Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1878-10-11
Hon. George Peter for Congress.

Mr.. Editor lit is with pride raise my head
10 cheer an honest man. Hon. George Peter
! the Democratic nominee of this the Sixth Con-
gressonal District combines within himself
all that is bright and beautiful, filed with the
milk of human kindness, true to bis friends
and just TO his enemies, too generous TO be
rich, too independent to be poor, too mag
unanimous TO pant after Dnholy gaines He
has no sordid motives to link himself by party
ties though self-aggrandizemen TO qlut
lastful appetite for strife. In what ever wav
you may view him, whether ia the private
walks of life, practitioner at the bar, or
discharging the duties of pub ic Office, be is
the same unchanged, truthful man and CEN
ire of attention. He is emphatcaly the man
above all others TO fill the Office he aspires to-
and no oui-cry for internal improvement, wild
expenditures or high tariff can swerve him
from the path of duly. United States Grant
may form a military despotism and upon its
ruins financial vultures may build up monied
arstoeracyi as strong as the cohesive atirac-
ton of an iron wedge, but never with the
consent of George Peter, as long as breath is
in his body.
When we look around US for a period of
fifty years back, who are the great and useful
men that have represented US in Congress from
the District Of which Montgomery formed a
portion? Like some Heaven kissed peaks of
yon distant mountain stand Major Geo Peter,
VIM. Cost johnson and Geo. 9. Washington
They are above all party ties and rest to-day
in the affections Of the people
Major Peter was from noble race of beings
and started the world with fortune, was
blessed with long and happy life, incapable
of doing wrong, and his greatest ambition
was to live as a public benefactor to suffering
humanity Look for moment upon VIM
Cost Johnson, with othiug but the parity of
his mind and who wronged no one on earth
but himself, how grand, how powerful, vet
how unassuming When mind met mind in
its conflict sublime ! have seen him like "a
mighty avalanche sweeping every thing in its
pathway, and again like gentle cascade sport
ing on the beams OF MONDAY sun. When
all earthly glory had departed saw him in
tartered rags but his heart beat high and true
for the peope.he had represented.
Lives there man who cannot lisp with
praise the name Of Geo. G. Washington, who
was better to the world than 10 himself
Rome owed her greatness TO her Senate;
Greece, to her philosophers Burke, Sheridan
aud Pitt threw halo of glory upon the pages
of English history, but young America looks
TO her honest men, one and ALL not TO let JUS
tice with her feeble footsteps flee and bid us all
farewell. / feel it feel the want of power,
it incarcerats with the whitening hand of
leprosy and the torture of death and the mis-
cradle question arises, What is all this for
Venerable Pilgrim Fathers, what is all this
for? To let Justice feel feel ashamed, so
help me God, | feel ashamed to be duped by
dishonest men and made the ruined victims Of
remorseless power. Now citizens of this
Congressional district lei us all rally around
ga worthy son of an ilustrious SIRE" The
spirits of the ilustrious dead, VIM Cost
johnson and Geo. G. Washington are with US.
e. q. BELT.