Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1863-01-16

have left? Long-continued applause.
We cannot reverse the DEGREES of God,
nor change the natures he has implant-
ed in the breasts of men.
love the government that our fathers
made, and | love its constitution.
love the liberty incarnate therein, and ]
love the Union strengthening and pro-
tecting these. and in return strengthened
and protected by them; and these I will
defend with my latest breath and the last
drop Of my blood. [Long-continucd apA
plause. And | speak to you, inen d d
Illinois, that may aid to preserve them.
| entreat you to guard them. implore
you to protect them. Yes, not only
entreat and implorc, but by the memory
of the glorious deeds that won them, -
by your great debt for the sacrifices of
the past, by the hopes of the future, -
in the name of those who shall come af-
ter US, and of those who have gone be-
fore. us, by your love for the children
around you, by your reverence for our
fathers, now looking down upon us, and
in the name of eternal justice, truth and
right, DEMAND that you preserve them
forever and torepeg: Long-continued
applause.
1t is because the course of this admi-
nistration will destroy these things |
cherish, that denounce it; it is because
the war is to be perverted from its legi-
innate purposes to their destruction, that
| oppose it. Thus perverted, it will be-
come war not to save the Union, but
war to break up the Union.
To destroy the Union and overthrow
the constitution has been the object and
design of the abolitionists, from the first
organization of that reasonable combi-
nation.
They commenced by assailing, from
New England, the existence of domes-
tic institution with which she had moth
ing to do, except, in the beginning, to
profit by fastening it on the country.
They perverted the literature Of that Sec
ton with the foul current Of their sulli-
mated philanthropy, and, finging out
from the temple of God the banner of
the political propaganda, they silenced
the mild voice Of christian charity, and
denounced from the altar the maledic-
tons of an embittered hatred against
men of the same christian determination.
Applause They divided the churches
into churches North and churches South,
and refused to commune with southern
men. BY sundcring all the religious
and social ties which bound the people
together, they carefully prepared the
way for the disruption Of the political
ligament that united the country. They
announced to the world, in the language
of Garrison, as the cohesive principle oil
their party, that "Tms UNION is A LIE
The AMERICAN UNION IS AN IMposruRE,
A COVENANT WITH DEATH, AND AN AGREE
MENT WITH HE'LL" Uniting themselves
with the republican party, they won an
control over its actions and its
principles by their jealous, vigilant, and
tirelcss enthusiasm, and heard the long
hoped for promise Of their triumph, in
the declaration of Mr.. Lincoln, that
"7hiS Union could not endure part Stare
and part free; that IL must oil become
stare or all free"
Secession was not the necessary conse-
quence of Mr.. Lincoln's election; but
his election did make it necessary to
guard, by proper additional guarantees,
the rights Of the South against the ag-
gressive principles of his abolition sup
porters, which he himself had condens-
ed in such meaning and significant
expression.
| never recognized the right Of seces-
sion, and now denounce the attempt on
the part Of the slave States as unjust,
unconstitutional, reasonable, and sacri-
legious; but / stated in the presidential
that | was satisfied that any
attempt to incorporate the policy Of the
radical portion Of the republican party
into the policy of the Federal govern
ment would certainly produce most dis
astrous results. The only cohesive prin-
ciple of the party was animosity to an
institution existing in States where that
party was without an organization, and
with which the Federal government had
nothing to do.
believed that the election of Mr..
Lincoln would create extended alarm
throughout the South, which, if not al
aged in time, would result in secession,
.ebelion, and revolution. So thought
he democratic party. But we're these
esults necessary? Gould not the alarm
ave been relieved by measures honora-
bic to all parties? and, if it could, why
vas It not done
On the Sd Of January, 1861, Mr..
Douglas, speaking on the measures Of
onciliation which he himself had intro
uced, said: :
81 believe this to be fair basis Of AMIGA
lie adjustment. II you Of tie republican side .
re not willing 10 accept this, nor The propo-
ition Of the Senator from Kentucky, (Mr
pray tell us what you are willing /,
0 dO2
az address the inquiry to republicans alone,
DR. the reason that the Committee Of Thirteen,
few days ago, every member from the South, (
Including those from the Cotton States,
Mcssrs. Tooinbs and Davis, expressed their =
cadincss 70 accept the proposition Of my ye- !
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