Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-05-02

and State under that Constitution, aud
that if such is no longer The policy Of the
Government, they will turn their faces
homeward, deceived and betrayed.
60 and ask tho tax payers and tho !.
voters Of that noble State for what they
toll and pour out their money. They will
answer that they live on tho tributaries
of tho great thoroughfaro Of their trade
and commerce, the Mississippi rivorythat
/ their fortunes are forever linked by nature
and the great laws Of geographical for
| nation with the States which are washed
by its descending waters, and that by
virtue Of and in strict accordance with,
the Constitution, they intend to secure
free passage to the Gulf of Mexico; and
that they will everywhere uphold the
rights of others as well as their own; that
they labor to maintain and preserve tho
laws, and not to trample, them under
foot, and that they seek reconstruction
of the Union on precisely the same basis
on which it was made by the founders Of
the Government. They want no four
millions of slaves set free. They have
no money with which to purchase terri
tories for vast schemes of colonization.
! They are opposed to gigantic standing
armies, with which to hold, from year to
year, and through all time to come, de-
graded States in subsection. In this
hour of triumph the true friends of the
Union everywhere demand that policy
for the reconstruction of the Government
be proclaimed from here which shall in
/ sure for the future Union Of equal
and houored members" Let our " kin
drod and countrymen" Of the South
know, that liberty and magnanimity an
innate our councils, and that the spirit of
vengeance, intolerance and spoliation has
no place in our midst. In this day Of
victory let the heralds Of the Government
60 before our armies, and proclaim peace
and Union on the basis of equality, on
the basis of the Constitution, and on tho
basis of the laws Let them announce
that the pledges of the Government so
freely given in the early part Of this
struggle will not be broken at the mad
behests of abolitionism but that the con
dition of every human being in the South
shall remain unchanged, whether the re-
yoluticn shall succeed or fail
Sir, to my mind it is an omen of evil
that the spirit of abolitionism, like
lurking Gend of mischief, a MephistophiIes
of iniquity, should boldly stalk in here,
and in such a crisis as this, assume to
control American Legislation Its croak-
ing raven cry is baleful sound to the
cause of the Union. Its arrogant and
defiant demands Gil tho future with
gloom. 1t no longer comes in here tho
skulking and despised miscreant that IL
once was; but, with the elevated mien
and staggering port Of a conquerer, it
strides forward over the mangled form Of
constitutional Government II no long
err hides and covers and denies its name
and its nature, and assumes false shapes.
like Satan in the garden Of Paradise.
with which TO beguile and deceive, az it
did few short years ago. The yciled
prophet Of Khorasson has revealed him
self, and his hid6ous face is almost enough
to alright union and concord from the
land
Why comes this fell spirit here now
accompanied by its train Of horrorsf IL
has no merit in the past to entitle it to
control the present and shape the future
II can point to no good act il has accom-
! plished The cause Of abolitionism is
! barren Of beneficial results No State.
no territory, has it ever dedicated to free
/ labor, and no slave has it ever set free,
except in violation Of law II has never
had the sanction Of the great and good
names which, like stars in the upper sky.
adorn and illuminate our history. On
the contrary, it has been the object Of
thoir inccssant malodictions from the hour
of it's birth. It's presence in the halls OF
Congress was their adherence, and they
prognosticated evil, and evil only, and
that continuity" from its influence on
public affairs.
Why comes II here now7 r. never
was friend to the Union, and it ia not
to-day. Itncyer wanted Union with
slave States, or fellowship with slave.
holders and does not now II is at war
with the Constitution il is an enemy 10
tho Government; it is tho twin monster
to the doctrine Of Secession, and like tho
withorcd and hateful hags on the heath
Of Scotland, the two together concocted
the hell broth Of the present civil war.
Let the spirit Of the Union, born Of tho
Constitution, rise up between them like
bright angel and Danish them both for
ever Then will tho nation renew us
mighty youth, and 60 on again in It's
swift Eight Of prosperity and renown,..
Then. will kindred and countrymen"
once more assemble under tho same flag,
and obeying tho command Of the Prince
Of Peace, love one another"
Dg0gSGRArIos or THE NEGRo.-The
Cairo Gasette suggest that the Constitu-
tional Convention prohibit the intermar.
riagc Of Negroes and Abolitionists "op
tho ground that such connections de-
/ generate the Negro"