Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1871-08-25

Speech of Hon. VIM. pinkney whyte.

was held at the White House, Ia the Fifth dis
trict of Baltimore county, on Saturday tho
| 9Th instant, on the occasion of flag pro-
sentation to the voters of that district in
honor of their having cast the largest Demo-
cratic vote Of any district In the county at
the election last fall. The ceremonies consist
ed of the banner presentation, o dinner and
barbecue. One Of the features of the latter
was an OK roasted whole and served to the as
semblage.
Among the persons who addressed the meet
ing where Hon. Stevenson Archer who deliv-
cred the banner; 4. Sturgis Davis, Esq, who
received it; Hon. William Plnkney Whyte, OF
Baltimore John 2. Poe, of Baltimore; Thos.
II. Moore of the First district of Baltimore
county; Hon. John Wethered, of the first dis
trict; William s. keeeh, Esq, and j. Fred.
G. Talbot, Of Towsontown; @. John slim
gluff, Third district Of Baltimore county -
Col. D. G. Mcintosh, of Towsontown, and
others.
The speech of Hon. VIM. Piukney Whyte,
coming from the Democratic candidate for
Governor of the State, received marked atten-
ton. and ELECTED warm applause. His re-
| marks, in full wero as follows:
| Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen Of Balti-
more county lit was not my purpose in ap-
pearng here to-day to make any extended re-
marks upon political questions, but merely to
| look upon and mingle with the active and en-
ergetic democracy Of the Fifth district, who
have, by their zeal and effort in a good cause,
won the beautiful banner just placed in your
hands, with most itting aud eloquent words
| by our honored representative from Hartford.
| If | had desired to speak at length, it would
have been impossible, when | reflect that tho
hand which penned the note 50 cordially and
earnestly inviting my presence here to-day
| now lies cold in death AS in the material
world the sunshine has its shadows SO in the
affairs of human life sorrows and sadness con-
stantly intermiEgle with our brightest joys.
| Your lamented President was well known to
me for more than twenty years / knew him
first when he sat, | may almost say, Mt the
prison doors discharging the unfortunate from
the pains Of thut barbaric system Qmprison-
ment for debt, now happily obliterated from
our statute book; later, too, when discharge
| ing with fidelity, the duties Of the American
consulate at Bordeaux; and afterwards on the
| stump, both here and in Pennsylvania, when
most ably and eloquently he defended the
| principles and policy of the Democratic party
| in the Presidential canvass for James Buchan-
| an and still later, when performing the func-
| tons Of Naval Officer in the Baltimore Custom
| House, in all OF which places lie showed him
| self an able and efficient officer. During my
| long acquaintance with him. ever found him
| a stoadfast friend. lie took just pride in the
| Democracy Of this district, aad know he
|
| patton, when he hoped to see you receive this
| banner--a visible manifestation Of the kindly
feeling Of your brother Democrats, and y just
| reward for your zeal aud devotion Ia t48aA
| great principles which naaefsie the VI hole
! fabric of our governmental system.
| congratulate yea upon your victorious on-
| deavors, aud trust that this banner, SO nobly
won, may, as the pillar Of cloud guided the
| chosen people Of old, cheer you and lead you
| nm tna t bprn md IF IN nd ,f.
cause in which we are all 80 deeply interested.
| II was won by you in a struggle for Consti-
tutionaI liberty. 1t was won in O cause for
which Washington and our own Carroll and
! Howard pcriled their ives, and to which they
| pledged their sacred honors. In cause advo-
Gated by Jefferson and Madison, defended by
| Andrew jackson and James K Polk and
| Franklin Pierce, and commended to US by tho
| burning eloquence of the gifted and lamcnted
| Douglass. However much our enemies may
derde us, and charge Ms with infidelity to tho
Constitution, no one act of our party can DO
pointed at as in hostility TO the fundamental
principles of that sacred instrument,
When we held the executive and legislative
power of the National Government, and con-
lrolled large majority of the State admins
trations, we never tempered with the Consti-
tuition, and sought by amendments to the or
ganic law, TO perpetnate the power of tie
Democratic party How different has been
the policy Of the Radicals. In the midst Of IL
fearful civil war, while large proportion Of
the States wero unrepresented in the National
councils, the dominant party commenced amen
datory assaults upon the Constitution, and
ipaugurated asystem ofcfuel legislation which,
after the storm and tamnlts of our fratricidaI
conflict, was intended 10 leave us to the mel
ancholy calm Of hearless despotism.
Here, in our own Maryland, We arc happi-
y, living under good Government, which
! trust by your aid this fall may he continued
for another four years. Your work Is before
you, and you have only 10 put your hand to
the pillow and not look back.
The Radicals are dumhfounded because your
Convention was wise enough to put forth as
candidates men who, wbateye. might be their
defects, had made record Of devotion 10 con-
stitutioual principles which he who runs could
| read and did not construct platform OF COM
| place assertions or Of promises, which like
Radical pledges, only hold good till after the
| election
| They want 10 know of the " new departure"
| ! know Of no departure about which we need
| trouble ourselves except the departure in 1873
| Of Grant and bis Cabinet from the White
House at Washinpton--the departure from our
fair land Of the horde Of revenue assessors and
collectors, which, like the loeuBts Of Egypt,
have been eating up the substance OF the me-
chanics and laboring men Of lhis country. This
is the departure for which every honest man
Gghts, and to which he should devote eyefy
energy Of mind and body he possesses. They
call our late Convention the "padlock' Con-
vsniion, and cali us tae paddock party.
So wc are. We are struggling TO put pad
lock on the Public Treasury to keep out the
flcters with their Chorpenning frauds, and
others with their San Domingo jobs--a pad
lock on the public lands, to save them for tho
people from the colossal railway corporations
that absorb them as sponge does the water,
and paddock on the War Department, 20 keep
il from sending armed soldiers into the South
crn States 10 control the elections and TO force
a downtrodden and impoverished people to nc
cepi the Grant dynasty or to be sent back into
the condition Of conquered provinces. This
is the mission Of the paddock party.
But came here only to congratulate the en-
ergetic and slalwart Democratic voters Of tho
Fifth district, and to pledge them to stand by
The great principles Of the constitutional party,
but was nnprepared for these batteries Of
brilliant eyes from the daughters Of the Fifth
district; yet II is bright omen for us, for that
Gauge must be good one which calls from the
domestic Preside the mothers and daughters Of
the country 70 bid Us 6 God speed
Starting under such auspices, / do not fear
that you will take any steps backward, but
will more fully satisfy the Democracy Of tho
country that you are deservedly called the
" Banner District of Baltimore county"
THg very best and TIE very worst Of men arc
not as good or as bad rs they seem to be-
Calculate accordingly in estimating your fell