Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1880-01-09
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He SEN TIN f l.
ROCKvILLE, MD
pay Morning. ..~."January 9, 1880

pay Morning. january 8, 1880.
LE SAGE OF Ora MMERCY PARK.
The spasmodic flashes OF various intiuen-
Il political journals plainly indicate that
ne Hon. Samual j. Tilden has closed his
yes and walled up his judgment against
he very significant lessons as developed in
last Falls elections And like an Anticipated
and sttenuated spider, he still seduously
spins his tangled webs in the dark recesses
and compartments of " Grammercy Park,"
and still hopes that by so manipulating his
cunning meshes as to capture the coming
presidential convention.
His machine is one Of perfect parts and is
managed with the most consummate skill and
dexterity. Reared in q perturbed political
atmosphere and surrounded by the most des-
perate and corrupt politicians of every grade
and complexion-he has grown to be skill
full anatophist and photographer of human
nsture-he knows how to feel the pulse of
the "body polite" and in what manner to
pander and cater to public sentiment.
His experience in private and public life,
has most thoroughly educated and fitted
him for the Efficient discharge of executive
duty, but he is entirely inadequate to any
stirring and startling emergency. Elected
President of the United States by the clearly
expressed will of majority of the qualified
voters, he was wanting in moral courage
and firmness to step forward and execute
their wishes; but tamely submitted the val
idity of his title to office to a gambling
mackerel-eyed tribunal. He may now twist
and wriggle and exclaim like Lady Mac
beth
"Out, damned spot out say"
but it will not out. 1t is written in history,
: it will cling to him through life and hover
around his funeral obsequies.
We remember to have heard the gifted
and lamented Yancy give utterance to the
expression, "the pen is nipped with which
the history of another bloody revolution is
to be written" and we are not unmindful
that Lamartine, the the French historian,
has said-"that Revolutions never go back
wards" And though a seemingly calm has
followed upon the heels Of our civil war,
yet, in our opinion, if Samual J. Tilden be
our next candidate, Grant will be the next
President, and the prophecy of Lamartine
will eliminate in the establishment OF an
Empire upon the liberties Of the American
people
1t cannot be denied, that distrust of and
distaste for Tilden pervadcs the the public
mind, and that from his own State, where
he has been SO recently defeated, to Califor-
MIA, there is no single State in which the De-
mocracy could be brought cordially to his
support
With such state of affairs staring us in
the face, we cannot afford to jeopardize the
very existence Of our party, or become in
sensible TO the obligation which rests upon
US in protecting and supporting by patriotic
devotion the blessings Of Republican gov
eminent. The government we enjoy is in
trust for others, and moral and political
principles impel lis to preserve its integrity
and guard its purity There is involved in
the obligation of each TO the past, duty to
the future, upon which rests the future
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of individual freedom in the economy Of ma.
tons; if the Democracy become indifIer-
ent to this sacred trust az committed to their
care by the best and purcst men that ever
lived. If this gifted land falls from its high
position as the representative of popular
sovereignty and free government, where shall
its principles find repose and humanity look
for hope? If maddened ambition perverts
to the infamy of its selfish designs the de-
struction of that organization which has as
its ayowed object the protection of the con-
stitution and the preservation of our coun-
ltry, where is the resting place l-there is
tnonel Our country will sicken, languish
tnd die-over its ruin the oppressed may
Eeep in vain, whilst legitimacy finds in its
khes the charter of irresponsible preroga-
Tive and defends its justice by the exper-
,jence of its necessity.
Open treason which strikes boldly the
sacrilegous blow cannot accomplish more
surely its desperate purpose than that quiet
treason which loses the citizen in the sell
fishness of the man and iorgets the national
good in the idolatry of ambition and indi-
vidual gain.
The Democratic party has always been the
adherents OF pure men, the advocates Of q
wise, healthy, honest and economical ad-
ministration of the government, and in this
day when corruption and malfeasance in
office are prevalent throughout the land, it
cannot afford TO depart from the established
rule.
We do not question the honesty and in
tegrity of Mr.. Tilden; from the moment he
received the nomination Of the ST. Louis con
yention TO the present hour, he has been the
target Of vtuperaiion and SANDER, and as a
consequence, there is to-day a cloud of dis
trust and suspicion floating in the minds of
the people, which no power of rhetoric or
argument can remove. however innocent he
may be OF the various charges which have
been adduced.
The argument AS put forth that 10 be
successful the candidate must hail from
New York is not only unwise in policy but
IS unsound in doctrine. There is plenty of
good old Democratic hickory in the country
which has withstood the fury OF the storms
and is now the better fitted 10 brace mp the
''old ship Of State"
We can hardly think it possible that any
one can for a moment seriously entertain
the idea that Mr.. Tildcn will be nominated.
That any element fthe Democratic party can
he so utterly indifferent of the past expert.
ence as to desire his. nomination. Nor arr
VIC willing to believe that few politician.
can, against the manifest will of the people
accomplish such an unfortunate and iniudi.
cious state OF things.
There never has been period in the his.
tory OF our part; when the omens OF success
were brighter. Four years ago We sounded
the bugle OF reform and retrenchment, and
its echoes resoundcd from the GRANTEES Of
the North 10 the shores Of the Eldorado-