'tde rag Of a speedy
and satisfactory adjustment. And, it
grieves me, sir, to know, that instead of
the meeting at the Institute contributing
in any wise to dispel the infatuaton Of
these people, if it have any practicable
effect at all, it will be to strengthen into
conviction their present belief, that the
people of Maryland are with the North,
and not with the South, and that as
against the latter, they are ready to CO.
operate with the North in compelling, al
the expense Of both blood and treasure,
a submission of the South to the yoke Of
CALLING servitude.
A most lamentablo fatality appears to
characterize, at this time, everything done
by those in authority in Maryland. 1t was
but the other day, in a manifesto issued
by the Hon. Henry Winter Davis to the
voters Of the fourth congressional district
that the ground was taken that Mary LAND
had suffered no wrong at the hands Of
the North Has Mr.. Davis forgotten
the murder at the very portals Of the
halls of justice Of Mr. Kennedy, of Wash.
ington county, by Pennsylvania mob
because, and for no other reason, that be
was in that State looking after a runa-
way? Had tho horrd details of the bru.
tai murder, under the pcly eyes Of hC
GocerRor Of Pennsylvania, of Mr.. Cor.
such, one of the most venerable Of The
citizens Of Baltimore county, also escaped
his recollection? Or, to speak of an
event more recent, has bis memory nc
trace of the case of Mr.. Myers, Of Car.
roll county, who was decoyed over the
boundary line into Pennsylvania, tried
for kidnapping, because he had reclaim
ed a runaway, convicted by an abolition
jury, and who would now be in the peni.
Tertiary had not Gov. Packer granted
him a pardon Such inscnsibility tC
tho wrongs Of Marylanders is in fit keep
ing with proposition, al his time, from
a representative of southern constituent
cy, to render their slave property Of still
less value, by requiring Of them, aftei
they shall have incurred the trouble
risk and cost Of capture Of fugitive
; slave, to submit to the additional outlay
of trial by jury in the place whence h.
shall have escaped and to which he shall
have been returned. This is demanding
southern rights with a vengeance.
But, sir, my purpose.in addressingyol
on this occasion il, to point cut in som'
degree, the similarity Of tho acts occur
ring at the dawn Of the Revolution will
those of the present day.
And here lei NC remind you, sir, tha
} although the first struggle in tbe Royo-
luton was on the soil Of Massachusetts
that, al hat Time, acibicr Aafyiaad ao1
lSouth CaroliHa were joined in ,ny union
with her, nor were they under any lcga'
obligation To assist her in her difficulties.
Their commercial interests were in 20
way connected with hers, aud they rest
ed under no sense Of fayors bestowed by
her. for she lad bestowed none on either
/ of them. Whatever aid, therefore, they
extended to her in her time Of need, pro-
ceeded from that generous appreciation
Of the conduct Of those WHO we're strug-
Cling for their rights which had been
outraged by special legislation Of the
British Parliament. The interference
Of South Carolina in behalf Of Massa-
chusetts was manifestly against all her
pecuniqry interests; her interference was
a pure, vnsolfsh sacrifice, in the cause Of
human liberty.