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

I members.
! (" Hence the sole responsibility Of the dsa-
lgreement and the only difficulty in the way
81 an amicable adjustment, is with the repub-
lican party
| Mark the language: 1.-THE sole re-
! sponsbility of the disagreement, and the
only difficulty IN THE WAY OF AN AMIGA
BILE ADJUSTMENT, is wiTH THE REPUBLIC
Joan PARITY
| Let this language sound from tho
tomb Of Douglas throughout the land,
That all may know the measure Of re-
sYgoEsibilisy for our present disastors.
that it is upon these men--and Judge
their ability to conduct us through our
Affections by the wantonness with which
they have involved us in them.
1t is true that, when the war came
and Its existence was a recognized fact,
Mr.. Douglas said, eve must sustain
the Government" After war exists il
is no time to discuss the responsibility
for its Inauguration mast be for our
country, right or wrong. But when, in
the progress of that war, it becomes ma
nifest that those to whom its prosecution
is committed are conducting it, not to
the noble end of an honorable peace and
the public welfare. but on principles
which will prevent peace, defeat the
great end of the public good, destroy the
country, and overthrow its constitution,
then the truly loyal citizen, moved by
the same patriotic impulses, Is AGAINST
THE WAR BECAUSE HE IS FOR HIS couN-
TRY. Tremendous applause. / fear
the President will not retire from his
purpose, but WILL on the first day Of
January, issue his promised cdict.
fear this result, because the war, and
the whole course of the administration
IN its progress, taken in connection with
this Executive decree Of universal eman-
cipation, is but the natural development
of the abolition principle, pressing on
ward to the realization of its grand idea.
This administration could have avert
ed the war, and did not. Why? 1t
preferred the integrity of its party to the
salvation of its country There are ma
ny good and conservative men in that
party that are beginning to realize this
truth, and they helped to magnify tho
grand triumph of the Union and the
Constitution at the late elections in the
great central and western States.
But how" say the people, "shall
we save the constitution and restore the
Union 7" Filled with patriotic ardor,
they ask that they may act.
| answer, by peace--pEAcE-PEACE.
[ Applause. A peace not upon the ba-
Sis of separation, but a peace upon the
basis of the UNION AS IT WAS. Inn
mense applause.
But how shall this peace be realized
BY A NATIONAL CONVENTION OF
THE PEOPLE. Long- continued APP
plause. Let the people meet in nation
al convention, and there, in the same
spirit Of forbearance and wisdom and
patriotism in which our fathers framed
this government, deliberate upon the dis
asters which now afllict it, and / feel
deep and earnest conviction that, under
the providence of Almighty God, our
country will be saved and the Union of
the States restored. Applause.
The true enemy to this Union is now,
as it ever has been from the beginning,
not staverybut abolitionism. Abolitionism
has, from the beginning, denounced the
Union; it refused to avert the war; il
has made the Executive Violate the clear
md unequiyocal pledges under which it
enlisted the most gallant soldiery that
ever went to the field; it has prosecuted
his war not to enforce the laws, but to
violate law, not to maintain the consti-
tuition, but to overthrow it, mot TO re-
store the Union, but to make its restora-
ton impossible, and its dissolution a per-
fact, not to uphold the govern
ment, but to destroy slavery.
This fell spirit Of mischief must die
that the nation may live. Long-con-
tined applause. But, if those men whose
public conduct it directs, still press for
ward to realize their design Of destroying
he Union, it would DO we'll that they
emper the ardor Of their zeal by n proyi-
lential consideration Of the results that
will follow. This great West is made
Up Of a people gathered to it from every
ection Of the Union, and the tendrils OF
whose hearts go forth to bind them in
he bonds Of affection with each and all
{ the States. But, If disruption must
ONE, and some Of the States must sepa-
ate from the others. New England, fall
lg as debris from the grand rock Of
he Union, would leave its proportions
iore tremendously rounded than they
ould remain after the loss Of any other
ortion. lLong-continued applause. l.
he Union is essential 10 the West, and
he intends to maintain II as our fathers
lade it, with all her vigor and power
Tut, if her efforts in that direction are
efeatcd, SlIEMUST LOOK OUT FOR
lERsELF. Applause.
Having homogeneous interests with
10 South, she has never seriously felt
ic inequality Of her power in the Senate
compared with New England, for the
outh and West, upon the great question
the tariff, have acted together. But,
the South is to be reduced 10 colonial