Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-01-10
Che National Crisis.
LETTER OF Ex-Gov. LOWE.

AA0 loiiOWiuS 10 tue ietter oI IX-OO-
vernon Lowe, of Maryland, addressed to
the Legislature of Virginia. 1t was or
dered to be entered on the journal, and
resolution adopted that five thousand
extra copies be printed:
From the Richmond Dispatch, Dec. 2O.l
ASHLAND, Va, Dec. 16 1861.
SIR: | have. the honor to acknowledge
ths8receipt of your letter of the 14th in
slant, and the resolution Of the House of
Delegates Of Virginia Inviting me to oc-
3cupyjone Of the privileged seats on tho
floor of the Hall thank you sincerely
for the kind and cordial manner in which
you were pleased to inform me Of the dis
tinguishea honor conferred upon me by
the enlightened and patriotic body over
which you preside; and | beg you to as
sure the House that | earnestly appreei-
ate this delicate and generous expression
of its appreciation and good will AL
though the resolution conveys high
compliment personal to myself (for which
am the more grateful, inasmuch as |
feel that it exceeds my actual merits,
an, nevertheless, perfectly sensible that
the great purpose of the representatives
of the people of Virginia, in adopting
this resolution, was TO show to the world
how deeply they sympathizc with the
loyal sons of Maryland in the severe
tribulations which Divine Providence has
sent upon them to try their faith and to
chasten their affections Whilst bowed
down to the earth in their great agony.
and driven almost to dis2air by that
hope deferred which maketh the heart
sick, " the people of Maryland are not IN
mindful of another salutary purpose
which the Great Disposcr of events may
contemplate in thus subjecting them for
time to the fiery ordeal of Northern des-
potism and cruelty
If Maryland had entered the Southern
Confedcracy eight months ago. she would
have brought with her a comparatively
small but exceedingly vicious class of
men, whose corruption would have secret
ly tester in the body polite, and uti-
mately, perhaps, have caused its decay
On the 10Th Of last April, many of these
men were ready to hail the Southern
banner. if convinced of its power. The
events OF the past six months have
unmasked those servile camp followers Of
the Northern despot, and placed between
them and the true men Of the State
gulf which must ever remain iinpassable
1t is distinctly understood now that one
or the other Of those hostile classes must
occupy and possess the State, to the ex-
clusion of the other, whenever the final
issue shall have been made by an appeal
to arms. AS /! cannot doubt what the
result of that conflict will be, / feel no
hesitation in predicting that Maryland,
like Kentucky and Missouri, will come
into the great conservative republic of
the South, purified of the social and po-
litical contaminations which we're brought
upen noble race Of men by the money
seeking emigrant from the land of agra
rian fanaticism and sord;d passion.
Maryland will become again the home
Of the cavaliers, as she was before the
mirror Of her cbiyalry was dimned by
the breath Of the mammon worshippers
Even now the shores Of Virginia are
? crowded with exled men, who represent
the ancient historical loyalty of their
race, and at this hour, down by the bright
: waters of the Chesapeake, and along the
beautiful banks Of the Potomac, there are
thousands of mansions, great and small
where Maryanders keep alive the high
spirit and cultivate the genial domestic
virtues Of their renowned ancestry. The
t faint Of Northern pclf and the ulcers Of
| Northern Red Republican demagogucism
will rapidly vanish as the old State passes
through the furnace Of affection into
which she has been cast by Lincoln, with
, fercer rage than that of the idoatrous
t Nebuchadnezzer.
Hence it is, sir, that, drawing much
consolation from this faith, we strive to
mitigate the vigor Of our exile, and to
stihe the sorrow which rises 10 our hearts
! as we listen TO the wall Of onr suffering
friends. borne to our cars upon every
, breeze that crosses the Potomac. and sa-
lutes the Confederate flag. We have
never permitted ourselves to doubt that
that flag will, at the proper time, be adj
9 vanced TO the rescue Of our people from
r their cruel tbraldons | speak what
know. when say, that, despite the in
solent mockerics Of the Lincoln ballot
box in Maryland, held by perjured serf:
and upheld by their masters bayoDets
y despite the cringing falschood Of Official
I demagogues and the purchased testlno-
ny Of recreant and suborned executive
despite the clamor Of subsidized pres,
+. and the pusilaninity Of the mamlnon
4 neutrality-suspicious. has always been il
our noble State an overwhelming MAORI
ty Of the people hostile to the Northern
0 despot, and devotcdly attached 70 thu
cause Of Southern independence aud con
stitutionol liberty. And now. after th'
0 bitter experience Of the last half year, j
is certain. beyond al. peradventure, tha
J, the actual adherents Of the Northern Go
vernment do not amour, 70 1.-THE Of th