Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1873-10-31
Letter from Monocacy.
MoNoeAcr. Md, Oct. 2lst,. Is

| LiFs LIuHOT - nc pOilllcui contest now
in progress in our county and othercoun-
ties of this grand old Commonwealth
will soon be brought TO close, whether
in veal or woe, tIieresponsibility will be
ascrihed 10 the diligence or lulScwarm
ness Of the Conservative party, for it has
a majority in the county sufficient to iu-
sure grand victory, provided they do
not desert their time honored banner and
fall into line with those chaineieoaic qen-
Hemea whose color changes with the COM
pany they keep, and whose opinions arc
yeered by every wind of circumstance.
The contest before US has none of the
old issues IN It which once separated The
white men Of our county into Two oppo-
site parties Would to God there were
no graver questions now pressing upon
our people dian those which divided tn
wings from the democrats in the good
old days that have gone Then, whether
the one party or the other won the vic
tory, no man felt that there was a curse
upon the State; no man felt that his own
rights were in jeopardy no man feared
that the affairs Of the State would not BE-
directed with intelligence and with high
patriotic purpose to promote the public
good. But the questions which separate
Che Radical from .tbc Conservative party
Of to-day, are Of a more serious purport.
On the part Of the Conservatives of our
county and elsewhere who are looking
to the welfare of the State alone--who
appreciate the darkness of the threaten
| ing danger. there is an anxious appre-
hensop as to the result Of the November
election. Not so much that they believe
or even fear that the Conservative party
will be defeated, but because of the con-
sequences, the frigbtful consequences,
they foresee in the event of that appall-
ing possibility the success of the Radi-
Gals.
All rejecting white men must see that
their dearest rights and liberties are In
volyed in this struggle for ascendancy be-
tween the negro and themselves, and
those Of them who have the good fortune
to be, as yet, free from negro domino
ton, as is the ease, thank God, in Mary
land, who see the wreck and ruin that
have been wrought by Radicalism in
other States, and are aliye to the fact
that the fate of the citizens Of South Car
olina and Louisiana viii be their fate,
unless they meet the negro party with
all the Conservative strength, and save
both tho black man aud the white uian
from it's ignorance, its prejudice and It's
rapacity
More than ever before. the questions
that are now rising deserve our best i-
tention Whether we shall take an ne
tive part in politics at this time Is d qucg.
ton of conscience and duty; bnt it is also
a question of a lowof and more biting
kind !; it is ono Of self-intcrest, for the
bad will rule, if the better who can will
not and the better must themselves suf-
fer IN consequence. Voters of Montgom-
cry Your mother needs your whole
strength in this campaign to protect her
from the devouring element Of Radical
ism which bias swept over your sister
States and left in its course the charred
remains Of their time honored affairs Of
peace and liberty. VIII you not come
TO the rescue
The whlte women Of Montgomery who
are Immediately concerned in the success
Of the Conservative party, should reoog-
nizc no man who fails to vote, and thus
preserve their social status. For the
white man who fails to vote may subject
his loving wife or bis accomplished daugh-
ter to social negro equality, and is him
sclf.tlie inferior Of the scalawag
The patriotic. young ladies Of Mont
gomery might have a telling influence in
discarding the attention Of such young
mon as fail to perform their duty at the
coming election. Indeed, nothing is 50
sure Of success as when in the hands Of
the ladies, and nothing succeeds well
without them. s.