Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1879-11-14
JOHN SHERMAN.

In 1873, John Sherman, the Secretary of
the Treasuary, declined to take any part in
the Ohio election on the ground that it would
be improperfor Government officers to do so:
His scruples did not exist this year,
when there was Presidential boom on
hand. Butt may be said in his extenuation,
that even Mr.. Hayes then believed in civil
service reform, which now he evidently has
little use for.
Slowly, but gradually and surely, the
vaulting ambition of Sherman has developed
itself-and his recent letter declining to be
a candidate for United States Senators hip,
amounts to nothing more nor less than an
announcement of the fact, that he is an as
pirant for the Presidency, and it cannot be
denied, that large and influential Republi-
can element opposed to the revival of the
third term nomination is crystallizing
around Sherman as the next Presidential
candidate of their party.
During and pending the canvass made in
the several late State elections, he has not
only wandered like Peter, the Hermit, from
one State to another, but he has used the
tremendous power of his Office, ramifying
into all the financial agencies of the coun-
try, to defeat his political opponents and to
up-rear his own fortunes. More especially has
he directed his batteries against the South
ern people, who put him in the very place
he occupies, and but for whose pacific atti-
tude in 1875, the country would have been
convuIsed from center to circumference.
In his speeches made during the recent
State campaigns, he has preached an unre-
lenting hatred of the South. He has done
all in his power to arouse against q
poor and innocent people the most bitter
and unjust feeling He has made them the
victims of the most cruel prejudice and the
basest SANDER. He has represented that the
South is still standing menace to the flag
and the Union. He has argued and con-
tended that only by the strong and mailed
hand could the rebellious South be kept in
subsection and obedience to the laws, not
only of the land, but of common humanity.
He has howled that the South ought to be
subjugated anew,-this is the man who as
spires to the highest office in the gift of an
enlightened and liberal minded people-a
man so depraved, so corrupt, and so warp
ed from passion and prejudice, SO ambitious
Of political preferment, SO greedy of self-ag-
grandizement, that in order to be successful
he would rob grave yard or break up a
communion service. Every private and
public act has given the most striking evil
dence that he has considered his private gain
paramount to the public good-he has de-
lighted in preferring to play the cruel role Of
Nero or Robesperre to that of Camilus
or Regulus.
But now that the elections are over, it is
to be hoped that he will, at least, for short
time turn his attention to the finances of the
country, and let us have a lull of his crusade
of hate and vituperation, which he has SO
long, so violently and so persistently wag-
ed against the Southern people He should
not only know, but all the time bear in mind,
that the complete restoration not only of
relations but of friendly feeling
existing between the people of the Union,
permeating every class of society, every
branch of industry, is necessary and essential
to the revival of business. Independent Of
higher and 'nobler motives, the South from
poverty is driven to hope for x..cs . condi:.
ton of peaceful relations, whist the North,
rolling in-hsxdry and prosperity, can well
afford to see that such policy be pursued
as will assure general prosperity, and give to
the people that which they most desire, q
restoration from political strife--.freedons
from. political rampires.